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Brinley Newton-John
Brinley Newton-John (1914-1992), Welsh-born professor of German literature, Bletchley Park Hut 3 intelligence officer in the El Alamein intelligence effort, MI5 file via Klaus Fuchs link, and father of Olivia Newton-John.
Brinson model
The Brinson model is an arithmetic method of performance attribution, introduced by Gary Brinson and colleagues in 1985 and 1986, that decomposes a portfolio's active return into allocation, selection, and interaction effects.
BrioHealth Technologies (同心医疗)
BrioHealth Technologies (同心医疗) is a Chinese medical device company in Suzhou, founded in 2008, whose CH-VAD became China's first fully magnetically levitated artificial heart in 2021.
Brisanet
Brisanet is a Brazilian fiber broadband and regional 5G operator founded in 1998 in Pereiro, Ceará, by José Roberto Nogueira, the Northeast's fixed-broadband leader and Brazil's fourth-largest provider.
Brisbane State High School
Brisbane State High School is a selective-entry coeducational government secondary school in South Brisbane, Queensland, founded in 1921 and, with over 3,500 students, Australia's largest state secondary school.
Briscoe Cain
Briscoe Cain is an American politician and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 128, an attorney, and a Texas State Guard captain who lost a 2026 congressional primary runoff.
Bristol Palin
Bristol Palin (born 1990, Wasilla, Alaska) is Sarah Palin's eldest daughter, announced pregnant at 17 during the 2008 McCain campaign; later a Dancing with the Stars contestant, memoirist, and teen abstinence advocate.
Bristol-Myers Squibb acquires Celgene
Bristol-Myers Squibb acquired Celgene in a cash-and-stock deal announced January 3, 2019, valuing Celgene at about $74 billion, the largest pharmaceutical deal ever at the time.
Brit Hume
Brit Hume (born 1943), Fox News chief political analyst since 1996, former ABC chief White House correspondent and founding anchor of Special Report; later senior analyst commenting on elections and polling.
Brit milah (בְּרִית מִילָה)
Brit milah, also known as a bris, is the Jewish ritual circumcision of male infants, performed on the eighth day after birth as a sign of God's covenant with Abraham.
BRIT School
The BRIT School (London School for Performing Arts & Technology) is a state-funded Croydon secondary school for ages 14–19, opened 1991, BRIT Trust-sponsored, audition-based entry, Ofsted Outstanding 2024, over 10,000 alumni.
Britain First
Britain First: far-right, anti-Muslim UK political party founded 2011 by ex-BNP members Jim Dowson and Paul Golding; known for mosque invasions, Christian patrols, the 2017 Trump retweets, and re-registration with the Electoral Commission in 2021.
Britannia
Britannia is the female personification of Britain, from Roman coins of Hadrian (c.119) to modern 50p pieces, Bank of England notes since 1694, and the name of the royal yacht and the Roman Britain journal.
Britannia Royal Naval College
Britannia Royal Naval College, also known as BRNC Dartmouth, is the Royal Navy's initial officer training establishment at Dartmouth, Devon, training officers there since 1863.
Britannicus
Britannicus (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, 41–55 CE), son of Emperor Claudius and Messalina, was the displaced Julio-Claudian heir poisoned by Nero at a banquet the night before his 14th birthday.
Brite Payments
Brite Payments is a Stockholm-based fintech company founded in 2019 by Lena Hackelöer that provides instant open-banking account-to-account payments, raising a $60 million Series A in 2023.
British African-Caribbean people
British African-Caribbean people, also called the Windrush generation, are Black Britons of Caribbean heritage. Defined by post-1948 migration under the British Nationality Act 1948, settlement in Brixton, Notting Hill Carnival, and the 2018 Windrush scandal.
British Agricultural Revolution
The British Agricultural Revolution, also called the Second Agricultural Revolution, was a transformation in English farming after 1750 that more than doubled output through enclosure, turnips, clover, and seed drilling.
British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco (BAT) is a British multinational tobacco and nicotine company founded in 1902, listed in London, selling cigarettes, vapor, and nicotine pouches in over 200 markets.
British Americans
British Americans: US residents of English, Scottish, Welsh, or Scotch-Irish descent, from colonial settlers and later UK immigrants; 1938 census counted 40 million English, 14.2 million Scottish, 2.5 million Welsh ancestry; self-reporting understates the total.
British Armed Forces
British Armed Forces: UK military comprising Royal Navy/Royal Marines, British Army, and Royal Air Force under the Ministry of Defence; 182,980 personnel (2026), deployed by royal prerogative, funded at £77.3 billion.
British Army
The British Army is the UK's land warfare service, led by the Chief of the General Staff and organized on a regimental system. Key distinctions: 32 Regular infantry battalions, 4,033 combat vehicles, 3,000+ soldiers deployed worldwide, and a 73,000 Regular / 100,000 total target set by the 2025 Strategic Defence Review.
British Army during the Second World War
The British Army in the Second World War (1939–45): conscripted land force of the UK and Empire, defeated in France 1940, rebuilt to win El Alamein 1942, North Africa, Italy, and Normandy, with 8,586,000 Empire troops.
British Army Training Unit Suffield
British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS): British Army live-fire and maneuver training establishment at CFB Suffield, Alberta, Canada, since 1972; about 2,700 km2 range, drawn down after 2020 to around 30 stationed personnel.
British big cats
British big cats, also called alien big cats or phantom cats, are reported large non-native felids such as black panthers, pumas, and lynxes in the UK countryside; a few escaped exotics were captured, but no wild population has been proven.
British campaign medals
British campaign medals are UK awards for taking part in a campaign or wartime service, from the 1815 Waterloo Medal through WWI stars, WWII stars, the General Service and Operational Service Medals, and the 2024 Wider Service Medal.
British Chinese
British Chinese are UK residents of Chinese ethnicity, 445,646 people (0.7%) in England and Wales at the 2021 Census, descended from seamen, Hong Kong, Malaysian, and mainland Chinese migration waves, with the highest educational attainment of any census ethnic group.
British colonial gazettes
British colonial gazettes were the official newspapers published by colonial governments of the British Empire, carrying legislation, notices, appointments, and land sales; The National Archives holds 112 series, dated 1794 to 1990.
British colonial judges in the Americas
British colonial judges in the Americas were British-trained lawyers, appointed through patronage, who presided over the Crown's courts in North American and Caribbean colonies until decolonisation.
British colonization of the Americas
British colonization of the Americas, also called English colonization of the Americas, was settlement by England and later Great Britain, beginning with the lost Roanoke colony and Jamestown in 1607.