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Bugha (gamer)
Bugha (Kyle Giersdorf, born 2002) is an American Fortnite pro from Pennsylvania who won the 2019 Fortnite World Cup solo title for $3 million, joined Sentinels and later Dignitas, and has an Icon Series set and the Bugha's Late Game mode named for him.
Bugha al-Saghir
Bugha al-Saghir (بغا الصغير), known as Bugha al-Sharabi or Bugha the Younger, was a Turkish commander of the Abbasid Caliphate serving Caliph al-Musta'in at Samarra in the mid-ninth century.
Bugha the Elder
Bugha the Elder (بغا الكبير) was a Turkish slave soldier and senior Abbasid general, a client of Caliph al-Mu'tasim who helped install Caliph al-Musta'in in 862.
Bughyat al-Talab fi Tarikh Halab
Bughyat al-Talab fi Tarikh Halab (بغية الطلب في تاريخ حلب) is a large Arabic biographical dictionary and local history of Aleppo by Ibn al-Adim, who died in 1261.
Bugil High School
Bugil High School (북일고등학교, Bugil Academy) is a private autonomous boys' high school in Cheonan, South Korea, founded in 1976 by Hanwha founder Kim Jong-hee, with a nationwide intake, Yeosong Academy dormitory, and a former international program (2010–2021).
Bugis
The Bugis (To Ugi') are the largest ethnic group of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, speaking Buginese (27 dialects, lontara script), predominantly Muslim, with kingdoms like Bone and Wajo and a large diaspora in Malaysia, Singapore, and Kalimantan; over 7 million worldwide.
Bugis ascendancy in the Riau-Johor succession (1722–1784)
Bugis ascendancy in the Riau-Johor succession (Perebutan takhta Johor) was the 1722 struggle in which Bugis princes defeated Raja Kecil and enthroned Sultan Sulaiman at Riau.
Bugis literature
Bugis literature is the written and oral literary tradition of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, ranging from the epic La Galigo to chronicles and heroic poetry.
Bugis migration to the Malay Peninsula
The Bugis migration to the Malay Peninsula is the centuries-long movement of Bugis people from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, who settled mainly in Johor and Selangor and entered Malay royal houses.
Bugle
Bugle: valveless brass signal instrument with cup mouthpiece and conical bore, sounding only harmonic-series notes; US regulation bugle in G; over 100 Navy calls; taps dates to July 1862.
BugMeNot
BugMeNot, also known as Bugmenot.com, is a free internet service started in November 2003 that provides shared usernames and passwords so users can bypass registration on websites, originally news sites.
Bugonia (film)
Bugonia is a 2025 dark science-fiction comedy directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and was nominated for four 2026 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is the wisecracking cartoon rabbit of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes, formally debuting in Tex Avery's A Wild Hare (July 27, 1940) with the catchphrase "What's up, Doc?", voiced by Mel Blanc, and developed collectively by Hardaway, Avery, Clampett, Jones, Freleng, and McKimson.
Bugs Moran
Bugs Moran (Adelard Cunin) led Chicago's North Side Gang during Prohibition as Al Capone's chief rival; his gang suffered the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and he died in prison in 1957.
BUGS project
The BUGS project, whose language is Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling, provides software that performs Bayesian inference via MCMC; started in Cambridge in 1989, it inspired JAGS and Stan.
Bugsnax
Bugsnax (Young Horses, 2020) is a first-person adventure on Snaktooth Island where a journalist captures 100 half-bug, half-snack creatures and feeds them to Grumpuses, transforming their bodies; PS5 launch title with Kero Kero Bonito theme song and Isle of Bigsnax DLC.
Bugsy
Bugsy (1991) is Barry Levinson's biographical crime drama starring Warren Beatty as mobster Bugsy Siegel and Annette Bening as Virginia Hill; it earned ten Oscar nominations, won two, and took the Golden Globe for Best Drama.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is Alan Parker's 1976 all-child-cast gangster musical, set in 1929 New York with splurge guns firing cream, songs by Paul Williams, starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster, five BAFTA wins and an Oscar nomination.
Bugsy Siegel
Bugsy Siegel (Benjamin Siegelbaum, 1906–1947), Brooklyn-born Jewish-American gangster, Murder, Inc. founder, Los Angeles syndicate boss, and builder of the Flamingo Hotel, murdered in Beverly Hills in 1947.
Bugyō (commissioner) system under Hideyoshi
The bugyō system under Hideyoshi was the Toyotomi regime's central administration, run by daimyo commissioners, most famously the Go-bugyō (五奉行), who handled finance, litigation, and land surveys.
Bugzy Malone
Bugzy Malone, stage name of Aaron Davis (born 1990), is an English grime MC and actor from Manchester, the first successful grime artist from that city, with UK Top 10 EPs and the albums B. Inspired (2018) and The Resurrection (2021).
Buhays ibn Hakim al-Qushayri
Buhays ibn Hakim al-Qushayri (بهز بن حكيم القشيري) was a second-century AH hadith transmitter of Basra, grandson of the companion Mu'awiya ibn Hayda, whom critics divided over.
Buhen stela of Senusret I
The Buhen stela of Senusret I is a sandstone stela from year 18 of his reign, set up for General Montuhotep and celebrating victories over ten Nubian locations, now in Florence.
Buhle Goslar
Buhle Goslar is a South African fintech executive who served as JUMO's CEO for Africa and Pakistan from 2019 to 2023, and now chairs the neobank Lula.
Bühler Sortex
Bühler Sortex is the London-based optical sorting business of the Swiss Bühler Group, making machines that remove defective grains, seeds, and nuts with cameras and air jets.
Buhumu
Buhumu (不忽木, 1255–1300) was a Confucian-trained Yuan dynasty statesman of the Kangli people who served Kublai Khan, helped bring down two finance ministers, and co-received Kublai's deathbed edict settling the succession.
Buhurizade Mustafa Itri
Buhurizade Mustafa Itri was an Ottoman composer, singer, and Mevlevi dervish who served Sultan Mehmed IV and died in 1711, known for the Segah Tekbir.
Bùi Diễm
Bùi Diễm (1923-2021), South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States 1967-1972 and ambassador-at-large until 1975, Đại Việt party veteran, Saigon Post publisher, and author of the memoir In the Jaws of History.
Bùi Giáng
Bùi Giáng (1926–1998) was a Vietnamese poet, translator, and scholar of literature and philosophy who spent his career in Sài Gòn and became one of the most reprinted authors of southern Vietnamese literature.
Bui hydroelectric plant
The Bui hydroelectric plant is a 404 MW hydropower station on the Black Volta River in Ghana, commissioned in 2013 and operated by the Bui Power Authority.