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Break-their-bones policy
Break-their-bones policy (سياسة تكسير العظام): Israeli First Intifada policy announced January 19, 1988 as "force, might and beatings" instead of live ammunition; over 400 fractures in eight days; contested by Rabin in the 1990 Meir trial.
Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant (Harry Harbord Morant, born Edwin Henry Murrant, 1864-1902), Australian drover, Bulletin balladist, and Bushveldt Carbineers lieutenant executed by firing squad on 27 February 1902 for murdering Boer prisoners in the Boer War.
Breaking news
Breaking news: urgent, newly received information about unfolding events, reported in real time. Covers its definition, history from newsreels and ENG to CNN's 24/7 model, the speed-accuracy tradeoff, and the 2026 shift of news consumption to social platforms.
Breaking Point (poster)
Breaking Point: 2016 UKIP referendum poster unveiled by Nigel Farage, using a Jeff Mitchell photograph of migrants at the Croatia-Slovenia border, reported to police for racial hatred and widely disowned.
Breaking wheel
Breaking wheel (catherine wheel): European torture-execution in which the condemned, tied to a wheel or cross, had limbs broken with an iron bar; first used in Germany, edict of Francis I 1534, abolished in France at the Revolution, used in Germany to 1827.
Breakup of the Bahmani Sultanate
The breakup of the Bahmani Sultanate (बहमनी सल्तनत का विघटन) began in 1490 when the governors of Ahmadnagar, Bijapur, and Berar declared independence, leaving five Deccan sultanates by 1527.
Breakup of Yugoslavia
Breakup of Yugoslavia: 1991-1992 dissolution of the six-republic Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia into Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), followed by the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo.
Breast fetishism
Breast fetishism is a sexual interest in which breasts become a predominant focus of arousal. A medical dictionary uses the term for an interest that excludes most other physical features, a narrower.
Breast ironing
Breast ironing, also called breast flattening, is the practice of pressing pubescent girls' breasts with hot objects to delay development, reported most often in Cameroon.
Breast torture
Breast torture, also called tit torture or TT, is a consensual BDSM pain play targeting the breasts, areolas, and nipples with clamps, weights, impact, wax, or rope, ranging from clothespins to edgeplay such as breast suspension.
Breastfeeding in public
Breastfeeding in public: nursing an infant in cafes, transport, and other shared spaces. Legally protected in the US since New York's 1984 law and under the UK Equality Act 2010, yet stigma remains a documented barrier to breastfeeding.
Brecha
Brecha is an independent left-wing weekly newspaper founded in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1985 by former Marcha journalists after the dictatorship, considered Marcha's continuation and known for its investigative and human rights reporting.
Brécourt Manor Assault
Brécourt Manor Assault: June 6, 1944 D-Day action near Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, where about 20 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne's Easy Company under Lt. Richard Winters destroyed four German 105mm howitzers firing on Utah Beach.
Bree Tomasel
Bree Tomasel (born 1989) is an Italian-Australian radio host, TV presenter and author based in New Zealand, co-host of ZM's Bree & Clint drive show, host of TVNZ 2's Celebrity Treasure Island, 2022 NZ Television Personality of the Year, and author of Unapologetically Me (2024).
Breega
Breega is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded by Ben Marrel, François Paulus, and Maximilien Bacot, investing from pre-seed to Series A in Digital, Climate, and Deep Tech startups.
Bregal Partners
Bregal Partners is a New York middle-market private equity firm founded in 2012 by former Centre Partners executives, with $1.25 billion of committed capital after its second fund closed in 2019.
Bregal Sagemount
Bregal Sagemount is a growth-focused private capital firm in New York, founded in 2012, that has raised $11 billion for software, healthcare IT, and fintech investments.
Bregowine
Bregowine, also spelled Bregwin or Bregowinus, was the twelfth Archbishop of Canterbury from 761 to 764, known from charters and later venerated as a saint.
Breitbart News
Breitbart News, also called Breitbart News Network, is a conservative American news and opinion website founded by Andrew Breitbart and Larry Solov, later led by Stephen Bannon, part-owned by the Mercer family, and rated Right with mixed factual reporting.
Brembo
Brembo is an Italian manufacturer of braking systems for cars, motorcycles, commercial vehicles, and racing, founded in 1961 near Bergamo and listed in Milan since 1995.
Brenda Biya
Brenda Biya (King Nasty), born 1997, daughter of Cameroon's President Paul Biya; came out publicly in June-July 2024 and called for decriminalization of same-sex conduct, illegal in Cameroon since 1972 under Penal Code article 347-1.
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, is a British judge and the first woman to hold every senior post in UK law: Law Commissioner (1984), Law Lord (2004), Supreme Court Justice (2009), and Supreme Court President (2017–2020), best known for the 2019 prorogation judgment.
Brenda K. Sannes
Brenda Kay Sannes, born 1958, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of New York since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Brenda McLeish
Brenda McLeish OBE DL is a British business executive who joined Learning Curve Group in 2008, led it as chief executive from 2015, and stepped down in December 2025.
Brendan
Brendan, also known as Brendan the Navigator, was an Irish monk and abbot who founded Clonfert monastery and became the hero of a famous medieval voyage tale.
Brendan A. Hurson
Brendan Abell Hurson is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Maryland since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Brendan Boyle
Brendan F. Boyle (born 1977) is an American Democratic politician who has represented Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2019, after the 13th district from 2015.
Brendan Bracken
Brendan Bracken (1901–1958), Irish-born British Conservative politician and publisher, Churchill's closest confidant, Minister of Information 1941–45, First Lord of the Admiralty 1945, Viscount Bracken 1952, FT chairman 1945–58.
Brendan Crighton
Brendan Crighton is an American Democratic politician from Lynn, Massachusetts, who serves in the state Senate's Third Essex district and chairs the Joint Committee on Transportation.
Brendan Dassey
Brendan Dassey, Wisconsin juvenile whose 2006 confession to the Teresa Halbach murder, featured in Making a Murderer, was ruled involuntary by federal courts but upheld en banc under AEDPA deference.