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Buckwheat
Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), a gluten-free Polygonaceae pseudocereal from China; seeds used for soba and kasha, plant used as cover crop; ~2 million tons produced 2024, led by China, Russia, Ukraine.
Buckwild (TV series)
Buckwild was a 2013 MTV reality series, the "Jersey Shore of Appalachia," following nine young adults in Sissonville, West Virginia; renewed after 3 million viewers per episode, then canceled after cast member Shain Gandee's death.
Bucky ball
Bucky ball (Buc, buc gene) is the zebrafish germ plasm organizer protein, first in vertebrates, required for Balbiani body assembly, oocyte polarity, and primordial germ cell specification; homologs include chicken LOC420748 and Xenopus Xvelo1.
Bucky Barnes
Bucky Barnes (James Buchanan Barnes), aka the Winter Soldier, is Marvel's Captain America sidekick created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), killed off in 1960s continuity, and revived by Ed Brubaker in 2005 as a brainwashed Soviet assassin, later Captain America and an MCU character played by Sebastian Stan.
Bucky Barnes (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Bucky Barnes, also the Winter Soldier, is the MCU character played by Sebastian Stan since 2011: Steve Rogers's best friend, brainwashed by HYDRA into an assassin, later an Avenger and Thunderbolts member.
Bucky Dent
Bucky Dent (Russell Earl Dent, born 1951) is a former MLB shortstop for the White Sox and Yankees, famous for his 1978 AL East tiebreaker home run at Fenway Park, 1978 World Series MVP, and 1989-90 Yankees manager.
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is a 2011 American comedy starring Nick Swardson as an Iowa grocery bagger who moves to Hollywood to become an adult film star.
Buconica
Buconica, also given as Bouconica or Bonconica, was a Roman road-side settlement with a mansio on the Rhine Valley road between Mainz and Worms, near Nierstein in Rheinhessen.
Bucov (Ploieşti) Botanical Garden
Bucov (Ploieşti) Botanical Garden, Grădina Botanică Bucov, is a botanical garden in Bucov, Prahova County, Romania, opened in 2014 as a section of the Prahova County Museum of Natural Sciences, on about 15 ha with English, French, Italian, and alpine sections.
Bucyrus-Erie
Bucyrus-Erie was an American manufacturer of excavating, mining, and construction machinery, formed in 1927 by merger and known for surface mining machines until Caterpillar acquired it in 2011.
Bud
Bud (botany): an undeveloped shoot with meristematic tissue, apical or axillary, developing into leaves, shoots, or flowers; classified by position, composition, scales, and Lang's three dormancy types.
Bud Abbott
Bud Abbott (William Alexander Abbott, 1895-1974), American comedian, straight man of the Abbott and Costello comedy team with Lou Costello; teamed 1936, 36 films, "Who's on First?", died broke after IRS audit.
Bud Adams
Bud Adams (Kenneth Stanley Adams Jr., 1923-2013), oil executive who co-founded the AFL in 1959, owned the Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans for 54 years, won AFL titles in 1960-61, and moved the team to Nashville in 1997.
Bud Black
Bud Black (Harry Ralston Black, born 1957) is a former MLB pitcher and manager who led the Padres (2007-15) and Rockies (2017-25), won the 2010 NL Manager of the Year, and posted a 1,193-1,403 career record.
Bud Brown (politician)
Clarence J. 'Bud' Brown Jr. (1927–2022), Ohio Republican, represented Ohio's 7th District in the U.S. House 1965–1983 after succeeding his father Clarence Brown Sr. by special election; later Reagan's Deputy and Acting Secretary of Commerce.
Bud Collyer
Bud Collyer (Clayton Johnson Heermance Jr., 1908–1969), American radio actor and game-show host; first voice of Superman and Clark Kent (1940s radio, Fleischer cartoons, 1960s TV animation) and original host of Beat the Clock and To Tell the Truth.
Bud Cort
Bud Cort (Walter Edward Cox, 1948-2026), American actor best known as Harold in Hal Ashby's 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude and the title role in Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud; also appeared in M*A*S*H, Heat, Dogma, and The Life Aquatic.
Bud Dupree
Bud Dupree (Alvin Dupree Jr., born 1993) is an NFL outside linebacker from Kentucky, drafted 22nd overall by Pittsburgh in 2015; career-high 11.5 sacks in 2019, 61 career sacks, now with the Chargers.
Bud Fisher
Bud Fisher, full name Morris "Bud" Fisher, was an American rifle shooter and Marine who won five Olympic shooting golds at the 1920 and 1924 Games.
Bud Gaugh
Floyd "Bud" Gaugh (born 1967) is the American drummer and founding member of ska-punk band Sublime, later of Long Beach Dub Allstars, Eyes Adrift, and Sublime with Rome; he rejoined Sublime with Jakob Nowell in 2023.
Bud Grant
Bud Grant (Harry Peter Grant Jr., 1927–2023) was an American football coach who led the Minnesota Vikings from 1967 to 1983 and won four Grey Cups with Winnipeg.
Bud Held
Bud Held (Franklin Wesley Held, born 1927), American javelin thrower, first American world javelin record holder (80.41 m, 1953; 81.75 m, 1955), 1952 Olympian, 1955 Pan Am gold, Ektelon founder.
Bud Houser
Bud Houser (Lemuel Clarence Houser) was an American track and field athlete who won the 1924 shot put and discus and the 1928 Olympic discus, the last shot-discus double by a man.
Bud Luckey
Bud Luckey (1934–2018), American animator and Pixar's fifth animator, designed Woody for Toy Story, created Sesame Street counting films as Donnie Budd, and directed and voiced the Oscar-nominated short Boundin'; he also voiced Rick Dicker, Chuckles, and Eeyore.
Bud Pinkston
Bud Pinkston (Clarence Elmer Pinkston), American Olympic diver, 1920 platform gold and springboard silver, 1924 double bronze; four medals, an American record until Greg Louganis.
Bud Powell
Bud Powell (Earl Rudolph Powell, 1924–1966), American bebop pianist and composer from Harlem who translated Charlie Parker's horn language to the piano; father of modern jazz piano, composer of "Tempus Fugit" and "Un Poco Loco" era classics.
Bud Selig
Bud Selig (Allan Huber Selig, born 1934) is the founding owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and ninth Commissioner of Baseball (acting from 1992, official 1998-2015), a 2017 Hall of Fame inductee.
Bud Spencer
Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli, 1929-2016), Italian actor and Olympic swimmer from Naples; starred with Terence Hill from God Forgives... I Don't (1967) to Botte di Natale, created Piedone, and was the first Italian under one minute for 100 m freestyle.
Bud Tingwell
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (1923-2009), Australian actor, director and writer; RAAF reconnaissance pilot, star of Emergency Ward 10, Homicide, Breaker Morant, and The Castle; Logies Hall of Fame 1994, AM 1999.
Bud, Not Buddy
Bud, Not Buddy is a 1999 children's historical fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis, set in 1936 Flint, Michigan, following orphan Bud Caldwell's search for bandleader Herman E. Calloway; it won the 2000 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award.