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Bushmaster Firearms International
Bushmaster Firearms International is an American firearms brand best known for its XM15 AR-15-style rifles. Founded in Maine in 1973, it was revived in Nevada in 2021.
Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle
The Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle, or Bushmaster IMV, is an Australian four-wheel-drive armored vehicle carrying a crew member and up to nine passengers, built by Thales Australia at Bendigo.
Bushmaster XM-15
The Bushmaster XM-15, also known as the Bushmaster AR-15, is a line of AR-15 style semi-automatic rifles and carbines made by Bushmaster Firearms, with variants including the XM15-E2S and Carbon 15.
Bushmeat
Bushmeat, or wild meat, is meat from wild non-domesticated terrestrial animals harvested in tropical and subtropical regions for food and medicine; central to African food security, wildlife declines, zoonotic risk, and import bans.
Bushnell Trophy Cam
The Bushnell Trophy Cam is a line of passive-infrared trail cameras made by Bushnell for hunting scouts, wildlife research, and surveillance, spanning the original, HD, Aggressor, and Essential generations.
Bushra al-Assad (بشرى الأسد)
Bushra al-Assad (بشرى الأسد), Syrian physician, older sister of Bashar al-Assad and only daughter of Hafez al-Assad; known as the "Iron Lady," a voice in her brother's inner circle, wife of intelligence chief Asef Shawkat, killed in a 2012 bombing; reportedly fled Syria in 2012.
Bushra Bibi
Bushra Bibi (born Bushra Riaz Watto), Sufi faith healer and third wife of Imran Khan, was Pakistan's first lady 2018-2022, was convicted in Toshakhana, iddat, and £190m cases, and led PTI's 2024 Islamabad protest march.
Bushra Shaikh
Bushra Shaikh, born 1982, is a British-Pakistani media commentator and former fashion entrepreneur who competed on The Apprentice in 2017 and founded the anti-racism organization Run Racism Out.
Bushranger
Bushrangers were outlaws who lived by robbery in the Australian bush, from escaped convict John 'Black' Caesar (1788) through the gold-rush gangs to Ned Kelly's gang, captured at Glenrowan in 1880 in improvised plough-steel armour.
Bushrod Washington
Bushrod Washington (1762-1829), nephew and heir of George Washington, was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1798 to 1829, author of Corfield v. Coryell and Ogden v. Saunders, and John Marshall's close collaborator.
Bushū Uprising
The Bushū Uprising (武州一揆), also called the Bushū Yonaoshi Uprising, was a large peasant uprising that broke out in Musashi Province, Japan, in June 1866 and swept the Kanto region in a week.
Bushveld Igneous Complex
The Bushveld Igneous Complex is a vast layered igneous intrusion in northern South Africa, formed about 2.05 billion years ago and hosting most of the world's platinum.
Bushwacker (bull)
Bushwacker (2006-2024) was a PBR bucking bull, three-time World Champion Bull (2011, 2013, 2014), 64-2 on the premier series with a record 42 consecutive buckoffs, owned by Julio Moreno.
Bushwhacker
Bushwhacker: Civil War term for un-uniformed pro-Confederate guerrillas, chiefly in Missouri and adjoining states, 1861-1865; distinct from sanctioned partisan rangers, classed as illegal combatants under the Lieber Code, associated with Quantrill and Anderson.
Bushwick (film)
Bushwick (2017) is an American action-thriller by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott, starring Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow, depicting a Texas-secession civil war invasion of Brooklyn, presented as one continuous take.
Bushwick Bill
Bushwick Bill (Richard Stephen Shaw, 1966-2019), Jamaican-born American rapper of Houston's Geto Boys; dwarfism, lost an eye in 1991, We Can't Be Stopped cover, solo Little Big Man.
Bushwick, Brooklyn
Bushwick, Brooklyn (Boswijck): northeastern Brooklyn neighborhood, Brooklyn Community District 4. Dutch town chartered 1660/1661, German brewing center, devastated by the 1977 blackout, now a Latino community and street-art hub.
Bushy cell
Bushy cell: a principal neuron of the ventral cochlear nucleus with short bushy dendrites, two types (spherical, globular), endbulb of Held inputs, and projections for binaural sound localization.
Busia
Busia County, a county in western Kenya on the Uganda border, capital Busia town; 893,681 people (2019), 1,694.5 km2, seven sub-counties; gateway trade hub with Busia and Malaba border posts, governed by Paul Otuoma.
Busification (бусифікація)
Busification (бусифікація) is a Ukrainian wartime neologism for detaining mobilization-age men and busing them to territorial recruitment centers (TCCs); Myslovo word of the year 2024, contested between official denials and documented rights violations.
Business
A business is an organized activity that produces goods or services for a market in expectation of financial gain, taking legal forms from sole proprietorship to corporation.
Business acumen
Business acumen, also known as business savviness or business sense, is the ability to understand how an organization operates, makes money, and competes, and to make sound commercial decisions.
Business administration
Business administration, also called administration of business, is the practice and academic study of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the functions of a firm or organization.
Business analysis
Business analysis is the practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders, as defined by the IIBA.
Business analyst
A business analyst (BA) is a change professional who works out what an organization and its stakeholders need, defining requirements and recommended solutions for business and digital change.
Business analytics
Business analytics is the practice of gathering and analyzing data using statistical and quantitative methods, predictive models, and fact-based management to drive business decisions, spanning descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
Business as Usual
Business as Usual is a 1987 British social realist drama directed by Lezli-An Barrett, starring Glenda Jackson, based on the 1983 Audrey White sexual harassment case; it won the 1988 Créteil Grand Prix.
Business card
A business card is a small printed card bearing a person's name, job title, company, and contact details, exchanged to introduce oneself; it descends from eighteenth-century European calling cards.
Business career of Donald Trump
The business career of Donald Trump spans New York real estate, Atlantic City casinos, and brand licensing, marked by six corporate bankruptcies between 1991 and 2009.
Business career of Elon Musk
The business career of Elon Musk spans three decades, beginning with Zip2 in 1995 and extending through PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity, and his $44 billion Twitter acquisition in 2022.