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Bunburying Bunburying is a term introduced by Oscar Wilde in the play The Importance of Being Earnest. It is the art of inventing a friend whose troubles are so compelling that nobody will question the need to visit that friend at short notice, and for any length of time.
Bunce Bunce is an ancient surname that derives its origins from the Anglo Saxon cultures of England. The unusual surname is adapted from the French word for good; "bon", with its distinct difference in spelling being due to the amalgamation of languages (Latin, Anglo-Saxon and French) that plagued England at the time of the name's creation.
Bunce Island Bunce Island (also spelled "Bence," "Bense," or "Bance" at different periods) is the site of an 18th century British slave castle in the Republic of Sierra Leone. It is located deep within Freetown harbor.
Buncle "Buncle" is a Celtic derived surname originating from Berwickshire, Scotland. It has many modern variations similar in pronunciation: Bonkle, Bonkyll, Bonkill, Bonkylle, Bonkile, Bunkle, Bonckle, etc.
Bunclody Bunclody is a small town on the Wexford / Carlow border in Ireland, the bulk of which is in Wexford. The town which for a time was called "Newtownbarry" and was the scene of a bloody repulse of Wexford rebels during the 1798 rebellion.
Bunclody-Carrickduff Bunclody-Carrickduff is a census town split between County Carlow and County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland. It comprises the adjoining villages of Bunclody and Carrickduff had a population of 1361 at the 2002 census.
Buncombe County Schools System Buncombe County Schools is the name of the government body that oversees the public schools in Buncombe County, North Carolina. The members of the Board of Education are elected for four-year terms, and new members are elected every two years.
Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister The BDO (Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister, or Federation of German Master Organ Builders), established in 1895, is a professional association of organ builders and related businesses located in Germany. Its membership currently includes over one hundred German workshops.
Bund fĂĽr Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Bund fĂĽr Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND: League for the environment and nature conservation, Germany) is the German Branch of Friends of the Earth (FOE) and was founded 1975 as a federation of pre-existing regional groups. It has its origins in the conservation movement with a total membership of 390,000 active in some 2,200 local groups.
Bunda Street, Canberra Bunda Street, a road in Canberra, Australia in the central area of Civic, it passes between Northbourne Avenue and where it ends near Glebe Park. A number of cafes and nightclubs are located on the side of the road, such as Gus's cafe in the Garema Centre.
Bundaberg Brewed Drinks Bundaberg Brewed Drinks Pty Ltd is an Australian-based soft drinks manufacturer, located in Bundaberg, Queensland. Bundaberg's production includes traditional brewing process, but the final product is non-alcoholic.
Bundahishn The Bundahishn, which means "the Creation," is one of the great Pahlavi texts, Zoroastrian sacred literature written in the Middle-Persian language. It was probably compiled in the eighth and ninth centuries, though it reflects ancient Zoroastrian and even pre-Zoroastrian traditions.
Bundal Island Bundal Island (Urdu: جزیرہ بندل ) is a small islands located in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Bandal, pronounced Bhandar by local fishermen, is a twin island of Buddo and lies to its West.
Bundamba State Secondary College Bundamba State Secondary College (previously Bundamba State High School) is a Queensland public secondary school in the Ipswich suburb of Bundamba. The Secondary College is located within walking distance of the Ipswich Racecourse, Bundamba Railway Station, The Bremer Institute of TAFE and the Ipswich Motorway.
Bundang Jesaeng Hospital Bundang Jesaeng Hospital (분당제생병원) (also known as Daejin Medical Center) is a general hospital located in Seohyeon-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, South Korea. It is one of the Daejin Medical Centers and was built on 15 January 1995 by Daejin Medical Foundation which is owned by Daesunjinrihoe.
Bundanon Bundanon is the home of the late Arthur Boyd. It was donated to the people of Australia in 1993 by the artist, who believed "you can't own a landscape" and wanted to share the place that inspired him so much, with everyone, along with the adjoining property which was owned by the Artist Sidney Nolan.
Bundanoon, New South Wales Bundanoon () is a small town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. It is an Aboriginal name meaning "place of deep gullies" and was formerly known as Jordan's Crossing.
