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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta (renamed 1984), is a landlocked Sahel country of 24 million ruled by Ibrahim Traoré's junta since 2022, with a gold- and cotton-driven $23 billion economy, 2 million displaced, and HDI rank 186 of 193.
Burkina Faso displacement crisis
The Burkina Faso displacement crisis is the mass forced displacement of roughly 2 million people, a tenth of the population, driven by an armed insurgency since 2015.
Burkina Faso national football team
Burkina Faso national football team, Les Étalons (The Stallions), the men's senior team run by the FBF since 1960; AFCON runners-up 2013, 14 appearances, FIFA rank 62, coached by Amir Abdou since March 2026.
Burkinabè migration to Côte d'Ivoire
Burkinabè migration to Côte d'Ivoire is the movement of workers from Burkina Faso southward, beginning with colonial forced recruitment in the early twentieth century and continuing voluntarily after 1946.
Burkinabé Revolution
The Burkinabé Revolution was the Marxist-oriented program of political, social, and economic transformation carried out in Burkina Faso under Thomas Sankara from his 1983 coup to his assassination in 1987.
Burkini
Burkini (also burqini): full-coverage modest swimsuit invented by Lebanese-Australian designer Aheda Zanetti in 2003–2004, trademarked by her brand Ahiida; portmanteau of burqa and bikini; subject of French, German, Spanish, and Austrian regulation.
Burkitt lymphoma
Burkitt lymphoma, an aggressive MYC-translocated germinal-center B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (endemic, sporadic, immunodeficiency-associated variants), highly curable with intensive chemoimmunotherapy, EBV- and malaria-linked in endemic Africa.
Burkittsville, Maryland
Burkittsville, Maryland, a town of 142 in Frederick County at South Mountain's base, founded 1824 as Harley's Post Office, renamed for Henry Burkitt; site of the 1862 Battle of Crampton's Gap and filming location of The Blair Witch Project.
Burl
Burl: a large woody, rounded swelling on a tree trunk or branch with contorted, swirling grain, caused by stress such as insects, bacteria, fungi, or injury; benign, prized as burl wood, and distinct from galls and lignotubers.
Burl Cain
Burl Cain (Nathan Burl Cain) is an American corrections administrator, warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola 1995-2015 and Mississippi corrections commissioner from 2020, known for faith-based prison seminary programs and for criticism over religious establishment and medical care.
Burl Ives
Burl Ives (Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 1909–1995) was an American folk singer and Oscar-winning actor of The Big Country; radio's Wayfarin' Stranger, hit-maker of Blue Tail Fly and A Holly Jolly Christmas, and voice of Sam the Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Burladingen
Burladingen, a town in the Zollernalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, in the Killertal; home of the Roman fort Burladingen-Hausen (c. 80 AD, Vespasian, Alblimes) with its vicus and a second march camp found in 2006.
Burlafingen
Burlafingen, a parish village in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, is the site of a small Roman Danube-frontier fort built around 40 AD, excavated in 1984, with a turf wall, two ditches, and an 80-man garrison used only 2 to 3 years.
Burlesque
Burlesque: comic treatment of serious subjects, from Italian burlesco (burla, jest), entering English 1656; covers the literary genre, Victorian and American variety theater, striptease-era burlesque, and the 1990s neo-burlesque revival.
Burlesque (2010 American film)
Burlesque is a 2010 American musical drama directed by Steven Antin, starring Christina Aguilera as a small-town singer who joins a Los Angeles burlesque club run by Cher.
Burlesque (musical)
Burlesque: The Musical is a 2023 stage musical by Steven Antin adapted from the 2010 Cher and Christina Aguilera film, with songs by Aguilera, Sia, Diane Warren, Jess Folley, and Todrick Hall; it premiered in Manchester, reached the Savoy Theatre in 2025, and toured the UK in 2026.
Burley (tobacco)
Burley tobacco: light air-cured cigarette tobacco, low sugar, high alkaloid; White Burley arose 1864 in Ohio; centered on Kentucky's burley belt; about one-third of American-blend cigarettes.
Burling's conjecture
Burling's conjecture, proved by J. P. Burling in his 1965 doctoral thesis at the University of Colorado, Boulder, states that triangle-free intersection graphs of axis-aligned boxes in three dimensions have unbounded chromatic number.
Burlington (discount store)
Burlington Stores, also known as Burlington Coat Factory, is an American off-price retailer founded in 1972 in New Jersey, with 1,287 stores and $11.5 billion in sales.
Burlington Bees
Burlington Bees, baseball team of Burlington, Iowa; Bees name since 1924, Midwest League club 1962-1981 and 1993-2020, four league titles, home Community Field since 1947; cut in MLB's 2020 minor league reorganization, now a Prospect League collegiate summer team.
Burlington County
Burlington County is a county in southern New Jersey along the Delaware River. With a county seat at Mount Holly, it is the state's largest county by area.
Burlington Industries
Burlington Industries was an American textile manufacturer headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, founded by J. Spencer Love in 1923 and once described as the world's largest textile company.
Burlington, Ontario
Burlington, Ontario: a city in Halton Region on Lake Ontario's western shore, about 70 km west of Toronto; population 186,948 (2021 census), a city since 1974, founded from Joseph Brant's 1784 land grant.
Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont: the state's largest city (44,743 in 2020) on Lake Champlain, home of UVM, its municipal electric utility (first US city fully renewable in 2015), Sanders-era progressive politics, and a tight housing market.
Burma campaign
Burma campaign: WWII struggle for Burma (Myanmar), 1942–1945, also called the Forgotten War. Japanese conquest, Slim's Fourteenth Army, Imphal-Kohima, Meiktila-Mandalay, and the recapture of Rangoon on 4 May 1945.
Burma Independence Army
The Burma Independence Army, founded in Bangkok in December 1941 by the Thirty Comrades under Aung San, fought alongside Japan against British rule in Burma.
Burma Legislative Council
The Burma Legislative Council was the partly elected legislature of British Burma, reformed under dyarchy in 1923 with 103 seats, 80 of them elected, and replaced by the Legislature of Burma in 1937.
Burma Railway (ทางรถไฟสายมรณะ)
The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway or Thai–Burma Railway, is a 415-kilometer railway built by Japan in 1942 and 1943 with Allied prisoners and forced laborers.
Burma Socialist Programme Party
The Burma Socialist Programme Party, known in Burmese as Myanma Sosialist Lanzin Pati or Ma-Sa-La, ruled Burma as the sole legal party from 1962 to 1988.
Burmah Oil
Burmah Oil was a British oil company founded in Glasgow in 1886 to develop Burma's oilfields, dominating the Burmese industry until 1962 and acquiring Castrol in 1966.