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Bogd Khanate of Mongolia
Bogd Khanate of Mongolia (Mongol Uls, Olnoo örgögdson): theocratic state in Outer Mongolia, 1911-1924, under the Eighth Jebtsundamba Khutuktu as Bogd Khaan; autonomous under Chinese suzerainty by the 1915 Treaty of Kyakhta, ended with the 1924 Mongolian People's Republic.
Bogda Shan
Bogda Shan is a range at the eastern end of the Tianshan in Xinjiang, China, with Bogda Peak (5,445 m) as the eastern anchor of the 2013 Xinjiang Tianshan World Heritage site, known for glacier retreat and its 1981 first ascent.
Bogdan Andrei Bernevig
Bogdan Andrei Bernevig, also published as B. Andrei Bernevig, is a Princeton condensed matter theorist known for predicting the quantum spin Hall effect and classifying topological materials.
Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski
Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski is a Polish politician of the Civic Coalition who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014, after serving as Minister of Culture.
Bogdan Bogdanović (Богдан Богдановић) (basketball)
Bogdan Bogdanović (Богдан Богдановић), Serbian shooting guard born 1992 in Belgrade; Partizan and Fenerbahçe star, 2014 first-round pick, NBA guard for Kings, Hawks, Clippers, Rockets; Serbia's all-time leading scorer with Olympic silver and bronze.
Bogdan Filov
Bogdan Filov (Богдан Филов, 1883–1945) was a Bulgarian archaeologist and politician who served as prime minister from 1940 to 1943, taking Bulgaria into World War II on the Axis side.
Bogdan Guskov (Богдан Владимирович Гуськов)
Bogdan Guskov (Богдан Гуськов), nicknamed "Hitman", is an Uzbek light heavyweight UFC fighter born 1992 in Dukent, with an 18-4-1 record of all stoppage wins, 13 first-round finishes, and the first Uzbek to headline a UFC card.
Bogdan Kamieński
Bogdan Edward Stanisław Kamieński (1897–1973) was a Polish physical chemist who founded the Polish school of surface physical chemistry and held the physical chemistry chair at the Jagiellonian University.
Bogdan Kiselevich
Bogdan Aleksandrovich Kiselevich (Богдан Киселевич), Russian defenseman born 1990; Olympic gold 2018, Gagarin Cup 2022 with CSKA and 2025 with Lokomotiv; 32 NHL games with Florida; retired 2026, now Severstal development deputy director.
Bogdan Maglich
Bogdan Maglich (1928–2017) was an American experimental nuclear and particle physicist who co-discovered the omega meson in 1961 and then spent nearly two decades promoting migma, an aneutronic fusion approach that mainstream laboratories declined to fund.
Bogdan Musiol
Bogdan Musiol, born 1957 in Świętochłowice, Poland, is a German former bobsledder who won a record seven Olympic bobsleigh medals, including gold at Lake Placid in 1980.
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Bogdan Pasaniuc is a computational and statistical geneticist known for transcriptome-wide association studies and polygenic score calibration, and founding Director of Penn's Centre for Computational Biomedicine since 2024.
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, born Tadeu Hâjdeu, was a Romanian writer, philologist, historian, and folklorist who held the first chair of Indo-European comparative linguistics at Bucharest and left unfinished the dictionary Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae.
Bogdan Rzońca
Bogdan Rzońca (born 1961) is a Polish Law and Justice politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, chairing its Committee on Petitions since 2024.
Bogdanka
Bogdanka (LW Bogdanka S.A.) is a Polish hard-coal mining company near Puchaczów in the Lublin Coal Basin, the only Polish hard coal mine outside Silesia.
Bogdanov affair
Bogdanov affair: 2002 dispute over French TV twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, whose theoretical physics papers and Bourgogne PhD theses were called meaningless 'reverse Sokal' publications.
Bogedaqin Ancient City Site
博格达沁古城遗址 (Bogdaqin ancient city site), also called Sishilichengzi, a Han-to-Tang walled city in Yanqi County, Xinjiang; Han Yanqi capital and Tang Yanqi Protectorate seat, eighth-batch national key cultural relic protection unit (2019).
Bogenbay Batyr
Bogenbay Batyr (Бөгенбай батыр) was an eighteenth-century Kazakh batyr and army commander of the Middle Horde, a leader of the resistance to the Dzungar invasions.
Bogeyman
The bogeyman (boogeyman, boogieman) is an imaginary hobgoblin used to frighten children into obedience; formless, worldwide in parallels like Namahage and Krampus, and studied by Marina Warner.
Boggabri Coal Mine
Boggabri Coal Mine is an open-cut thermal coal mine in the Gunnedah Coalfield, about 15 kilometers northeast of Boggabri, New South Wales, operating since 2006.
Boggart
Boggart: a feared supernatural being of northern English folklore, attested from the 1560s and traced to Middle English bugge; a catch-all term for ghosts, goblins, and house spirits, with heartland in 'greater Lancashire', revived via Harry Potter.
Boggi
Boggi, also known as Boggi Milano, is an Italian menswear brand founded in 1939 and owned by the Zaccardi family since 2003, with over 300 stores worldwide.
Boggle
Boggle: Allan Turoff's 1972 Parker Brothers word game, now Hasbro's; 16 letter cubes shaken into a 4x4 grid, 3-minute timer, adjacency-based word scoring, variants Big and Super Big Boggle.
Boggy Formation
Boggy Formation: Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) shale and sandstone unit, uppermost formation of the Krebs Group in eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas, named by Taff in 1899 from North Boggy Creek.
Boghuma Kabisen Titanji
Boghuma Kabisen Titanji is a Cameroonian-born physician-scientist and bioethicist at Emory University in Atlanta, known for HIV drug resistance research and advocacy on clinical trial ethics in Africa.
Bogibeel Bridge
The Bogibeel Bridge is a 4.94 km double-deck rail-cum-road bridge across the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India, connecting Dibrugarh and Dhemaji; inaugurated in 2018, it is India's longest rail-cum-road bridge.
Bogie
A bogie, also called a truck in North America, is the wheeled undercarriage beneath a railway vehicle, holding two or more wheelsets and carrying the body.
Boglarka Kapas
Boglárka Kapás (Kapás Boglárka), Hungarian swimmer born 1993 in Debrecen: Olympic 800m freestyle bronze at Rio 2016, 200m butterfly world champion at Gwangju 2019, seven-time European champion, five Olympians 2008–2024, retired December 2024 in Budapest.
Bogle
The Bogle is a dancehall dance created in the early 1990s by Jamaican dancer Gerald "Bogle" Levy of Kingston, spread internationally by Buju Banton's 1992 hit "Bogle".
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis, also historically called Bognor or Hothamton, is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, population about 24,000. Founded as a resort by Sir Richard Hotham in the 1780s, it gained the suffix Regis from George V in 1929.