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Burns & McDonnell
Burns & McDonnell is an American engineering and construction firm headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1898, it has been 100 percent employee-owned since 1986.
Burns supper
Burns supper, or Burns Night dinner: annual commemoration of Scottish poet Robert Burns, held on 25 January. First held 21 July 1801 at Burns Cottage, Alloway by nine friends led by Rev. Hamilton Paul; features haggis, the Immortal Memory toast, and Auld Lang Syne.
Burns' Day Storm
The Burns' Day Storm, also known as Cyclone Daria, was a European windstorm that struck the British Isles and northwest Europe on 25 January 1990, killing 47 people.
BURNSCARCARE trial
BURNSCARCARE (NCT07186322) is a Brazilian randomized trial at Federal University of São Paulo comparing autologous fat grafting with corticosteroid injection for upper limb burn scars in 40 adults, with POSAS at 6 months as the primary outcome.
Burnside's lemma
Burnside's lemma, also called the Cauchy–Frobenius lemma, states that the number of orbits of a finite group action equals the average number of fixed points.
Burnswark Hill Roman Camp
Burnswark Hill Roman Camps: two Roman military earthworks flanking an Iron Age hillfort in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, debated as siege works or a training ground; rich in lead sling bullets, ballista balls, and whistling ammunition.
Burnt (film)
Burnt is a 2015 American comedy-drama directed by John Wells, starring Bradley Cooper as Adam Jones, a disgraced chef returning to London to win a third Michelin star.
Burnt by the Sun (Утомлённые солнцем)
Burnt by the Sun (Утомлённые солнцем) is Nikita Mikhalkov's 1994 Russian-French drama about KomDiv Kotov's arrest during the 1936 purges; it won the 1995 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the 1994 Cannes Grand Jury Prize.
Burnt ends
Burnt ends: crispy smoked beef brisket point pieces, a Kansas City barbecue specialty also called brownies. Originated as free Arthur Bryant's scraps, popularized by Calvin Trillin's 1972 Playboy essay, now a national menu staple.
Burnt Money
Burnt Money (Plata quemada) is Marcelo Piñeyro's 2000 Argentine-Spanish crime film based on Ricardo Piglia's novel, about criminal lovers El Nene and Ángel whose 1965 armored-truck robbery fails; it won the 2001 Goya for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film.
Burnt Norton
"Burnt Norton" is a meditative poem by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1936 and later the opening poem of Four Quartets, which it set the five-part form for.
Burnt Offerings (film)
Burnt Offerings (1976) is a haunted-house horror film directed by Dan Curtis, adapted from Robert Marasco's 1973 novel, starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, and Bette Davis, filmed at Oakland's Dunsmuir House and a precursor to The Shining.
Burnt Palace at Kalhu
Burnt Palace at Kalhu: small Assyrian royal building on Nimrud's citadel, beside Nabu's temple; named for ash over its throne-room, held ivories, used by Sargon II before Dur-Sharrukin.
Burnt Sugar (band)
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber is a New York conducted-improvisation ensemble founded in 1999 by Village Voice writer Greg Tate with bassist Jared Michael Nickerson, distinct from the Wellington Burnt Sugar quintet and the perfume Burnt Sugar; 22 releases on AVANT GROIDD Musica.
Burnum
Burnum: Roman legionary fortress and town in Dalmatia, near Kistanje and Ivoševci, Croatia, on the Krka River. Garrisoned by Legio XI Claudia pia fidelis and later Legio IIII Flavia Felix; amphitheatre completed 76/77; municipium under Hadrian.
Burnup
Burnup is a measure of the thermal energy produced by nuclear fission per unit mass of reactor fuel, typically expressed in gigawatt-days per tonne of uranium.
Buro Shaliker Ghare Ro
Buro Shaliker Ghare Ro (বুড়ো শালিকের ঘাড়ে রোঁ; New Feathers on an Old Bird) is an 1860 Bengali farce by Michael Madhusudan Dutt satirizing a pious but lascivious zamindar.
Burosumab
Burosumab (Crysvita, KRN23) is a human IgG1 monoclonal antibody against FGF23, approved from 2018 for X-linked hypophosphatemia in children and adults and for tumor-induced osteomalacia, restoring renal phosphate reabsorption.
Burp Suite
Burp Suite is a family of commercial and free tools for testing web application security, developed by PortSwigger and widely used in penetration testing, bug bounty work, and automated scanning.
Burpee (exercise)
The burpee, also called the burpee test, is a full-body exercise moving from a squat into a plank and push-up, then a jump, invented by Royal H. Burpee in 1939.
Burqa (برقع)
Burqa (برقع, burka, burkha): Muslim women's covering garment. Afghan chadri covers the whole body with a mesh eye grille; Gulf and Emirati burqas are face masks leaving the eyes clear; subject of European face-covering bans.
Burr (crater on Callisto)
Burr is a 75-km-wide bright ray impact crater on Callisto, Jupiter's second-largest moon, named after a Norse giant and giving its name to the Burrian period.
Burr arch truss
The Burr arch truss, also called the Burr truss, is a wooden bridge form patented by Theodore Burr in 1817, used chiefly for American covered bridges.
Burr conspiracy
Burr conspiracy: alleged 1804–1807 plot by former Vice President Aaron Burr to detach the western US and Louisiana Territory, seize Spanish Mexico; ended with his 1807 Richmond treason trial before John Marshall and acquittal.
Burr Oak Cemetery
Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois: historic African American cemetery founded 1927, resting place of Emmett Till, Dinah Washington, Willie Dixon; site of the 2009 grave-reselling scandal and 2026 National Register listing.
Burr–Hamilton duel
The Burr–Hamilton duel was a pistol duel fought at Weehawken, New Jersey, in 1804, in which Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton, who died the next day.
Burra katha
Burrakatha (Telugu: బుర్ర కథ), also written Burra Katha, is an oral storytelling and ballad-drama tradition of Telugu-speaking India, where a lead performer narrates, sings, and dances with a tambura while two drummers accompany.
Burraco
Burraco, Italian form of Buraco, a Canasta-family partnership card game with 108 cards, wild jokers and pinelle, an 11-card pozzetto extra hand, and bonuses for seven-card melds; popular in Italy since the 1990s and run by the Fibur federation.
Burrard Inlet
Burrard Inlet, called səlilwət by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, is a fjord forming the waterfront of Vancouver, British Columbia, and the site of the Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest port.
Burrata
Burrata, also known as Burrata di Andria, is a fresh Italian cow's-milk cheese from Andria in Apulia, made as a mozzarella shell filled with creamy stracciatella.