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Boat Story
Boat Story is a 2023 six-part BBC One darkly comic crime thriller, also called a comedy drama, created by Harry and Jack Williams for Two Brothers Pictures with Amazon Freevee, starring Daisy Haggard, Paterson Joseph, and Tchéky Karyo.
Boat tail
A boat tail is a tapered rear section on a rifle bullet that narrows toward the base, reducing drag for higher retained velocity and flatter long-range trajectories.
Boat-tailed grackle
Boat-tailed grackle (Quiscalus major, Zanate Marismeño), a coastal U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coast blackbird with a keel-shaped tail, harem-defense polygyny, and dark western versus yellow Atlantic-coast eyes.
Boating
Boating: recreational use of small watercraft (sailboats, powerboats, personal watercraft, canoes, kayaks). Distinguished by USCG 2024 statistics (556 deaths, 4.8 per 100,000 vessels), Canadian Pleasure Craft Licence rules, and right-of-way navigation rules.
Boating (site)
Boating (Člnkovanie, Bootfahren) is the boat-rental attraction at Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia, the site classed as the area's only theme park, with 22 boats, a 130-year history, and strict nature-protection rules.
Boatswain
The boatswain, often spelled bosun or bo'sun, is the senior deck rating aboard a ship, foreman of the deck crew and responsible for rigging, anchors, and deck equipment.
Boatswain's mate (United States Navy)
Boatswain's mate (BM) is an enlisted rating of the United States Navy whose members supervise ship handling, anchoring, underway replenishment, rigging, and small boat operations.
Boaty McBoatface
Boaty McBoatface is an autonomous underwater vehicle operated by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, named for the joke entry that won a 2016 poll to name a polar research ship.
Boavista F.C.
Boavista Futebol Clube (Boavista FC, Panteras) is a Porto multisports club founded 1 August 1903; its football team won the 2000/01 Portuguese championship, five Taças de Portugal, and plays at the Estádio do Bessa, now in insolvency recovery.
Boaz (בֹּעַז)
Boaz (בֹּעַז) is a wealthy Bethlehemite landowner in the Book of Ruth who, as kinsman-redeemer, marries the Moabite widow Ruth and becomes great-grandfather of King David.
Boaz Almog
Boaz Almog is an Israeli physicist at Tel Aviv University known for the 2011 quantum levitation demonstration of a superconducting disk floating over a magnetic track.
Boaz and Jachin
Boaz and Jachin were the two bronze pillars at the entrance of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, named Jachin on the right and Boaz on the left.
Boaz Dolev
Boaz Dolev (בועז דולב) is an Israeli cybersecurity executive who co-founded ClearSky Cyber Security in 2011 and leads it as CEO, known for Iranian hacking attribution research.
Boaz Golan
Boaz Golan (בועז גולן) is an Israeli journalist who founded the news site and app 0404 News in 2012, serving as its editor-in-chief and chief executive.
Boaz Gorodissky
Boaz Gorodissky is an Israeli technology executive and co-founder and CTO of XM Cyber, a cloud security company founded in 2016 with former Mossad director Tamir Pardo and sold to Germany's Schwarz Group in 2021.
Boaz Luz
Boaz Luz is an Israeli earth scientist and emeritus professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who showed in 1999 that atmospheric oxygen isotopes measure biosphere productivity.
Boaz Pokroy
Boaz Pokroy is an Israeli materials scientist and full professor at the Technion who studies biomineralization and is known for Science papers on vaterite and biological prestressing.
Boaz Van de Beatz
Boaz Van de Beatz, born Boaz de Jong in 1988, is a Dutch electronic music producer and founder of the Nouveau Riche Music label who has produced for Diplo, Nicki Minaj, and Madonna.
Boaz Yakin (בועז יכין)
Boaz Yakin (בועז יכין), born June 20 (1965 or 1966), New York City, is an Israeli-American screenwriter, director, and producer known for Fresh (1994), Remember the Titans (2000), Now You See Me, and The Harder They Fall.
Bob (ボブ) (Tekken)
Bob (ボブ), Robert Richards, is a Tekken fighting game character introduced in Tekken 6, a Freestyle Karate fighter built on the 'Speed & Weight' concept, returning as Tekken 8 Season 3 DLC as the 'Onigiri Savior'.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is a 1969 American comedy directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, and Dyan Cannon.
Bob and Doug McKenzie
Bob and Doug McKenzie are fictional Canadian "hoser" brothers played by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas on SCTV's Great White North sketch from 1980, creators of the Grammy-nominated Great White North album with Geddy Lee's "Take Off" and the 1983 cult film Strange Brew.
Bob Anderson (fencer)
Bob Anderson (Robert James Gilbert Anderson, 1922-2012), British Olympic sabre fencer at Helsinki 1952 and national coach, later Hollywood swordmaster who doubled as Darth Vader in the lightsaber duels of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Bob Archuleta
Bob Archuleta is an American Democratic politician and Army combat veteran representing California's 30th Senate district since 2018, after serving as mayor of Pico Rivera and a presidential appointee.
Bob Armstrong
Bob Armstrong (Joseph Melton James, 1939–2020), "Bullet" Bob Armstrong, American professional wrestler of the Southeastern territories, 2011 WWE Hall of Famer, father and trainer of wrestlers Scott, Brad, Steve, and Brian (Road Dogg).
Bob Arum
Bob Arum (born 1931) is an American boxing promoter, Harvard-trained lawyer, and founder-CEO of Top Rank, who promoted Muhammad Ali from 1966 and later Hagler, De La Hoya, Mayweather, Pacquiao, and Fury.
Bob Auth
Bob Auth, also known as Robert Auth, is an American Republican politician who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly, representing the 39th district since 2013.
Bob Backlund
Bob Backlund (born 1950, Princeton, Minnesota) is an American retired wrestler, NCAA Division II 190-lb champion (1971), and two-time WWE Champion whose 2,135-day 1978–1983 reign is the second longest ever; 2013 Hall of Fame inductee.
Bob Baffert
Bob Baffert (born 1953, Nogales, Arizona) is an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred trainer with a record 17 Triple Crown race wins, six Kentucky Derbies, and two Triple Crowns, whose career includes the Medina Spirit betamethasone disqualification and Churchill Downs suspension.
Bob Baker Marionette Theater
Bob Baker Marionette Theater, founded 1963 by Bob Baker and Alton Wood, is the longest-running live puppet theater in the United States, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument now in Highland Park with over 4,000 handcrafted marionettes.