Bundelkhand Agency The Marathas ceded parts of Bundelkhand, which were later called later British Bundelkhand, to the British in the 1802 Treaty of Bassein. After 1802, many of the local rulers were granted sanads (leases) by the British, which entitled them to the lands they controlled at the death of Ali Bahadur, in return for the rulers signing a written bond of allegiance (ikrarnama) to the British.
Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jhansi (also known as BIET Jhansi) is one of the most reputed engineering colleges in Uttar Pradesh, India under the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU). It was founded in 1989 and the first batch graduated in the year 1993.
Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha (Bundelkhand Liberation Front), is a political party in India led by the film star Raja Bundela. The party struggle for the creation of a Bundelkhand state (today part of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh).
Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz The Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz (often abbreviated to BAföG) is the Federal Education and Trainings Assistance Act for university students in Germany. The law, which regulates student loans in the country, is often referred to by students who simply say they receive (help from) a "BAföG".
Bundesautobahn 2 is an autobahn in Germany that connects the Ruhr area in the west to Berlin in the east. The A2 starts at the western city of Oberhausen, passes through the north of the Ruhr valley, through the Münsterland and into Ostwestfalen, crossing the former inner-German border and continuing through the Magdeburger Börde to merge into the Berliner Ring shortly before reaching Berlin.
Bundesautobahn 28 is an autobahn in northwestern Germany, connecting the cities of Leer and Oldenburg with Bremen, currently ending near the city of Delmenhorst. An extension connecting the A28 to the A 1 is currently under construction and will be finished in 2008.
Bundesautobahn 40 , (named A430 until the early 1990s) is one of the most frequented Autobahns in Germany. It crosses the Dutch-German border as a continuation of the Dutch A67, crossing the Rhine, leading through the Ruhr valley toward Bochum, then becomes B1 at the Kreuz Dortmund-West and eventually merges into the A44 near Holzwickede.
Bundesautobahn 43 is an autobahn in western Germany, connecting MĂĽnster via Recklinghausen to Wuppertal. It is an important bypass for traffic coming from the A 1 wanting to go to the western Ruhr valley and wanting to avoid tailbacks at the Kamener Kreuz near Dortmund.
Bundesautobahn 45 is an autobahn in Germany, connecting Dortmund in the west with Hanau in the southwest. It is colloquially known by its byname Sauerlandlinie, which derives from the Sauerland, the landscape which said autobahn is running through between the cities of Hagen and Siegen.
Bundesautobahn 6 , also known as Via Carolina (Between NĂĽrnberg and the Czech border continuing to Prague) is a 432 km (268 mi) long German autobahn. It starts at the French border near SaarbrĂĽcken in the west and end at the Czech border near Waidhaus in the east.
Bundesautobahn 91 is a planned autobahn in Germany, supposed to connect Feuchtwangen with FĂĽssen. Parts of the planned construction have been carried out on the BundesstraĂźe 2 and BundesstraĂźe 17, however further building activities were postponed.
Bundesautobahn 94 is an autobahn in southern Germany supposed to connect Munich with Passau at the Austrian border. However, due to ongoing objections against the trajectory, only the parts Munich-Forstinning and Ampfing-Burghausen have been built so far.
Bundesautobahn 952 is an autobahn spur near Munich in southern Germany, connecting Starnberg with the Autobahndreieck Starnberg exchange. In Starnberg, it merges into BundesstraĂźe 2, which it replaces between Starnberg and the Dreieck Starnberg junction.
Bundeshaus Bundeshaus or Federal Palace (French: Palais fédéral, Italian: Palazzo federale; Latin: Curia Confoederationis Helveticae) is the name of the building in Bern () in which the Swiss Federal Assembly (federal parliament) and the Federal Council are housed.
Bundesland Bundesland (plural Bundesländer) is the German name for the federal states of Austria. It is also frequently used for the states of Germany, but strictly speaking, this is not correct since the German constitution, the Grundgesetz, names the states simply as Land (plural Länder).
Bundesliga The Bundesliga (plural: -ligen) (Federal League, meaning nation-wide league) is the name for the premier league of any sport in Germany or Austria. Used on its own, Bundesliga usually refers to Germany's highest football league.
Bundesnachrichtendienst The Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service, BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of the German government, under the control of the Chancellor's Office. Its headquarters are in Pullach near Munich, and Berlin (planned to be centralised in Berlin by 2011).
Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien The Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien or BPjM (Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons) is an upper-level German federal agency subordinate to the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. It is responsible for examining media works allegedly harmful to young people and entering these onto an official list - a process known as Indizierung (indexing) in German.
Bundesrat of Germany The Bundesrat ("federal council") is the representation of the 16 Federal States (Länder) of Germany at the federal level. It has its seat at the former Prussian Herrenhaus (House of Lords) in Berlin.
Bundessozialgericht The Bundessozialgericht (German for Federal Social Court) is the German federal court of appeals for social security cases, mainly cases concerning public health insurance, long-term care insurance, pension insurance and occupational accident insurance plans. Trial courts for these cases are conducted in the Sozialgerichte ("Social Courts").
Bundesstelle fĂĽr Flugunfalluntersuchung The Bundesstelle fĂĽr Flugunfalluntersuchung (translation: German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation) is the German federal agency responsible for air accident investigation. The purpose of BFU is to find out the causes of air accidents and how they can be prevented.
BundesstraĂźe BundesstraĂźen are German and Austrian federal highways. The main distinguishing characteristic between German BundesstraĂźen and the world-famous Autobahnen (motorways) is that there is a general 100 km/h (62 mph) speed limit on federal highways, as opposed to the "recommended" limit of 130 km/h (83 mph) in unmarked sections of the motorways.
BundesstraĂźe 2 The BundesstraĂźe 2 or B 2 is Germany's longest BundesstraĂźe(federal highway), running some 1000 kilometers from the Polish border near Gartz to the Austrian border near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. From north to south; it passes through major cities such as Berlin, Potsdam, Leipzig, Gera, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Munich.
BundesstraĂźe 5 The BundesstraĂźe 5 or B5 is a German federal highway running in a northwesterly to southeasterly direction from the Danish border near NiebĂĽll to Frankfurt (Oder). It provides a direct route for motorists traveling between Berlin and Hamburg.
BundesstraĂźe 51 The BundesstraĂźe 51 (translates from German Federal road, abbreviated as B 51) runs from Bremen in south-west direction though Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, and ends at the french border in the town Kleinblittersdorf.
BundesstraĂźe 8 The BundesstraĂźe 8 (translates from German Federal road, abbreviated as B 8) is a road in southwestern Germany of great historical importance. It has existed since the 9th century, known then as Via Publica, and until recent times was a key trade route linking the towns of Duisburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, WĂĽrzburg, Nuremberg, Regensburg and Passau.
Bundesverdienstkreuz The Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit, officially Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) is the only general state decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. But most of the German federal states (Länder) have its own orders of merit with one up to three ranks (member, officer, commander)p.
Bundesversammlung (Germany) The Federal Assembly () is a special body in the institutional system of Germany, convoked only for the purpose of selecting the Bundespräsident every five years. The Bundesversammlung is comprised of the entire membership of the Bundestag (Germany's parliament) and an equal number of state delegates selected by the state parliaments especially for this purpose, proportionally to their population figures.
Bundi Bundi is a city and a municipality of approximately 88,000 inhabitants (2001) in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan state in northwest India. It is of particular architectural note for its ornate forts, palaces, and baoris (stepwells), or water reservoirs.
Bundle (NEXTSTEP) Under NEXTSTEP, Mac OS X and GNUstep, a bundle is a directory that allows related resources such as software code to be grouped together. They were introducted into the Macintosh world as packages in Mac OS 9 and are similar in concept to the Application Directories used in RISC OS and on the ROX Desktop.
Bundle Brent Lady Eileen Brent, a fictional character known to her family and friends as "Bundle" Brent, was a spirited "It girl" in two novels of Agatha Christie (1890-1976), The Secret of Chimneys (1925) and The Seven Dials Mystery (1929). Following her marriage to a Foreign Office official, Bill Eversleigh, to whom she was affianced in the final chapter of The Seven Dials Mystery, she would have been known as Lady Eileen Eversleigh.
Bundle of Hiss Bundle of Hiss were a grunge band formed in 1980 in Seattle, Washington by pre-Tad member Kurt Danielson and vocalist Russ Bartlett. They featured various guitarists and drummers before finally settling on Dan Peters and Jeff Hopper.
Bundle of Kent Bundle of Kent is an extra or accessory conduction pathway between the atria and ventricles in the heart. It is an abnormal pathway that is present in a small percentage of the general population which is referred to as the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW).
