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Bruce Sutter Howard Bruce Sutter (last name pronounced "suiter") (born January 8 1953 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is a former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who became possibly the first pitcher to make effective use of the split-finger fastball. One of the sport's dominant relievers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he became the only pitcher to lead the National League in saves five times (1979-1982, 1984), and retired with 300 saves – at the time, the third highest total in history, behind Rollie Fingers (341) and Rich "Goose" Gossage (302), and an NL record until broken by Lee Smith in 1993; Sutter had set the NL record in 1982 with his 194th save, surpassing the mark held by Roy Face.
Bruce Tegner Bruce Tegner (1929–1985) was an American author and martial artist who practiced judo and jujjtsu. Bruce authored several books on self-defense, including Bruce Tegner's Complete Book of Self-Defense Judo, Jiu Jitsu, Karate, Savate, Yawara, Aikido, and Ate-Waza.
Bruce Thai Bruce Thai was the pseudonym of a martial artist and actor who appeared in a small handful of martial arts movies in the 1970s and 80s. He is primarily known for his role in the notorious Bruceploitation classic The Clones of Bruce Lee, where he played Bruce Lee 3, but got limited screen time.
Bruce Thomas (actor) Bruce Thomas is an American actor known for briefly portraying the character of Batman in the General Motors OnStar commercials that aired throughout 2001 and 2002. Thomas also played Batman for the pilot and premiere of The WB's Birds of Prey TV series.
Bruce Timm Bruce Walter Timm (born on February 8 1961) is an American character designer, animator and producer. He is also a writer and artist working in comics, well known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise.
Bruce Tognazzini Bruce Tognazzini is a usability consultant in partnership with Donald Norman and Jakob Nielsen in the Nielsen Norman Group, which specializes in human computer interaction. He was with Apple Computer for many years, then with Sun Microsystems and then WebMD.
Bruce Tuckman Bruce Wayne Tuckman (1938- ) - published in 1965 a short article - Developmental sequence in small groups: see Forming-storming-norming-performing. In 1977, he added the fifth stage: adjourning (Stages of Small Group Development Revisited).
Bruce Van Voorhis Bruce Avery Van Voorhis (29 January 1908 - 6 July 1943) was a United States Navy aviator who was shot down in the Pacific theater during World War II. For his heroic action on July 6 1943, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Bruce W. Beatty Bruce W. Beatty CM, CD, FRHSC is a Canadian graphic designer best known as being chiefly responsible for designing the emblems of the Canadian Honours System, starting with the badge of the Order of Canada in 1967.
Bruce Walters Bruce Walters (born November 29, 1954 in Davenport, Iowa), is an artist who has exhibitioned digital artworks, graphite drawings and paintings primarily in the American Midwest. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and BA from the University of Iowa.
Bruce Walthers Bruce Walthers is an American underground cartoonist. Also known as Bruce von Alten, Walthers was part of the late-1960s/early-1970s Milwaukee underground comix scene and a member of the Krupp Comics/Kitchen Sink group, which also included Denis Kitchen, Jim Mitchell, Don Glassford and Wendel Pugh.
Bruce Weaver Kenneth Bruce Weaver was born on January 18, 1956 in Lancaster, New Brunswick, Canada, as the only child of Ken and Shirley (Burgess) Weaver. He is a 1974 graduate of Saint John High School and a major media personality in and around Saint John, New Brunswick.
Bruce Weber (coach) Bruce Weber (born October 19, 1956 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is the head coach of the University of Illinois men's basketball team. Through his first three seasons at Illinois, Weber has led the program to an 89-16 win-loss record, two outright Big Ten Conference championships, and three trips to the NCAA Tournament, including an appearance in the championship game of the 2005 NCAA Tournament.
Bruce West Bruce West was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1904. This riding was created in 1882 from parts of Bruce North and Bruce South ridings.
Bruce White Brigadier Sir Bruce Gordon White, KBE, FCGI, FICE, FIEE (1885-1983) was one of the leading British consulting engineers of his generation. He was senior partner of Sir Bruce White, Woolfe Barry and Partners (now Beckett Rankine Partnership).
Bruce Wilhelm Bruce Wilhelm (born July 13, 1945) is a weightlifter and strongman from the United States. He is a two-time winner of the World's Strongest Man competition, the author of numerous strength-related articles and biographies, and was a member of the executive board of the United States Olympic Committee.
