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Bulumtatug fuvedotin
Bulumtatug fuvedotin (BFv, 9MW2821), Mabwell's next-generation Nectin-4-targeting antibody-drug conjugate carrying MMAE via a homogeneous DAR 4 linker; phase I/II ORRs of 54.1% in urothelial and 50% in triple-negative breast cancer, with phase III trials ongoing.
Bulungur school
The Bulungur school, or Bulung'ur dostonchilik maktabi, is a regional school of Uzbek epic storytelling centered in Bulungur district, Samarkand region, Uzbekistan, known for heroic dastans.
Bulworth
Bulworth (1998) is Warren Beatty's political satire for 20th Century Fox, starring Beatty as Senator Jay Bulworth, who orders his own assassination and raps blunt truths; co-written with Jeremy Pikser, grossing $29.2 million worldwide.
Bum Farto
Bum Farto (Joseph Anthony Farto, 1919–disappeared 1976) was Key West, Florida's fire chief, convicted in Operation Conch of selling cocaine and marijuana, who vanished before sentencing; his fate inspired "Where Is Bum Farto?" t-shirts and a 2022 musical.
Bum Phillips
Bum Phillips (Oail Andrew Phillips Jr., 1923-2013), Texas football coach; head coach of the Houston Oilers 1975-80 and New Orleans Saints 1981-85; pioneer of the NFL 3-4 defense.
BUMA Australia
BUMA Australia is an Australian open-cut contract mining company, founded in 2021 and owned by Indonesia's PT Bukit Makmur Mandiri Utama, working mainly in Queensland's Bowen Basin.
Bumbershoot
Bumbershoot, also known as Festival '71 in its first year, is Seattle's long-running multidisciplinary arts and music festival at Seattle Center over Labor Day weekend, founded in 1971, renamed in 1973, and now produced by New Rising Sun.
Bumbeşti
Bumbeşti (Bumbeşti-Jiu, Gorj, Romania): site of two Roman auxiliary forts on the Jiu river at the Jiu defile, built earth-and-timber by cohors IV Cypria and a Legio V Macedonica detachment, rebuilt in stone in AD 201, with canabae and thermae.
Bumble
Bumble is a dating app founded in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd, known for its women-message-first rule, removed in August 2026; parent Bumble Inc. also owns Badoo and BFF.
Bumblebee
Bumblebee (Bombus): genus of about 250 cold-adapted social bees with annual colonies and buzz pollination, reared commercially for 25 crops; UK numbers hit record lows in 2024 and 15 European species are IUCN-threatened.
Bumblebee (film)
Bumblebee (film) is a 2018 science-fiction action film that is the sixth live-action entry in the Transformers series. It stars Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena.
Bumblebee (Transformers)
Bumblebee (B-127, Japanese バンブル) is the yellow Autobot scout of the Transformers franchise, debuting in 1984 as a Volkswagen Beetle, absent during Beast Wars over a trademark issue, and revived by the 2007-2018 live-action films as a Chevrolet Camaro-driving fan favorite.
Bumblebee colony life cycle
The bumblebee colony life cycle is an annual cycle in which an overwintered queen founds a colony each spring, producing workers, then males and new queens.
Bumblebee decline and conservation
Bumblebee decline and conservation addresses the documented declines of wild Bombus bees across Europe, North America, and Asia, caused by climate change, habitat loss, pesticides, and pathogens.
Bumblebee parasites and diseases
Bumblebees host parasites and diseases including conopid flies, tracheal mites, the nematode Sphaerularia bombi, and gut protists like Crithidia bombi, with pathogen spillover from commercial colonies a concern.
Bumetanide
Bumetanide (BUM, BTN) is a potent loop diuretic synthesized by Peter W. Feit at Leo Pharma in 1969, marketed from 1972; 1 mg equals about 40 mg furosemide, inhibits NKCC1/NKCC2, and treats edema in heart, liver, and kidney disease.
Bumfights
Bumfights is a 2002 American direct-to-video series filming homeless men fighting and performing stunts for money and alcohol. Sold online at $22, it drew criminal charges, guilty pleas, a 2006 civil settlement, and copycat attacks.
Bumi Manusia
Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind) is a 1980 Indonesian novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the first volume of the Buru Quartet, following the Javanese student Minke in the colonial Dutch East Indies.
Bumi Resources
Bumi Resources (PT Bumi Resources Tbk) is an Indonesian coal mining holding company controlled by the Bakrie family, owning Kaltim Prima Coal and Arutmin Indonesia.
Bumin Qaghan
Bumin Qaghan, known in Chinese sources as Tumen, was the founder and first ruler of the Göktürk Khaganate, which he established in 552 by overthrowing the Rouran Khaganate.
Bumiputera (Malaysia)
Bumiputera is Malaysia's category for Malays, Orang Asli, and Sabah and Sarawak natives, about 69.4% of the 2020 population, protected under Article 153 and favored by affirmative action since the 1971 New Economic Policy.
Bumjoon J. Kim
Bumjoon J. Kim (김범준) is a South Korean polymer scientist and KAIST professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, since 2008, known for stretchable organic solar cells reaching 19% efficiency.
Bumm Bumm Bole
Bumm Bumm Bole is a 2010 Hindi children's drama directed by Priyadarshan, an official remake of Majid Majidi's Children of Heaven, starring Darsheel Safary; siblings share one pair of shoes; box office disaster.
Bummed
Bummed is the second album by Happy Mondays, released 5 November 1988 on Factory Records (FACT 220), produced by Martin Hannett with design by Central Station Design; includes Wrote For Luck, later hailed as a Madchester landmark.
BUMN Tower
BUMN Tower, also called Menara BUMN, was a planned 778-meter, 138-floor skyscraper in Nusantara, Indonesia's new capital in East Kalimantan, promoted as a candidate for the tallest building in Southeast Asia but never built.
Bump (Australian TV series)
Bump is an Australian comedy-drama series created by Claudia Karvan and Kelsey Munro for Stan, about teen Oly Chalmers-Davis's surprise pregnancy; five seasons, 2021-2024, plus Year Of spin-off and a 2025 Christmas film.
Bump function
A bump function is a smooth function that is nonzero only on a compact set, equalling 1 on an inner region and falling smoothly to 0 outside.
Bump stock
A bump stock, also called a bump fire stock, is a rifle accessory that lets a semiautomatic rifle fire up to 700 rounds per minute by harnessing recoil.
Bumper cars
Bumper cars (dodgems, Autoscooter, peng peng che): small electric amusement-ride vehicles with rubber bumper rings, ridden in arenas where deliberate collisions are the point. Patented by Stoehrer & Pratt in 1921; powered by ceiling grid, floor grid, or batteries.
Bumper Robinson
Bumper Robinson, born Larry Clarence Robinson II in 1974 in Cleveland, is an American actor and voice actor; known for Bumblebee/Blitzwing in Transformers: Animated, Rook Blonko in Ben 10: Omniverse, Falcon in Avengers Assemble, Cyborg in Justice League: Doom, and 66 video game credits.