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Buru
Buru (Boeroe) is an island in eastern Indonesia known for its mountainous interior, colonial history, and its notoriety as a political prison between 1969 and 1979.
Burullus Gas Field
The Burullus Gas Field is an offshore natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea about 120 km north of Egypt's Nile Delta, producing since 2003 and operated by Burullus Gas Company.
Burullus power plant
Burullus power plant (محطة كهرباء البرلس) is a 4,800 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power station in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, one of the largest gas-fired plants in the world.
Burundi
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa's Great Lakes region, bordered by Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Burundian Civil War
The Burundian Civil War was an internal armed conflict in Burundi fought from 1993 to 2005, triggered by the assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye, between the Tutsi-dominated army and Hutu rebels.
Burundian Civil War peace process
The Burundian Civil War peace process was the regional mediation from 1995 to 2009 that ended Burundi's civil war, centering on the 2000 Arusha Agreement.
Burundian franc
The Burundian franc (ISO code BIF) is the sole legal tender of Burundi, issued by the central bank in notes of 100 to 10,000 francs.
Bururi Province
Bururi Province, former southern province of Burundi, one of eight created by the 1962 law; merged into Burunga Province in 2025; Bururi commune had 182,929 inhabitants in the 2024 census.
Burushaski (بروشسکی)
Burushaski (بروشسکی), also known as Hunzai, is a language isolate spoken by roughly 100,000 Burusho people in the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of northern Pakistan, with no proven relationship to any other language family.
Burusho people
Burusho (Burúśo), Karakoram mountain people of the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, plus a Srinagar diaspora; speakers of Burushaski, a language isolate with Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin (Werchikwar) varieties, traditionally mir-ruled and terraced-farming.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014): 5-4 Supreme Court ruling holding that RFRA lets closely held for-profit corporations with religious objections, like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood, refuse ACA contraceptive coverage.
Bury a Friend
Bury a Friend (bury a friend) is Billie Eilish's January 30, 2019 single with Finneas O'Connell, first single from When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, written from the monster-under-the-bed's perspective, inspired by night terrors, with a Michael Chaves horror video.
Bury Bible
The Bury Bible is a large illuminated Latin Bible made around 1130–1135 for the abbey of Bury St Edmunds, and now held in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Bury F.C.
Bury F.C., the Shakers, English football club founded 1885 in Bury, Greater Manchester; FA Cup winners 1900 and 1903 (6-0 record final); expelled from the EFL in 2019, reborn as fan-owned club at Gigg Lane, now in Northern Premier League West.
Bury Metropolitan Borough Council elections
Bury Metropolitan Borough Council elections choose the 51 councillors of Bury in Greater Manchester, elected by thirds across 17 wards. The 2026 election gave Reform UK its first council seats.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a 1970 nonfiction book by Dee Brown recounting the destruction of Native American peoples, told largely from their own point of view.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (film)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (film): 2007 HBO television drama directed by Yves Simoneau, written by Daniel Giat, adapted from Dee Brown's 1970 book; stars Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin; won 6 of 17 Emmy nominations.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a 2025 standalone novel by V. E. Schwab. It follows three women turned into vampires across three different historical settings.
Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk market town named for St Edmund, king killed by Danes in 869; site of one of England's richest Benedictine abbeys (refounded 1020, dissolved 1539), the 1214 barons' meeting linked to Magna Carta, and today's Abbey Gardens and cathedral.
Bury Tomorrow
Bury Tomorrow are an English metalcore band formed in 2006 in Hampshire, known for blending post-hardcore melody with heavy breakdowns and for four top 40 UK albums.
Bury your gays
Bury your gays, also called dead lesbian syndrome, is a media trope in which LGBT characters die or are destroyed, especially soon after entering a same-sex relationship.
Bury, Greater Manchester
Bury, Greater Manchester: market town and administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, one of Greater Manchester's ten boroughs. Six towns, about 195,500 people, cotton-mill heritage, John Kay's flying shuttle, Bury Market and regeneration plans.
Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Buryat ASSR after 1958) was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR, created in 1923 as the Buryat homeland around Lake Baikal.
Buryatia
Republic of Buryatia (Республика Бурятия), Russian federal subject in Eastern Siberia around Lake Baikal, capital Ulan-Ude. Formed as Buryat-Mongol ASSR in 1923, renamed 1958; population 971,100 (2025), industry and livestock farming dominate.
Buryats
Buryats (буряад), a Mongolic-speaking Siberian people around Lake Baikal, live divided across Russia, Mongolia, and China after 20th-century migrations; mostly Buddhists with shamanist traditions, they cluster genetically with South Siberian Turkic groups.
Burying of the scholars
The burying of the scholars (坑儒) was a Qin dynasty persecution triggered by two alchemists who fled after criticizing the First Emperor, remembered with the burning of books.
Burying the Ex
Burying the Ex (2014) is a Joe Dante horror comedy, written by Alan Trezza from his 2008 short, starring Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, and Alexandra Daddario; a dead girlfriend returns as a zombie. Premiered at Venice 2014, released in the US June 19, 2015, grossing $668,777.
Burzahom archaeological site
Burzahom is a Neolithic archaeological site on a plateau about 16 km from Srinagar in Kashmir, India, occupied from roughly 3000 to 1000 BCE and known for its deep pit dwellings.
Burzum
Burzum is the one-man Norwegian black metal and dark ambient project of Varg Vikernes (Count Grishnackh), founded 1991; name means darkness in Tolkien's Black Speech; four 1992–1993 albums, imprisonment for Euronymous's murder, and continued releases.
Burzynski Clinic
Burzynski Clinic, Houston, Texas clinic founded 1977 by Stanislaw Burzynski, known for unproven, FDA-unapproved antineoplaston cancer therapy, NCI-inconclusive evidence, and Texas Medical Board sanctions.