Bruce Williams Bruce Williams is an American businessman and radio talk show host, who hosts The Bruce Williams Show on weekday evenings from 7 PM to 10 PM Eastern time. Williams has been doing his natioinal radio show for more than 25 years, making it the longest running talk show in history.
Bruce Williamson Bruce Williamson is the current CEO of Dynegy, a major Houston-based energy company. He is credited with successfully restructuring Dynegy from a floundering clone of Enron into a viable and sustainable provider of electricity generation and natural gas liquids.
Bruce Wilson (soccer) Bruce Wilson (born June 20, 1951 in Vancouver, British Columbia) was a NASL and Canadian international soccer player. He played the second most games of any player in the former league, 299 (276 regular season and 23 playoff).
Bruce Woodley Bruce Woodley (born July 25 1942 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian songwriter, singer and guitarist, best known as a member of the successful pop-folk group The Seekers, and as composer of the song "I Am Australian".
Bruce-Mahoney Trophy The Bruce-Mahoney Trophy is a sporting trophy played for by Saint Ignatius College Preparatory and Sacred Heart Cathedral, founded in 1947. The two Catholic high schools in San Francisco are longtime cross-town rivals.
Bruce, Australian Capital Territory Bruce is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Bruce was gazetted as a division on 6 June, 1968 in recognition of Viscount Stanley Melbourne Bruce, the first Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1951 to 1961The streets in Bruce are named after people and places associated with Australian tertiary education.
Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound (formerly known as Bruce, Bruce—Grey and Grey—Bruce—Owen Sound) is a federal electoral district that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935. It is also a provincial electoral district that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Brucehill, Dumbarton Brucehill is a medium-sized council estate in the west of Dumbarton, in the West Dunbartonshire area of Scotland. The area has always had a high degree of deprivation, with poor housing stock, around 40% of the properties lying vacant, boarded-up, and some even with roofs missing.
Brucella melitensis Brucella melitensis is one of the species of bacteria that cause brucellosis, a disease affecting sheep, cattle, and sometimes humans. It is primarily considered to be associated with caprine brucellosis, but is also found in sheep.
Bruceploitation Bruceploitation is a cultural phenomenon mostly seen in the 1970s after the untimely death of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee in 1973. Movie makers in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan hired a great number of Bruce Lee-like actors to star in many cheap knock-off martial arts movies in the 1970s.
Bruces sketch The Bruces sketch is a famous sketch from the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, and appears in episode 22, 'How to recognise different parts of the body'. It involves a group of stereotypical Australians who are members of the Philosophy Department at the fictitious University of Woolloomooloo, and all named Bruce, with a common fondness for beer and a hatred of "pooftahs.
Bruces' Philosophers Song (Bruces' Song) Bruces' Philosophers Song (Bruces' Song) was a popular Monty Python song, a feature of the group's stage appearances as well as of its recordings, and ostensibly rendered by a number of Australian university lecturers. They were all called Bruce and taught at the University of Woolloomooloo.
Bruceton analysis A Bruceton Analysis is one way of analyzing a sensitivity test of explosives as described originally by Dixon and Mood in 1948. Also known as the "Up and Down Test," a Bruceton analysis relies upon two parameters: first stimulus and step size.
Bruckner Expressway The Bruckner Expressway is a freeway in The Bronx. It carries Interstate 278 and Interstate 95 (and formerly Interstate 878) from the Triborough Bridge to the south end of the New England Thruway at the Pelham Parkway interchange.
Bruckner Interchange The Bruckner Interchange is a complex interchange at the intersection of the Bruckner Expressway, Cross Bronx Expressway, Whitestone Expressway, and Hutchinson River Parkway in the New York City borough of the Bronx, United States. It was constructed in the 1960s.
Bruckner Orchestra Linz The Bruckner Orchestra Linz (German: Bruckner Orchester Linz) is one of the leading orchestras in Austria, situated in the city of Linz. It is especially associated with the music of Linz-Land native Anton Bruckner.
Bructeri The Bructeri were a Germanic tribe located in northwestern Germany (Soester Börde), between the Lippe and Ems rivers south of the Teutoburg Forest, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia around 100 BC through 350 AD.
