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Buckfast bee
Buckfast bee: hybrid honey bee strain bred by Brother Adam (Karl Kehrle) at Buckfast Abbey, Devon, from 1919, after Isle of Wight disease; gentle, hardy, tracheal-mite-resistant, low-swarming, genetically closest to Carniolan bees.
Buckfast Tonic Wine
Buckfast Tonic Wine, or Buckie, is a 15% ABV caffeinated fortified wine-based drink made by Benedictine monks at Buckfast Abbey, Devon, since 1897 and distributed by J. Chandler & Co, famous in Scotland.
Buckhead
Buckhead is Atlanta, Georgia's affluent northern district, annexed in 1952, anchored by Lenox Square, Phipps Plaza, and Peachtree Road towers; a 2023 Buckhead City secession bid failed 33-23 in the Georgia Senate.
Buckhurst Hill
Buckhurst Hill is a residential town in southwest Essex on the London border, half within Epping Forest. Known for its 1856 railway-driven Victorian growth, St John's Conservation Area, Central line stations, and 2021 population of 11,752.
Bucking Fastard
Bucking Fastard is a 2026 Werner Herzog drama starring Kate and Rooney Mara as sisters Jean and Joan Holbrooke who speak in unison, premiered in competition at the 83rd Venice Film Festival on 3 September 2026, inspired by the Chaplin twins.
Buckingham Canal
The Buckingham Canal is a 448 km irrigation and navigation canal in southeastern India, running along the Coromandel Coast from Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu through Chennai, begun in 1806.
Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain, formally the Clarence F. Buckingham Memorial Fountain, is a 1927 Grant Park landmark in Chicago, funded by Kate Buckingham, inspired by Versailles' Latona Basin, with a 150-foot center jet and hourly light and water displays.
Buckingham Gate drill halls
Buckingham Gate drill halls: the London Scottish Regiment's 1882-1886 headquarters at 59 Buckingham Gate by John MacVicar Anderson, demolished 1985 and partly re-erected at 95 Horseferry Road, plus the former drill hall at 58 Buckingham Gate.
Buckingham Nicks
Buckingham Nicks was an American rock duo formed by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who released one album in 1973, shortly before both joined Fleetwood Mac.
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace, the official London residence of the British sovereign since Queen Victoria moved in during 1837, is also the administrative headquarters of the UK monarch.
Buckingham π theorem
The Buckingham π theorem, or Pi theorem, is a result of dimensional analysis reducing a relation among n quantities to one among n − r dimensionless products.
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (Bucks) is a county in south-east central England with Aylesbury as its administrative centre; since 2020 governed by the unitary Buckinghamshire Council. Population about 579,000, £14.6bn economy, Chiltern Hills and Green Belt landscape.
Buckland Oil and Gas Field
Buckland is an oil field in the UK northern North Sea, discovered in 1979 and produced since 1999 as a subsea tieback to the Beryl Alpha platform.
Buckland Tableland
Buckland Tableland is a basalt plateau in central Queensland, Australia, on the Great Dividing Range, also mapped as the Buckland Basalts IBRA subregion. Oligocene hot-spot volcanism; flat-topped terrain reaching 1,100 m.
Buckle
A buckle is a fastener, usually a metal or plastic frame with a prong, that joins the loose end of a strap or belt to the strap itself.
Buckler
A buckler is a small, generally round shield held in one hand by a central grip, used with a sword in Europe mainly from the 13th to the 17th centuries.
Buckley v. Valeo
Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), the landmark Supreme Court campaign finance decision upholding FECA contribution limits and disclosure while striking down expenditure limits and the original FEC appointment method.
Buckling
Buckling is the sudden loss of stability of a slender structural member under compression, which bows sideways at a load far below the material's strength.
Buckling analysis
Buckling analysis determines the critical loads at which a slender structure loaded in compression becomes unstable and deforms laterally instead of failing by material yielding.
Buckling-driven mechanical metamaterials
Buckling-induced mechanical metamaterials are architected materials that use buckling, normally a failure mode, as their working mechanism, producing shape morphing, tunable stiffness, and energy absorption.
Buckling-restrained brace
A buckling-restrained brace (BRB) is a steel bracing member for earthquake-resistant structures that dissipates earthquake energy by yielding in tension and compression without buckling, first applied in Japan in 1989.
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller, also known as Bucky Fuller, was an American architect and engineer best known for the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion Car, and the Dymaxion Map.
Buckminsterfullerene
Buckminsterfullerene, also known as C60 or a buckyball, is a hollow soccer-ball-shaped molecule of 60 carbon atoms discovered at Rice University in 1985 and honored with the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Bucknell University
Bucknell University, private university in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, founded 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, renamed 1886 for William Bucknell; three colleges (Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Freeman College of Management), about 3,900 undergraduates, Patriot League Division I athletics.
Bucknowle
Bucknowle, Bucknowle Farm villa, Corfe Castle, Dorset: a Romano-British villa over Iron Age and earlier settlement, discovered 1975, excavated 1976-1991, published by Light and Ellis in 2009.
Buckow Elegies
The Buckow Elegies (Buckower Elegien) are a cycle of short poems by Bertolt Brecht, written in 1953 at his country house in Buckow in reaction to the East German uprising.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Bucks County, Pennsylvania: one of three original counties founded by William Penn in 1682 and named for Buckinghamshire, England. County seat Doylestown; 2020 population 646,538; fourth most populous Pennsylvania county.
Bucks Fizz
Bucks Fizz, British pop group formed January 1981 for Eurovision; won the 1981 contest in Dublin with 'Making Your Mind Up' and its skirt-rip routine; three UK No.1s; later split into Bobby G's Bucks Fizz and The Fizz.
Buckshot
Buckshot is large lead shot, .24 to .36 inch in diameter, loaded in shotshells and fired from a shotgun; a typical 00 load holds nine pellets.
Buckshot Roulette
Buckshot Roulette is a 2023 indie tabletop horror game by Estonian developer Mike Klubnika (CRITICAL REFLEX, Godot engine): Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun against The Dealer. Over 6 million copies sold; Steam April 4, 2024; Xbox Game Pass July 8, 2026.