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Buena Vista (brand)
Buena Vista is The Walt Disney Company's film distribution brand, founded in 1953 as Buena Vista Distribution after a dispute with RKO; its international arm Buena Vista International was incorporated in 1961 and largely renamed in 2007, though it persists as a legal entity and returned in Latin America in 2026.
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club: 1997 album and ensemble of veteran Cuban son musicians recorded in Havana by Ry Cooder, Nick Gold, and Juan de Marcos González; Grammy winner, over 8 million sales, Wim Wenders film, later a Tony-winning Broadway musical.
Buena Vista Social Club (1999 film)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999) is Wim Wenders' Oscar-nominated documentary following Ry Cooder and veteran Cuban musicians from Havana recording sessions to Carnegie Hall, a $23 million-grossing music documentary.
Buena Vista Social Club (album)
Buena Vista Social Club (1997), Cuban son album recorded in seven days at Havana's EGREM studios, produced by Ry Cooder for World Circuit; best-selling world music album with over 8 million copies and a 1998 Grammy.
Buena Vista Social Club (musical)
Buena Vista Social Club is a 2025 Broadway musical at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, book by Marco Ramirez, directed by Saheem Ali, based on the 1997 Grammy-winning Cuban album and Wim Wenders documentary; five 2025 Tony Awards.
Buenaventura Báez
Buenaventura Báez (Ramón Buenaventura Báez Méndez), Dominican caudillo and five-time president (1849–53, 1856–58, 1865–66, 1868–73, 1876–78), rival of Pedro Santana, Red Party leader, whose US annexation treaty with Grant failed in the Senate.
Buenavista Biosphere Reserve
Buenavista Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB site (designated 2000) on Cuba's northern coast across Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus, and Ciego de Ávila provinces; 313,502 ha, 873 inventoried species, 176 endemics, and a Ramsar wetland since 2002.
Buenavista, México
Buenavista, México: the largest colonia of Tultitlán Municipality in the State of Mexico, part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, with 216,776 inhabitants (2020 census) at about 2,333 m elevation; distinct from Buenavista municipalities in Michoacán and Guerrero and the Mexico City colonia.
Bueng Boraphet Aquarium
Bueng Boraphet Aquarium (อาคารแสดงพันธุ์สัตว์น้ำบึงบอระเพ็ด), Nakhon Sawan, Thailand: boat-shaped freshwater aquarium opened 5 December 2007 for King Bhumibol's 80th birthday, with a 24-meter fish tunnel, 100+ species, and crocodile shows; closed for renovation since June 2023.
Bueninvento
Bueninvento is the second studio album by Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas, released in August 2000 and produced by Gustavo Santaolalla, marking a turn toward a darker, more alternative sound.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Capital Federal) is Argentina's capital and largest urban area on the Río de la Plata: 2.9 million residents, a 16.4-million metropolitan region, autonomy since 1994, and marked socio-spatial inequality.
Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens
Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens (Jardín Japonés), a 2.5-hectare Japanese-style garden in Palermo's Parque Tres de Febrero, inaugurated 17 May 1967 for Crown Prince Akihito's visit, redesigned by Yasuo Inomata, run by the Japanese Argentine Cultural Foundation.
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires Province (Provincia de Buenos Aires), Argentina's most populous province, 17,569,053 people (2022 census), capital La Plata since 1882, 135 partidos, governor Axel Kicillof, leading industrial and agricultural economy.
Buenos Aires Underground 200 Series
The Buenos Aires Underground 200 Series is a fleet of Chinese-built electric metro trains that replaced the century-old La Brugeoise cars on Line A in 2013.
Buer (demon)
Buer is a Goetic demon, 10th spirit of the Ars Goetia and 7th in Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (1577): a Great President of 50 legions who teaches philosophy, logic, and herbal virtues, heals, and gives familiars; his wheel-like lion image is Le Breton's 1863 engraving.
Buertai Coal Mine
Buertai Coal Mine (布尔台煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, owned by China Shenhua Energy, producing 20 million tonnes of coal yearly since 2008.
Bufalino crime family
The Bufalino crime family, also called the Scranton Mafia, was a small Italian American Mafia organization based in northeastern Pennsylvania, named after boss Russell Bufalino.
Bufalo Oil Field
Bufalo Oil Field, called Búfalo in Portuguese sources, is an offshore oil field in Angola's Block 3/05, discovered in the early 1980s and producing since 1985.
Bufexamac
Bufexamac (Paraderm, Parfenac, CP-1044-J3) is a topical hydroxamic-acid NSAID formerly used for eczema, dermatitis, and hemorrhoids; withdrawn in the EU (2010), Australia (2020), and New Zealand for severe allergic contact dermatitis.
Buff (colour)
Buff is a pale yellow-brown color, the shade of buff leather originally made from buffalo hide, attested in English by 1788 and historically mixed from white lead and yellow ochre.
Buff Bagwell
Buff Bagwell (Marcus Alexander Bagwell), American professional wrestler, WCW star 1991–2001, five-time WCW World Tag Team Champion, nWo member from 1996, one-match WWE run in 2001, leg amputated 2025.
Buffalo
Buffalo: true buffalo are African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) and Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), not bison. Domestic water buffalo number ~202 million, domesticated in India and China/Indochina; African buffalo Near Threatened.
Buffalo '66
Buffalo '66 is a 1998 American independent comedy-drama and the directorial debut of Vincent Gallo, who stars as an ex-convict who abducts a young tap dancer, played by Christina Ricci, to pose as his wife.
Buffalo Airways
Buffalo Airways is a family-owned Canadian airline based in Yellowknife, NWT, purchased by Joe McBryan in 1970. It offers charter, cargo, and firefighting services across the Canadian North.
Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority
The Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority is a binational public corporation that owns and operates the Peace Bridge between Buffalo, New York, and Fort Erie, Ontario.
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill, William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), American scout, buffalo hunter, and showman whose Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, opened 1883 in Omaha, toured the US and Europe and defined the frontier myth.
Buffalo Bill (1944 film)
Buffalo Bill (1944) is a Twentieth Century-Fox Technicolor Western biography directed by William A. Wellman, starring Joel McCrea as Buffalo Bill Cody with Maureen O'Hara and Linda Darnell; a 1944 box-office hit remembered for its War Bonnet Gorge battle scene.
Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills, NFL team in Orchard Park, New York; AFL charter franchise (1960), two-time AFL champions, only team to reach four straight Super Bowls (all lost); owned by the Pegulas since 2014, five straight AFC East titles with MVP Josh Allen.
Buffalo Bisons
Buffalo Bisons: Triple-A International League baseball team in Buffalo, New York, top affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays; plays at 16,600-capacity Sahlen Field (opened 1988), which hosted 49 Blue Jays MLB games in 2020-2021.
Buffalo Braves
Buffalo Braves, NBA franchise 1970-1978 in Buffalo, New York, at Memorial Auditorium; Bob McAdoo won 1975 MVP; 1978 ownership swap with Boston Celtics sent the club to San Diego as the Clippers, now the Los Angeles Clippers.