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Bo Yibo
Bo Yibo (薄一波), born Bo Shucun, was a Chinese communist politician and economic administrator who served as the PRC's first Minister of Finance and later Vice Premier.
Bo Yuan Tie
Bo Yuan Tie (伯远帖, "Letter to Boyuan") is a five-line running-script letter by Eastern Jin calligrapher Wang Xun, one of the few surviving authentic Jin dynasty calligraphy works.
Bo Zeya
Bo Zeya was a Burmese military leader and one of the Thirty Comrades who founded the Burma Independence Army, later leading the Communist Party of Burma.
Bo Zhang
Bo Zhang is a Managing Director at 5Y Capital, a Shanghai venture capital firm founded in 2008 that makes growth investments in technology, life sciences, and consumer companies across Asia.
Bo Zhen
Bo Zhen is an experimental physicist at the University of Pennsylvania who applies topology and non-Hermitian physics to controlling light, and who received the Presidential Early Career Award.
Bo-Bo
Bo-Bo, also written Bo'Bo', is a UIC wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives with two bogies of two independently powered axles each, four driven axles in total.
Bo-Kaap
Bo-Kaap, formerly the Malay Quarter/Schotschekloof, is Cape Town's oldest surviving residential district (est. 1767), centre of Cape Muslim life, Grade I heritage site (2019), known for colourful houses, Auwal Mosque, and gentrification disputes.
Bo-Katan Kryze
Bo-Katan Kryze, also called Lady Kryze, is a Star Wars Mandalorian warrior and sister of Duchess Satine; a former Death Watch and Nite Owls leader, Darksaber wielder, voiced and played in live action by Katee Sackhoff, ruling Mandalore in The Mandalorian season 3.
Bo, Southern Province
Bo is the second-largest city of Sierra Leone and the administrative seat of Southern Province, population 233,684 at 7.96 N, 11.74 W; known for Bo Government Hospital, Bo District onchocerciasis burden, and the isolated Bo-Kenema power grid.
Bo' Selecta!
Bo' Selecta! is a British Channel 4 sketch show by Leigh Francis (2002 onward), starring Avid Merrion and latex-masked celebrity caricatures including Craig David, later apologised for as blackface.
Bo'orchu
Bo'orchu (Боорчи; Bo'erchu) was a Mongol general and one of Genghis Khan's earliest companions, a member of the "Four Steeds" who commanded the right wing of the Mongol army from 1206 until his death around 1226.
Bôa
Bôa is a British alternative rock band formed in London in 1993, fronted by Jasmine Rodgers and known for "Duvet," the opening theme of Serial Experiments Lain.
BoA 'No.1' (2002)
"No.1" (넘버원) is a 2002 song by South Korean singer BoA, then 15, the title track of her album NO.1, which topped Korean charts and sold over 500,000 copies.
BoA (권보아)
BoA (권보아, Kwon Bo-ah, born 1986) is a South Korean singer, the 'Queen of K-pop', who debuted in 2000 and became the first Korean artist to top Japan's Oricon album chart, with three million-selling Japanese albums.
Boa constrictor
Boa constrictor, the red-tail boa (now often split as Boa imperator), is a large nonvenomous New World boid from Mexico to Argentina that kills prey by circulatory-arrest constriction and is CITES Appendix II.
Boa Vista
Boa Vista is Cabo Verde's third-largest island (620 km²), a flat desert island in the Barlavento group with dunes, Sal Rei as its town, and two-thirds of the country's loggerhead turtle nesting.
Boa Vista, Roraima
Boa Vista, Roraima (capital of Roraima, Brazil): only Brazilian capital north of the equator, planned from 1946 by Darcy Aleixo Derenusson, over 485,000 residents, over 63% of the state's population, and hub of Operation Welcome for Venezuelan migrants.
BOAC Flight 777
BOAC Flight 777 was a KLM-operated civilian flight from Lisbon to Bristol shot down by German Ju 88s over the Bay of Biscay in 1943, killing all 17 aboard.
BOAC Flight 911
BOAC Flight 911 was a British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707 that broke up in severe turbulence near Mount Fuji, Japan, on 5 March 1966, killing all 124 aboard.
Boacias
Boacias is an ancient road station in Liguria on the Via Aurelia between Luna and Genua, recorded in the Antonine Itinerary and probably located near Vezzano Ligure.
Boadicea Paterae
Boadicea Paterae is a 220 km patera (volcanic crater) on Venus at 56.6°N, 96.5°E, IAU-named in 1991 for the Iceni queen Boudicca; third largest of Venus's 73 named paterae.
Boala Corona
Boala Corona: a 220 km diameter corona (volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus, in Lada Terra inside Quetzalpetlatl Corona; IAU-named 1997 for the Mongo-Nkundo first woman; source of large lava flows.
Boan Biology (博安生物)
Boan Biology, formally Shandong Boan Biotechnology and trading as Boan Biotech, is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company founded in 2013 in Yantai, Shandong, that develops therapeutic antibodies and biosimilars.
Boana
Boana, gladiator frogs or gladiator treefrogs, formerly Hypsiboas, is a genus of 101 Neotropical hylid treefrog species from Nicaragua to Argentina, divided into eight species groups.
Boanmycin
Boanmycin (博安霉素), or bleomycin A6, is a Chinese-developed glycopeptide antitumor antibiotic from Streptomyces verticillus var. pingyangensis; its hydrochloride injection was approved as a class-1 new drug in 2004, with phase II response rates of 35.0% single-agent and 64.2% combination, and low lung toxicity versus bleomycin.
Boann Corona
Boann Corona is a 300 km-wide corona (volcano-tectonic structure) on Venus at 27.00°N, 136.50°E in quadrangle V-12, IAU-named in 1994 for the Irish fertility goddess Boann, with mapped large corona flows.
Board examination
Board examination: centralized school-leaving exams run by boards such as CBSE, set and marked externally rather than by teachers. Covers governance, reliability, validity, fairness, moderation, and the shift toward on-screen assessment.
Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction
The Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) was a statutory board of India established in 1987. It determined whether companies were sick and sanctioned revival schemes.
Board game
Board game: tabletop game played on a marked board with pieces moved by rules balancing chance and skill. Oldest sets include Senet and the Royal Game of Ur (c. 2600 BC); global market $15–20 billion in 2025.
Board game development
Board game development: the process from concept, prototyping, and playtesting to published product; covers designer vs developer vs publisher roles, royalty rates (SAZ 6-10% of net sales vs practitioner 1-5%), playtest iteration counts, and Kickstarter crowdfunding scale.