Brudenell White General Sir Cyril Brudenell White, KCB, KCMG, KCVO, DSO (23 September 1876 – 13 August 1940), Australian soldier, was Chief of the General Staff of the Australian Army from 1920 to 1923 and again from March to August 1940, when he was killed in the Canberra air disaster, 1940.
Bruderhof Communities The Bruderhof Communities (German: place of brothers) are Christian faith-based communities with branches in New York and Pennsylvania in the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. They have previously been called The Society of Brothers and The Hutterian Brethren.
Bruderschaft Bruderschaft is an electronic music artist's collective led by New York City-based DJ Rexx Arkana. Conceived as a charity project focused on cancer research and treatment in the wake of Arkana's father's death from the disease, Bruderschaft united some of the top names in the underground electronic music scene for the production of the band's first single, "Forever.
Brudet Brudet is a fish stew made in Dalmatia and Istria. It consists of several types of fish, and the most important aspect of brudet is its simplicity of preparation and the fact that it is usually prepared in a single pot.
Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence The mission of the Brudnick Center for the Study of Conflict and Violence at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts is to seek solutions to problems of hostility and hatred based on group differences. Involving faculty from a range of disciplines, the Center will initiate research projects and educational endeavors in the area of inter-group conflict and violence (e.
Brudno BrĂłdno is one of the neighbourhoods of the city of Warsaw, located on the eastern bank of the Vistula. It is home to the BrĂłdno cemetery, the largest cemetery in Warsaw and one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.
Bruegel Bruegel is a Brussels-based think tank, which was created on 10 August2004 and started operations in 2005. It is meant to be a Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory, therefore its name which also refers to the late Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Bruff Bruff (An Brú in Irish) is a small town in east County Limerick, in the midwest of Ireland, located on the old Limerick–Cork road (R512). The town lies on the Morning Star river, with unusually, two bridges in the town itself.
Brufut Brufut is a town located in the Western Division of The Gambia. The town of Brufut is situated a couple of kilometres inland from the costal road, but the name Brufut is applied to an area extending from around the town, out to the coast.
Brugada syndrome The Brugada syndrome is a genetic disease that is manifest by abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) findings and an increased risk of sudden cardiac death. It is also known as Sudden Unexpected Death SyndromeHong K, Berruezo-Sanchez A, Poungvarin N, Oliva A, Vatta M, Brugada J, Brugada P, Towbin JA, Dumaine R, Pinero-Galvez C, Antzelevitch C, Brugada R.
Bruges Bruges called Brugge by its native Dutch language name which assumedly used to signify landing stage, is the capital of the province of West Flanders in present-day Flanders, the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is one of Europe's most important landmarks as the city has hardly changed since the Middle Ages.
Bruges Group The Bruges Group is a euro-sceptic think tank which is often associated with the British Conservative Party (although this has been disputed). It claims to be an all-party group but its Honorary President is the Baroness Thatcher, its co-chairs are Brian Hindley and Norman Lamont, and its Director is Robert Oulds.
Bruges Matins The Bruges Matins or Brugse Metten was the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by the members of the local Flemish militia on 18 May, 1302. The title of the massacre was an analogy to the Sicilian Vespers.
Brugmann's law Brugmann's law, named for Karl Brugmann, states that Proto-Indo-European (the ablaut alternant of *e) in non-final syllables became *ā in open syllables (syllables ending in a single consonant followed by a vowel). Everywhere else the outcome was *ǎ, the same as the reflexes of PIE *e and *a.
Brugmansia Brugmansia is a genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae, native to subtropical regions of South America, along the Andes from Colombia to northern Chile, and also in southeastern Brazil. They are known as Angel's Trumpets, sharing that name with the closely related genus Datura.
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) (Translation: Greater Bangalore Municipal Body) is the new administrative body for the city of Bangalore. The final notification on the formation was made by the Government of Karnataka on January 16 2007.
Bruche Police National Training Centre The Bruche Police National Training Centre is a training center for police officers in the United Kingdom. The National Police Training in Bruche, Warrington is operated by CENTREX the 'Central Police Training and Development Authority'.
Bruchin Bruchin (Hebrew: ברוכין), is an Israeli settlement located in the West Bank's Samarian mountains about thirty km east of Tel Aviv along the Trans-Samaria Highway. The yishuv is in the municipal territory of the Shomron Regional Council.
