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Bunroku–Keichō invasion forces
The Bunroku–Keichō invasion forces (文禄・慶長の役の軍勢) were the expeditionary armies Toyotomi Hideyoshi raised to invade Korea between 1592 and 1598, about 158,700 men in the first invasion, withdrawn after Hideyoshi died in 1598.
Bunscoill Ghaelgagh
Bunscoill Ghaelgagh is the world's only Manx Gaelic immersion primary school, in St John's, Isle of Man. Founded 2001, government-maintained since 2020, ages 4-11, island-wide intake, maximum 60 pupils.
Bunsei fire
The Bunsei fire (文政の大火, Bunsei no taika), also called the Sakumachō fire, was a great 1829 fire that destroyed much of central Edo, now Tokyo, killing over 2,800 people.
Bunsen burner
A Bunsen burner is a laboratory gas burner that mixes gas with air before combustion, giving a hot, adjustable flame used for heating and sterilization.
Bunsen Is a Beast
Bunsen Is a Beast: 2017 Butch Hartman Nicktoon on Nickelodeon about a blue beast, the first at Muckledunk Middle School, befriending human Mikey Munroe; premiered February 21, 2017, ran one season, IMDb 4.0.
Bunt (community)
Bunts (also Nadavas), a landholding community of Tulu Nadu in coastal Karnataka, traditionally matrilineal via aliya santana, with recorded history from a 9th-century inscription and bhuta spirit worship.
Buntanetap
Buntanetap (Posiphen, ANVS-401), Annovis Bio's oral translation inhibitor of APP, tau, and alpha-synuclein, in Phase 3 for early Alzheimer's (NCT06709014) and Parkinson's disease; investigational, not FDA approved.
Bunting (animal behavior)
Bunting behavior covers song learning, dialects, and mating displays in Emberiza and Passerina finches: indigo buntings refine innate songs by learning, corn buntings change dialects yearly, reed bunting dawn song predicts extrapair paternity.
Buntonia
Buntonia (Howe, 1935) is an accepted ostracod crustacean genus in Trachyleberididae, type species B. shubutaensis; a marine, ornamented carapace genus used in Cretaceous-Eocene biostratigraphy of Africa and the Americas.
Buntsandstein
Buntsandstein, German for "colored sandstone," is the lower of the three rock groups of the Germanic Trias across the Central European Basin, named around 1780 by Abraham Gottlob Werner for its red sandstones.
Bunty Aur Babli (बंटी और बबली)
Bunty Aur Babli (बंटी और बबली) is a 2005 Yash Raj Films Hindi crime comedy directed by Shaad Ali, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, and Amitabh Bachchan as con artists and their pursuer, with the Kajra Re song and a 2021 sequel.
Bunty Aur Babli 2
Bunty Aur Babli 2 (बंटी और बबली २), 2021 Yash Raj Films Hindi comedy sequel to Bunty Aur Babli, directed by Varun V. Sharma, starring Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Siddhant Chaturvedi, and Sharvari; released 19 November 2021, poorly reviewed.
Bunyaviridae
Bunyaviridae, a former ICTV virus family named after Bunyamwera virus, held five genera of segmented negative-sense RNA viruses until its 2017 promotion to order Bunyavirales and 2024 promotion to class Bunyaviricetes.
Bunyip
The bunyip is a monstrous water spirit of southeastern Australian Aboriginal tradition, from Wemba Wemba banib, later reshaped by colonial folklore into a shapeless cryptid, cultural icon, and Australian slang for imposter.
Bunyoro-Kitara
Bunyoro-Kitara is a kingdom in western Uganda founded by the Babiito dynasty around 1500, regarded as the earliest kingdom in East Africa's lake region and heir of the earlier Kitara empire.
Bunyoro–Buganda wars
The Bunyoro–Buganda wars were centuries of conflict between the two Ugandan kingdoms, ending when an Anglo-Buganda alliance defeated Kabalega at Mparo in 1894, after which Bunyoro's counties were annexed to Buganda as the Lost Counties.
Bunzl
Bunzl plc is a British multinational distribution group that supplies businesses with non-food consumables like packaging and cleaning supplies across 33 countries, with 2025 revenue of £11.8 billion.
Bước đường cùng
Bước đường cùng, meaning "At the end of the road," is a 1938 Vietnamese novel by Nguyễn Công Hoan about a poor farmer driven to revolt.
Buôn Ma Thuột
Buôn Ma Thuột (Ban Mê Thuột), capital of Đắk Lắk, Vietnam, largest Central Highlands city; named for Ede chief Ama Thuột; founded 1904; Vietnam's Robusta coffee capital with World Coffee Museum and biennial coffee festival.
Buon Riposo
Buon Riposo is a frazione of Aprilia, Latina, Lazio, Italy, identified with the ancient Volscian city of Longula (Coriolanus, 488 BC), a fortified settlement from the 7th century BCE, later a medieval castrum and pilgrim rest.
Buongiorno model
The Buongiorno model is a two-component, four-equation model for convective heat transfer in nanofluids, retaining Brownian diffusion and thermophoresis as slip mechanisms, introduced by Jacopo Buongiorno of MIT in 2006.
Buoy
A buoy is a floating, anchored object used as an aid to navigation, marking channels and hazards, with instrumented buoys also collecting weather and ocean data.
Buoyancy
Buoyancy, also called buoyant force, is the upward force a fluid exerts on an immersed object. By Archimedes' principle, it equals the weight of fluid displaced.
Buoyancy engine
A buoyancy engine is a propulsion device used in profiling floats and underwater gliders that changes the vehicle's volume to sink or rise without a propeller.
Bupa
Bupa, short for the British United Provident Association, is an international healthcare company with no shareholders, reinvesting profits into health insurance, health provision, and aged care for 68 million customers.
Buparlisib
Buparlisib (BKM120), Novartis oral pan-class I PI3K inhibitor; phase 3 BELLE-2/3 showed PFS benefit with fulvestrant in HR+/HER2- breast cancer but limited by rash, hyperglycemia, transaminase toxicity.
Bupirimate
Bupirimate (Nimrod, CAS 41483-43-6) is a systemic pyrimidine fungicide, FRAC group 8, discovered by ICI in 1972 and launched 1975, used as a spray against powdery mildews on apples, cucurbits, grapes and ornamentals via adenosine deaminase inhibition.
Bupivacaine
Bupivacaine (Marcaine, Sensorcaine) is a long-acting amide local anesthetic synthesized in 1957 and marketed in 1965, used for nerve, epidural, and obstetrical blocks; known for potent but cardiotoxic profile versus its S-enantiomers ropivacaine and levobupivacaine.
Bupkis (TV series)
Bupkis is a 2023 Peacock half-hour comedy in which Pete Davidson plays a heightened fictionalized version of himself, co-created with Judah Miller and Dave Sirus, starring Edie Falco and Joe Pesci, eight episodes, cancelled after one season.
Buprenorphine
Buprenorphine (Suboxone, Subutex, Sublocade, Brixadi, Butrans): semi-synthetic thebaine-derived Schedule III partial mu-opioid agonist, 20-30x morphine potency, with ceiling on respiratory depression; treats opioid use disorder and pain.