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Bambi: The Reckoning

Bambi: The Reckoning is a 2025 British horror film directed by Dan Allen, the fourth entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe, in which a mutated deer stalks a mother and son after a car wreck; released July 25, 2025.

Bambie Thug

Bambie Thug (Bambie Ray Robinson, born 1993, Macroom, Cork) is a non-binary Irish 'ouija-pop' singer signed to Spinefarm; 'Doomsday Blue' placed sixth for Ireland at Eurovision 2024.

Bamboo

Bamboo (Bambusoideae): woody grasses of Poaceae with hollow culms, 1885 species in 144 genera, native to all continents except Europe and Antarctica, growing up to 60 cm per day and flowering synchronously on 50-year cycles.

Bamboo Airways

Bamboo Airways is a Vietnamese "hybrid" airline combining low-cost and full-service features, founded by FLC Group and launched in January 2019 before restructuring shrank its 30-aircraft fleet.

Bamboo Annals

The Bamboo Annals (竹书纪年) is a Warring States chronicle of the state of Wei, unearthed from a royal tomb at Jijun in the Western Jin dynasty, covering Yao through the Zhou.

Bamboo blossom

Bamboo blossom: flowering in Bambusoideae grasses, also called gregarious flowering or masting. Species flower once after 3–150-year cycles, often synchronously, then die; events trigger rodent outbreaks and famine in northeast India.

Bamboo construction

Bamboo construction uses whole round culms or engineered bamboo as structural material. Key facts: ISO 22156:2021 limits round-bamboo buildings to two storeys and 7 m; joints are the main difficulty; bamboo floors emit 12 vs 160 kg CO2-eq/m2 for concrete; Hong Kong bamboo scaffolding tradition.

Bamboo in East Asian culture

Bamboo in East Asian culture is a system of moral and literary symbols in which bamboo's hollow stem, straight growth, and winter survival stand for integrity, humility, and endurance.

Bamboo Mañalac

Bamboo Mañalac (Francisco Gaudencio Lope Belardo Mañalac), Filipino-American singer known as Bamboo, frontman of Rivermaya 1994-1998 and band Bamboo 2002-2011, solo albums No Water No Moon and Bless This Mess, Voice of the Philippines coach.

Bamboo mosaic virus

Bamboo mosaic virus (BaMV, 竹嵌紋病毒), a Potexvirus (Alphaflexiviridae) with a 6,366-nt positive-sense RNA genome, infects bamboo causing mosaic disease and bamboo-nail shoot lesions, and serves as a plant expression vector for pharmaceuticals and bamboo gene studies.

Bamboo shoot

Bamboo shoot, takenoko, the young culm of bamboo eaten as a vegetable across Asia; nutritious but containing taxiphyllin cyanogenic glycosides, so shoots must be boiled, fermented, or canned before eating.

Bamboo textile

Bamboo textile: fabric from bamboo, usually chemically regenerated as rayon/viscose rather than true mechanical bamboo fiber. FTC requires 'rayon made from bamboo' labeling; antibacterial and eco claims lack evidence.

Bambooworking

Bambooworking is the craft of splitting and weaving bamboo into baskets, mats, and furniture, often alongside rattan (wicker). Known through Chinese, Japanese (Beppu, Living National Treasures), and Southeast Asian traditions, now extending to composites and architecture.

Bamboozled

Bamboozled is Spike Lee's 2000 satirical comedy-drama in which TV writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) pitches a blackface minstrel show that becomes a hit. Released by New Line, it grossed $2.2 million against a $10 million budget and was later restored by Criterion.

Bambora

Bambora is a Stockholm-based payment service provider founded by Johan Tjärnberg in 2014 under Nordic Capital, sold to Ingenico Group in 2017 for about €1.5 billion.

Bambouk

Bambouk is a gold-producing region of western Mali and eastern Senegal, between the Bafing and Falémé rivers, and a chief source of West African gold from the tenth century onward.

Bambu Lab (拓竹科技)

Bambu Lab, also known as 拓竹科技, is a Chinese consumer technology company founded in Shenzhen in 2020 by former DJI engineers, known for fast, self-calibrating 3D printers.

Bambuk

Bambuk, also spelled Bambuhu and called Bambouk by the French, is a gold-producing region of West Africa between the Senegal and Falémé rivers, a chief source of medieval trans-Saharan gold.

Bamburgh

Bamburgh, Northumberland: coastal village and site of Bamburgh Castle, also known as Bebbanburg, citadel of the Kings of Bernicia, royal fortress 1095-1603, Grade I listed, repeatedly voted the UK's best seaside destination.

Bamburgh Castle

Bamburgh Castle, Bebbanburg, a Grade I listed Northumberland castle on a volcanic dolerite outcrop; Northumbrian royal seat from the sixth century, restored by Lord Armstrong and C.J. Ferguson, 1894–1904.

Bambusa

Bambusa Schreb. is a genus of clumping woody bamboos (Poaceae, Bambusoideae, Bambusinae) native from tropical and subtropical Asia to northern Australia, with roughly 70-153 accepted species, hollow jointed culms, six stamens, and widely cultivated species such as B. vulgaris and B. bambos.

Bambusa vulgaris

Bambusa vulgaris (common or yellow bamboo), a clumping tropical bamboo native from Assam to Indo-China, culms to about 13 m, hollow, green, or yellow; widely naturalized, used in construction, composites, and food, with compressive strength up to about 64 MPa dry.

Bambusicola

Bambusicola (bamboo partridges), genus Gould 1863 of Phasianidae galliform birds; three species including Chinese Bamboo Partridge B. thoracicus and Taiwan endemic B. sonorivox, sister genus to Gallus.

Bambuterol

Bambuterol (Bambec), a biscarbamate prodrug of terbutaline, is an oral once-daily beta-2 agonist for asthma; activated by butyrylcholinesterase, lung-concentrated, 24-hour duration, 10-20 mg tablets.

Bamenda

Bamenda, capital of Cameroon's North West Region in Mezam Division, a highland commercial hub of about 349,000 people (2026), epicenter of the Anglophone separatist conflict since 2016 and site of Pope Leo XIV's 2026 peace meeting.

Bamfield

Bamfield is a village of about 300 on Vancouver Island's Barkley Sound, in Huu-ay-aht Territory, known for the 1902 All Red Line trans-Pacific cable station, the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, and the West Coast Trail.

Bamforth-Lazarus syndrome

Bamforth-Lazarus syndrome (Bamforth syndrome, OMIM 241850) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive congenital hypothyroidism disorder caused by FOXE1 mutations, featuring athyreosis, cleft palate, spiky hair, and sometimes choanal atresia.

BamHI

BamHI, from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens H, is a type II restriction endonuclease cutting G^GATCC at 37°C to leave GATC sticky ends compatible with BglII, BclI, and Sau3A; widely used in cloning.

Bamileke royal art

Bamileke royal art is the court art made for the kings and elites of the Bamileke chiefdoms of western Cameroon, famed for beaded elephant masks and thrones.

Bamin Garden

Bamin Garden (八闽园) is a 160-mu botanical and cultural garden in the northeast of Xiamen University's Xiang'an campus, Fujian. Opened 5 April 2021, it holds about 1,500 plant species and ten plazas representing Fujian's nine cities and one area.