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Bridget Ziegler
Bridget Ziegler, Sarasota County School Board member since 2014 and Moms for Liberty co-founder, Florida parental-rights advocate aligned with Ron DeSantis, later at the center of the 2023 Christian Ziegler sex-battery investigation.
Bridgewater Associates
Bridgewater Associates is an American hedge fund founded by Ray Dalio in 1975, known for its Pure Alpha and All Weather strategies and managing about $102 billion for institutional clients.
Bridgewater Four
The Bridgewater Four, Patrick Molloy, James Robinson, and cousins Michael and Vincent Hickey, were wrongly convicted in 1979 of the murder of paperboy Carl Bridgewater at Yew Tree Farm; convictions quashed in 1997 after a forged confession was exposed, murder unsolved.
Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater State University (BSU), public university in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, founded 1840 by Horace Mann as Bridgewater State Normal School, third normal school in Massachusetts and the nation; 10,349 students, six colleges, Massachusetts's leading producer of teachers.
Bridgewater Triangle
The Bridgewater Triangle is a 200-square-mile area of southeastern Massachusetts, apexes Abington, Freetown, and Rehoboth, named by Loren Coleman in 1983, centered on Hockomock Swamp and the Freetown-Fall River State Forest and their reported paranormal phenomena.
Brief Self-Control Scale
The Brief Self-Control Scale (BSCS) is a 13-item self-report questionnaire measuring trait self-control, developed by Tangney, Baumeister, and Boone in 2004 and used in over 100 studies.
Brief Symptom Inventory
The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) is a 53-item self-report questionnaire measuring psychological distress across nine domains, including depression and anxiety, derived from the SCL-90-R and reported in 1983.
Brigade
A brigade is a military formation of two or more battalions plus a headquarters, normally 2,500 to 5,000 soldiers, sitting between the battalion and the division.
Brigade 2506
Brigade 2506 (Spanish: Brigada de Asalto 2506) was a CIA-trained paramilitary force of Cuban exiles that carried out the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in April 1961.
Brigade Combat Team
Brigade Combat Team (BCT), also called brigade combat teams, is the U.S. Army's basic combined-arms tactical formation of about 4,000 soldiers, commanded by a colonel, in infantry, armored, and Stryker designs, now converting to Mobile Brigade Combat Teams under the 2025 Army Transformation Initiative.
Brigade of Gurkhas
The Brigade of Gurkhas, also called the Gurkha Brigade, is the British Army's collective name for its Nepali-recruited units, spanning infantry, engineers, signals, and logistics, serving since 1816.
Brigadier
Brigadier is a senior military officer rank at NATO grade OF-6, above colonel and below major general, typically commanding a brigade of 2,000 to 8,000 personnel.
Brigadier (United Kingdom)
Brigadier (Brig) is the British Army's OF-6 one-star-equivalent rank, above Colonel and below Major General. A field officer rank since the 1920s, formerly brigadier-general; insignia is a crown above three stars.
Brigadier general
Brigadier general: lowest U.S. general-officer rank, one star, paygrade O-7, NATO OF-6, equivalent to rear admiral (lower half); established by the Continental Congress in 1775.
Brigadier general (United States)
Brigadier general is the lowest US general officer rank, pay grade O-7 (NATO OF-6), marked by one silver star, used by the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force; Navy equivalent is rear admiral (lower half). Established by the Continental Congress in 1775.
Brigantes
The Brigantes were a tribe or confederation of Roman-era Britain, the most populous by Tacitus's account, ruling northern England under Queen Cartimandua before Roman conquest in the 70s AD.
Brigham Young
Brigham Young (1801–1877) was an American religious leader who succeeded Joseph Smith as president of the Latter-day Saint church, led the migration to Utah, and oversaw nearly 400 settlements.
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University (BYU) is a private university in Provo, Utah, founded in 1875 and owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with over 35,000 students.
Bright Dairy & Food Co., Ltd.
Bright Dairy & Food Co., Ltd. (光明乳业股份有限公司), also known as Bright Dairy, is a Shanghai-based state-controlled dairy company listed in Shanghai in 2002, leading China's fresh milk market.
Bright Futures Scholarship Program
Florida's Bright Futures Scholarship Program is a lottery-funded merit scholarship created in 1997, offering Florida Academic Scholars and Medallion Scholars awards (plus vocational tiers) to state high school graduates.
Bright Money
Bright Money is a San Francisco consumer fintech company founded in 2019 by Avi Patchava and Petko Plachkov, whose app automates credit-card debt paydown and credit building.
Bright Peak Therapeutics
Bright Peak Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Basel, Switzerland and San Diego, California, launched by Versant Ventures in 2020 to develop PD-1-based cancer immunotherapies.
Bright young things
Bright Young Things (Bright Young People): informal 1920s British upper-class and aristocratic youth group famous for elaborate Mayfair theme parties, gossip-column fame, Waugh's Vile Bodies satire, and Cecil Beaton's portraits.
BrightGene Bio-Medical Technology (博瑞医药)
BrightGene Bio-Medical Technology (博瑞医药) is a pharmaceutical company based in Suzhou, China, founded by Yuan Jiandong in 2001, which develops hard-to-copy generics and innovative drugs including BGM0504.
BrightInsight
BrightInsight, Inc. is a San Jose, California digital health company, founded in 2017, providing a regulated platform for biopharma and medtech; its investors include General Catalyst and Mayo Clinic.
Brighton hotel bombing
Brighton hotel bombing: Provisional IRA time bomb planted by Patrick Magee (alias Paul Walsh) in Grand Hotel room 629, exploded 2.54 a.m. 12 October 1984 during the Conservative conference, killing five, narrowly missing Margaret Thatcher.
BrightSpring Health Services
BrightSpring Health Services is an American home and community-based healthcare company formed in 2019 by KKR, public since its January 2024 IPO, serving complex patients in all 50 states.
Brightstar Capital Partners
Brightstar Capital Partners is a New York-based middle-market private equity firm founded by Andrew S. Weinberg in 2015, making control investments in US and Canadian companies.
Brigid
Brigid (Brigit, Bríd) names both an Irish goddess of poetry, healing, and smithcraft, daughter of the Dagda, and Saint Brigid of Kildare (c.450–524), Ireland's female patron saint, honored on 1 February at Imbolc; whether the saint existed is uncertain.
Brigid O'Brien
Brigid O'Brien is a venture investor and Managing Partner, Planetary Health at RA Capital Management in Boston, which she joined in January 2023 after BHP Ventures and In-Q-Tel.