All articles starting with B

Bogolan

Bogolan, more fully bògòlanfini, is a Malian cotton cloth dyed with fermented, iron-rich river mud, traditionally made by the Bamana people and known since the 1980s as a symbol of African style.

Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces are topologically protected zero-energy quasiparticle surfaces that survive inside superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry, first theorized by Agterberg, Brydon, and Timm in 2017.

Bogoliubov quasiparticle interference

Bogoliubov quasiparticle interference (BQPI, often shortened to QPI) is the standing-wave modulation a superconductor's quasiparticles form when scattering from impurities, imaged by scanning tunneling microscopy to measure the superconducting gap.

Oct 15, 2026

Bogoliubov theory

Bogoliubov theory is a microscopic theory of the weakly interacting Bose gas, introduced by Nikolai Bogoliubov in 1947, describing a Bose-Einstein condensate as quasiparticles with a phonon-like excitation spectrum.

Sep 29, 2026

Bogoliubov transformation

The Bogoliubov transformation, with its fermionic version known as the Bogoliubov–Valatin transformation, mixes creation and annihilation operators to diagonalize quadratic Hamiltonians in superfluidity, superconductivity, and quantum field theory.

Bogoljub Jevtić

Bogoljub Jevtić was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat, minister of foreign affairs from 1932 to 1935 and prime minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from December 1934 to June 1935.

Bogoljub Karić (Богољуб Карић)

Bogoljub Karić (Богољуб Карић), born 1954 in Peć, is a Serbian businessman and politician who built the BK Group, co-founded Mobtel and BK TV, served as a minister in 1998, led Pokret snaga Srbije, and returned from exile in 2016.

Bogoljub Marković (Богољуб Марковић)

Bogoljub Marković (Богољуб Марковић), born 2005 in Užice, Serbia, is a 6'11" forward drafted 47th overall in 2025 by the Milwaukee Bucks after playing for Mega Superbet and OKK Beograd.

Bogomilism

Bogomilism, whose followers were called Bogomils, was a dualist Christian heresy that arose in Bulgaria in the mid-10th century and spread through the Balkans and Byzantine Empire.

Bogor

Bogor (Kota Bogor, formerly Buitenzorg) is a city in West Java, Indonesia, about 60 km south of Jakarta; population about 1.14 million, home to the 1817 Bogor Botanical Garden, Istana Bogor, and a KRL commuter link to Jakarta.

Bogoria

Bogoria is a genus of small monopodial epiphytic orchids in the family Orchidaceae, native from Malesia to New Guinea and Fiji and first published in 1905.

Bogosort

Bogosort, also known as monkey sort or shotgun sort, is a deliberately inefficient sorting algorithm that repeatedly shuffles its input at random until the items happen to be sorted.

Bogotá

Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia's capital and largest city at 2,640 m on the Andean savanna; ~7.9 million people, 33% of national GDP (region), TransMilenio BRT model, Ciclovía, 2024-25 water rationing, metro Line 1 under construction.

Oct 15, 2026

Bogotá Water Company

The Bogotá Water Company (Empresa de Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Bogotá, EAAB) is the public utility supplying water and sewerage in Bogotá, Colombia, the largest in the sector.

Bogotazo

The Bogotazo was the wave of riots that swept Bogotá, Colombia, after Liberal Party leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was assassinated on 9 April 1948, leaving several thousand dead.

Oct 20, 2026

Bogra

Bogra (Bogura, বগুড়া) is an industrial city in Rajshahi Division, northern Bangladesh, gateway to North Bengal. Upgraded to Bangladesh's 13th city corporation in May 2026 with 21 wards; near Mahasthangarh.

Oct 15, 2026

Boguchanskaya hydroelectric plant

The Boguchanskaya hydroelectric plant, also called Boguchany HPP, is a 2,997 MW hydroelectric station on the Angara River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, the fifth most powerful in the country.

Bogurodzica

Bogurodzica is the oldest known Polish religious hymn and poetic text, probably composed in the 13th century and sung by Polish knights as a battle song.

Bogus Skill "Fruitmaster"

Bogus Skill "Fruitmaster" (Hazure Skill "Kinomi Master", 外れスキル《木の実マスター》) is a Japanese fantasy series by Hanyuu about Light, whose Fruitmaster skill lets him eat unlimited skill-granting fruits; adapted as manga, light novel, and a 12-episode 2025 anime by Asahi Production.

Bogusław Leszczyński

Bogusław Leszczyński (c. 1612–1659) was a Polish magnate and statesman who served as Grand Treasurer and Vice-Chancellor of the Crown and presided over the Sejm three times.

Bogusław Radziwiłł

Bogusław Radziwiłł (Lithuanian: Boguslavas Radvila), 1620 to 1669, was a prince of the Radziwiłł family and general who sided with Sweden in 1655, becoming a Polish byword for treason.

Boguslawsky (lunar crater)

Boguslawsky is an IAU-adopted lunar impact crater, Feature ID 796, in the Moon's southern highlands near the south pole: 94.59 km across, centered at −72.90°, 43.26°E, with satellite crater Boguslawsky J.

Bohai Sea (渤海)

The Bohai Sea (渤海) is a shallow, semi-enclosed inland sea on China's northeast coast, bordered by Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, and Tianjin, and receiving the Yellow River's discharge.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький)

Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Богдан Хмельницький, c. 1595–1657), Cossack hetman who led the 1648–57 uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, founded the Cossack Hetmanate, signed the 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement with Muscovy, and is revered in Ukraine but blamed for Jewish massacres.

Bohdan Lepky

Bohdan Lepky (Богдан Лепкий, 1872–1941) was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and teacher from Galicia, best known for his historical novels about Hetman Mazepa and the song "Zhuravli".