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Bronze Star Medal
The Bronze Star Medal, also called the Bronze Star, is a United States military decoration for heroic or meritorious combat service, authorized by President Roosevelt in February 1944.
Bronze Tablet
The Bronze Tablet is a Hittite bronze treaty tablet recording the treaty between King Tudhaliya IV and his cousin Kurunta of Tarhuntassa, found at Hattusa in 1986.
Brook Porter
Brook Porter is an American venture capitalist and trained chemical engineer who co-founded G2 Venture Partners after co-managing Kleiner Perkins' $1 billion Green Growth Fund for roughly a decade.
Brooke Astor
Brooke Astor (Roberta Brooke Russell, 1902–2007), New York socialite and philanthropist, ran the Vincent Astor Foundation and gave away about $195 million to NYC institutions; her son Anthony Marshall was convicted of exploiting her.
Brooke Baldwin
Brooke Baldwin (Lauren Brooke Baldwin, born 1979, Atlanta) is an American journalist, author of Huddle, and former CNN Newsroom anchor (2008–2021), later host of Netflix's The Trust and the Substack Unraveling.
Brooke Foss Westcott
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) was an English Anglican biblical scholar, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and Bishop of Durham, best known for the Westcott–Hort Greek New Testament.
Brooke Jenkins
Brooke Jenkins, San Francisco's 31st District Attorney: appointed by Mayor Breed July 8, 2022 after Chesa Boudin's recall, elected November 2022, re-elected 2024; former assistant DA known for tougher charging policies.
Brooke Rollins
Brooke Rollins (born 1972, Glen Rose, Texas) is the 33rd US Secretary of Agriculture, confirmed 72–28 in February 2025; formerly Texas Public Policy Foundation head, first Trump White House policy adviser, and America First Policy Institute founder.
Brooke van Velden
Brooke van Velden is a New Zealand politician of the ACT Party who won the Tāmaki electorate in 2023, served as a minister, and left Parliament in September 2026.
Brookfield Asset Management
Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. is a New York-headquartered global alternative asset manager, the asset management arm of the Brookfield group, with about $1.3 trillion in assets under management.
Brookfield Corporation
Brookfield Corporation, formerly known as Brascan Corporation, is a Canadian multinational holding company focused on alternative asset management, with over $1 trillion in assets under management as of December 2025.
Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution, also called the Brookings think tank, is a private nonprofit public-policy research organization in Washington, D.C., founded as the Institute for Government Research in 1916 and incorporated in 1927, known for independent nonpartisan research.
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College, a CUNY senior college in Brooklyn, New York, founded 1930 as the city's first public coeducational liberal arts college; Midwood campus, 14,469 students in fall 2025, notable alumni include Shirley Chisholm and Bernie Sanders.
Brooklyn Medical Papyrus
The Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, also called the Snakebite Papyrus or Traité d'Ophiologie, is an Egyptian papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum describing 38 snakes and giving about 140 snakebite treatments.
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum, founded 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library and housed since 1897 in a McKim, Mead & White Beaux-Arts building at 200 Eastern Parkway, is an encyclopedic art museum with 140,000+ objects, the Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and NAGPRA repatriation programs.
Brooklyn Technical High School
Brooklyn Technical High School (Brooklyn Tech, BTHS) is NYC's largest specialized public high school, at 5,848 students in Fort Greene, founded in 1922 by Dr. Albert L. Colston; admission is by SHSAT score only, with about 19 engineering and science majors.
Brooks Brothers
Brooks Brothers is an American menswear retailer founded in New York in 1818, the oldest US apparel brand in continuous operation, known for the button-down oxford shirt.
Brooks Brothers riot
The Brooks Brothers riot was a November 22, 2000 demonstration by Republican operatives that disrupted and ended the Miami-Dade County presidential ballot recount in Florida.
Brooks Landgraf
Brooks Landgraf is an American politician and attorney, a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 81 in the Permian Basin since 2015.
Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin
Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin was a Malay-based pidgin spoken in Broome, Western Australia, as the lingua franca of pearling crews from the late 1800s to the 1960s.
Brophy College Preparatory
Brophy College Preparatory is an all-male Jesuit college-preparatory high school in Phoenix, Arizona, founded in 1928 and serving roughly 1,400 students in grades 6 through 12.
Brothel
Brothel: premises where commercial sexual services are provided, often under a licensed operator. Legal status varies by country under four models: prohibition, Nordic end-demand laws, licensing legalization, and decriminalization.
Brother Paul's Children's Mission
Brother Paul's Children's Mission, also called Brother Paul's Nature Camp, was a 1975 Michigan charity front for a child pornography ring on North Fox Island run by Francis Shelden, Gerald Richards, Dyer Grossman, and Adam Starchild; exposed in 1976.
Brother Yun (云弟兄)
Brother Yun (云弟兄), born Liu Zhenying in 1958, is a Chinese house-church evangelist known as "the Heavenly Man", co-author of the bestselling book The Heavenly Man.
Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Blacks
The Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Blacks (Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos) was a Catholic confraternity of black men and women founded in Salvador, Brazil, in 1685.
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), German philologists who collected and edited Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812–1857), founded folktale studies, formulated Grimm's Law, and compiled a German dictionary.
Brothers Home (형제복지원)
Brothers Home (형제복지원, Hyungje Bokjiwon) was a Busan internment facility disguised as a welfare institution, where about 40,000 people deemed vagrants were confined and forced to work from 1975 to 1987; 657 died, and South Korea's 2022 truth commission and 2025 Supreme Court ruling confirmed state responsibility.
Brothers Keepers (gang)
The Brothers Keepers are a Canadian organized crime group from the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, formed between 2015 and 2017 from Red Scorpions-aligned drug trafficking.
Brothers of Italy
Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia, FdI) is an Italian national-conservative party founded in December 2012 from a People of Freedom splinter, heir to National Alliance and the 1946 MSI, keeping the tricolour flame. Led by Giorgia Meloni, it won the 2022 election with 26.0% and 118 of 400 seats, making her Italy's first female Prime Minister.
Brothers of Jesus
The brothers of Jesus, also called the brethren of the Lord, are James, Joses, Simon, and Judas, named in Mark 6:3 and Matthew 13:55; whether they were Mary's sons, Joseph's stepsons, or cousins is disputed.