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Boddingtons Brewery
Boddingtons Brewery, originally Strangeways Brewery (founded Manchester 1778), maker of Boddingtons Bitter, the 'Cream of Manchester'; owned by Whitbread then AB InBev, with cask beer since 2025 brewed by JW Lees.
Bode Miller
Bode Miller (born 1977, Easton, New Hampshire) is an American former alpine ski racer: six Olympic medals including 2010 super-combined gold, four world titles, 33 World Cup wins, and two overall globes (2005, 2008).
Bode plot
A Bode plot, or Bode diagram, is a pair of graphs showing the magnitude and phase of a system's frequency response, named for engineer Hendrik Wade Bode.
Bode Verde Fracture Zone
Bode Verde Fracture Zone (BVFZ), South Atlantic fracture zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 8–14°S, discovered by Brazil's hydrographic office; bounds the 7°–12°S ridge section with the Ascension Fracture Zone.
Bodega (store)
Bodega: a small family-run neighborhood convenience store, strongly associated with New York City, named from Spanish for wine cellar; Puerto Rican origins in the 1950s, later Dominican and Yemeni owners, community anchor and higher prices than supermarkets.
Bodega Bay
Bodega Bay, California: a Sonoma Coast bay and fishing town 67 miles north of San Francisco, named for 1775 explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, home to Bodega Harbor, Bodega Head, and UC Davis' Bodega Marine Laboratory.
Bodélé Depression
Bodélé Depression: dry palaeolake basin in northern Chad, floor of Lake Megachad, Earth's largest dust source via the Bodélé low-level jet and diatomite; supplies Saharan dust, iron, and phosphorus toward the Atlantic and Amazon.
Boder Jialian Doctor Group (深圳博德嘉联医生集团医疗有限公司)
Boder Jialian Doctor Group (深圳博德嘉联医生集团医疗有限公司) is a Shenzhen healthcare services company founded by three Guangzhou specialists in 2015 that received China's first doctor group business license in March 2016.
Bodes
Bodes, also known as Boodes, was a Carthaginian senator who in 260 BC trapped the Roman consul Scipio at Lipara and took his surrender with seventeen ships.
Bodh Gaya (बोधगया)
Bodh Gaya (बोधगया), also Buddhagaya, is the pilgrimage site in Bihar, India, where the Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, home to the Mahabodhi Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002.
Bodhana Sivanandan
Bodhana Sivanandan, born 2015, is an English chess prodigy from Harrow, London, who became the youngest woman grandmaster in history at age 11 at the 2026 Women's Chess Olympiad.
Bodhana/rodhana
Bodhana (rodhana), the sixth samskara of Parada (mercury) in Rasashastra, restores mercury's potency (virility) via salt-bath treatment after Patana, removing its 'impotency' before Niyamana; distinct from the Navaratra goddess-awakening rite of the same name.
Bodhchandra Singh
Bodhchandra Singh (বোধচন্দ্র সিং) was the Maharaja of Manipur, a princely state in northeastern India. He signed the Instrument of Accession in 1947 and the Merger Agreement in 1949.
Bodheswaran
Bodheswaran, born Keshava Pillai, was an Indian independence activist and Malayalam poet who took part in the Vaikom Satyagraha and wrote Kerala Ganam, declared Kerala's cultural song in 2014.
Bodhi
Bodhi are a Welsh house music duo from Cardiff made up of Luke Welsby and Olly Howells, active since 2012 and releasing on Hotflush Recordings since 2023.
Bodhi Elfman
Bodhi Elfman (Bodhi Pine Elfman, born Bodhi Pine Saboff, 1969, Los Angeles) is an American actor, son of Richard Elfman and husband of Jenna Elfman, known as Mr. Scratch on Criminal Minds and for Mercury Rising and Collateral.
Bodhi Rae Breathnach
Bodhi Rae Breathnach (born 2011, Limerick) is an Irish actress known as Susanna in Hamnet (2025), Jessie in Shelter (2026), and Margaret Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (2026), with Werwulf upcoming.
Bodhicaryavatara
The Bodhicaryavatara (बोधिचर्यावतार, "Entry into the Conduct of Awakening") is a Sanskrit Mahayana Buddhist poem by the monk Shantideva, written at Nalanda in India around the early 8th century.
Bodhicitta (बोधिचित्त)
Bodhicitta (बोधिचित्त; Tibetan: བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས) is the Mahāyāna Buddhist intention to attain full awakening in order to liberate all sentient beings from saṃsāra, the defining commitment of the Mahāyāna path.
Bodhidharma (菩提达摩)
Bodhidharma (菩提达摩), known in Chinese as Tamo, is the monk honored as the First Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China, around the fifth or sixth century.
Bodhigutta
Bodhigutta (बोधिगुत्त) is a Sakyan figure who, with Sumitta, led the retinue sent by Asoka to escort the Bodhi-tree branch to Anuradhapura, though some texts read the name as tree guards.
Bodhimitra
Bodhimitra (बोधिमित्र) was an Indian pandit of the late eighth and ninth century who worked in Tibet on the imperial translation of Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into Tibetan.
Bodhisattva
A bodhisattva (Púsà) is, in Buddhism, one who seeks awakening on the path to buddhahood; in Mahāyāna, one moved by great compassion to attain enlightenment for all beings.
Bodhisattva Guide of Souls
Bodhisattva Guide of Souls (Yinlu Pusa tu, 引路菩萨图) is a Tang dynasty silk painting from Dunhuang, showing a bodhisattva leading a deceased woman's soul toward the Western Pure Land.
Bodhisattva of Dong Duong
The Bodhisattva of Dong Duong is a large bronze statue of a female bodhisattva, found at the Dong Duong Buddhist monastery in Quang Nam, central Vietnam, dating to the ninth or tenth century.
Bodhisena
Bodhisena (菩提僊那) was an Indian Brahmin Buddhist monk who reached Japan in 736 and led the 752 eye-opening ceremony of the Great Buddha of Tōdai-ji.
Bodhrán
Bodhrán (bodhrán): Irish single-headed circular frame drum with goatskin head and open back, played with a tipper stick while the inside hand controls pitch. Popularized by Seán Ó Riada's Ceoltóirí Chualann from about 1960; older ancient-origin claims lack direct evidence.
Bodiam Castle
Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England, built from 1385 by Sir Edward Dallingridge and owned by the National Trust since 1925.
Bodice
Bodice: the fitted upper part of a woman's dress or a separate torso garment, from "a pair of bodies" (mid-16th century). Distinct from stays and corsets, which are stiffened undergarments worn beneath it.
Bodie (musician)
bodie, real name Bodie Kuljian, is a Californian alt-pop singer and The Voice season 22 runner-up (2022) who signed with Sony's Christian label Provident in 2024 and released the EP Happy to Be Here and album No Skips.