Bruichladdich Bruichladdich is a whisky from the island of Islay, off the west coast of Scotland. Distilled in the village of Bruichladdich, it is one of seven from the island, and the only one from an independent distillery.
Bruijn's Brush-turkey The Bruijn's Brush-turkey, Aepypodius bruijnii is a large, up to 43cm long, brownish black megapode with a bare red facial skin, red comb, maroon rump and chestnut brown below. There are two elongated red wattles on the back of the head and a long wattle on the foreneck.
Bruin Alumni Association The Bruin Alumni Association is a conservative group for alumni of University of California, Los Angeles. It has no official affiliation with the University of California or the official UCLA Alumni Association.
Bruise A bruise or contusion or ecchymosis is a kind of injury, usually caused by blunt impact, in which the capillaries are damaged, allowing blood to seep into the surrounding tissue. They often induce pain but are not normally dangerous.
Bruised But Not Beaten (Jank 1000 Album) Bruised But Not Beaten was set to be the second full length Jank 1000 release. The CD was not officially released due to complications that formed between the band members, eventually leading to the break up of Jank 1000.
Bruiser (band) Bruiser is a Chicago-based three-piece indie rock outfit that features ex-Local H drummer Joe Daniels. The trio was rounded out by Imagination Playground alumni — bassist Mark "Clarke" Mills and pianist/guitarist Daniel Stock on vocals.
Brujos of Catemaco Catemaco is a small town situated in the volcanic heartland of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico and aside from its disappearing flora and fauna, is receiving international fame for its enterprising brujos (wizards, witches, witchdoctors) delivering spells, cures and limpias (cleansing of evil spirits) to visiting believers.
Brukenthal National Museum The Brukenthal National Museum (Romanian: Muzeul Naţional Brukenthal) is a museum in Sibiu, Romania, housed in the palace of Samuel von Brukenthal — who was Habsburg governor of Transylvania and who established its first collections around 1790. The collections were officialy opened to the public in 1817, making it the oldest institution of its kind in Romania.
Brukman factory Brukman is a textile factory in Balvanera, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Currently under the control of a worker cooperative called "18 de Diciembre", it is among the most famous of the country's "recovered factories".
Brulé (band) Brulé is a Native American band featuring a New Age/Worldbeat sound. They have sold over one million CDs worldwide and have made media appearances with the Live with Regis and Kathie Lee television show, CNN WorldBeat, QVC, and others.
Brum Beat Brum Beat is the name of a magazine about the music within Birmingham, United Kingdom. It started as Midlands Beat, by Jim Simpson, who sold it to its latter editor, Steve Morris, who in turn converted it into a website.
Brumbies Rugby The Brumbies (formerly known as the ACT Brumbies, for sponsorship reasons referred to as CA Brumbies) are a Super 14 rugby union team based in Canberra, Australia and named for the wild horses which inhabit Canberra's hinterland. The team represents the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and southern New South Wales (NSW) regions.
Brummie Brummie (sometimes Brummy) is a colloquial term for the inhabitants, accent and dialect of Birmingham, England, as well as being a general adjective used to denote a connection with the city, locally called Brum. The terms are all derived from Brummagem or Bromwichham, historical variants or alternatives to 'Birmingham'.
Brumunddal Brumunddal is the largest settlement in the Ringsaker municipality of Hedmark, Norway. It is a small, densely populated area surrounded by scenic countryside and farms on the eastern shore of Norway's largest lake: Mjøsa.
Brun's constant In 1919 Viggo Brun showed that the sum of the reciprocals of the twin primes (pairs of prime numbers which differ by 2) converges to a mathematical constant now called Brun's constant for twin primes and usually denoted by B2 :
Bruna Surfistinha Bruna Surfistinha is the pen name name of Raquel Pacheco, a Brazilian prostitute who attracted the attention of Brazilian media and television by publishing, in a weblog, her sexual experiences with clients. Bruna explained in television programs that she was a normal girl, but that at around the age of 17 she left home because of the traditional family oriented views of her father and to start to earn money.
Brundall Gardens railway station Brundall Gardens railway station is a railway station serving the western end of the village of Brundall in the English county of Norfolk. The station is located on the Wherry Lines linking Norwich with Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft.
