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Bureaucrat
A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can comprise the administration of any organization of any size, though the term usually connotes someone within an institution of a government or corporation

Burette
A burette is a vertical cylindrical piece of laboratory glassware with a volumetric graduation on its full length and a precision tap, or stopcock, on the bottom. It is used to dispense known amounts of a liquid reagent in experiments for which such precision is necessary, such as a titration experiment

Burg
Burg is the word for castle in various Germanic languages.Burg or Bürg or Buerg may refer to:*Burg bei Magdeburg, a city in Germany*Den Burg, a town in the Netherlands* Burg, former name of Melber, Kentucky

Burg (Amt)
Burg is an Amt in the district of Spree-Neiße, in Brandenburg, Germany. Its seat is in Burg .The Amt Burg consists of the following municipalities:#Briesen#Burg#Dissen-Striesow#Guhrow

Burg (Spreewald)
Burg is a municipality in the district of Spree-Neiße, in Brandenburg, Germany.

Burger
Burger may refer to:* Beef mince, or minced meat/ground beef or other meat used to make hamburgers* Hamburger, a hot sandwich* Patty, especially in the United States* Veggie burger* Burger diagram* Die Burger, a South African newspaper

Burgers (album)
-Personnel:*Jorma Kaukonen – guitars, lead vocals*Jack Casady – bass, vocals, eyebrow*Papa John Creach – violin, vocals*Sammy Piazza – drums, tympani, other percussion, vocals-Additional personnel:

Burgess
Burgess is a word in English that originally meant a freeman of a borough or burgh . It later came to mean an elected or unelected official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons.

Burgess (surname)
Burgess is a surname, occasionally used as a given name.-List of persons with the surname:* Abbie Burgess , American lighthouse-keeper* Adrienne Burgess, British actress* Andy Burgess , English footballer

Burgher
Burgher may refer to:* A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to middle class* A resident of a burgh* A formally defined class in medieval German cities, usually the only group from which city officials could be drawn

Burglar (comics)
The Burglar is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe, left unnamed in most of his appearances. He is best known as the first criminal faced by Spider-Man, and as the killer of the hero's uncle and surrogate father figure, Ben Parker. The Burglar first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 .The Burglar's name was never revealed in the comics

Burglar alarm
Burglar , alarms are systems designed to detect unauthorized entry into a building or area. They consist of an array of sensors, a control panel and alerting system, and interconnections

Burglary
Burglary is a crime, the essence of which is illicit entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offense. Usually that offense will be theft, but most jurisdictions specify others which fall within the ambit of burglary

Burglary (Bottom episode)
"Burglary" is the third episode of the second series of British television sitcom, Bottom. It was first broadcast on the 15 October 1992.-Plot:The episode begins with Eddie staggering drunkenly into the flat

Burgomaster
Burgomaster is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate or chairman of the executive council of a sub-national level of administration

Burgoo
Burgoo is a term used for many types of stew or porridge made from a mixture of ingredients.-North American usage:Burgoo is a spicy stew, similar to Irish or Mulligan stew, often served with cornbread or corn muffins.

Burgundy
Burgundy is a region historically situated in modern-day France and Switzerland.-History:Burgundy was inhabited in turn by Celts, Romans , and in the 4th century, the Roman allies the Burgundians, a Germanic people possibly originating in Bornholm , who settled there and established their own kingdom

Burgundy (disambiguation)
- Places :*Burgundy , is a historical region and cultural area in Western Europe, which has existed in several different forms with widely varying boundaries:**Burgundy , French region, a modern-day French administrative région,

Burgundy (Stock market)
Burgundy is an exchange that operates a regulated market and a multilateral trading facility Multilateral Trading Facility and is authorized and regulated by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. Burgundy focuses on the Nordic markets and opened on June 12, 2009 for trading

Burgundy wine
Burgundy wine is wine made in the Burgundy region in eastern France, in the valleys and slopes west of the Saône River, a tributary of the Rhône. The most famous wines produced here - those commonly referred to as "Burgundies" - are red wines made from Pinot Noir grapes or white wines made from Chardonnay grapes

Burial
Burial is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing an object in it, and covering it over.-History:

Burial (Burial album)
Burial is the eponymous debut album by the dubstep producer Burial. It was released in 2006 on Kode9's Hyperdub records to critical acclaim, including being named "Album of the Year" by The Wire magazine

Burial (disambiguation)
Burial is the act of placing a person or object into the ground.Burial may also refer to:*Burial , a professional wrestling angle*Burial , a dubstep musician**Burial , his self-titled debut album

Burial (Extol album)
Burial is the first album by the Norwegian Christian metal band Extol. It was released on Endtime Productions and then Solid State Records the following year. According to Allmusic, Burial was "a breath of fresh air among a genre that relies on satanic gimmicks", and marked a renewal in the Christian metal scene

Burial (musician)
Burial is the stage name of William Bevan, an electronic musician from London. His music contains elements of dubstep, 2-step garage, ambient and house music. His eponymous debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim

Buried (TV series)
Buried is a British television drama series, produced by World Productions for Channel 4 and originally screened in 2003. The programme starred Lennie James as Lee Kingley, who is serving a long prison sentence in order to protect a member of his family from a violent criminal

