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Boerewors
Boerewors (farmer's sausage, wors, boerie) is a traditional South African fresh sausage of coarsely ground beef and pork with coriander, legally required to contain at least 90% meat, grilled at braais and on Heritage Day.
Boerhavia
Boerhavia (spiderling) is a pantropical genus of Nyctaginaceae herbs named for Herman Boerhaave, published by Linnaeus in 1753, with about 59 accepted species including the medicinal B. diffusa (punarnava).
Boerne, Texas
Boerne (pronounced Bernie) is the county seat of Kendall County, Texas, on Cibolo Creek 30 miles northwest of San Antonio. Founded 1849 by German settlers as Tusculum, renamed 1852 for Ludwig Boerne; 17,850 residents in 2020, rapid growth since.
Boers
Boers, from Dutch boer (farmer), are descendants of Dutch, German, and French Huguenot settlers at the Cape from 1652 who trekked inland, founded the Transvaal and Orange Free State republics, fought Britain in 1899-1902, and are distinct from, though often equated with, Afrikaners.
Boerse Stuttgart Group
Boerse Stuttgart Group is a European exchange group operating retail-focused securities trading in Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, with a crypto business and the liquidity provider EUWAX AG.
Boesenbergia
Boesenbergia Kuntze (1891), a Zingiberaceae ginger genus of tropical and subtropical Asia with about 83–117 accepted species; best known for B. rotunda, fingerroot, a spice and traditional medicine rich in flavonoids such as panduratin and pinostrobin.
Boesman and Lena
Boesman and Lena is a two-act play by the South African playwright Athol Fugard, first performed in 1969, about a Coloured couple left homeless when their shanty town is bulldozed.
Boethius
Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, c. 475–526) was a Roman senator, philosopher, and Theodoric's Master of Offices; translator of Aristotle's logic, author of the Opuscula sacra, De Institutione Musica, and the prison-written Consolation of Philosophy on fortune, providence, and free will.
Boetius of Dacia
Boetius of Dacia (Boethius Dacus), Danish master of arts at Paris c. 1270, Aristotelian philosopher of the autonomy of the sciences and leading modist, targeted in the 1277 Paris condemnation; not the sixth-century Roman Boethius.
Bofanglutide
Bofanglutide (博凡格鲁肽, GZR18) is Gan & Lee's investigational biweekly GLP-1 receptor agonist for obesity, type 2 diabetes, and OSA; GRADUAL-1 showed 18.54% weight loss at 52 weeks, with NMPA marketing application accepted September 2026.
Bofors
Bofors (Aktiebolaget Bofors) is a Swedish arms manufacturer from Karlskoga, best known for the 40 mm anti-aircraft gun, the most widely used such weapon of World War II.
Bofors 40 Mk4
The Bofors 40 Mk4 is a lightweight, remotely controlled 40 mm naval gun from BAE Systems Bofors in Karlskoga, Sweden, firing the programmable 3P round.
Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70
The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70, also called the Bofors L70, is a Swedish autocannon developed in the late 1940s and still in production.
Bofors 40 mm gun
The Bofors 40 mm gun, also known as the Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun, is a Swedish automatic anti-aircraft cannon that became the most widely used anti-aircraft weapon of World War II.
Bofors scandal
The Bofors scandal was an Indian corruption affair over alleged bribes by Swedish arms maker Bofors to win a 1986 howitzer contract, ending with no convictions.
Bofuri
Bofuri (Itai no wa Iya nano de Bōgyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu) is a Japanese light novel series by Yuumikan about a novice player who maxes out defense.
Bog
A bog, also called a peat bog, is a peat-forming wetland fed almost entirely by precipitation, producing acidic, nutrient-poor conditions, often carpeted with Sphagnum moss, where deep peat accumulates.
Bog body
Bog body (Moorleiche): a human corpse naturally mummified in acidic, anaerobic peat bogs, preserving skin, hair, and nails while bone dissolves. Famous finds include Tollund Man, Grauballe Man, and Lindow Man, mostly Iron Age deaths.
Bog butter
Bog butter is waxy buried animal fat, mostly ruminant dairy, chemically altered during burial to resemble adipocere, recovered from Irish and Scottish peat bogs from the Early Bronze Age onward.
Bog iron
Bog iron, also called bog iron ore, is impure iron oxyhydroxide deposit formed in bogs and swamps, historically the main iron ore of Northern Europe.
Bog-wood
Bog-wood, also called bog oak when from oak, is subfossil wood preserved for hundreds or thousands of years in waterlogged peat bogs and river sediments; jet-black bog oak underpins European oak dendrochronologies reaching 8480 BC and supplies archaeological trackway timber.
Bogaczewo-Kula
Bogaczewo-Kula (Kullabrücke/Bogatzewen) is a large Bogaczewo culture cremation cemetery near Giżycko, Poland, with 444 excavated graves, phases B–E, spurs and weapon graves, later reused by the Olsztyn group.
Bogalusa Mill power station
Bogalusa Mill power station, also known as Gaylord Container Bogalusa, is a biomass- and gas-fired cogeneration plant of about 100 MW at International Paper's containerboard mill in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
Bogan
Bogan: Australian and New Zealand slang for an uncultured, boorish person, used of the white working-class poor; closest to British 'chav'. Origin unknown, spread from 1980s Melbourne, with variants cashed-up bogan and boganette.
Bogan (போகன்) (film)
Bogan (போகன்), 2017 Tamil action fantasy thriller directed by Lakshman, starring Jayam Ravi, Arvind Swamy, and Hansika Motwani; a body-swapping criminal Adithya is hunted by ACP Vikram; music D. Imman; released 2 February 2017.
Bogatyr (богатырь)
Bogatyr (богатырь), Turkic-derived word for a hero of Russian byliny epic songs; warrior of extraordinary strength defending the Russian land. Key figures: Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich, Alyosha Popovich.
Bogatyr Coal Mine (Kazakhstan)
The Bogatyr Coal Mine is an open-pit coal mine at the Ekibastuz coal basin in Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan. Built between 1965 and 1979, it was operated by Bogatyr Coal LLP.
Bogatyr Komir
Bogatyr Komir (ТОО «Богатырь Комир», LLP Bogatyr Coal) is a Kazakhstani open-pit coal mining company operating the Bogatyr and Severny mines in the Ekibastuz basin, Kazakhstan's largest.
Boğazköy archive
The Boğazköy archive, also called the Hattusa archive, is the corpus of some 25,000 to 35,000 cuneiform tablets from Ḫattuša, capital of the Hittite kingdom, about 1650–1180 BC.
Bogd Khan (Богд хаан)
Bogd Khan (Богд хаан), 1869–1924, born Agvaan Luvsan Choijinnyam Danzan Vanchüg, was the eighth Jebtsundamba Khutuktu and last theocratic monarch of Mongolia, enthroned 29 December 1911, restored by Ungern in 1921, and succeeded after his 1924 death by the Mongolian People's Republic.