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Bureau of State Affairs (Tongzheng Yuan)
The Bureau of State Affairs (通政院, Tongzheng yuan) was the Yuan dynasty's central office for the courier and relay system, created in 1276 outside the military system.
Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
The Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Toei, 都営) is Tokyo's public transport authority, founded in 1911, operating the four-line Toei Subway, buses, and streetcar, with about 3.4 million daily passengers.
Bureau of Warehouses (Silla)
The Bureau of Warehouses (창부, Changbu) was a central government office of Silla in charge of state finance, created in 651 under Queen Jindeok to collect, store, and disburse grain.
Bureau Veritas
Bureau Veritas is a French testing, inspection, and certification company headquartered in Paris. Founded in Antwerp in 1828, it is one of the world's largest conformity-assessment firms.
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is an administrative system of nonelected officials, or civil servants, who implement the policies and programs of governments, corporations, and institutions, often criticized for red tape.
Bureaucrat
Bureaucrat: an unelected member of a bureaucracy (French bureaucrate, first English use 1832), administering rules in a hierarchy. Distinguished by Weberian ideal-type structure, street-level discretion, and comparative types from legalistic to liberal.
Burebasaga
The Confederation of Rewa, known in Fijian as the matanitū of Rewa, was a large pre-colonial Fijian confederacy based on the Rewa Delta, headed by the Roko Tui Dreketi.
Burebista
Burebista, first king of the Getae and Dacians named in written sources, ruled from the middle Danube to the western Black Sea coast until his assassination around 44 BC.
Bureinsky Ridge
Bureinsky Ridge (Буреинский хребет), a mountain ridge in Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast, Russian Far East, part of the Bureinsky Highlands west of the Amur, with Late Pleistocene glacial landforms and the Bureinskiy Nature Reserve.
Burera District
Burera District, a district in Rwanda's Northern Province on the Uganda border, area 644.5 km², population 387,729 (2022), 17 sectors, twin lakes Burera and Ruhondo, Butaro hospital, agriculture-based economy.
Burette
A burette, also spelled buret, is a graduated glass tube with a stopcock that dispenses precisely measured liquid volumes, most commonly as the titrant in titration.
Burewala
Burewala (بورے والا), city and tehsil headquarters in Vehari District, southern Punjab, Pakistan, on the Delhi–Multan Road; canal-colony origin (village 122/EB), 361,664 city population at the 2023 census, agricultural milling economy.
Bureyskaya hydroelectric plant
Bureyskaya hydroelectric plant (Бурейская ГЭС, also Bureya HPP) is a 2,010 MW hydroelectric station at Talakan in Amur Oblast, Russia, the largest in the Russian Far East.
Burgan Field
Burgan Field is a giant oil field in southeastern Kuwait, discovered in 1938, producing since 1946, and ranked the second largest oil field in the world.
Burgas (district)
Burgas District (Област Бургас), Bulgaria's largest district by area, in the southeast on the Black Sea and Turkish border; 13 municipalities, 391,500 people (2025), fourth by population, with the Lukoil refinery, Bulgaria's largest port, and Sunny Beach resort.
Burgas (Бургас)
Burgas (Бургас) is a Black Sea port city in eastern Bulgaria, center of Burgas Province. Key facts: about 189,000 city residents (2025), 5.22% of national GDP from its district, major oil refinery, port, and airport.
Burgast
Burgast (Бургаст) is a multi-period archaeological site in the Mongolian Altai, Bayan-Ölgii, with an Eneolithic structure, a Bronze Age khirgisuur, a 2nd-century CE Bulan-Kobin cemetery with a silk-dressed child mummy, and Türkic remains.
Bürgel Kornelius
Bürgel Kornelius is a German journalist and government official serving as State Secretary and Government Spokesperson in the Federal Chancellery, after leading the Süddeutsche Zeitung's politics department.
Burgenae
Burgenae: Roman auxiliary fort and settlement on the Danube limes in Pannonia inferior, at modern Novi Banovci, Serbia; garrisoned by cohors I Thracum civium Romanorum and, in Late Antiquity, equites Dalmatae and cuneus equitum Constantianorum.
Burgenland
Burgenland (Hungarian Őrvidék) is Austria's easternmost and youngest state, created in 1921-22 from western Hungary, with capital Eisenstadt, Lake Neusiedl's steppe-lake and UNESCO landscape, Croatian and Hungarian minorities, and a service- and tourism-based economy.
Burger Chef
Burger Chef, an American fast-food hamburger chain founded in Indianapolis in 1958 by Frank P. Thomas Jr. and Bob Wildman, became the second-largest US restaurant chain before General Foods sold it to Hardee's owner Imasco in 1982; the last location closed in 1996.
Burger Chef murders
The Burger Chef murders: the unsolved November 17, 1978 robbery-abduction and murder of four young employees, Friedt, Shelton, Flemmonds, and Davis, at a Speedway, Indiana Burger Chef; bodies found November 19 in Johnson County.
Burger Court
Burger Court, the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, 1969–1986; decided Roe v. Wade, United States v. Nixon, and Lemon v. Kurtzman; transitional era between Warren and Rehnquist Courts.
Burger King
Burger King (BK) is an American hamburger fast food chain founded in Miami in 1954 by McLamore and Edgerton, known for the Whopper and flame-grilling, now owned by Restaurant Brands International with about 19,000 restaurants worldwide.
Burger King (Mattoon, Illinois)
Burger King (Mattoon, Illinois) is an independent hamburger restaurant founded by Gene and Betty Hoots, unrelated to the Burger King chain; a 1968 Seventh Circuit ruling lets it use the name only within 20 miles of Mattoon.
Burger King foot lettuce
Burger King foot lettuce, also known as Number 15 Burger King foot lettuce, is an internet meme based on a 2012 photo of an employee standing in lettuce bins.
Burger's Daughter
Burger's Daughter is a 1979 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer about Rosa Burger, daughter of a white revolutionary who died in prison fighting apartheid.
Burger/Voigt
Burger/Voigt, the duo of Jörg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt, are a German electronic act based around the Cologne techno label Kompakt, which Voigt co-founded; they first released music as Burger/Ink.
Bürgerbräukeller
Bürgerbräukeller: Munich beer hall (1885–1979, Rosenheimer Straße) hosting the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch start and Georg Elser's failed 1939 bomb attack on Hitler, demolished 1979.
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, known as the BGB or German Civil Code, is Germany's civil code, enacted in 1896 and in force since 1900, regulating contracts, property, family, and inheritance.