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Budget surplus
A budget surplus is the amount by which a government's total revenues exceed its total expenditures in a period; surpluses are rare, with only six OECD countries recording one in 2023.
Budgets
Budgets: detailed financial plans of proposed income and expenditures for a period, central to government and business. Covers history (Britain 1840, US 1921 Act), incremental, zero-based, and performance-based techniques, and OECD medium-term ceiling practices.
Budgie (band)
Budgie: Welsh hard rock/heavy metal band from Cardiff, formed 1967 by Burke Shelley, Tony Bourge, and Ray Phillips (earlier Six Ton Budgie). Debut 1971 produced by Rodger Bain; influenced Metallica, Iron Maiden, Soundgarden; "Breadfan" covered by Metallica; active 1967-2010.
Budgie (TV series)
Budgie (ITV, 1971-72) is a London Weekend Television comedy drama starring Adam Faith as Soho petty crook Ronald "Budgie" Bird, written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, produced by Verity Lambert, with Iain Cuthbertson as Charlie Endell and a 1979 spin-off.
Budh Planitia
Budh Planitia is an 816-km-wide smooth plain on Mercury, centered near 19.5°N, 150.5°W, named in 1976 from a Hindu word for Mercury; a volcanic circum-Caloris plain with wrinkle ridges, radar brightness, and lineae clusters.
Budh Singh of Bundi
Budh Singh of Bundi (बूंदी के राव राजा बूध सिंह) was a Rajput ruler of Bundi in Rajasthan who reigned around the turn of the 18th century.
Budha (बुध)
Budha (बुध) is the Hindu planetary deity of Mercury in the Navagraha, son of the Moon and father of the lunar dynasty, ruling intellect and commerce.
Budhagupta
Budhagupta (बुधगुप्त) was a Gupta emperor who reigned from about 476 to 495 CE, among the last whose authority is attested by inscriptions from Bengal to central India.
Budhia Singh
Budhia Singh, born 2002, is an Indian runner who at age four ran 65 km from Puri to Bhubaneswar in 2006, becoming the youngest recorded marathon runner.
Budhwar Peth, Pune
Budhwar Peth (बुधवार पेठ) is a historic commercial ward in central Pune, founded by Aurangzeb (1690 or 1703) and named for Wednesday market day; known for wholesale markets, Dagdusheth temple, Tulshibaug, and its red-light area.
Budi Blunck
Christian "Büdi" Blunck, German field hockey midfielder born 1968 in Hamburg, 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist, 196 international caps, Harvestehuder THC captain, later sports commentator and coach; distinct from freeskier Aaron Blunck.
Budi Doremi
Budi Doremi, born Budi Syahbudin Syukur in Banten in 1984, is an Indonesian pop singer-songwriter whose hits "Doremi" and "Melukis Senja" have earned over 1.3 billion Spotify streams.
Budi Santoso
Budi Santoso is an Indonesian politician and career civil servant who has served as Minister of Trade since October 2024, after two decades in the ministry.
Budi Utomo
Budi Utomo (Boedi Oetomo) was a native educational and cultural association founded by STOVIA medical students in Batavia in 1908, regarded as the first Indonesian nationalist organization.
Budimex
Budimex SA is a Polish construction company headquartered in Warsaw that serves as a general contractor for roads, railways, airports, and energy projects, controlled by Ferrovial since 2000.
Budimir Aleksić
Budimir Aleksić is a Montenegrin politician of the New Serbian Democracy who serves as Deputy Prime Minister for Education, Science and Relations with Religious Communities in Montenegro.
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, Gunditjmara Country, southwestern Victoria: UNESCO World Heritage site (2019) with a 6,600-year-old aquaculture system of stone channels, weirs and dams for harvesting kooyang eels.
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP; Институт ядерной физики им. Г. И. Будкера) is a research center in Novosibirsk, Russia, founded in 1958 and known for pioneering colliding-beam particle accelerators, free-electron lasers, and fusion research.
Budta
Budta (Будта) is a populated place in Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao del Norte, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines, at 7.2042 N, 124.4397 E; GeoNames lists 1,273,715 people, ranking it 6th among Philippine places, near Malingao and Cotabato City.
Buduburam refugee camp
Buduburam refugee camp, created in 1990 in Ghana's Central Region for Liberians fleeing civil war, grew to about 50,000 residents before traditional authorities demolished it in February 2024.
Buduguna Alankaraya
Buduguna Alankaraya (බුදුගුණාලංකාරය) is a Sinhala classical poem on the Nine Great Qualities of the Buddha, composed in the ornate alankara tradition of the Kotte period.
Budva
Budva, Montenegro's Adriatic resort town and center of the Budva Riviera, over 2,500 years old with a walled Old Town; leading beach tourism destination, also known for uncontrolled investor-driven construction called Budvanizacija.
Budweiser
Budweiser is an American pale lager launched in 1876 in St. Louis by Adolphus Busch and Carl Conrad, brewed with rice, first bottled and pasteurized at scale, US number-one beer from 1957, and distinct from Czech Budweiser Budvar.
Budweiser Budvar Brewery
Budweiser Budvar Brewery (Budějovický Budvar, n. p.) is the state-owned Czech brewery in České Budějovice founded 1895, brewing Budweiser Budvar lager from Saaz hops, Moravian barley, and 300 m artesian water; it disputes the Budweiser name with Anheuser-Busch and sells as Czechvar in North America.
Budweiser Clydesdales
Budweiser Clydesdales: Anheuser-Busch's Clydesdale horse teams, introduced April 1933 to celebrate Prohibition's repeal; geldings at least 18 hands with bay coats, white stockings, and blazes, famous for Super Bowl ads and the Dalmatian mascot.
Budyko framework
The Budyko framework is a fundamental hydrological theory, formalized by Soviet climatologist Mikhail Budyko in 1974, that explains long-term partitioning of precipitation between evapotranspiration and runoff from a catchment's aridity.
Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis
Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis (Будённовск), June 14–19, 1995: Shamil Basayev's Chechen fighters seized a hospital in Stavropol Krai, took up to 1,500 hostages; 129 died; Chernomyrdin negotiated; turning point of the First Chechen War.
Buell Motorcycle Company
Buell Motorcycle Company, also known as Buell Motorcycles, is an American motorcycle maker founded by engineer and racer Erik Buell in 1983, known for designs like fuel stored in the frame.
Buen Camino
Buen Camino is a 2025 Italian comedy directed by Gennaro Nunziante, starring and written by Checco Zalone as a wealthy father walking the Camino de Santiago to find his missing daughter.
Buen Formation
Buen Formation, early Cambrian siliciclastic unit of the Franklinian Basin, North Greenland; hosts the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (c. 517 Ma) in its Transitional facies; 425 m type section with sandstone lower and mudstone upper members.