Brundibár Brundibár (Czech colloquialism for a bumblebee) is the name of a children's opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister and performed by the children of the concentration camp Theresienstadt in occupied Czechoslovakia.
Brundtland Commission The Brundtland Commission - formally the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), known by the name of its Chair Gro Harlem Brundtland, was convened by the United Nations in response to the 1983 General Assembly Resolution A/38/161 - "Process of preparation of the Environmental Perspective to the Year 2000 and Beyond" welcoming the establishment of such a Commission. In A/38/161, the General Assembly:
Brune Pourcel Brune Pourcel née Tavernier was a woman who lived in the Comté de Foix in the early fourteenth century, she was made notable by appearing in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou. A bastard daughter of Prades Tavernier she became a servant in the house of the wealthy Clergue family of Montaillou.
Bruneau Dunes State Park Located south of Mountain Home, Idaho, in Bruneau, Idaho, Bruneau Dunes State Park is home to the several sand dunes. Visitors enjoy exploring the sugary sand dunes and are impressed by the tallest dune which is approximately 470 feet high.
Bruneau Jasper Bruneau Jasper is a gemstone that comes from the region near the Bruneau River in western Idaho, United States. This jasper is prized by jewelry makers, because it takes a porcelain-like polish, and for its deep maroon and gold colors that often take shape in orb-like patterns on the polished material.
Bruneau River The Bruneau River runs through a narrow canyon cut into ancient lava flows in southwestern Idaho. The Bruneau Canyon—up to 4000 feet (1220 meters) deep and 40 miles (64 km) long— features rapids and hot springs, making it a popular whitewater trip.
Bruneau-Jarbidge caldera The Bruneau-Jarbidge caldera (sometimes called a supervolcano) is located in present-day southwest Idaho. The volcano erupted during the Miocene, between ten and twelve million years ago, spreading a thick blanket of ash in the Bruneau-Jarbidge event and forming a caldera.
Brunei National Solidarity Party The Brunei National Solidarity Party (Parti Perpaduan Kebangsaan Brunei, PPKB) is a political party in Brunei. Although legally registered as a political party in Brunei, it has not been able to gain electoral representation as legislative elections have not been held in Brunei since 1962.
Brunei People's Awareness Party The Brunei People's Awareness Party (Parti Kesedaran Rakyat Brunei, PAKAR) is a political party in Brunei. Although legally registered as a political party in Brunei, it has not been able to gain electoral representation as legislative elections have not been held in Brunei since 1962.
Brunei Revolt The Brunei Revolt broke out on December 8, 1962 and was led by Yassin Affandi and his armed rebels. The rebels began co-ordinated attacks on the oil town of Seria, targeting the Shell oil installations and attacks on police stations and government facilities around the protectorate.
Brunet Island State Park Brunet Island State Park (pronounced ˡbɹu neɪ) is a 1,200 acre Wisconsin state park just north of Cornell. The park features a 169 acre island in the Chippewa River, with the remaining acreage on the east bank of the river.
Brunet Zamora Brunet Zamora (born October 25, 1974 in Havana) is a boxer from Italy, who was born in Cuba and is also know as Zamora Fernandez. The resident of Trieste, Italy is competing in the Light Welterweight (– 64kg) division, and won the bronze medal at the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
Brunette River The Brunette River runs through East Burnaby flowing out of Burnaby Lake. According to a map and materials by Heritage Advisory Committee and Environment and Waste Management Committee of the City of Burnaby (1993), the number of native campsites discovered on the shores of the Fraser River, Burrard Inlet and Deer Lake and some petroglyphs suggest that the area was used extensively by local aboriginal peoples such as the Squamish, Musqueam and Kwantlen for hunting and fishing before the arrival of European settlers.
Brunflo Court District Brunflo Court District, or Brunflo tingslag, was a district of Jämtland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Brunch Brunch is a late morning meal between the typical time for breakfast and lunch, as a replacement for breakfast, usually eaten when one rises too late to eat breakfast, or as a specially-planned meal. The term is a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch.
Brunch (album) Brunch is an EP by Self released in 1998. The songs were originally intended to be on Self's album, Breakfast with Girls, but as that album was delayed, this was released to to tide fans over, and was available through pre-order Breakfast with Girls.
