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Broadcasting Services Act 1992
The Broadcasting Services Act 1992 is the main Australian law regulating television and radio broadcasting. It established the Australian Broadcasting Authority, which merged into the ACMA in 2005.
Broadsheet
Broadsheet: large-format newspaper format, traditionally about 12 x 21 inches in the US and six columns wide, associated with serious, in-depth, original reporting; contrasted with the half-size tabloid and shaped by Britain's 1712 page tax and later compact conversions.
BroadVail Capital Partners
BroadVail Capital Partners is a private equity firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, that invests growth capital to build commercial real estate investment platforms.
Broadvail Growth Equity
Broadvail Growth Equity is the growth equity fund series of BroadVail Capital Partners, a Houston firm founded in 2014 whose funds reported $833 million sold through March 2025.
Brocade Communications Systems
Brocade Communications Systems was a San Jose, California company that built Fibre Channel switches for storage area networks, later acquired by Broadcom for about $6.1 billion in 2017.
Broch
Broch: Iron Age circular drystone tower unique to Scotland, also called Atlantic roundhouse; over 500 sites, double-skinned hollow walls with galleries and stairs, built from the mid first millennium BC, best preserved at Mousa.
Brochure
A brochure is a folded single sheet or small, often stapled booklet presenting information about a product, service, or organization; the standard tri-fold has six panels.
Brock Pierce
Brock Pierce is an American former child actor turned cryptocurrency entrepreneur and investor, known as a co-founder of Tether and Block.one and a 2020 independent candidate for US President.
Brodie helmet
Brodie helmet, also called tin hat or Helmet Steel Mk I: shallow wide-brimmed steel combat helmet patented by John Leopold Brodie, adopted by Britain in September 1915, issued to all ranks from 1916, copied by the US as the M1917.
Broken heart
Broken heart (heartbreak, heartache): metaphor for intense emotional pain from loss or rejection; studied in social-pain neuroscience and embodied literally in takotsubo cardiomyopathy, broken heart syndrome.
Broken Obelisk
The Broken Obelisk, also known as the Obelisk of Ashur-bel-kala, is the upper part of a stone obelisk found at Nineveh in 1853 and now held in the British Museum.
Broken windows theory
Broken windows theory, from Wilson and Kelling's 1982 Atlantic essay, holds that visible neighborhood disorder signals absent social control and invites crime; it inspired NYC order-maintenance policing, but meta-analyses find mixed, design-dependent evidence.
Broker
A broker, also known as a brokerage house, is an intermediary who buys or sells securities for clients rather than for its own account, unlike a dealer.
Brokered convention
Brokered convention: a US presidential nominating convention failing to pick a nominee on the first ballot, forcing multiple ballots and deal-making; last occurred in 1952 (Stevenson, Eisenhower); distinct from a contested convention.
Broligarchy
Broligarchy, slang portmanteau of bro and oligarchy, names male tech-billionaire dominance of business and politics, coined by Carole Cadwalladr in 2024 and popularized by Brooke Harrington's Atlantic essay.
Bromance
Bromance: a close, emotionally intimate, nonsexual friendship between men; portmanteau of brother and romance. Popularized in the mid-2000s via films like Superbad; studied as a form of homosociality tied to declining homophobia.
Bromsgrove School
Bromsgrove School, founded 1553 and re-endowed by Sir Thomas Cookes in 1693, is a co-educational independent day and boarding school in Worcestershire, England, ages 2–18, an original HMC member offering A level, IB and BTEC.
Bronislav Kaminski (Бронислав Владиславович Каминский)
Bronislav Kaminski (Бронислав Владиславович Каминский, 1899–1944), also Bronisław Kaminski, led the Lokot Autonomy and the RONA (Russian National Liberation Army) brigade, later a Waffen-SS unit, noted for anti-partisan atrocities, the 1944 Ochota massacre in Warsaw, and his execution by the Germans.
Bronisław Baczko
Bronisław Baczko (1924–2016) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas who studied the Enlightenment, utopia, and the French Revolution, winning the 2011 Balzan Prize.
Bronisław Komorowski
Bronisław Komorowski (born 1952, Oborniki Śląskie), Polish president 2010–2015, former Civic Platform Sejm Marshal and defense minister; became Acting President after Lech Kaczyński's Smoleńsk death, won the 2010 election, lost to Andrzej Duda in 2015.
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish-born British social anthropologist at LSE, pioneer of intensive Trobriand Islands fieldwork, author of Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922), and founder of functionalist kinship theory.
Bronwyn Corbett
Bronwyn Corbett, also known as Bronwyn Knight, is a South African chartered accountant and chief executive of Grit Real Estate Income Group, a pan-African fund she co-founded in 2014.
Bronwyn H. Hall
Bronwyn H. Hall, born 1945, is an economist and emerita professor at UC Berkeley known for the NBER patent data files and measuring the returns to research and development.
Bronx High School of Science
The Bronx High School of Science, a New York City specialized public high school founded in 1938, admits via the SHSAT and counts nine Nobel laureates among its alumni.
Bronx Zoo
Bronx Zoo (New York Zoological Park), WCS flagship zoo in Bronx Park, New York City, opened November 8, 1899; 265 acres, over 11,000 animals of more than 600 species, first director William T. Hornaday.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age, the era defined by copper-tin bronze after the Stone Age, spans roughly 3200–1050 BC in the Aegean; it saw the first city-states such as Mari, Ebla, and Ugarit, long-distance tin trade, and the Late Bronze Age collapse around 1200 BCE.
Bronze Age Pervert
Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) is a pseudonymous far-right online influencer and author of the 2018 self-published book Bronze Age Mindset, widely identified with Yale Ph.D. Costin Alamariu and associated with the manosphere and dissident right.
Bronze Figure and Illustrated Manual of Acumoxa (Tongren shuxue zhenjiu tujing)
The Bronze Figure and Illustrated Manual of Acumoxa (铜人腧穴针灸图经) is a 1026 Chinese acupuncture manual by Wang Weiyi, paired with bronze figures for examining medical students.
Bronze inscriptions
Bronze inscriptions (金文) are texts cast on Chinese bronze vessels from the late Shang through the Western Zhou dynasty, the principal written source for Western Zhou history.
Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III
The Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III is a small bronze statuette in the Louvre showing the Egyptian pharaoh as a reclining sphinx, dated by inscription to 1479–1425 BC.