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Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark
Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark: a 530 km² glaciokarst landscape in County Clare, Ireland, designated 2011, UNESCO-listed 2015, revalidated 2024, managed with Clare County Council.
Burren Oil and Gas Field
The Burren Oil and Gas Field, also called Burun, is an onshore field at the western end of the Nebit Dag contract area in western Turkmenistan, operated by Eni since 2008.
Burrill Capital
Burrill Capital Fund IV was a San Francisco life-sciences venture capital fund founded by G. Steven Burrill, which raised about $200 million and was transferred to Biomark Capital in 2014.
Burrinjuck Dam
Burrinjuck Dam, forming Lake Burrinjuck, is a major dam on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales, Australia, and the main storage for the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.
Burris Bell Cunningham
Burris Bell Cunningham (1912–1971) was an American chemist at Berkeley who first isolated visible plutonium in 1942 and later weighable americium, berkelium, californium, and einsteinium.
Burrito
Burrito: a flour tortilla wrapped around fillings of meat, beans, rice, and cheese; from Mexican Spanish "little donkey." Originated in northern Mexico; Mission-style and California burritos are American developments.
Burrium
Burrium (Burrio, Bvrrivm) was a Roman legionary fortress at Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales, built c. AD 54 against the Silures, garrisoned by Legio XX, and replaced by Caerleon in the AD 70s.
Burro
Burro ("donkey") is a Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American shedding card game: follow suit or draw from the stock, 40-card deck, ace low, last player holding cards loses. Also the name of a Spanish Pig-like passing game.
Burroughs (Martian crater)
Burroughs is a large impact crater on Mars near the south polar ice cap, named in 1973 for Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Barsoom Mars fiction.
Burroughs Corporation
Burroughs Corporation was an American manufacturer of business machines and computers, founded in 1886 in St. Louis as the American Arithmometer Company and merged with Sperry to form Unisys in 1986.
Burrow
A burrow is a hole or tunnel dug by an animal into soil, sediment, or other soft substrate, used for shelter, reproduction, food storage, or movement.
Burrow architecture and behavior of mygalomorph spiders
Mygalomorph spiders, including funnel-web and trapdoor spiders, are long-lived predators that dig silk-lined burrows, often sealed with a hinged trapdoor, and ambush prey that touches the door.
Burrowing owl
Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia; Mochuelo de Madriguera), a small long-legged diurnal owl of the Americas that nests in underground burrows, often those of prairie dogs and ground squirrels; endangered in Canada, low concern globally.
Burrows–Wheeler transform
The Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT), or block-sorting compression, is a reversible rearrangement of a string's characters published by Burrows and Wheeler in 1994, the core of bzip2 and of genome aligners such as BWA.
Bursa
Bursa, historically Broussa, is a city in northwestern Türkiye at the foot of Uludağ Mountain and the first capital of the Ottoman Empire, taken in 1326.
Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire
Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire is a UNESCO World Heritage site of eight locations in Bursa and Cumalıkızık, Türkiye, inscribed in 2014.
Bursa B power station
The Bursa B power station, also known as the Bursa Doğalgaz Kombine Çevrim Santrali, is a 1,432 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Bursa, Turkey.
Bursa Hayvanat Bahçesi (Turkey)
Bursa Hayvanat Bahçesi (Bursa Zoo), a municipal EAZA-member zoo in Soğanlı, Osmangazi, Bursa, opened 10 November 1998 on about 206,600 m², holding over 1,000 animals of 115–137 species beside Botanik Park.
Bursa Malaysia
Bursa Malaysia is Malaysia's stock exchange and frontline capital market regulator, with 1,102 listed companies, RM2.1 trillion in equity market capitalization, and the most ASEAN IPOs in 2024 and 2025.
Bursaphelenchus xylophilus
Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, the pine wood nematode, is a North American nematode causing pine wilt disease, vectored by Monochamus beetles, devastating pines in Asia and Europe and quarantined by EPPO.
Bursary
Bursary: non-repayable student financial aid awarded mainly on financial need, distinct from merit-based scholarships and government grants; covers UK 16-19 and NHS schemes, Ireland's 1916 Bursary, NSFAS, and OECD support systems.
Bursaspor
Bursaspor, Turkish football club from Bursa founded 1 June 1963, green-white colors, crocodile symbol. Won its only Süper Lig title in 2009-10, played the 2010-11 Champions League, and after falling to the fourth tier won back-to-back promotions to the TFF 1. Lig.
Bursectomy
Bursectomy is a surgical procedure that removes an inflamed bursa, the fluid-filled sac that cushions bone against overlying soft tissue, reserved for bursitis unresponsive to rest, medication, aspiration, and injections.
Bursera
Bursera is an American genus of resinous, deciduous trees and shrubs in Burseraceae, centered in Mexico, with about 80-120 species yielding copal incense resin; B. simaruba is widespread, B. hollickii critically endangered.
Bursera graveolens
Bursera graveolens, palo santo or incense tree, is a dry-forest tree from Mexico to Peru, burned as incense and distilled for limonene-rich essential oil; IUCN Least Concern but Critically Endangered under Peruvian law.
Bursera simaruba
Bursera simaruba (gumbo limbo, West Indian birch, palo mulato) is a Burseraceae tree native from Mexico to Brazil and the Caribbean, with peeling coppery bark, IUCN Least Concern status, and medicinal, fencepost, and fuel uses.
Burseraceae
Burseraceae Kunth, a conserved name published in 1824, is a pantropical family of resin-producing trees and shrubs in Sapindales, best known as the source of frankincense, myrrh, and copal.
Bursitis
Bursitis is painful inflammation of a bursa, one of over 150 fluid-filled sacs cushioning joints; most common in shoulder, elbow, knee, and heel, caused by overuse, trauma, gout, or infection, and usually resolving with rest within weeks.
Burst Alert Telescope
The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is the wide-field gamma-ray imager on NASA's Swift observatory, detecting bursts, computing their positions on board, and triggering the spacecraft to slew.
Burst of Joy
Burst of Joy, also known by its Spanish retrospective title, is Sal Veder's 1973 Associated Press photograph of POW Lt. Col. Robert Stirm reunited with his family at Travis AFB; it won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize.