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Buvaysar Saytiyev
Buvaysar Khamidovich Saytiyev (Бувайсар Хамидович Сайтиев), 1975-2025, Russian freestyle wrestler of Chechen origin; three-time Olympic 74 kg champion (1996, 2004, 2008), six-time world champion, only wrestler with three golds in one Olympic class.
Buvinda Vallis
Buvinda Vallis is an IAU-approved valley system (vallis) on Mars at about 33°N, 152°E, roughly 120–134 km across, named after the classical name of Ireland's Boyne River and approved in 1985.
Buxaceae
Buxaceae (boxwood family), order Buxales; evergreen trees and shrubs including Buxus, Sarcococca, Pachysandra; petals absent, capsule or drupe fruits; APG IV merged Haptanthaceae into it.
Buxar Mound
Buxar Mound (Charittarvan) is an ancient habitation mound at Buxar, Bihar, on the Ganga, a centrally protected ASI monument excavated in the 1960s, with a four-period sequence from about 500-400 BC and a 3.20 m flood deposit.
Buxbaumia
Buxbaumia (buxbaumia moss, shield-moss) is a genus of about 12 protonema-dominant mosses in Buxbaumiaceae, recognized by large oblique capsules; B. viridis is Habitats Directive Annex II listed.
Buxbaumia viridis
Buxbaumia viridis, green shield-moss (Moug. ex DC.) Brid., an Annex II EU Habitats Directive moss of decaying deadwood, with 4–6 million spores per capsule, short-lived green spores, and Least Concern European but nationally threatened status.
Buxio
Buxio, also Le Buz: a late antique Gallo-Roman villa named in the 7th-century Life of Saint Didier of Cahors, tentatively identified near Vabre, Tarn, France; known only from text, with villa remains reported in the 1940s.
Buxtehuder Bulle
The Buxtehuder Bulle (Buxtehude Bull) is a German youth literature prize awarded annually since 1971, chosen by an unusual jury of eleven young and eleven adult readers drawn by lot.
Buxton
Buxton, Derbyshire: spa town, highest market town in England, Roman Aquae Arnemetiae, home of the Crescent and Buxton Mineral water; £100 million town centre regeneration under way.
Buxus
Buxus (box, boxwood), a genus of evergreen Buxaceae shrubs native to Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico, and the Caribbean, prized for hedging and topiary and threatened by boxwood blight and the box tree moth.
Buxus sempervirens
Buxus sempervirens, common box or boxwood, an evergreen European-to-Iranian shrub used since Roman times for hedges and topiary; threatened by boxwood blight, box tree moth, and psyllid.
Buy Nothing Day
Buy Nothing Day is an annual anti-consumerism protest day founded in 1992 by artist Ted Dave and Adbusters, urging a 24-hour buying moratorium on Black Friday each November.
Buy side
The buy side is the part of the investment industry that purchases securities to make money for the assets it manages, including hedge funds, pension funds, and asset managers.
Buyan-Bratan
Buyan-Bratan is a volcanic complex in north-central Bali, Indonesia, dominated by the Bratan (Catur) caldera, an 11 by 6 km depression holding three caldera lakes.
Buyan-class corvette
Buyan-class corvette (Project 21630/21631 Buyan-M): Russian river-sea warship series of 3 gunboats and 12 missile corvettes by Zelenodolsk, armed with 8-cell Kalibr/Oniks VLS, serving Caspian, Black Sea, and Baltic fleets.
Buyan-M-class corvette
The Buyan-M-class corvette (Project 21631, Russian: Буян-М) is a class of twelve small missile ships built for the Russian Navy, armed with Kalibr and Oniks missiles.
BuyBust: The Undesirables
BuyBust: The Undesirables (also Buy Bust 2) is a 2026 nine-episode Netflix Filipino dystopian action-thriller series directed by Erik Matti, a sequel to the 2018 film BuyBust, starring Anne Curtis as Nina Manigan and Gerald Anderson.
Buyeo
Buyeo (夫餘) was an ancient kingdom north of the Han commandery of Xuantu, a Han tributary from Emperor Guangwu's reign until the end of the Han.
Buyeo law of murder and theft
The Buyeo law of murder and theft (부여의 법) is the criminal law of the ancient Korean state of Buyeo, punishing murder by death and theft at twelvefold restitution.
Buyer's remorse
Buyer's remorse, also known as buyer's regret or post-purchase dissonance, is the regret a consumer feels after a purchase, especially a costly one, driving returns and complaints.
Buyid civil war after 'Adud al-Dawla
The Buyid civil war after 'Adud al-Dawla (صراع أبناء عضد الدولة) was the succession struggle among his sons Samsam, Sharaf, and Baha al-Dawla, fought mainly in Iraq and Fars from 982 to 1012.
Buyid civil war between Adud al-Dawla's sons
The Buyid civil war between Adud al-Dawla's sons (نزاع بني بويه) was a series of succession wars in Iraq, Fars, and Khuzestan among Adud al-Dawla's sons.
Buyid civil war of 976–978
The Buyid civil war of 976–978 was fought within the Buyid dynasty between cousins 'Adud al-Dawla and Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar, ending in 'Adud al-Dawla's victory near Ahvaz in 977.
Buyid civil war of 976–980
The Buyid civil war of 976–980 was fought between the cousins 'Adud al-Dawla, ruler of Fars, and Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar, ruler of Iraq, after Rukn al-Dawla died in 976.
Buyid conquest of Fars
The Buyid conquest of Fars (فتح البويهيين لفارس) was Ali ibn Buya's seizure of the province of Fars from the caliphal governor Yaqut between 933 and 934.
Buyid dynasty
Buyid dynasty (Āl-e Būya), Daylamite Shi'i dynasty of three brothers ruling Fars, Jibal, and Iraq 945-1055, holding the Abbasid caliphs as amir al-umara; apex under Adud al-Dawla, ended by Seljuk Tughril Beg.
Buyid entry into Baghdad
The Buyid entry into Baghdad (دخول بويه بغداد) was the bloodless 945 seizure of Baghdad by Ahmad ibn Buya, who became amir al-umara and ruled the caliph.
Buyid–Hamdanid wars
The Buyid–Hamdanid wars (الحروب البويهية الحمدانية) were conflicts between the Buyids of Iraq and the Hamdanids of Mosul over Baghdad and the Jazira, from 945 to 978.
Buying a Classmate Once a Week
Buying a Classmate Once a Week (Shuukura, 週に一度クラスメイトを買う話) is a yuri light novel series by Usa Haneda and U35, published by KADOKAWA's Fantasia Bunko. Miyagi pays classmate Sendai 5,000 yen weekly for orders; 10 volumes, manga by Migihara, Yen Press English release from October 2026.
Buying Beverly Hills
Buying Beverly Hills: Netflix reality occu-soap (2022-2024) following Mauricio Umansky's luxury brokerage The Agency and his daughters Farrah, Alexia, and Sophia; canceled after two seasons and 18 episodes.