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Bull-and-horseman jital
The bull-and-horseman jital (سوار و گاؤ جیتل) is a billon coin of medieval north India and Afghanistan, first minted by the Hindu Shahi kings at Lahore and adopted by many states.
Bull-baiting
Bull-baiting: English blood sport in which dogs attacked a chained bull, tied to butchery beliefs and market-town law; sanctioned for centuries, ruled unprotected in 1828, abolished by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, and origin of the bulldog.
Bulla of Baruch son of Neriah
The bulla of Baruch son of Neriah is an unprovenanced clay seal impression naming Berekhyahu son of Neriyahu, the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah, dated to about 586 BC.
Bulla of Hezekiah
The Bulla of Hezekiah is a clay seal impression reading "Belonging to Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah", found in Jerusalem's Ophel in 2015.
Bullah
Bullah (2026) is a Pakistani Punjabi action film directed by Shoaib Khan, written by Nasir Adib, starring Shaan Shahid as a vigilante fighting crime lords Bakshi, Shahu, and Faqeera in Punjab; released Eid ul Fitr 2026.
Bulldog
Bulldog (English/British Bulldog), a medium-sized brachycephalic British companion breed descended from bull-baiting dogs; recognized 1873, oldest single-breed club (1875), median longevity 7.2 years, litters usually by cesarean, prone to BOAS.
Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond is a fictional British gentleman adventurer created by H. C. McNeile ("Sapper") in the 1920 novel Bull-Dog Drummond, featuring Captain Hugh Drummond versus villain Carl Peterson; a forerunner of James Bond.
Bulldozer
A bulldozer, also called a crawler dozer, is a tractor fitted with a large metal blade used to push, cut, and grade soil in construction and mining.
Bulldozer (microarchitecture)
Bulldozer, also known as AMD K11, is an AMD x86-64 processor microarchitecture introduced in 2011, built from two-core modules that share fetch, decode, floating-point, and L2 cache resources.
Bullectomy
Bullectomy is a thoracic surgical procedure that removes giant emphysematous bullae, air spaces filling a third or more of the chest, so compressed lung can re-expand and breathing improves in emphysema.
Bulleh Shah
Bulleh Shah (بلھے شاہ), also Sayyid Abdullah Shah Qadri, c. 1680–1757/58, was a Punjabi Sufi poet of the Qadiri order under Shah Inayat Qadiri, famed for kafis like Bullah Ki Jana Main Kaun and a shrine in Kasur.
Bulleit Bourbon
Bulleit Bourbon (Frontier Whiskey) is a Diageo-owned Kentucky straight bourbon, 90 proof, mashbill 68/28/4 corn-rye-barley, founded by Tom Bulleit in 1987, historically sourced from Four Roses, with own distilleries since 2017.
Bullerengue Oil and Gas Field
Bullerengue is an onshore natural gas and condensate field in Atlántico, Colombia, discovered in 2015 and operated by Lewis Energy Colombia with Hocol, an Ecopetrol subsidiary.
Bullet
A bullet is the projectile a firearm fires, technically distinct from the cartridge containing it: case, primer, powder, and bullet together form a cartridge for rifles and handguns, or a shotgun shell.
Bullet (1996 film)
Bullet (1996) is an American crime film directed by Julien Temple, starring Mickey Rourke as ex-con Butch "Bullet" Stein and Tupac Shakur as drug dealer Tank; written by Bruce Rubenstein and Rourke, shot in Brooklyn in 1994, released direct-to-video after Shakur's death.
Bullet (typography)
In typography, a bullet, also called a bullet point, is a small symbol, most often a filled round dot (•), placed at the start of a line to mark list items without implying order.
Bullet Club
Bullet Club, villainous pro wrestling stable formed in NJPW May 3, 2013 by Prince Devitt, Karl Anderson, Bad Luck Fale, and Tama Tonga; nWo-inspired, merchandising phenomenon whose Elite offshoot founded AEW; disbanded January 2026 into Unbound Co.
Bullet Cluster
The Bullet Cluster (1E 0657-56) is a pair of colliding galaxy clusters in Carina, about 3.7 billion light-years away, known as evidence for dark matter.
Bullet for My Valentine
Bullet for My Valentine: Welsh metalcore band from Bridgend led by Matt Tuck and Michael Paget; debut The Poison (2005), chart hits Scream Aim Fire and Fever, eighth album Social Apocalypse due 2027.
Bullet hell
Bullet hell (danmaku, 弾幕) is a shoot 'em up subgenre of dense projectile patterns dodged with a tiny hitbox, born in mid-1990s Japanese arcades via Batsugun and DoDonPachi, spread by Touhou, and distinct from the auto-attacking bullet heaven genre.
Bullet in the Head
Bullet in the Head (喋血街頭) is John Woo's 1990 Hong Kong action epic starring Tony Leung, Jacky Cheung, and Waise Lee as friends who flee 1967 Hong Kong for wartime Vietnam and are destroyed by gold; a box office failure later reappraised as his most personal film.
Bullet Physics Library
Bullet Physics Library is an open-source C++ physics library by Erwin Coumans, first released in 2005 and used in games, film, robotics, and reinforcement learning research.
Bullet Rogan
Bullet Rogan (Charles Wilber "Bullet Joe" Rogan, 1893-1967) was a Negro leagues pitcher, cleanup-hitting outfielder, and manager for the Kansas City Monarchs (1920-38), a 1998 Hall of Famer and 1924 World Series champion.
Bullet time
Bullet time (time slice photography) is a visual effect where time appears frozen or slowed while the camera moves rapidly around the scene, named for The Matrix.
Bullet to the Head
Bullet to the Head is a 2012 American action film directed by Walter Hill, starring Sylvester Stallone as a New Orleans hitman who teams with a detective.
Bullet Train (film)
Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy directed by David Leitch, in which Brad Pitt plays an assassin among rival killers on a Japanese high-speed train.
Bullet Train (マリアビートル) (novel)
Bullet Train, originally Maria Beetle (マリアビートル), is a 2010 Kotaro Isaka thriller, second in his hitman series, in which several assassins collide on a Tokyo-to-Morioka Tohoku Shinkansen. Translated by Sam Malissa (2021); basis of the 2022 Brad Pitt film.
Bullet Train Explosion
Bullet Train Explosion (新幹線大爆破) is a 2025 Netflix Japanese thriller directed by Shinji Higuchi, starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi; a reboot of the 1975 Toei film The Bullet Train, about a Shinkansen bomb set to detonate below 100 km/h.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a 1995 Smashing Pumpkins song, lead single from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness; first US Top 40 hit, UK peak 20, 1997 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance.
Bullet/Bullet (バレット/バレット)
Bullet/Bullet (バレット/バレット, Baretto/Baretto) is a 2025 original anime by Sunghoo Park and E&H Production, streamed on Disney+ Star in two batches (July 16 and August 13, 2025, 12 episodes), about thief Gear stealing a world-shaking secret in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.