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Burgomaster
Burgomaster, or Bürgermeister, is the title for the chief municipal magistrate of a town in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium, first recorded in English in 1592 from the Dutch burgemeester.
Burgundian Netherlands
Burgundian Netherlands: Low Countries principalities united under the Valois dukes of Burgundy (1384-1477), later Habsburg rule, foundation of the modern Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg; central to the Huizinga-Pirenne historiographical debate.
Burgundians
The Burgundians (Burgundiones, Burgondes) were a Germanic people settled at Worms and then Sapaudia (443); kingdom of Gundobad (474–516), Lex Burgundionum, destroyed by the Franks in 534.
Burgus
Burgus (plural burgi): small Roman fortified tower or fort, from Greek pyrgos per some scholars, used on the Rhine and Danube frontiers in late antiquity; forerunner of the medieval castle and source of French bourg.
Burhagohain
The Burhagohain (বুঢ়াগোহাঁই) was the senior of the three great Gohain counselors of the Ahom kingdom of Assam, usually acting as prime minister until British rule in 1826.
Burhan Ali
Burhan Ali (برهان علی), of the Shirvanshah dynasty, was the last effective Shirvanshah ruler, striking coins from 1539 to 1550 while trying to restore Shirvanshah rule over Shirvan.
Burhan Imad Shah
Burhan Imad Shah (برہان عماد شاہ) was the last sultan of the Imad Shahi dynasty of Berar, reigning from 1562 to 1574 before Ahmadnagar annexed Berar.
Burhan Nizam Shah I
Burhan Nizam Shah I (برہان نظام شاہ اول) was the second sultan of Ahmadnagar in the Deccan, reigning from 1510 until his death in 1553.
Burhan Wani
Burhan Muzaffar Wani (1994–2016), Hizbul Mujahideen commander in Kashmir, pioneered social-media militancy; his killing on 8 July 2016 in Kokernag, Anantnag, sparked mass protests, curfew, and the 'Burhan Wani era'.
Burhan-i Ma'asir
Burhan-i Ma'asir (برہان مآثر) is a Persian chronicle of the Deccan sultans, written by the historian Ali Tabataba at Ahmadnagar from 1592 and completed by his son in 1628.
Burhan-i Ma'athir
Burhan-i Ma'athir (برہان معاثر) is a Persian-language history of the Deccan sultans by Sayyid Ali Tabataba, completed in 1594–95 for Burhan Nizam Shah II of Ahmadnagar.
Burhanuddin Gharib
Burhanuddin Gharib (برہان الدین غریب) was a fourteenth-century Chishti Sufi master, disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya, who carried the order from Delhi to Khuldabad in the Deccan in 1327.
Burhanuddin Rabbani (برهانالدین ربانی)
Burhanuddin Rabbani, an Afghan Islamist politician, led the Jamiat-e Islami party and served as the formal president of Afghanistan from 1992 until 2001, before his death in 2011.
Burial of Alara at el-Kurru
The burial of Alara at el-Kurru is the tomb of Alara, first known ruler of the Napatan dynasty of Kush, at the royal cemetery of el-Kurru in Sudan.
Burial of Ferdinand Marcos
Burial of Ferdinand Marcos: interment of the Philippine dictator's remains at the Libingan ng mga Bayani on November 18, 2016, authorized by Duterte, upheld 9-5-1 by the Supreme Court, and met with protests over his disputed war record and martial law abuses.
Burial of Jesus
The burial of Jesus, also called the Entombment of Christ, is the Gospel account of Joseph of Arimathea laying Jesus' body in a rock-cut tomb outside Jerusalem before the Sabbath began.
Burial vault (enclosure)
Burial vault (enclosure), also called outer burial container: a sealed, casket-enclosing grave structure, distinct from the simpler grave liner; not legally required in the U.S. but often mandated by cemeteries; concrete vaults date to Leo Haase's 1880 company.
Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey
Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey include about 3,300 burials, royal tombs from Henry III to George II, Poets' Corner, and the Unknown Warrior, buried in 1920.
Buridan's ass
Buridan's ass, also called Buridan's donkey, is a philosophy thought experiment in which a donkey starves between two equidistant, equally tempting hay piles. Named for John Buridan but absent from his writings, it challenges rational choice theory and free will.
Burji dynasty
The Burji dynasty (آل برقوق) was the second and final line of the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo, founded by Barquq in 1382 and ruled by Circassian mamluks.
Burji Mamluks (المماليك البرجية)
Burji Mamluks (المماليك البرجية), also called Circassian Mamluks, the second Mamluk ruling line of Egypt and Syria, 1382–1517, founded by Barquq after deposing the last Bahri sultan, ending with Tuman Bay under Ottoman conquest.
Burke and Hare murders
The Burke and Hare murders, or West Port murders, were at least sixteen killings in Edinburgh in 1827–1828 by William Burke and William Hare, who sold victims' bodies to anatomist Robert Knox; Burke was hanged in 1829 and the case led to the Anatomy Act 1832.
Burke and Wills expedition
The Burke and Wills expedition was a 1860-1861 Royal Society of Victoria attempt to cross Australia from south to north. Burke, Wills, and Gray died of starvation.
Burke's Peerage
Burke's Peerage: British genealogical reference series founded in London in 1826 by John Burke, recording lineages of the peerage, baronetage and landed gentry; distinguishable from Debrett's Peerage and now owned by Burke's Peerage Limited.
Burkhard Jung
Burkhard Jung (born 1958 in Siegen) is a German Social Democratic politician, Mayor of Leipzig since 2006 and President of the German Association of Cities.
Burkina Faso displacement crisis
The Burkina Faso displacement crisis is the mass forced displacement of roughly 2 million people, a tenth of the population, driven by an armed insurgency since 2015.
Burkinabè migration to Côte d'Ivoire
Burkinabè migration to Côte d'Ivoire is the movement of workers from Burkina Faso southward, beginning with colonial forced recruitment in the early twentieth century and continuing voluntarily after 1946.
Burkinabé Revolution
The Burkinabé Revolution was the Marxist-oriented program of political, social, and economic transformation carried out in Burkina Faso under Thomas Sankara from his 1983 coup to his assassination in 1987.
Burl Cain
Burl Cain (Nathan Burl Cain) is an American corrections administrator, warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola 1995-2015 and Mississippi corrections commissioner from 2020, known for faith-based prison seminary programs and for criticism over religious establishment and medical care.
Burlington (discount store)
Burlington Stores, also known as Burlington Coat Factory, is an American off-price retailer founded in 1972 in New Jersey, with 1,287 stores and $11.5 billion in sales.