Bundle of rights The bundle of rights theory is a common way of explaining how rights in property are held. It is a theory and teaching tool, and thus is not subject to being either true or false - rather it is a means of organizing a large set of confusing and sometimes contradictory data.
Bundle theory Bundle theory, originated by the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume, is the ontological theory about objecthood in which an object consists only of a collection (bundle) of properties, relations, or tropes.
Bundling (tradition) Bundling was the traditional practice of wrapping people together in a bed, usually as a part of courting behavior. The tradition is thought to have originated either in the Netherlands or in the British Isles and later became common in Colonial America, especially in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
Bundschuh movement The Bundschuh movement (1524 to 1525) was a loosely linked series of localized peasant rebellions in southwestern Germany. It played an important part in the German Peasants' War of the early 15th and 16th centuries.
Bundu dia Kongo The Bundu dia Kongo (Kingdom of Kongo) is a political-religious group centred in the Bas-Congo province (west of Kinshasa) which has campaigned for the independence of the Bas-Congo region from the rest of the DRC. Its adherents have to renounce western and eastern religions.
Bundwall A bundwall is a casing of either concrete or earth which surrounds an oil storage tank. The height of the bundwall and the surface area within it are designed so that the internal volume is 110% of the volume of liquid contained in the largest storage tank.
Bundy tube Bundy tube, sometimes called Bundy pipe, is type of double-walled low-carbon steel tube manufactured by rolling a copper-coated steel strip through 720 degrees and resistance brazing the overlapped seam in a process called Bundywelding. It may be zinc- or terne- coated for corrosion protection.
Bune In demonology, Bune is a Great Duke of Hell, mighty and strong, who has thirty legions of demons under his command. He changes the place of the dead and makes them demons that are under his power to gather together upon those sepulchres.
Bunessan Bunessan (Scottish Gaelic: Bun Easain) is a small village on the Ross of Mull in the south of the island of Mull, on the west coast of Scotland. Originally a small community of farmers in the Scottish farming tradition called crofting, the village had a mill, weavers and a small fishing fleet until the 1900s.
Bung A bung is an apparatus used to seal a container, such as a bottle, tube or barrel. Unlike a lid which encloses a container from the outside without displacing the inner volume, a bung is partially inserted inside the container to act as a seal.
Bung language The Bung language is a nearly extinct language of Cameroon spoken by 3 people (in 1995) at the village of Boung on the Adamawa Plateau. A wordlist collected for it shows its strongest resemblance to be with the Ndung dialect of Kwanja, although that may simply be because this has become the village's dominant language.
Bungalow Bar Bungalow Bar was a brand of ice cream sold from trucks to consumers on the streets in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens and the Bronx during the 1950's and 60's. Bungalow Bar trucks had a distinctive, quaint, and decidedly old-fashioned look: white, with rounded corners, and made to look like a small, mobile bungalow topped with a dark brown shingle roof.
Bungarotoxin Bungarotoxin (more accurately α-bungarotoxin) is one of the components of the venom of the elapid snake Taiwanese banded krait (Bungarus multicinctus). It binds irreversibly to the acetylcholine receptor found at the neuromuscular junction, causing paralysis, respiratory failure and death in the victim.
Bungarus niger Greater Black Krait Bungarus niger is a species of snake found in India (Assam [Cachar district], Sikkim; Arunachal Pradesh (Miao - Changlang district, Itanagar - Papum Pare district) ), Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan.
Bunge Limited Bunge Limited (formerly Bunge International and prior to that Bunge Y Born) is a multinational food conglomerate. As well as being a leading global soybean exporter it is also involved in food processing, grain trading, and fertilizer.
Bungee cord A bungee cord is an elastic cord composed of one or more elastic strands forming a core, covered in a woven sheath usually of nylon or cotton. More recently, specialized bungee jumping cords are made entirely of elastic strands.
Bungee jumping Bungee jumping (or bungy jumping) is an activity in which a person jumps off from a high place (generally of several hundred meters/feet) with one end of an elastic cord attached to his/her body or ankles and the other end tied to the jumping-off point. When the person jumps, the cord will stretch to take up the energy of the fall, then the jumper will fly upwards as the cord snaps back.
