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Burn (Deep Purple album)

Burn (1974) is Deep Purple's eighth studio album and the debut of the Mark III lineup with David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes, recorded in Montreux, reaching US number 9.

Burn (炎上) (2026 film)

Burn (炎上, Enjo) is a 2026 Japanese drama by director Makoto Nagahisa starring Nana Mori as Ju-Ju, a runaway from a cult family in Kabukicho; released April 10, 2026, NAKACHIKA PICTURES, 103 min, PG12, Sundance NEXT nominee.

Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading is a 2008 dark comedy film written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, and Brad Pitt.

Burn Gorman

Burn Gorman (born 1974), English actor and musician born in Hollywood; known for Owen Harper in Torchwood, Karl Tanner in Game of Thrones, Hermann Gottlieb in Pacific Rim, and Father Damien in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Burn My Eyes

Burn My Eyes is Machine Head's 1994 debut album on Roadrunner Records, blending groove metal, thrash, and hip hop. Produced by Colin Richardson, it became the label's biggest-selling debut until Slipknot.

Burn Notice

Burn Notice is a Matt Nix-created American spy dramedy (2007-2013, USA Network, 7 seasons) starring Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, a burned spy working as a Miami private investigator; 89% Tomatometer, four Emmy nominations.

Burn pit

A burn pit is an area for open-air burning of trash, a waste-disposal practice the US military relied on heavily at bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Burn the Witch (manga)

Burn the Witch (バーンザウィッチ) is Tite Kubo's Bleach-universe manga about witches Noel Niihashi and Ninny Spangcole managing dragons in Reverse London for Wing Bind; one-shot 2018, four-chapter 2020 serialization, one volume, anime 2020 and #0.8 in 2023.

Burn Units

A burn unit is a specialized hospital facility providing intensive care for burn patients, built around a multidisciplinary team for wound care, surgery, and rehabilitation.

Burn-in (engineering)

Burn-in is a reliability engineering procedure that operates electronic components under elevated temperature and voltage stress before delivery, so early-failure-prone units fail on the production floor rather than in the field.

Burn-Jeng Lin

Burn-Jeng Lin (林本堅, born 1942) is a Taiwanese-American optical lithography researcher known as the father of immersion lithography, the technique that underpins most advanced semiconductor manufacturing today.

Burn-McKeown syndrome

Burn-McKeown syndrome (BMKS, ORPHA:1200, OMIM 608572), also called oculo-oto-facial dysplasia, is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive spliceosomopathy from biallelic TXNL4A variants, causing bilateral choanal atresia, eyelid coloboma, hearing loss, and cardiac defects with normal intelligence.

Burn-on

Burn-on, also called burned-on sand, is a casting defect in which sand from the mold adheres to the casting as a rough layer that is very hard to remove.

Burn!

Burn! (Queimada) is Gillo Pontecorvo's 1969 Italian-French political film starring Marlon Brando as British agent Sir William Walker, who incites and then suppresses a slave revolt on the fictional Caribbean island of Queimada, with Evaristo Márquez as José Dolores and a score by Ennio Morricone.

Burna Boy

Burna Boy (Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, born 1991, Port Harcourt) is a Nigerian Afrofusion singer-songwriter; Grammy winner for Twice as Tall, first African artist to sell out a U.S. stadium and the Stade de France.

Burnable poison

A burnable poison, also called a burnable absorber, is a neutron-absorbing material loaded into a nuclear reactor core that depletes as fuel burns, letting designers load more fuel while keeping the core controllable.

Burnaburiash I

Burnaburiash I, also written Burna-Buriaš I, was the tenth Kassite king of Babylon in the mid-16th century BC, known from a border treaty with Assyria.

Burnaburiash II

Burnaburiash II (Burna-Buriaš II) was a Kassite king of Babylon in the mid-14th century BCE, best known as a correspondent of Akhenaten in the Amarna letters.

Burnaby

Burnaby is a city in British Columbia at the centre of Metro Vancouver, BC's third-largest city with over 249,000 residents. Incorporated September 22, 1892 and named for Robert Burnaby, it hosts Simon Fraser University, BCIT, and Metrotown.

Burned area mapping

Burned area mapping is the remote sensing analysis that identifies land areas affected by fire from satellite imagery, producing maps of fire extent rather than snapshots of active fires.

Burned Haystack Dating Method

Burned Haystack Dating Method (BHDM), created 2023 by rhetoric professor Jennie Young, is a high-filter online dating strategy using 10 rules, 33 red flag rhetorical patterns, and "block to burn" blocking, spread via a 260,000-member Facebook group and her book Burn the Haystack.

Burney (crater on Pluto)

Burney is the largest confirmed impact crater on Pluto, a multiring basin about 250-296 km across at 45.68°N, 133.79°E, IAU-named in 2017 for Venetia Burney, the schoolgirl who named Pluto in 1930.

Burney Relief

Burney Relief, also called Queen of the Night, an Old Babylonian terracotta plaque (c. 1800–1750 BCE, 49.5 x 37 cm) in the British Museum showing a winged, talon-footed goddess with owls and lions; her identity, Ishtar, Ereshkigal, or Lilith, remains disputed.

Burney Treaty

The Burney Treaty (สนธิสัญญาเบอร์นีย์) was the first Anglo-Siamese treaty, signed at Bangkok on 20 June 1826 between Siam under King Rama III and the British government of India.

Burnham ministry

The Burnham ministry, also called the Burnham government, was the government of Guyana led by Forbes Burnham from 1964 to 1985, marked by cooperative socialism and rigged elections.

Burnie Burns

Burnie Burns (Michael Justin Burns, born 1973) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur, creator of the machinima series Red vs. Blue and co-founder, former CEO and chief creative officer of Rooster Teeth, which he reacquired in 2025 through Box Canyon Productions.

Burnie Port Authority v General Jones Pty Ltd

Burnie Port Authority v General Jones Pty Ltd [1994] HCA 13; (1994) 179 CLR 520, High Court of Australia tort case in which the majority (Mason CJ, Deane, Dawson, Toohey, Gaudron JJ) subsumed the Rylands v Fletcher strict liability rule into ordinary negligence via a non-delegable duty of care.

Burning (버닝) (2018 film)

Burning (버닝, Beoning) is Lee Chang-dong's 2018 South Korean mystery drama adapted from Haruki Murakami's "Barn Burning," starring Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, and Jeon Jong-seo; it premiered in competition at Cannes 2018, won the FIPRESCI and Vulcain prizes, and scored 91 on Metacritic.

Burning Blue (song)

"Burning Blue" is a 2025 contemporary R&B ballad by Mariah the Scientist (Mariah Amani Buckles), released May 2, 2025 on Buckles Laboratories/Epic; Prince-inspired, it hit Hot 100 No. 25, Rhythmic Airplay No. 1, and went platinum.

Burning Bright (film)

Burning Bright is a 2010 Carlos Brooks horror-thriller starring Briana Evigan, Garret Dillahunt, and Charlie Tahan, in which siblings are trapped in a hurricane-boarded house with a Bengal tiger bought by their stepfather; three real tigers were used, composited without actors on set.