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Bufalino crime family
The Bufalino crime family, also called the Scranton Mafia, was a small Italian American Mafia organization based in northeastern Pennsylvania, named after boss Russell Bufalino.
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a grammatical English sentence of eight repetitions of buffalo, using the city name, the animal noun, and the verb to buffalo (intimidate); devised by William J. Rapaport in 1972.
Buffalo crime family
Buffalo crime family, also called the Magaddino family or "The Arm," is a La Cosa Nostra organization based in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York, led by Stefano Magaddino from 1922 to 1969, active in labor racketeering, gambling, and southern Ontario, and the subject of renewed federal prosecutions since 2024.
Buffalo Soldier
Buffalo Soldiers were African American troops of the four post-Civil War segregated Regular Army regiments, the 9th and 10th Cavalry and 24th and 25th Infantry, named by Native Americans, serving the frontier, national parks, and Cuba.
Buffer stock scheme
A buffer stock scheme is a program where an agency buys a commodity at a floor price and sells at a ceiling price to stabilize prices.
Buffer zone
A buffer zone is an area between adversarial powers, like the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza. By April 2025, this zone made up at least 50% of the strip.
Buford Pusser
Buford Hayse Pusser, McNairy County, Tennessee sheriff 1964-1970 and subject of the Walking Tall films, died in a 1974 crash; in 2025 Tennessee authorities concluded he likely killed his wife Pauline in the 1967 ambush.
Buganda
Buganda is the largest traditional kingdom of Uganda, home of the Baganda and their king the Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. Restored as a cultural institution in 1993 after 1967 abolition, it disputes land with the state and seeks federo federalism.
Buganda Agreement (1900)
The Buganda Agreement of 1900 is a treaty signed at Mengo on 10 March 1900 between Britain and the chiefs of Buganda, defining the kingdom's place in the Uganda Protectorate.
Buganda clan system
The Buganda clan system organizes Baganda society into patrilineal clans called ebika, each identified by a totem, governing naming, marriage, and land in the Kingdom of Buganda, Uganda.
Buganda succession war after Suna's death
The Buganda succession war after Suna's death was the contested transfer of the kingship of Buganda after Kabaka Suna II died in 1856, in which Prince Mutesa secured the throne.
Bugchasing
Bugchasing is the pursuit of HIV-positive sexual partners to acquire HIV; giftgiving is its consensual counterpart. Rare, taboo practice in barebacking subcultures, shaped by internet forums and transformed by PrEP.
Bugcrowd
Bugcrowd is a San Francisco crowdsourced cybersecurity company founded by Casey Ellis in Australia in 2012, operating a platform connecting organizations with over half a million security researchers.
Bugger
Bugger: English slang word from Medieval Latin Bulgarus 'Bulgarian', first meaning heretic (mid-14c.), then sodomite (1550s); now mild versatile expletive in British, Australian, and New Zealand English, rare in America.
Bugha al-Saghir
Bugha al-Saghir (بغا الصغير), known as Bugha al-Sharabi or Bugha the Younger, was a Turkish commander of the Abbasid Caliphate serving Caliph al-Musta'in at Samarra in the mid-ninth century.
Bugha the Elder
Bugha the Elder (بغا الكبير) was a Turkish slave soldier and senior Abbasid general, a client of Caliph al-Mu'tasim who helped install Caliph al-Musta'in in 862.
Bughyat al-Talab fi Tarikh Halab
Bughyat al-Talab fi Tarikh Halab (بغية الطلب في تاريخ حلب) is a large Arabic biographical dictionary and local history of Aleppo by Ibn al-Adim, who died in 1261.
Bugil High School
Bugil High School (북일고등학교, Bugil Academy) is a private autonomous boys' high school in Cheonan, South Korea, founded in 1976 by Hanwha founder Kim Jong-hee, with a nationwide intake, Yeosong Academy dormitory, and a former international program (2010–2021).
Bugis
The Bugis (To Ugi') are the largest ethnic group of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, speaking Buginese (27 dialects, lontara script), predominantly Muslim, with kingdoms like Bone and Wajo and a large diaspora in Malaysia, Singapore, and Kalimantan; over 7 million worldwide.
Bugis ascendancy in the Riau-Johor succession (1722–1784)
Bugis ascendancy in the Riau-Johor succession (Perebutan takhta Johor) was the 1722 struggle in which Bugis princes defeated Raja Kecil and enthroned Sultan Sulaiman at Riau.
Bugis migration to the Malay Peninsula
The Bugis migration to the Malay Peninsula is the centuries-long movement of Bugis people from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, who settled mainly in Johor and Selangor and entered Malay royal houses.
Bugs Moran
Bugs Moran (Adelard Cunin) led Chicago's North Side Gang during Prohibition as Al Capone's chief rival; his gang suffered the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and he died in prison in 1957.
Bugsy Siegel
Bugsy Siegel (Benjamin Siegelbaum, 1906–1947), Brooklyn-born Jewish-American gangster, Murder, Inc. founder, Los Angeles syndicate boss, and builder of the Flamingo Hotel, murdered in Beverly Hills in 1947.
Bugyō (commissioner) system under Hideyoshi
The bugyō system under Hideyoshi was the Toyotomi regime's central administration, run by daimyo commissioners, most famously the Go-bugyō (五奉行), who handled finance, litigation, and land surveys.
Buhays ibn Hakim al-Qushayri
Buhays ibn Hakim al-Qushayri (بهز بن حكيم القشيري) was a second-century AH hadith transmitter of Basra, grandson of the companion Mu'awiya ibn Hayda, whom critics divided over.
Buhen stela of Senusret I
The Buhen stela of Senusret I is a sandstone stela from year 18 of his reign, set up for General Montuhotep and celebrating victories over ten Nubian locations, now in Florence.
Buhle Goslar
Buhle Goslar is a South African fintech executive who served as JUMO's CEO for Africa and Pakistan from 2019 to 2023, and now chairs the neobank Lula.
Buhumu
Buhumu (不忽木, 1255–1300) was a Confucian-trained Yuan dynasty statesman of the Kangli people who served Kublai Khan, helped bring down two finance ministers, and co-received Kublai's deathbed edict settling the succession.
Buhurizade Mustafa Itri
Buhurizade Mustafa Itri was an Ottoman composer, singer, and Mevlevi dervish who served Sultan Mehmed IV and died in 1711, known for the Segah Tekbir.
Bùi Diễm
Bùi Diễm (1923-2021), South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States 1967-1972 and ambassador-at-large until 1975, Đại Việt party veteran, Saigon Post publisher, and author of the memoir In the Jaws of History.