Society and history

Bùi Thị Xuân

Bùi Thị Xuân (裴氏春, died 1802) was a Vietnamese female general of the Tây Sơn rebellion and the only woman made a Đô đốc under that dynasty.

Build-A-Bear Workshop

Build-A-Bear Workshop is an American specialty retailer, founded in 1997 by Maxine Clark, where guests stuff, dress, and name their own teddy bears, with over 660 stores worldwide.

Oct 10, 2026

Build-up method

The build-up method estimates a company's cost of equity by adding risk premiums to a risk-free rate, used mainly for private companies where beta cannot be measured.

Builders FirstSource is the largest U.S. supplier of building products and prefabricated components to professional homebuilders, with about 585 locations in 43 states from its Irving, Texas headquarters.

Sep 23, 2026

Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects

Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects (全面建成小康社会) is a Communist Party of China development goal, proposed by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 and declared achieved in 2021.

Building inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II

The building inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II are Akkadian royal texts, mostly on clay cylinders and bricks, recording his temples, walls, and canals in Babylon and other Mesopotamian cities.

Building of Fort Jesus

The building of Fort Jesus (Forte de Jesus de Mombaça) was the Portuguese construction of a fortress at Mombasa, Kenya, begun in 1593 and completed in 1596.

Building of the Buhen fortress

The building of the Buhen fortress was the 12th Dynasty construction of a large Egyptian fortress on the Nile in Lower Nubia, begun under Senusret I.

Building of the church of al-Qullays

The building of the church of al-Qullays, known as al-Qalis, was the sixth-century construction of a grand cathedral in Sanaa by Abraha, the Aksumite general who ruled Yemen.

Building of the citadel of Van (Tushpa)

The building of the citadel of Van (Tushpa) was the construction begun by Urartian king Sarduri I around 840-830 BC on a rock by Lake Van.

Building of the Esagila by Nebuchadnezzar I

The building of the Esagila by Nebuchadnezzar I was the restoration of the Esagila, Babylon's principal temple of Marduk, during his reign around 1125–1104 BC.

Building of the Etemenanki ziggurat

The building of the Etemenanki ziggurat was the reconstruction of the ziggurat of Marduk at Babylon, begun by Nabopolassar and completed by Nebuchadnezzar II around 590 BC.

Building of the Naqa temples

The building of the Naqa temples was the construction of the royal temple complex at Naqa in Sudan over roughly three centuries, from about 170 BC.

Building projects of Ur-Nanshe

The building projects of Ur-Nanshe, first king of the First Dynasty of Lagash around 2500 BCE, are recorded in about 40 inscriptions claiming 19 buildings, 10 canals, and rebuilt walls.

Building Societies of Peace

Building Societies of Peace (Construyendo Sociedades de Paz, PAZ) is a Mexican political party registered in June 2026, led by Hugo Eric Flores, the third version of the PES, aligned with Morena.

Building society

A building society, also called a mutual building society, is a member-owned financial institution that takes savings from members and lends mainly on residential property, with no outside shareholders.

Building works of Hiram I at Tyre

The building works of Hiram I at Tyre were a tenth-century BC program in which King Hiram joined Tyre's two islands, enlarged its harbors, and rebuilt its temples.

Building works of Taharqa at Kawa and Gebel Barkal

The building works of Taharqa at Kawa and Gebel Barkal are temples built by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa (r. 690–664 BC) at two great Amun sanctuaries in Nubia.

Built Technologies

Built Technologies, originally incorporated as DataFi, LLC, is a Nashville fintech company selling construction loan administration and commercial real estate software to lenders since 2015.

Buk missile system

The Buk missile system (9K37 Buk, NATO reporting name SA-11 Gadfly) is a family of Soviet and Russian medium-range surface-to-air missile systems, first adopted in 1980.

Bukalapak

Bukalapak, founded in 2010 by Achmad Zaky, is an Indonesian technology company whose 2021 IPO raised Rp21.9 trillion, the largest in Indonesian stock-exchange history at the time.

Bukavu crisis

The Bukavu crisis of June 2004 saw dissident commanders Laurent Nkunda and Jules Mutebutsi seize the eastern Congolese city of Bukavu, shaking the country's transitional government.

Buke

Buke (武家) is the Japanese term for the warrior houses and, by extension, the warrior class, set against the kuge, the court nobility of Kyoto.

Buke densō

Buke densō (武家伝奏) was a Japanese court office handling liaison between the imperial court and the warrior government, held by two court nobles and abolished in 1867.

Buke hō

Buke hō (武家法) is the body of law developed by Japan's warrior class and warrior governments from the late twelfth century, first written as the Goseibai shikimoku of 1232.

Bukē Sandai Gochō (Edicts of 1862)

The Bukē Sandai Gochō were 1862 measures by the Tokugawa shogunate, acting under imperial edict, that arranged Princess Kazu's marriage to Shogun Iemochi and relaxed the sankin kōtai attendance system.

Buke Shohatto

Buke Shohatto (武家諸法度) was the Tokugawa shogunate's basic law for the daimyo of Japan, first promulgated in 1615 after the fall of the Toyotomi clan.

Bukey Horde

The Bukey Horde, also called the Inner Horde, was a vassal Kazakh khanate founded in 1801 between the Volga and Ural rivers and abolished in 1876.

Bukey Khan

Bukey Khan (Бөкей хан) was a Kazakh sultan, son of Nuraly Khan and grandson of Abulkhair Khan, who founded the Bukey Horde between the Ural and Volga rivers in 1801.