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Bust of Amenemhat V
The Bust of Amenemhat V is a siltstone head and shoulder of the 13th Dynasty king Amenemhat V, held in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum and dated to 1783-1780 BC.
Bust of Ankhhaf
The Bust of Ankhhaf is a painted limestone portrait of Old Kingdom prince and vizier Ankhhaf, found in his Giza tomb in 1925 and held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Bust of Cleopatra
The Bust of Cleopatra is a Ptolemaic royal portrait sculpture in granitic stone, dated c. 47–30 BC and probably depicting Cleopatra VII, held in the Royal Ontario Museum.
Buster Edwards
Buster Edwards (Ronald Christopher Edwards, 1931–1994) was a Great Train Robbery gang member who fled to Mexico, served nine years, and later ran a famous flower stall at Waterloo station, played by Phil Collins in the 1988 film Buster.
Busy Ming Group
Busy Ming Group is a Changsha-based Chinese discount snack retailer formed in 2023 from Busy for You and Super Ming, China's largest snack chain, listed in Hong Kong in 2026.
Buta Kola
Buta Kola, also called Bhoota Kola, is an annual spirit-possession ritual of coastal Karnataka, where a performer dances as a guardian spirit and delivers judgments.
Butapichón
Butapichón, also spelled Butapichun or Putapichion, was a Mapuche toqui, or war leader, who commanded large offensives against Spanish forces in the Arauco War in Chile during the 1630s.
Butch and femme
Butch and femme are paired masculine and feminine lesbian identity categories that formed the core of 1940s-1950s US working-class lesbian bar culture, declined under 1970s feminist critique, and persist as queer identities.
Butch Cassidy
Butch Cassidy, alias of Robert LeRoy Parker (born 1866), American outlaw who led the Wild Bunch gang robbing banks and trains, fled to Argentina, and reportedly died in San Vicente, Bolivia, in 1908, a death that remains disputed.
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, also called the Hole in the Wall Gang, was a loose band of Old West outlaws led by Cassidy and Kid Curry, robbing banks and trains from the late 1880s to about 1903 before fleeing to South America.
Butehamun
Butehamun, also written Butehamon, was a Theban scribe of the royal necropolis who oversaw the reburial of the New Kingdom pharaohs' mummies in secret caches.
Buting Technology (不停科技)
Buting Technology (不停科技), brand BOTINKIT, is a Chinese cooking-robotics startup founded in Shenzhen in January 2021 by Chen Rui (Shirley Chen), making AI-driven commercial kitchen automation for restaurants.
Butler
A butler is the senior household professional who manages the front of house, providing personal service and logistics to the principal. The role requires anticipatory awareness and confidentiality.
Butler Act
Butler Act refers to two laws: Tennessee's 1925 anti-evolution statute by John Washington Butler, which triggered the Scopes trial, and the UK Education Act 1944, R.A. Butler's free secondary education reform.
Butler University
Butler University, also called North Western Christian University at its 1855 founding, is a private university in Indianapolis, Indiana, with about 5,700 students, seven colleges, NCAA Division I BIG EAST athletics, and a 98% graduate placement rate.
Buto-Maadi culture
The Buto-Maadi culture, also called the Maadi culture, was a Chalcolithic archaeological culture of Lower Egypt, named after the sites Maadi and Buto, lasting from about 3900 to 3200 BC.
Buton Sultanate
The Buton Sultanate, also known as Kesultanan Buton or Wolio, was an Islamic sultanate on Buton Island off southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, which endured from 1541 until 1960 under 38 sultans.
Butrus al-Bustani
Butrus al-Bustani (بطرس البستاني), known as al-Muallim, was a Lebanese scholar, educator, and journalist of the Al-Nahda who compiled the dictionary Muhit al-Muhit and is regarded as the first Syrian nationalist.
Butt
Butt is the shared spelling of several English homonyms: a verb meaning to strike with the head (c. 1200, Old French boter), a thick end (c. 1400), a wine cask of 108 to 140 gallons, an archery target, and slang for the buttocks.
Butterfly Lovers (梁山伯与祝英台)
Butterfly Lovers (梁山伯与祝英台, Liang Zhu) is one of China's four great folk legends: Zhu Yingtai, disguised as a man, studies with Liang Shanbo; an arranged marriage separates them, and they become butterflies. National intangible heritage since 2006.
Butuga II
Butuga II was a tenth-century Western Ganga king under the Rashtrakuta emperor Krishna III, who killed the Chola prince Rajaditya at Takkolam and received provinces that enlarged Ganga territory.
Buturlin Committee
The Buturlin Committee (Бутурлинский комитет) was a secret body of the Russian Empire, created under Nicholas I in 1848 to supervise printed works already passed by the censors.
Buxar Mound
Buxar Mound (Charittarvan) is an ancient habitation mound at Buxar, Bihar, on the Ganga, a centrally protected ASI monument excavated in the 1960s, with a four-period sequence from about 500-400 BC and a 3.20 m flood deposit.
Buy Nothing Day
Buy Nothing Day is an annual anti-consumerism protest day founded in 1992 by artist Ted Dave and Adbusters, urging a 24-hour buying moratorium on Black Friday each November.
Buy side
The buy side is the part of the investment industry that purchases securities to make money for the assets it manages, including hedge funds, pension funds, and asset managers.
Buyan-class corvette
Buyan-class corvette (Project 21630/21631 Buyan-M): Russian river-sea warship series of 3 gunboats and 12 missile corvettes by Zelenodolsk, armed with 8-cell Kalibr/Oniks VLS, serving Caspian, Black Sea, and Baltic fleets.
Buyeo
Buyeo (夫餘) was an ancient kingdom north of the Han commandery of Xuantu, a Han tributary from Emperor Guangwu's reign until the end of the Han.
Buyeo law of murder and theft
The Buyeo law of murder and theft (부여의 법) is the criminal law of the ancient Korean state of Buyeo, punishing murder by death and theft at twelvefold restitution.
Buyer's remorse
Buyer's remorse, also known as buyer's regret or post-purchase dissonance, is the regret a consumer feels after a purchase, especially a costly one, driving returns and complaints.
Buyid civil war after 'Adud al-Dawla
The Buyid civil war after 'Adud al-Dawla (صراع أبناء عضد الدولة) was the succession struggle among his sons Samsam, Sharaf, and Baha al-Dawla, fought mainly in Iraq and Fars from 982 to 1012.