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Bobo doll experiment

Bobo doll experiment: Bandura's early-1960s Stanford studies (1961, 1963) showing preschool children imitated observed adult, filmed, or cartoon aggression toward an inflatable doll, founding evidence for social learning theory.

Bobo masks

Bobo masks are carved wooden and fiber masks made by the Bobo people of western Burkina Faso, embodying the spirit Dwo in initiation rites, funerals, and harvest ceremonies.

Bobo-Dioulasso

Bobo-Dioulasso, known locally as the City of Sya, is the second largest city of Burkina Faso and its main commercial center, in the west of the country.

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (ボボボーボ・ボーボボ)

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (ボボボーボ・ボーボボ) is Yoshio Sawai's absurdist gag battle manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2001–2007, 28 volumes, 7 million copies, adapted into a 76-episode 2003–2005 Toei anime.

BoBoiBoy

BoBoiBoy: Malaysian 3D animated superhero franchise by Animonsta Studios/MONSTA, aired since March 2011; boy with elemental powers (Ochobot's Power Band); 45-country YouTube fanbase, BoBoiBoy Galaxy films and series, ContentAsia Awards 2026 winner.

Bobok

Bobok (Бобок) is a fantastic and satirical short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1873 in Grazhdanin and printed in his Diary of a Writer.

Sep 19, 2026

Boboli obelisk

The Boboli obelisk is a red granite obelisk cut under Ramesses II and originally erected at Heliopolis, moved to Rome, and set up in Florence's Boboli Gardens in 1790.

Bobov (חסידות באבוב) (Hasidic dynasty)

Bobov (חסידות באבוב), also known as Bobover Chassidim, is a Hasidic dynasty founded in Bobowa, Galicia, by Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam and rebuilt in Brooklyn after the Holocaust.

Bobrinsky Bucket

The Bobrinsky Bucket is a cast bronze vessel inlaid with silver and copper, made in Herat in 1163, now in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

Bobrisky

Bobrisky (Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, born 1992) is a Nigerian social media influencer known as a crossdresser and described as a trans woman, known for the 2024 Best Dressed Female controversy and a six-month naira-abuse prison sentence.

Oct 15, 2026

Bobrovskoye Oil Field

Bobrovskoye Oil Field is an operating onshore oil field in Orenburg region, Russia, discovered in 1964 and operated by Orenburgneft, a Rosneft subsidiary, with more than 72 million tonnes produced.

Bobruysk

Bobruysk (Бабруйск, Бобруйск) is a city of oblast subordination in Mogilev Region, Belarus, on the Berezina River; first mentioned 1387, fortress town of 1812, major Jewish shtetl, industrial center home to the Belshina tire works.

Bobrynets Raion

Bobrynets Raion (Бобринецький район), former district of Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine, center Bobrynets; created 1923, area 1,500 km², 31,593 people (2001); abolished 2020, merged into Kropyvnytskyi Raion.

Bobs Gannaway

Roberts "Bobs" Gannaway (born 1965) is an American animation writer, producer, and director known for Timon & Pumbaa, Mickey MouseWorks, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Planes: Fire & Rescue, Monsters at Work, and WondLa.

Bobsledder

A bobsledder is an athlete who competes in bobsleigh, pushing the sled over the first 50 meters and steering it down an ice track at up to 150 km/h.

Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh, also called bobsled, is a winter sliding sport on the Olympic program since Chamonix 1924, now with four events: two-man, four-man, two-woman, and women's monobob, raced over four heats on ice tracks at speeds above 130 km/h.

Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics

Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics, also called bobsled, features two-man, four-man, two-woman, and women's monobob events over four heats on an ice track; held every Games since Chamonix 1924 except Squaw Valley 1960, with Germany leading the medal table.

Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton

Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton (BCS) is Canada's non-profit national governing body for bobsleigh and skeleton, based in Calgary. It fields national teams to IBSF World Cup circuits and the Olympics, funded about $1.8M federally in 2024/25.

Bobsleigh World Cup

Bobsleigh World Cup, IBSF season-long circuit of about eight races November to February on artificial tracks in 2-man, 4-man, 2-woman, and women's monobob; Laura Nolte led the 2025/26 women's standings.

Boca Barranca

Boca Barranca, Costa Rica: a left-hand rivermouth point break near Puntarenas and Puerto Caldera, the country's second longest left after Pavones, with 300-800 m rides, best on south swells from May to September.

Boca de Ouro

Boca de Ouro (Gold Mouth) is a 1959 three-act play by the Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues, set in the gambling underworld of Rio's Madureira suburb.

Oct 20, 2026

Boca de Potrerillos

Boca de Potrerillos, an INAH archaeological zone in Mina, Nuevo León, Mexico, 80 km from Monterrey. Petroglyphs on over 4,000 rocks, hunter-gatherer occupation from about 8,000 years ago to 1760; opened to the public in 1995.

Oct 20, 2026

Boca Grande

Boca Grande (Spanish, "big mouth") names several features: a tarpon-fishing village on Gasparilla Island, Florida; the Orinoco Delta's main distributary and its Venezuelan iron-ore port; a Gulf of Paria channel; and a Bay of La Paz inlet.

Boca Grande, Florida

Boca Grande, Florida: village on southern Gasparilla Island, a Gulf Coast barrier island, founded as an 1880s-1900s phosphate railroad port at 80-foot-deep Boca Grande Pass, now a tarpon fishing and resort community with the 1890 Port Boca Grande Lighthouse.

Boca Juniors

Boca Juniors (Club Atlético Boca Juniors), Argentine football club founded 3 April 1905 in La Boca, Buenos Aires. Six Copa Libertadores, 18 Conmebol titles, home at La Bombonera (54,000), Superclásico rival of River Plate.

Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton, Florida: coastal Palm Beach County city of about 101,600, shaped by architect Addison Mizner's 1920s resort project, the Arvida development era, and Florida Atlantic University.

Bocage

Bocage (French, hedge network landscape) is a rural landscape of small fields enclosed by interconnected living hedgerows, typical of western France and the Atlantic fringe, peaking 1850-1930 and now declining, with high biodiversity and ecosystem-service value.

Bocana del Rio Copalita

Bocana del Río Copalita, a pre-Hispanic ceremonial site on the Oaxaca coast near Bahías de Huatulco, Mexico, occupied from the Middle Preclassic, with an Acropolis, Temple of the Serpent, ballcourt, and cliff navigation stela in the Copalita Eco-Archeological Park.

Bocas Lit Fest

The Bocas Lit Fest is a non-profit literary festival held each year in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, founded by Marina Salandy-Brown and first staged in 2011.