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Burger/Voigt
Burger/Voigt, the duo of Jörg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt, are a German electronic act based around the Cologne techno label Kompakt, which Voigt co-founded; they first released music as Burger/Ink.
Bürgerbräukeller
Bürgerbräukeller: Munich beer hall (1885–1979, Rosenheimer Straße) hosting the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch start and Georg Elser's failed 1939 bomb attack on Hitler, demolished 1979.
Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith (1907 or 1908–1997), American character actor of stage, film, radio and TV; George in Of Mice and Men, Ernie Pyle in G.I. Joe, the Penguin in Batman, and Oscar-nominated as Mickey in Rocky.
Burglar
Burglar is a 1987 American comedy-mystery film starring Whoopi Goldberg as a San Francisco bookstore owner who burgles on the side and is framed for murder.
Burgtheater
Burgtheater: Austria's national spoken-drama theatre in Vienna, founded 1741, made the German Nationaltheater by Joseph II in 1776, housed since 1888 in the Semper and Hasenauer Ringstrasse building with Klimt ceiling paintings, 1,140 seats, and three satellite venues.
Burgundy
Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical region of east-central France, a former duchy and former administrative region, and a celebrated wine region whose Climats vineyards are UNESCO World Heritage listed.
Burgundy wine
Burgundy wine: wines of Bourgogne, France, from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay across 84 appellations and 1,247 UNESCO-listed Climats on 30,052 hectares, shaped by monks, Valois dukes, and a cool climate with ever-earlier harvests.
Burhan Sönmez
Burhan Sönmez (born 1965) is a Kurdish novelist from Turkey, president of PEN International since 2021, and author of seven novels including Istanbul Istanbul, which won the 2018 EBRD Literature Prize.
Burhan-e Qate'
Burhan-e Qate' (برهان قاطع, "Conclusive proof") is a Persian-to-Persian dictionary compiled in India by Mohammad-Hosayn b. Khalaf Tabrizi, completed in 1651 and dedicated to Sultan Abd-Allah Qotbshah of Golconda.
Burhi Aair Sadhu
Burhi Aair Sadhu, meaning Grandmother's Tales, is a collection of Assamese folktales compiled by Lakshminath Bezbaruah, first published in 1911 and ranked among the most popular works in Assamese literature.
Burial
Burial: the deliberate interment of a body or cremated remains, studied through mortuary archaeology. Covers inhumation and cremation rites, grave goods, monuments, and aDNA and isotope methods from Mesolithic to medieval Europe.
Burial (musician)
Burial is the pseudonym of London electronic musician William Emmanuel Bevan, known for Burial (2006) and Untrue (2007) on Hyperdub, made in Sound Forge, and central to future garage.
Buridan's Ass (Fargo)
Buridan's Ass is the sixth episode of Fargo season 1 (FX, aired May 20, 2014, 53 min), titled after Jean Buridan's indecision paradox; Malvo executes his plan, Lester crafts his own, and the episode won an Emmy for directing.
Buried (Breaking Bad)
Buried is season 5, episode 10 of Breaking Bad (AMC, August 18, 2013), directed by Michelle MacLaren: Walt buries his cash in the desert, Skyler resists Hank, Marie slaps Skyler, and a silent Jesse lands in DEA custody.
Buried (film)
Buried (Enterrado), 2010 thriller by Rodrigo Cortés, written by Chris Sparling, starring Ryan Reynolds as Paul Conroy, a truck driver buried alive in a coffin in Iraq; won three Goya Awards.
Buried Child
Buried Child is a 1978 three-act play by Sam Shepard in which a decaying Illinois farm family confronts a long-buried family secret. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Buried Hearts (보물섬)
Buried Hearts (보물섬, Treasure Island) is a 2025 SBS political-revenge thriller, 16 episodes, starring Park Hyung-sik and Heo Joon-ho, about a hacked two-trillion-won slush fund and amnesia.
Buried treasure
Buried treasure: valuables such as precious metals, stones, or money hidden in the ground and covered over. Covers real pre-banking caches, the Captain Kidd pirate myth behind Treasure Island, folklore find ratios, and found caches like the Fenn treasure and Wydah wreck.
Burkini
Burkini (also burqini): full-coverage modest swimsuit invented by Lebanese-Australian designer Aheda Zanetti in 2003–2004, trademarked by her brand Ahiida; portmanteau of burqa and bikini; subject of French, German, Spanish, and Austrian regulation.
Burl Ives
Burl Ives (Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 1909–1995) was an American folk singer and Oscar-winning actor of The Big Country; radio's Wayfarin' Stranger, hit-maker of Blue Tail Fly and A Holly Jolly Christmas, and voice of Sam the Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Burlesque
Burlesque: comic treatment of serious subjects, from Italian burlesco (burla, jest), entering English 1656; covers the literary genre, Victorian and American variety theater, striptease-era burlesque, and the 1990s neo-burlesque revival.
Burlesque (2010 American film)
Burlesque is a 2010 American musical drama directed by Steven Antin, starring Christina Aguilera as a small-town singer who joins a Los Angeles burlesque club run by Cher.
Burlesque (musical)
Burlesque: The Musical is a 2023 stage musical by Steven Antin adapted from the 2010 Cher and Christina Aguilera film, with songs by Aguilera, Sia, Diane Warren, Jess Folley, and Todrick Hall; it premiered in Manchester, reached the Savoy Theatre in 2025, and toured the UK in 2026.
Burley (tobacco)
Burley tobacco: light air-cured cigarette tobacco, low sugar, high alkaloid; White Burley arose 1864 in Ohio; centered on Kentucky's burley belt; about one-third of American-blend cigarettes.
Burlington Industries
Burlington Industries was an American textile manufacturer headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, founded by J. Spencer Love in 1923 and once described as the world's largest textile company.
Burmese cuisine
Burmese cuisine, also called the cuisine of Myanmar, is the cookery of Myanmar, centered on rice with curry, soup, and ngapi, a fermented fish paste.
Burmese dry lacquer Buddha images
Burmese dry lacquer Buddha images, called man-hpaya (မန်ဘုရား) in Burmese, are hollow Buddha sculptures built up in cloth and lacquer over a clay core, established in Myanmar by the eighteenth century.
Burmese lacquerware
Burmese lacquerware is the craft of coating bamboo or wooden vessels with lacquer from the Gluta usitata tree, centered on Bagan, Myanmar, since the eleventh century.
Burmese novel
The Burmese novel is the prose fiction form of Burmese (Myanmar) literature, emerging in the early twentieth century under British rule; the first two novels appeared in 1904.
Burmese royal regalia
The Burmese royal regalia are the crowns, thrones, and insignia symbolizing the divine kingship of Burma's monarchs, with the White Umbrella the most important of the five symbols.