Brunch Bar Cadbury's Brunch Bar is a bar of cereals (oats, bran flakes and crispies) bound with honey and half covered in milk chocolate. They come in a variety of flavours, raisin, hazelnut, almond & apricot and cranberry.
Brunching Shuttlecocks The Brunching Shuttlecocks is a humor web site that ran from June 1997 to March 2003. Its main contributors were Lore Sjöberg and Dave Neilsen and it ran under the motto "Pure and Simple as a Hammer to the Forebrain.
Bruning Army Airfield Bruning Army Airfield was a flight training installation of the United States Army Air Forces used during the Second World War and located in northeast Thayer County, Nebraska, at latitude 40°21'25" North, 97°25'42" West, approximately six miles east of Bruning.
Brunlanes Brunlanes is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. Constituting the south-western part of Larvik, villages like Helgeroa and Nevlunghavn are located there, but nonetheless the municipality was administrated from Larvik.
Brunn-Minkowski theorem In mathematics, the Brunn-Minowski theorem (or Brunn-Minkowski inequality) is an inequality relating the volumes (or more generally Lebesgue measures) of compact subsets of Euclidean space. The original version of the Brunn-Minkowski theorem (H.
Brunner (crater) Brunner is a lunar impact crater that is located along the eastern limb of the Moon, to the southeast of the Mare Smythii. At this location the crater is viewed from the edge, and so it is not possible to see much detail from the Earth.
Brunnian link In knot theory, a branch of mathematics, a Brunnian link is a nontrivial link that becomes trivial if any component is removed. In other words, cutting any loop frees all the other loops (so that no two loops can be directly linked).
Brunnstrom Approach Brunnstorm Approach developed by the swedish physical therapist Signe Signe Brunnstrom emphasises the synergetic pattern of movement that develop during recovery from hemiplegia. She encouraged development of flexor and extensor synergies during early recovery hoping that synergic activation of muscles would, with training transition into voluntary activation of movements.
Bruno (Sacha Baron Cohen character) Bruno (sometimes written as BrĂĽno) is a fictional television personality played by Sacha Baron Cohen. He first appeared during short sketches on The Paramount Comedy Channel during 1998, before reappearing on Da Ali G Show.
Bruno Amoussou Bruno Ange-Marie Amoussou (born 2 July 1939 in Djakotomey) is a Beninese politician and leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He was the president of the National Assembly from 1995 to 1999 and minister of planning and development under President Mathieu Kérékou from 1999 to 2005.
Bruno Arcari Bruno Arcari (born January 1, 1942 in Atina, Frosinone) was an Italian light welterweight boxer who fought from 1964 to 1978. Arcari was the Italian and European light welterweight champion when he captured the WBC world title from Pedro Adigue on January 31, 1970.
Bruno Augenstein Bruno Wilhelm Augenstein (March 16, 1923 – July 6, 2005) was a German-born mathematician and physicist who made important contributions in space technology, ballistic missile research, satellites, antimatter, and many other areas. He was born to Wilhelm Christopher and Emma Augenstein in Ellmendingen, Germany in 1923.
Bruno Barreto Bruno Barreto (born March 16,1955) is a Brazilian film director born in Rio de Janeiro. He has been making feature-length films ever since he was seventeen years old and remains one of Brazil’s most accomplished and popular directors to this day.
Bruno Beger Bruno Beger (Born 1911) was a German Rassenkunde expert who worked for the Ahnenerbe. In that role he participated in Ernst Schäfer's 1938 journey to Tibet, helped the Race and Settlement Office of the SS identify Jews and helped locate subjects needed for a skeleton collection to help educate on the identification of Jewish peoples.
Bruno Bellone Bruno Bellone (born 14 March, 1962 in Toulon) is a former football striker from France, who earned 34 caps and scored 2 goals for the France national football team from 1981 to 1988. One of the goals was in the final of the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship, where France defeated Spain 2-0 in the final to win the title.
Bruno Betzel Christian Frederick Albert John Henry David "Bruno" Betzel (December 6, 1894 – February 7, 1965) was an American infielder in Major League Baseball and a longtime manager at the minor league level. In 26 years as a minor league skipper, between the years of 1927 and 1956 (he did not manage in 1931, 1949, nor in 1954-55), Betzel compiled a record of 1,887 victories and 1,892 losses – a mere five-game differential – for a winning percentage of 49.

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