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Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych (Богдан-Ігор Антонич, 1909–1937) was a Ukrainian poet of Lemko origin whose five collections, fusing pagan and Christian imagery, influenced the Kyiv school of the 1960s.
Bohe New Port-Maoming Oil Pipeline
The Bohe New Port-Maoming oil pipeline (博贺新港至茂名油品管道) is a set of six parallel Sinopec pipelines linking Bohe New Port to the Maoming Petrochemical refinery, completed in 2025.
Bohemia
Bohemia (Czech Čechy, German Böhmen) is the historic western land of the Czech Republic, named after the Celtic Boii. A kingdom from 1198, an HRE electorate under Charles IV, Habsburg from 1526 to 1918.
Bohemia (rapper)
Bohemia, the stage name of Roger David, is a Pakistani-American rapper known as a pioneer of Punjabi rap; his 2006 album Pesa Nasha Pyar is called the first major-label Punjabi rap album.
Bohemia Interactive
Bohemia Interactive, Czech independent studio founded 1999 by the Španěl brothers and Slavomír Pavlíček; creator of Arma, DayZ, Vigor, and the Enfusion engine; HQ in Czechia with offices in Thailand and the Netherlands.
Bohemian Club
The Bohemian Club is a private men-only San Francisco club founded in 1872 by journalists and artists, known for its 2,700-acre Bohemian Grove retreat in Sonoma County, the Cremation of Care ritual, and a membership of political and business elites.
Bohemian Confederation
The Bohemian Confederation (Czech: Česká konfederace, Latin: Confoederatio Bohemica) was a constitutional charter adopted at Prague in 1619, uniting the lands of the Bohemian Crown against Habsburg rule.
Bohemian Diet
The Bohemian Diet (český sněm) was the estates assembly of the Kingdom of Bohemia, meeting in Prague and serving for centuries as the main counterweight to royal power.
Bohemian engraved glass
Bohemian engraved glass is glass made in Bohemia and decorated by cutting or copper-wheel engraving, a craft begun at Rudolf II's court in Prague around 1609.
Bohemian Estates
The Bohemian Estates (Czech stavy) were the privileged nobles, knights, and royal towns of the Kingdom of Bohemia, whose diets elected kings and granted taxes until 1620.
Bohemian famine of 1771–1772
The Bohemian famine of 1771–1772 (Czech: hladomor v českých zemích) was a subsistence crisis in the Czech lands of the Habsburg monarchy, killing an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 people.
Bohemian Forest
Bohemian Forest (Šumava, Böhmerwald): a 120 km Hercynian mid-mountain range on the Czech-German-Austrian border, with glacial lakes, peat bogs, the 1970 Bavarian Forest and 1991 Šumava national parks, and a Cold War border-zone history.
Bohemian glass
Bohemian glass (Czech: české sklo), also called Bohemian crystal or Czech glass, is the glassmaking tradition of Bohemia in the Czech Republic, known since the 13th century for hard potash-lime crystal suited to cutting and engraving, UNESCO-listed in 2023.
Bohemian Gothic sculpture
Bohemian Gothic sculpture is the sculpture produced in Bohemia, centered on Prague, from the mid-fourteenth to early sixteenth century, best known for the Beautiful Style of around 1400 and its Beautiful Madonnas.
Bohemian Grove
Bohemian Grove: 2,700-acre redwood campground on the Russian River, Monte Rio, Sonoma County, owned by the all-male Bohemian Club (founded 1872) and host of its 18-day July encampment with the Cremation of Care ritual, Grove Play, and Lakeside Talks.
Bohemian literature (Spanish)
Bohemian literature is the Spanish bohemian literary movement of Madrid from the 1860s to the early 1920s, taking its name from Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème.
Bohemian Paradise UNESCO Global Geopark
Bohemian Paradise UNESCO Global Geopark (Český ráj), Czechia's first geopark, designated 2015; 83,300 ha sandstone rock cities, monogenetic volcanoes, billion-year geological record, and Mount Kozákov at 744 m.
Bohemian Reformation
The Bohemian Reformation was a church reform movement in the Kingdom of Bohemia from the late 14th century, centered on John Hus and producing the Hussite movement.
Bohemian Revolt
The Bohemian Revolt (České stavovské povstání) was an uprising of the non-Catholic estates of Bohemia and Austria against Habsburg rule from 1618 to 1620, beginning with the Defenestration of Prague.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody is Queen's 1975 six-minute single written by Freddie Mercury for A Night at the Opera, with a cappella, ballad, operatic, and rock sections, nine weeks at UK Number 1, about 180 overdubs, and a £4,000 Bruce Gowers promo video.
Bohemian Rhapsody (film)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) is a Queen/Freddie Mercury biopic starring Rami Malek, credited to Bryan Singer but completed by Dexter Fletcher; it grossed about $910 million, won four Oscars, and drew criticism for factual inaccuracies.
Bohemian style
Bohemian style (boho) is a fashion and interior aesthetic of natural fabrics, loose silhouettes, and layered craft, named for 19th-century French artists and revived by Chloé's 2024 collection.
Bohemian-Polish War (1038–1039)
The Bohemian-Polish War of 1038–1039 was Duke Bretislav I of Bohemia's invasion of a Poland collapsed by dynastic strife, in which he seized Silesia and Kraków.
Bohemian–Hungarian War (1468–1478)
The Bohemian–Hungarian War (1468–1478) was fought between Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and George of Poděbrady of Bohemia over the Bohemian crown, ending with the Treaty of Olomouc.
Bohemianism
Bohemianism, from French la bohème (a term for the Romani), is the unconventional art-centered lifestyle of nineteenth-century Parisian artists defined by Henri Murger and opposed to bourgeois society, later spreading to Greenwich Village and becoming the commercialized boho chic.
Bohemond I of Antioch
Bohemond I of Antioch, also Bohemund of Taranto (c. 1058–1111), eldest son of Robert Guiscard, First Crusade leader who seized Antioch in 1098, founded its principality, and was made a Byzantine vassal by the 1108 Treaty of Devol.
Bohenin
Bohenin (1,3-dibehenoyl-2-oleoyl glycerol, BOB, CAS 77145-68-7) is a synthetic symmetric triglyceride, GRAS Notice 50, used up to 5% of fat as a chocolate tempering aid and anti-bloom agent; brand Bobstar.
Bohm criterion
The Bohm criterion is the plasma physics condition that ions must enter a sheath at least at the ion sound speed for a sheath to form.
Bohm diffusion
Bohm diffusion is a semi-empirical scaling law for the rate at which a magnetized plasma leaks across a strong magnetic field, proposed by David Bohm in 1949 and surviving in fusion research as a reference level.
Böhmen liegt am Meer
"Böhmen liegt am Meer" ("Bohemia lies by the sea") is a 1964 poem by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann, first published in 1968 in Kursbuch.