Buried treasure
A buried treasure is an important part of the popular beliefs surrounding pirates and Old West outlaws. According to popular conception, criminals and others often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return for them later, often with the use of treasure maps.-Pirate treasure:In reality, pirates burying treasure was rare: the only pirate known to have buried

Buried Treasure
Buried treasure is an important part of the beliefs surrounding pirates and Old West outlaws.Buried Treasure may also refer to:-In films and TV films:

Buried Treasure (Rocky & Bullwinkle episode)
Buried Treasure is the fifth story arc from the second season of Rocky and His Friends. It was broadcast on ABC during the 1960-1961 television season.-Notes:

Burin
Burin from the French burin meaning "cold chisel" has two specialised meanings for types of tools in English, one meaning a steel cutting tool which is the essential tool of engraving, and the other, in archaeology, meaning a special type of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which was probably also used for engraving, or for carving wood or bone.-Printmaking:An engraving

Burin (disambiguation)
A burin is a special type of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge or a steel cutting tool for engraving.Burin may also refer to:* Burin, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada* Burin Peninsula, a Canadian peninsula* Burin, Nablus, a West Bank village

Burka
A burka is a dress made from felt or karakul . Karakul being quite expensive, burkas were usually sewn from felt treated to look like karakul

Burka (disambiguation)
Burka or burqa may refer to:*Burqa, a full body cloak worn by some Muslim women*Burka a traditional man's coat made from felt or karakul*Burqa, Ramallah, a village on the West Bank*Burqa, Nablus, a village on the West Bank

Burke
- People :* Burke * Edmund Burke, a prominent 18th century politician commonly referenced as simply "Burke"* Robert O'Hara Burke, a prominent Australian explorer- Australia :* Burke Developmental Road, a Queensland road

Burke (character)
Burke is the protagonist of the Burke Series by Andrew Vachss.He is a career criminal, an orphan raised by the State who was abused throughout his childhood in state institutions and foster homes. Burke lives in New York City, always on the edges of society

Burke (name)
Burke is an English variant of the English and Irish surname originating from the Anglo-Normans.In Old English, the name means "fortified hill". Variants include Bourke, de Burgo, Burgh, and De Burgh. Many Irish and English emigrants to Quebec and other francophone regions of Canada chose to change the spelling of the name to Bourque. Burke is an uncommon given name

Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated population of more than 15,757,000

Burl
A burl or bur or burr is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is commonly found in the form of a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk or branch that is filled with small knots from dormant buds.A burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress. It may be caused by an injury, virus or fungus

Burlap (disambiguation)
Burlap sometimes hessian, but more commonly now known as jute is a dense woven fabric made from the jute plant or sisal fibers. In more recent years jute is being used as an ecofriendly material for bags, rugs, and other products.It may also refer to:* The

Burlesque
Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects

Burlesque (album)
- Personnel :* Jon Boden - lead vocals , fiddle, tambourine* John Spiers - melodeon, anglo-concertina, backing vocals* Benji Kirkpatrick - guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, banjo, backing vocals* Andy Mellon - trumpet, flugelhorn, backing vocals

Burlesque (disambiguation)
Burlesque is a classic musical or theatrical entertainment of parodic humour.Burlesque may also refer to:* American burlesque, a form of variety show popular from the 1860s* Burlesque , by Bellowhead* Burlesque , London pub rock band

Burmese
Burmese may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Burma, a country in Southeast Asia. See:**Demographics of Burma**Culture of Burma**:Category:Burmese people* Burmese language* Burmese cuisine-Other:* Burmese Python* Burmese

Burn
A burn is an injury to flesh caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction.Burn may also refer to:*Combustion*Burn , type of watercourses so named in Scotland and north-eastern England

Burn (Alkaline Trio song)
"Burn" is a song by the Chicago-based punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released as the third single from their 2005 album Crimson. It peaked at #34 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was released as both a compact disc and a pair of vinyl 7-inches, each containing different demo, remix, and alternate versions of the song as B-sides

Burn (Deep Purple song)
"Burn" is a song by British rock band Deep Purple. It was released on the album of the same name in 1974, and was the first song by the Mark III lineup.The song remained the band's concert opener for the next two years, taking over from "Highway Star". It opened Deep Purple's set on the California Jam two months after its release, on April 6, 1974

Burn (Defiance EP)
Burn is the second EP released by the American anarcho street punk band Defiance, released on Consensus Reality Records in 1995.- Track listing :A side#Success Unattainable - 1:47#Concealed Genocide - 3:13B side#Hands Of The Few - 2:26

Burn (energy drink)
Burn is a high sugar, high caffeine content energy drink with a citrus flavor that comes in a 8.3 or 16.9 oz can. The drink is distributed in several countries by The Coca-Cola Company.-Burn Action Sports:

Burn (Fear Factory EP)
Burn is an EP by American industrial metal band Fear Factory, released in 1997 by Roadrunner Records. The title track, "Burn" is a remix of "Flashpoint" , which appears on the Remanufacture album. Burn has sold over 5,000 copies.-Track listing:

Burn (Jo Dee Messina album)
Burn is the third studio album by American country music artist Jo Dee Messina, released in August of 2000 by Curb Records.Her first No. 1 Billboard album on the Top Country Albums charts, it also hit No. 19 on the Billboard 200

Burn (Mobb Deep song)
"Burn" is the first single from Mobb Deep's fifth album Infamy. The song features Big Noyd and Vita. On the album, the track is listed as "The Learning ".-Track listing:Side A#"Burn" [Clean Version]Side B#"Burn" [Dirty Version]

Burn (Nine Inch Nails song)
"Burn" is a promotional single by Nine Inch Nails released from the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. Because this is a promo-only single, it has never been featured with its own official halo. It was included as a bonus track on the tenth anniversary Deluxe Edition of The Downward Spiral, and also has its own video

Burn (Sister Machine Gun album)
Burn is an album by industrial rock band Sister Machine Gun.-Track listing:# Red# Overload# Hole in the Ground# Disease# Burn# Dispossessed# Better Than Me# Snake# I Don't Believe# Inside-Notes:

Burn (Tina Arena song)
"Burn" was covered by American country singer Jo Dee Messina for her third studio album Burn. It was released as the second single in October 2000, and peaked at #2 on the US Country charts in February 2001.-Music video:

Burn (video game)
Burn is a first-person shooter computer game released in 2007 developed by Destan Entertainment and produced by Teyon.The player can choose between 13 arenas and 5 characters and fight in single-player and multi-player mode

Burn Out
Burn Out is the second album by Christian pop punk band Slick Shoes, released in 1998.- Track listing :# "For Better, For Worse"# "East On Tracks"# "The Last Round"# "Fool Me No More"# "Late Night Showing"# "Away With You"# "When Does It End?"

Burn Out (CSI)
"Burn Out" is the sixth episode in the seventh season of the American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, set in Las Vegas, Nevada.- Summary :

Burn Up (miniseries)
Burn Up is a 2008 BBC/Global Television Drama dealing with the issues of climate change and peak oil.-Episode one:Oil surveyor Masud Khamil narrowly escapes an attack on his camp in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and flees with some valuable data. Tom McConnell replaces his father-in-law Sir Mark Foxbay as Chairman of Arrow Oil

Burned (album)
Burned was released in 1995 and is the only album to have been released by Electrafixion. The album reached #38 on the UK albums chart in October of that year.- Different releases :Burned was originally released in 1995 on CD with eleven tracks.

Burned (novel)
Burned is a young adult novel written by American author Ellen Hopkins and published in April 2006. Like all of Ellen Hopkin's works, the novel is unusual for its free verse format.-Plot:

Burner
Burner may refer to:* Gas burner or oil burner, a mechanical device that burns a gas or liquid fuel into a flame in a controlled manner* Hot-air balloon device, a device to inflate a hot air balloon* Burner * Burner, West Virginia

Burner (Breadwinner album)
Merge Records had released two 7-inch singles while the band was active, 1990-1992.This full-length CD, Burner , comprises the two out-of-print singles and 3 unreleased tracks, came out after the band had broken up.-Track listing:# Tourette's 1:50

Burning (disambiguation)
Burning is combustion.Burning or burnin may also refer to:* Death by burning, a form of execution* Sunburn* Nuclear fusion* Optical disc authoring* Dodging and burning, photographic techniques-Music:Albums* Burnin

Burning (short story)
"Burning" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It only appears in his short story collection Capitol.-Plot summary:Captain Homer Worthing and a fleet of twenty ship all piloted by telepaths are orbiting a settled star system. They are on the run from the imperial fleet and trying to leave settled space

Burnish
Burnishing is a form of pottery treatment in which the surface of the pot is polished, using a hard smooth surface such as a wooden or bone spatula, smooth stones, plastic, or even glass bulbs, while it still is in a leathery 'green' state, i.e., before firing. After firing, the surface is extremely shiny

Burnishing (metalworking)
Burnishing is the plastic deformation of a surface due to sliding contact with another object. Visually, burnishing smears the texture of a rough surface and makes it shinier

Burnout (series)
Burnout is a series of high-speed racing games for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo GameCube game consoles. Also, for the very first time, a PC version of the latest installment in the series, Burnout Paradise, has been released

Burns
-Places:Australia* Burns Beach, Western AustraliaPakistan* Burns Road, street in downtown KarachiUnited States* Burns, Colorado, unincorporated community in Eagle County* Burns, Kansas, town in Marion County* Burns, New York, town in Allegany County

Burns (surname)
Burns is a geographical surname originating in the British Isles. The name Burns was first used by the Strathclyde-Briton people of the Scottish and English border. The first Burns family lived in the county of Cumberland. Burns can also be an Americanization of a Jewish surname.-Origin of the name:#Scottish and northern English origin

Burnt Offering
Burnt Offering was a punk fanzine based in and around Northampton, England, from 1979 to 1980.In keeping with the DIY style of the time, Burnt Offerings house style was a mixture of badly-typed articles, ransom note effect lettering and cartoon drawings