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Bodie Broadus
Preston "Bodie" Broadus, fictional corner drug dealer in HBO's The Wire, played by J.D. Williams; serves the Barksdale then Stanfield organizations, killed in season four, partly inspired by Nathan Barksdale.
Bodie, California
Bodie, California: gold-mining boomtown in Mono County, now Bodie State Historic Park, a National Historic Landmark ghost town preserved in arrested decay; peaked near 10,000 residents in 1879, abandoned after 1942.
Bodied
Bodied is a 2017 satirical comedy directed by Joseph Kahn, written by battle rapper Alex Larsen (Kid Twist), and produced by Eminem, about a Berkeley grad student whose thesis on battle rap turns him into a controversial battle rapper.
Bodies (2023 TV series)
Bodies (2023) is a British Netflix eight-episode limited series created by Paul Tomalin from Si Spencer's graphic novel, in which four London detectives in 1890, 1941, 2023, and 2053 investigate the same body found on Longharvest Lane, Whitechapel.
Bodies (Drowning Pool song)
Bodies is Drowning Pool's May 14, 2001 nu metal single from Sinner, peaked No. 6 Mainstream Rock, written about moshing crowds, later banned-listed post-9/11 and heavily sampled and reused in film.
Bodies at Rest (沉默的证人)
Bodies at Rest (沉默的证人) is a 2019 Hong Kong-China action crime thriller directed by Renny Harlin, starring Nick Cheung, Yang Zi, and Richie Jen, about criminals raiding a morgue for a bullet; it opened HKIFF43 and earned about 1.8亿元.
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Bodies Bodies Bodies (also styled Bodies, Bodies, Bodies) is a 2022 A24 comedy-horror whodunit directed by Halina Reijn, written by Sarah DeLappe from a Kristen Roupenian story, starring Amandla Stenberg and Maria Bakalova; released August 5, 2022.
Bodies: The Exhibition
Bodies: The Exhibition, a Premier Exhibitions traveling show opened in 2005, displays plastinated Chinese cadavers in posed dissections; distinct from Body Worlds, it drew millions but faced consent and provenance controversies.
Bodil Joensen
Bodil Joensen was a Danish pornographic actress who rose to fame after Denmark legalized pictorial pornography in 1969. She was known for her work with animals.
Bodily distress disorder
Bodily distress disorder (BDD) is the ICD-11 diagnosis of distressing bodily symptoms with excessive attention and impaired functioning, replacing ICD-10 somatoform disorders and neurasthenia, with mild, moderate, and severe specifiers.
Bodindecha
Bodindecha (บดินทรเดชา), born Singh Sinhaseni, was a Siamese general and chief minister under King Rama III who suppressed the Lao rebellion of Chao Anouvong of Vientiane.
Bodine Electric Company
Bodine Electric Company is a family-owned American manufacturer of small electric motors, gearmotors, and motor speed controls, founded in Chicago in 1905 and now based in Peosta, Iowa.
BODIPY
BODIPY is the name of a fluorophore, a dipyrromethene complex with BF₂ first reported by Treibs and Kreuzer in 1968, used as fluorescent labels, cellular imaging probes, chemosensors, and in photodynamic therapy.
Bodkin
Bodkin is a 2024 Netflix darkly comedic thriller, seven episodes, created by Jez Scharf and produced by the Obamas' Higher Ground, starring Will Forte, Siobhán Cullen, and Robyn Cara as podcasters probing disappearances in a fictional West Cork town.
Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library, or Bodley's Library, is the principal research library of the University of Oxford, opened in 1602 after Sir Thomas Bodley refurbished a ruined medieval library.
Bodo Grimbacher
Bodo Grimbacher is a German physician-scientist in clinical immunology at the Medical Center – University of Freiburg, known for identifying genetic causes of primary immunodeficiencies such as hyper-IgE syndrome.
Bodo League massacre
Bodo League massacre (보도연맹 사건), also National Guidance Alliance massacre: summer 1950 executions of about 300,000-member South Korean re-education league members by ROK army and police; death toll estimates 10,000 to 200,000+; confirmed by Korea's 2009 truth commission.
Bodo oil spills
The Bodo oil spills were two crude oil releases from Shell's Trans-Niger Pipeline into Bodo Creek in Ogoniland, Nigeria, in 2008 and 2009, devastating the community's fisheries and mangroves.
Bodo Ramelow
Bodo Ramelow, born 1956, is a German politician of The Left who was Minister-President of Thuringia from 2014 to 2024 and has been Vice-President of the Bundestag since 2025.
Bodo Stern
Bodo Stern is a German-trained cell biologist and Chief of Strategic Initiatives at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, known for yeast spindle checkpoint research and open-access publishing reform.
Bodo von Borries
Bodo von Borries (1905–1956) was a German physicist and electrical engineer who, with Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll, developed the transmission electron microscope and directed the Siemens laboratory that made it a commercial product.
Bodobrica
Bodobrica is a late Roman fortification located in Boppard, Germany, on the Rhine. Built in the 4th century AD, it features massive towers that remain highly preserved.
Bodoni (typeface)
Bodoni is a Didone serif typeface named for the Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni, whose late-eighteenth-century Parma types became the model for the first modern typefaces.
Bodrum
Bodrum (ancient Halicarnassus) is a Turkish Aegean resort town, birthplace of Herodotus, home of the Mausoleum of Mausolus, Bodrum Castle, and a major tourism and water-scarcity case.
Body adiposity index
The body adiposity index (BAI) estimates body fat percentage from hip circumference and height alone, proposed by Richard Bergman in 2011 as an alternative to BMI.
Body and caudal fin locomotion
Body and caudal fin (BCF) locomotion is the mode of swimming in which fish generate thrust by undulating the body trunk or oscillating the tail fin, achieving greater thrust than median and paired fin propulsion.
Body Appreciation Scale
The Body Appreciation Scale (BAS) is a self-report questionnaire measuring body appreciation, the acceptance and respect of one's body, published in 2005 and revised as the 10-item BAS-2.
Body armor
Body armor is protective clothing worn mainly over the torso that reduces injury from bullets, knives, and blast fragments, from soft vests to ceramic plates.
Body art
Body art is art in which the human body, most often the artist's own, is the medium, a movement that arose internationally in the 1960s alongside performance art.
Body Cam (film)
Body Cam (2020 film), Paramount supernatural police thriller directed by Malik Vitthal, starring Mary J. Blige as officer Renee Lomito; distinct from the 2026 found-footage horror Bodycam and the 2018 documentary series.