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Bocca della Verità
Bocca della Verità (Mouth of Truth): ancient Roman marble mask, about 1.8 m across, in the portico of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. Probably a drain cover; medieval legend says it bites off liars' hands; famed by Roman Holiday (1953).
Boccaccio (Mercurian crater)
Boccaccio is a 142-km impact crater on Mercury at 80.7S, 29.8W in the Bach quadrangle, named in 1976 for the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, imaged by Mariner 10 in 1974 and MESSENGER in 2011, with a prominent central peak.
Bocce
Bocce (Italian bocci) is an Italian boules sport: players roll 107 mm, 920 g balls toward a 40 mm pallino on a 26.5 x 4 m court, scoring by closeness; distinct from boccia and pétanque.
Bocchi the Rock! (ぼっち・ざ・ろっく!)
Bocchi the Rock! (ぼっち・ざ・ろっく!) is Aki Hamaji's four-panel manga in Manga Time Kirara MAX and its 2022 CloverWorks anime about shy guitarist Hitori Gotoh joining Kessoku Band; the band's 2023 album topped Oricon digital and Billboard Japan download charts.
Bocchi the Rock! (ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！) (TV series)
Bocchi the Rock! (ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！) is a 2022 CloverWorks TV anime of Aki Hamaji's Manga Time Kirara MAX manga about shy guitarist Hitori Gotoh joining Kessoku Band; 12 episodes aired October 8 to December 24, 2022, spawning a real-life sold-out touring band.
Bocchoris vase
The Bocchoris vase is an Egyptian faience situla bearing the cartouche of pharaoh Wahkare Bakenrenef (Bocchoris), found in 1895 in an Etruscan chamber tomb at Tarquinia, Italy.
Bocchus I
Bocchus I was king of Mauretania from about 110 BC, best known for seizing his ally Jugurtha and delivering him to Sulla in 105 BC, ending the Jugurthine War.
Boccia
Boccia (Italian for "to bowl") is a Paralympic precision ball sport with no Olympic counterpart, played by athletes with neurological impairments in classes BC1-BC4, throwing six balls toward a jack.
Boccia classification
Boccia classification divides Paralympic boccia athletes into sport classes BC1-BC4 by impairment impact, via four-stage evaluation by panels of a physiotherapist, technical classifier, and medical doctor under World Boccia rules.
Bocconi University
Bocconi University (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi), private non-profit Milan university founded 1902 by Ferdinando Bocconi; Italy's first economics degree; leading in economics, management, finance, law, data science, AI.
Boceprevir
Boceprevir (Victrelis, SCH 503034), an HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitor approved by the FDA in 2011 with telaprevir for genotype 1 hepatitis C; now replaced by interferon-free oral DAAs.
Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (બોચાસણવાસી અક્ષર પુરુષોત્તમ સ્વામિનારાયણ સંસ્થા)
Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, also known as BAPS, is a worldwide Hindu fellowship in the Swaminarayan tradition, founded in 1907 by Shastriji Maharaj and known for its mandirs, including Akshardham.
Bochastle
Bochastle: Roman fort, temporary camp, and prehistoric enclosures near Callander, Stirling, Scotland; scheduled monument SM2389. Agricolan 1st-century fort of about 3 ha with 550 m by 380 m marching camp, distinct from the Dunmore hillfort also called Bochastle.
Bocholt, Germany
Bocholt is a city of about 71,000 in the western Münsterland, district of Borken, North Rhine-Westphalia, near the Dutch border. Chartered 1222, a former textile town, retail hub, cycling city, and site of a costly town hall renovation.
Bochum
Bochum, city in the central Ruhr, Germany (~375,000 residents); former coal and steel giant (74 collieries by 1929), now a university and technology hub with Ruhr University, the world's largest mining museum, and the MARK 51°7 quarter on the former Opel site.
Bocidelpar
Bocidelpar (ASP0367, bocidelpar sulfate, formerly MA-0211) is an oral selective PPARδ modulator by Astellas/Mitobridge for mitochondrial myopathy and DMD; phase 2 MOUNTAINSIDE was terminated.
Bocio
Bocio are carved wooden power figures of the Fon and Ewe peoples of Benin and Togo, empowered with bindings and offerings to protect against harm.
Bock
Bock (Bockbier) is a strong German beer style above 16 degrees Plato and typically over 6.5% ABV, originating in Einbeck, Lower Saxony, and named by Bavarian corruption of that town's name; substyles include Maibock, Doppelbock, and Eisbock.
Bockscar
Bockscar, sometimes written Bock's Car, is the US Army Air Forces B-29 that dropped the "Fat Man" atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945.
Boclair
Boclair, Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire: site of a Roman fortlet on the Antonine Wall, postulated for decades and confirmed in 2017 during house-extension investigations; stone rampart base and ditch published as ARO65.
Bococizumab
Bococizumab (PF-04950615, RN316) was Pfizer's humanized anti-PCSK9 monoclonal antibody that lowered LDL cholesterol about 56% but was discontinued in 2016 after antidrug antibodies attenuated its effect and SPIRE outcome trials failed.
Bocskai uprising
The Bocskai uprising (Hungarian: Bocskai-felkelés) was an anti-Habsburg revolt in Royal Hungary and Transylvania led by István Bocskai, elected prince of Transylvania, ending with the Peace of Vienna in 1606.
Bodacious (bull)
Bodacious, the yellow 1,900-pound Charbray bucking bull owned by Sammy Andrews, competed 1992-1995, bucked off 127 of 135 riders, injured Tuff Hedeman, won PRCA and PBR titles, and died in 2000.
Bodak Yellow
"Bodak Yellow" (Money Moves) is Cardi B's June 16, 2017 Atlantic/KSR debut single, modeled on Kodak Black's "No Flockin" flow, produced by J. White Did It; it hit Billboard Hot 100 number one for three weeks, the first solo female rap chart-topper since Lauryn Hill in 1998.
Bodas de Sangre (1981 film)
Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding, 1981) is Carlos Saura's Spanish film of Antonio Gades's flamenco-ballet version of Lorca's tragedy, filmed as a single dress rehearsal; first of Saura's Flamenco Trilogy, shown out of competition at Cannes 1981.
Bodashtart
Bodashtart (Bdʾštrt), also rendered Bod'aštart, was king of the Sidonians in the late 6th century BC, known from about thirty inscriptions recording his building works at Sidon.
Bodashtart inscriptions
The Bodashtart inscriptions, also known as the Bod'astart inscriptions, are about thirty Phoenician royal texts of King Bodashtart of Sidon, recording temple building and hydraulic works around 525–500 BC.
Bodawpaya
Bodawpaya (ဗဒုံမင်း) was king of Burma from 1782 to 1819, the sixth king of the Konbaung dynasty, who conquered Arakan and built the unfinished Mingun pagoda.
Boddington Gold Mine
The Boddington Gold Mine is a large open-pit gold and copper mine near Boddington, Western Australia, operated by Newmont and one of Australia's largest gold producers.
Boddingtons Bitter
Boddingtons Bitter, the 'Cream of Manchester', is a pale bitter brand founded at Strangeways in 1778, owned by AB InBev, brewed since 2005 at Samlesbury and Magor, with a 4% cask revival by JW Lees.