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Bubba the Love Sponge
Bubba the Love Sponge is the on-air name of Todd Clem, an American radio personality in Tampa, Florida, whose shock-jock morning show drew a record FCC indecency fine in 2004.
Bubi people
The Bubi are the indigenous Bantu-speaking people of Bioko Island (Fernando Pó), Equatorial Guinea, settled about 2000 years ago, speaking basal Bantu language Bubi, organized in matrilineal clans, and politically marginalized by the Fang majority.
Bucareli Treaty
The Bucareli Treaty, or Tratados de Bucareli, is the set of agreements negotiated between Mexico and the United States in Mexico City in 1923 that won US recognition of President Obregón's government.
Buccaneers of Tortuga
The Buccaneers of Tortuga were French and later English hunters and sea raiders who used Tortuga, off Hispaniola, as their base in the 17th century.
Bucha massacre (Бучанська різанина)
Bucha massacre (Бучанська різанина): mass killing of civilians by Russian forces during the March 2022 occupation of Bucha, a Kyiv-region town; 358+ bodies found after the 2 April withdrawal, attributed largely to the 234th Air Assault Regiment and documented by OHCHR, HRW, and satellite imagery.
Bucharest Zoo
Bucharest Zoo (Grădina Zoologică București), a public zoo in Băneasa, Sector 1, Bucharest, founded 1955, opened 1959, official status 1962; over 150 species, 300,000 annual visitors, run by the Bucharest municipal government.
Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchenwald (KZ Buchenwald) was a Nazi concentration camp built in 1937 on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Germany. It held about 250,000 prisoners, ran over 88 subcamps, and was liberated by US forces on April 11, 1945.
Buchholz High School
Buchholz High School, formally F. W. Buchholz High School, is a public high school in Gainesville, Florida, best known for its math team's 16 national championships.
Buchou Quantum (不筹量子)
Buchou Quantum (不筹量子), formally Shanghai Buchou Quantum Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese neutral-atom quantum computing startup founded in 2025 in Shanghai by Fudan University physics professor Li Xiaopeng.
Buck Barrow
Buck Barrow (Marvin Ivan Barrow, 1903-1933), Clyde Barrow's older brother, joined the Barrow Gang with wife Blanche after a March 1933 pardon; wounded near Dexter, Iowa, he died July 29, 1933.
Buck Newton
Buck Newton is an American Republican politician and lawyer who has served in the North Carolina State Senate since 2010 and was the 2016 Republican nominee for state Attorney General.
Buck passing
Buck passing is a realist international relations strategy in which a threatened state avoids confronting an aggressor, hoping others will bear the balancing costs; theorized by Christensen and Snyder (1990) and central to Mearsheimer's offensive realism.
Buck Sexton
Buck Sexton (born 1981), American conservative radio host and former CIA analyst, co-host of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show that replaced Rush Limbaugh's Premiere Networks slot in 2021.
Buck v. Bell
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927): Supreme Court case upholding Virginia's compulsory sterilization law, 8–1, in Holmes's "three generations of imbeciles" opinion; never overturned.
Bucket and cone
The bucket and cone are a pair of objects held by winged genies in Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs, best known from Ashurnasirpal II's ninth-century BC Northwest Palace at Nimrud.
Bucketplace
Bucketplace (버킷플레이스) is a South Korean company, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seoul, that operates Ohouse (오늘의집), an interior design community and e-commerce platform.
Buckingham Gate drill halls
Buckingham Gate drill halls: the London Scottish Regiment's 1882-1886 headquarters at 59 Buckingham Gate by John MacVicar Anderson, demolished 1985 and partly re-erected at 95 Horseferry Road, plus the former drill hall at 58 Buckingham Gate.
Buckley v. Valeo
Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), the landmark Supreme Court campaign finance decision upholding FECA contribution limits and disclosure while striking down expenditure limits and the original FEC appointment method.
Bucknell University
Bucknell University, private university in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, founded 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, renamed 1886 for William Bucknell; three colleges (Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Freeman College of Management), about 3,900 undergraduates, Patriot League Division I athletics.
Bud Brown (politician)
Clarence J. 'Bud' Brown Jr. (1927–2022), Ohio Republican, represented Ohio's 7th District in the U.S. House 1965–1983 after succeeding his father Clarence Brown Sr. by special election; later Reagan's Deputy and Acting Secretary of Commerce.
BudaCorp
BudaCorp is a Cayman Islands exempted company, classified only as "Other Technology," that raised $154,321,022 across four SEC Form D offerings between 2019 and 2024 while disclosing no product or business description.
Budai (布袋)
Budai (布袋), or Hotei in Japanese, was a semi-legendary Chinese Chan monk of the 10th century, venerated since the Song dynasty as an incarnation of Maitreya, the future Buddha.
Budapest Memorandum
Budapest Memorandum: Memorandum on Security Assurances signed 5 December 1994 in Budapest by the UK, US, and Russia in connection with Ukraine's NPT accession; Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal for border-respect and non-aggression assurances, later violated by Russia.
Budbee
Budbee was a Stockholm last-mile logistics startup founded by Fredrik Hamilton that delivered e-commerce parcels in the Nordics and Benelux before merging into Instabee in 2022.
Buddha Gotama
Buddha Gotama (गौतम बुद्ध) was the teacher born into the Śākya clan near the present India–Nepal border whose awakening and 45 years of teaching founded Buddhism, traditionally living to age 80.
Buddha-nature
Buddha-nature, or tathāgatagarbha, is the Mahāyāna Buddhist doctrine that all sentient beings possess the nature or potential of a fully awakened buddha, taught in sutras such as the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra.
Buddha's Birthday
Buddha's Birthday, also known as Buddha Purnima or Hanamatsuri, is the festival commemorating the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, on dates that vary by country.
Buddhacharita
Buddhacharita (बुद्धचरित), meaning "Acts of the Buddha," is a Sanskrit epic poem on the Buddha's life by the monk and poet Ashvaghosha, written in India in the first or second century CE.
Buddhadatta
Buddhadatta (बुद्धदत्त) was a South Indian Theravada monk-scholar of the 5th to 6th centuries CE, best known as the author of the Abhidhammāvatāra, the first written handbook of Theravāda Abhidhamma.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (বুদ্ধদেব ভট্টাচার্য)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, also known as Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, was an Indian communist politician of the CPI(M) who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011.