Bungee Jumping of Their Own Bungee Jumping of Their Own (번지점프를 하다 Beonjijeompeureul hada) is a 2001 South Korean film. It was selected to appear in the 2002 San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the 2004 Korean Film Festival DC.
Bungeni Zwelidumile Sigcawu Bungeni Zwelidumile Sigcawu (1906 - 9 April 1965 was the 10th paramount chief of the Gcaleka sub-group of the Xhosa nation from 3 June 1933 to the 9 April 1965. He took over the reigns when his oldest brother Mpisekhaya Ngangomhlaba Sigcawu died.
Bunger Hills Bunger Hills or Bunger Lakes or Bunger Oasis is a coastal range in Antarctica, consisting of a group of moderately low, rounded coastal hills, overlain by morainic drift and notably ice free in the summer months, lying south of the Highjump Archipelago. The Bunger Hills are located at .
Bunghole (slang) The terms bung and bunghole have been used as slang for anus as early as the 13th century. A translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy to English from the original Italian uses the term bung when describing the grotesque appearance of a particular sinner who has been split from head to crotch, with his bowels trailing behind him:
Bungie Studios Bungie Studios is an American video game developer founded in 1991 under the name "Bungie Software Products Corporation" (more popularly shortened to just "Bungie Software") by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. Today it is part of Microsoft's Game Studios since being acquired in 2000.
Bungie.net Bungie.net is the official website of video game developer Bungie Studios, makers of the popular Halo series for Xbox, as well as earlier games such as Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete, Pathways Into Darkness, the Marathon series, Myth, Myth 2 and Oni.
Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath, better known as Dwarakish (born August 19, 1942), is an actor, director and producer in the Kannada films. As an actor, he was largely slotted as a comedian and some of his hit movies were comic action movies, pairing him with fellow actor Vishnuvardhan.
Bungonia Caves Bungonia Caves are sited within the Bungonia State Recreation Area (SRA) adjoining the Morton National Park, about 35 kilometres (21 miles) east of the city of Goulburn, New South Wales and about 125 kilometres (77 miles) south-west of Sydney, Australia.
Bungowannah, New South Wales Bungowannah is a town and community in the central southern part of the Riverina and situated about 16 kilometres north west from Albury and 15 kilometres south east from Howlong on the Riverina Highway. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 1900 people.
Bungsberg (ship) Bungsberg (originally called Eva) is a shipwreck of a vessel built in 1924 at Howaldtswerke in Hamburg for China Rhederei AG, now laying at a depth of 38 meters near Tallinn, Estonia. Sunk March 24th, 1943 by an impact of a mine laid by a Russian airplane.
Bunched logic Bunched logic is a variety of substructural logic that, like linear logic, has classes of multiplicative and additive operators, but differs from usual proof calculi in having a tree-like context of hypotheses instead of a flat list-like structure; it is thus a calculus of deep inference. Sub-trees of the context tree are referred to as bunches; hence the name.
Bunchu Bunchū (文中) was a Japanese era of the Southern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after Kentoku and before Tenju, lasting from 1372 to 1375. Reigning Emperors were Chōkei in the south and Go-En'yū in the north.
Bunchy Carter Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter was an African American activist and former gang member who was killed on January 17, 1969. He is celebrated by many supporters as a martyr in the Black Power movement in the United States.
Bunia Bunia is the capital of Ituri Province (and formerly the headquarters of Ituri district of the former Orientale Province, pre-2006 constitution) , Democratic Republic of the Congo, lying north of Mount Hoyo and west of Lake Albert.
Bunias Bunias is a genus in the Brassicaceae family. The genus includes only two accepted species, Bunias erucago (Crested warty cabbage, Corn rocket) and Bunias orientalis (Turkish rocket, Hill Mustard, Turkish warty cabbage, Warty cabbage).
Bunim/Murray Productions Bunim/Murray Productions is a reality television production company responsible for the reality TV programs The Real World, Road Rules, Making the Band, Love Cruise, Starting Over, The Bad Girls Club, and The Simple Life. It also created the reality feature film The Real Cancun.
Bunjevac language The Bunjevac language (bunjevaÄŤki jezik) or Bunjevac speech (bunjevaÄŤki govor) is a language used by the Bunjevac ethnic group. The Bunjevci who use it live in parts of the Vojvodina province of Serbia as well as in southern parts of Croatia.
