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Bulangan sa Catarman
Bulangan sa Catarman is a cockfighting venue (bulangan, Waray for cockpit) in Catarman, Northern Samar, tagged as a casino in OpenStreetMap near Molave quarter, PSA office, and Catarman-Calbayog Road.
Bulaq Press
The Bulaq Press (مطبعة بولاق) was Egypt's government printing house, founded by Muhammad Ali Pasha at Cairo's Bulaq port in 1820, printing textbooks, codes, and the state gazette.
Bulaquine (Elubaquin)
Bulaquine (elubaquine, CDRI 80/53) is an Indian 8-aminoquinoline anti-relapse antimalarial for Plasmodium vivax, a primaquine analogue and prodrug marketed as Aablaquine with chloroquine; development discontinued.
Bularchus
Bularchus (Greek Boularchos) is a painter of Lydia known only from Pliny, who says King Candaules paid its weight in gold for his battle picture.
Bulat Okudzhava
Bulat Okudzhava (Булат Окуджава) was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter, regarded as a founder of the Russian author song; his songs like "Song about the Arbat" spread on tape recordings.
Bulavin Rebellion
The Bulavin Rebellion (Булавинское восстание) was a Cossack and peasant rising against Peter the Great on the Don River from 1707 to 1708, led by Kondraty Bulavin.
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is Zimbabwe's second largest city, with 665,940 people at the 2022 census, built on the site of King Lobengula's royal kraal and long a mining and industrial center.
Bulawayo Province
Bulawayo Metropolitan Province, one of Zimbabwe's two metropolitan provinces with Harare, surrounds the city of Bulawayo, the country's second largest city and former industrial hub; 665,940 people (2022), 439 km2, bordered by Matabeleland North and South.
Bulb
Bulb: a compressed underground stem with fleshy leaf scales, basal plate, and tunic; horticulturally also corms, tubers, tuberous roots, and rhizomes. ABA and temperature govern dormancy; tulips drove the Dutch bulb trade.
Bulb of vestibule
Bulb of vestibule (bulbus vestibuli, vestibular bulb): paired ~3 cm erectile tissue masses beside the vaginal opening, homologous to the male bulb of penis, engorging during arousal and attaching anteriorly to the clitoris.
Bulb turbine
A bulb turbine is a water turbine with a Kaplan-type runner directly driving a generator sealed in a bulb-shaped housing inside the waterway, best suited to very low heads.
Bulbar palsy
Bulbar palsy, also called progressive bulbar palsy (PBP), is lower motor neuron weakness of tongue, speech, and swallowing muscles from brainstem cranial nerve lesions; pseudobulbar palsy is its upper motor neuron, spastic counterpart.
Bulbasaur (フシギダネ)
Bulbasaur (フシギダネ, Fushigidane) is Pokémon No. 0001, a Grass/Poison Seed Pokémon designed by Atsuko Nishida, one of the three first partner Pokémon of Pokémon Red and Green (1996), evolving into Ivysaur and Venusaur.
Bulbbul (बुलबुल)
Bulbbul (बुलबुल) is a 2020 Hindi supernatural drama on Netflix, Anvitaa Dutt's directorial debut, produced by Clean Slate Filmz, starring Tripti Dimri; a feminist chudail revenge tale set in 19th-century Bengal.
Bulbophyllum
Bulbophyllum (Thouars 1822) is the second largest orchid and flowering-plant genus, over 2,100 pantropical epiphytic species centered in tropical Asia, with 97 sections, many non-monophyletic, and CITES Appendix II coverage.
Bulbophyllum beccarii
Bulbophyllum beccarii Rchb.f. (1879) is a large climbing epiphytic orchid from Borneo, with a bristly creeping rhizome, cup-shaped detritus-trapping leaves up to 50 cm, and pink flowers smelling of rotting flesh.
Bulbophyllum fletcherianum
Bulbophyllum fletcherianum J.G.Fowler, the tongue orchid, a giant New Guinea orchid described in 1914, with leaves to 1.8 m and fetid deep red flowers; synonyms include Cirrhopetalum fletcherianum and B. spiesii.
Bulbospongiosus muscle
Bulbospongiosus (bulbocavernosus) muscle: paired pelvic floor muscle in the superficial perineal space; wraps penile bulb in males, vaginal orifice in females; innervated by pudendal nerve S2-S4; expels urine and semen, assists erection.
Bulbourethral gland
The bulbourethral glands, also called Cowper's glands, are a pair of pea-sized glands in the male reproductive system, below the prostate, that secrete alkaline pre-ejaculate, which neutralizes acidity and lubricates the urethra.
Bulbous bow
A bulbous bow is a protruding bulb at a ship's front, at or just below the waterline, that reduces wave-making resistance; it is now common on large merchant ships.
Bulbul
Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae) are about 130 Old World passerine species of Africa, the Middle East, and southern Asia; frugivorous seed dispersers with operculate nostrils, from the Common Bulbul to the Critically Endangered Straw-headed Bulbul.
Bulbulay (بلبلے)
Bulbulay (بلبلے) is a Pakistani Urdu-language family sitcom first aired on ARY Digital on October 22, 2009, following Momo, Nabeel, Khoobsurat, and Mehmood Sahib; not to be confused with the bulbul bird or Sikkim's Bulbulay substation.
Bulci
Bulci (Hungarian Bulcs), village in Bata commune, Arad County, Banat, Romania, on the Mureș River. Site La Cetate holds a Roman castrum of Legio XIII Gemina, a 10th-12th-century earthwork fort, and a Benedictine abbey documented from 1225.
Bulcsu Szekely
Bulcsú Székely (Székely Bulcsú), born 1976 in Budapest, is a Hungarian water polo player, 2000 Sydney Olympic champion, two-time European champion (1997, 1999), later KSI department head and MVLSZ youth committee chair, distinct from snooker player Révész Bulcsú.
Bulcy
Bulcy (also Bulet) is a small commune in the Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, INSEE 58042, near La Charité-sur-Loire; 146 inhabitants (2023), known for its oolitic limestone quarry that supplied the nave of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire abbey.
Buldak Ramen
Buldak Ramen (불닭볶음면, Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen) is Samyang Foods' spicy Korean stir-fried instant noodle, launched April 2012, famous for the Fire Noodle Challenge, 10 billion units sold, and Denmark's 2024 capsaicin recall.
Bülent Ecevit
Bülent Ecevit (1925–2006) was a Turkish journalist, poet, and politician, four-time prime minister (1974, 1977, 1978–79, 1999–2002), CHP leader from 1972, and founder-era leader of the Democratic Left Party; led the 1974 Cyprus operation.
Bülent Korkmaz
Bülent Korkmaz, born 1968 in Malatya, Turkey, is a Turkish football manager and former Galatasaray defender who captained the club that won the 2000 UEFA Cup.
Bulevirtide
Bulevirtide (Hepcludex, formerly Myrcludex B) is a first-in-class 47-amino-acid lipopeptide entry inhibitor blocking the NTCP receptor used by hepatitis D and B viruses. Approved by EMA in 2020 and FDA in 2026 for chronic hepatitis D with compensated liver disease; 2 mg daily subcutaneous injection.
Bulga Coal Mine
Bulga Coal Mine is an open cut coal mine in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, producing metallurgical and thermal coal near Singleton.