Bunjevci Bunjevci (Bunjevac, Serbian and Croatian: Bunjevci/Буњевци, singular Bunjevac/Буњевац, pronounced as Bunye'vtzi and Bunye'vatz, also in Hungarian: bunyevácok) are a South Slavic ethnic group originally from the Dinaric Alps region, now mostly living in the Bačka region situated in northern Serbia (Vojvodina province) and southern Hungary (Bács-Kiskun county, particularly in the Baja region). They are Roman Catholic by faith although not all practicing.
Bunjil In Australian aboriginal mythology, specifically Kulin including Wurundjeri and Bunurong, Bunjil is the supreme god, represented as an eagle. The Kulin claim he is a culture-hero who taught them all the important skills of life, but the Wurundjeri claims he created mankind.
Bunk A bunk is a bed or other place for sleeping, particularly a narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall, as in a ship's cabin, or several like beds stacked over one another known as a bunkbed. These enable people to sleep in a high density fashion, using minimal floor space.
Bunk bed A bunk bed is a type of bed in which one bed is stacked on top of another. They are typically used as furnishings in children's rooms, or university residence hall bedrooms allowing two people to sleep in the same room while maximizing available floor space.
Bunka Fashion College Bunka Fashion College (文化服装学院; bunka fukuso gakuin) is a prestigious Japanese college specialized for teaching of fashion designs in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It is known for strict curriculum and heavy workload.
Bunka shishu Bunka shishu (文化刺繍), in English often shortened to bunka, is a form of Japanese embroidery originating around the turn of the 20th Century. Bunka artists use a specialized embroidery needle and rayon threads to create very detailed pictures that some liken to oil paintings.
Bunker (paintball) In paintball, a bunker is an obstacle on the field of play used to block opposing players' view and field of fire. In woodsball, a bunker may consist of a fallen log, collection of wood debris, barrels, or other material.
Bunker adjustment factor Bunker adjustment factor or BAF refers to floating part of sea freight charges which represents additions due to oil prices. Usually BAF charges are determined by Carrier Conferences to be applicable for a certain period on a certain trade route.
Bunker Bean Bunker Bean is a 1936 black-and-white comedy movie directed by William Hamilton and Edward Kelly, produced by William Sistrom starring Owen Davis Jr as the title character. The cast included Lucille Ball as Mrs Kelly.
Bunker Hill Community College Bunker Hill Community College is a two-year college located in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which is a neighborhood of Boston. It is an urban campus with a very diverse student body of over 7,000, and is part of the Massachusetts community colleges network.
Bunker Hill Monument The Bunker Hill Monument, erected to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, is the first public obelisk erected in the United States. The 221 foot (67 m) granite obelisk was erected between 1827 and 1842 in Charlestown, Massachusetts with granite quarried in Quincy, Massachusetts and conveyed to the site by the first commercial railway in the United States, built specially for that purpose.
BunkFest BunkFest, a small but growing end-of–summer folk music festival, takes place in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK and combines a broad range of folk music, dance displays, a beer festival and the local (Bunk) steam railway. It centres on the Kinecroft, the open space enclosed by the burh town’s 9th-century defensive walls, but involves performances in local pubs and other venues, with most free to attend.
Bunkum Bunkum is an alternate spelling of Buncombe, also sometimes shortened to bunk, and is a term which, by 1828, had come into general use in political Washington to mean speechmaking designed for show or public applause. It is now more usually used to mean nonsense or humbug.
Bunmei Ibuki Bunmei Ibuki (伊吹文明), (born January 9, 1938) is a Japanese politician. He is a Member of the House of Representatives serving the constituency of Kyoto Prefecture, 1st district, where, as of October 2006, he has been elected eight times.
Bunn-o-Matic Corporation Bunn-o-Matic Corporation is a manufacturer of coffee- and tea-making equipment based in Springfield, Illinois. It has a worldwide market presence, with its customers being primarily institutional foodservice providers.
Bunnahabhain The Bunnahabhain (Boon-a-havn) is one of the milder Islay whiskies available and in its taste varies greatly from other fine spirits to be found on the island of Islay, off the west coast of Scotland. The distillery was built in 1881 and sits below the north-east tip of the island and just north of Port Askaig.

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