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Böhming
Kastell Böhming, Roman fort no. 56 on the Raetian Limes in Kipfenberg, Bavaria; founded mid-2nd century AD, rebuilt in stone in 181 under Commodus by legio III Italica, garrison up to 200 men, destroyed mid-3rd century.
Bohnanza
Bohnanza: Uwe Rosenberg's 1997 AMIGO bean-trading card game (3-5 players, 45 minutes) with fixed hand order, forced negotiation, bean fields, and Beanometer gold scoring; Rio Grande English editions play 2-7.
Boho-chic
Boho-chic, also called bohemian chic, is a fashion style combining flowing silhouettes, vintage and folk-inspired pieces, and layered jewelry, reaching mass appeal in the early-to-mid 2000s.
Bohol
Bohol: island province in Central Visayas, Philippines, capital Tagbilaran City; tenth largest island, home of the Chocolate Hills and the Philippines' first UNESCO Global Geopark; tourism-driven economy.
Bohol Butterfly Bonsai Garden
Bohol Butterfly Bonsai Garden, a zoo and butterfly attraction near Loay, Bohol, Philippines, about 41 km from Tagbilaran City; combines butterfly breeding and bonsai displays on the countryside tour circuit near XZootic Park.
Bohol Island UNESCO Global Geopark
Bohol Island UNESCO Global Geopark, designated 2023, is the Philippines' first and only UNESCO Global Geopark, an 8,808 km² karst and marine landscape featuring the Chocolate Hills and Danajon Double Barrier Reef.
Bohol Sea
Bohol Sea, also called the Mindanao Sea, a Philippine sea between Central Visayas and Northern Mindanao; a cetacean hotspot with 18 species including blue whales, a mobulid fishery ground, and a marine Key Biodiversity Area.
Bohorodchany Raion
Bohorodchany Raion (Богородчанський район) was a district of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Bohorodchany; area 798.9 km², population 68,900 (2020), abolished 17 July 2020 into Ivano-Frankivsk Raion.
Bohr effect
Bohr effect: the decrease in hemoglobin's oxygen affinity when blood pH falls or CO2 rises, described by Christian Bohr, Hasselbalch, and Krogh in 1904; protons stabilize deoxyhemoglobin, aiding oxygen unloading in tissues, with the exaggerated fish Root effect as a counterpart.
Bohr magneton (μ<sub>B</sub>)
The Bohr magneton (μB), also called the Bohr-Procopiu magneton, is the natural physical unit for the electron's magnetic moment, equal to about 9.274 × 10⁻²⁴ joules per tesla.
Bohr model
The Bohr model, also called the Rutherford-Bohr model, is Niels Bohr's 1913 atomic model in which electrons occupy only discrete orbits of fixed energy, radiating light when they jump.
Bohr radius
The Bohr radius, symbol a0, is a physical constant of about 5.29 × 10⁻¹¹ m: the innermost orbit radius in Bohr's 1913 hydrogen model and the atomic unit of length.
Bohr–Einstein debates
The Bohr–Einstein debates, exchanges between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein over the interpretation of quantum mechanics from 1927 to 1935, became a testable question through Bell's 1964 theorem.
Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization
Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization is a rule of the old quantum theory that allows only classical orbits whose action integral is an integer multiple of Planck's constant.
Bohra
The Bohras (بوہرا برادری) are a Tayyibi Isma'ili Muslim merchant community formed in Gujarat from the late eleventh century, today divided into Dawoodi, Alavi, and Sulaimani branches.
Bohras
The Bohras (بوہرہ) are Isma'ili Shi'i Muslim merchant communities of Gujarat, India, converted by Yemeni missionaries in the 11th century and later split into branches.
Bohring-Opitz syndrome
Bohring-Opitz syndrome (BOS, Oberklaid-Danks syndrome) is a rare ASXL1-related autosomal dominant disorder with IUGR, trigonocephaly, BOS posture, severe intellectual disability, and Wilms tumor screening needs.
Bohui Weikang (柏惠维康)
Bohui Weikang (柏惠维康), formally Beijing Baihui Weikang Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese surgical-robot company founded in Beijing in 2010 by Liu Da, maker of the Remebot robots.
Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) was a Czech writer, one of the most important of the twentieth century, whose comic, vernacular novels include Closely Watched Trains and Too Loud a Solitude.
Bohumil Kubišta
Bohumil Kubišta was a Czech painter, graphic artist, and art theorist, counted among the founders of Czech modern painting and a pioneer of Cubism in the Czech lands.
Bohumil Kučera
Bohumil Kučera (1874–1921) was a Czech experimental physicist, professor at Prague University, who invented the drop-weighing method for polarized mercury that led Jaroslav Heyrovský to polarography.
Bohumil Kudrna
Bohumil Kudrna (1920-1991), Czechoslovak sprint canoeist, Olympic C2 1000 m champion at London 1948 and silver medalist at Helsinki 1952 with Jan Brzák-Felix; double world champion at Copenhagen 1950.
Bohunice nuclear power plant
The Bohunice nuclear power plant (Atómové elektrárne Bohunice, EBO) is a nuclear power station at Jaslovské Bohunice in western Slovakia, home to Slovakia's oldest nuclear site and two operating V2 reactors.
Bohunka Sramkova
Bohunka Šrámková, Czech pair figure skater born 1946 in Ostrava; with her brother Jan Šrámek she placed 10th in pairs at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics and won pairs gold at the 1968 Innsbruck Winter Universiade.
Bohurupi (বহুরূপী)
Bohurupi (বহুরূপী) is a Bengali action drama directed by Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee. The film is based on robberies that occurred in Raypur from 1998 to 2003.
Bohurupi: The Golden Daku
Bohurupi: The Golden Daku is a 2026 Bengali caper action-thriller and the sequel to Bohurupi (2024), released on 15 October 2026 for Durga Puja, starring Shiboprosad Mukherjee as ex-accountant-turned-bank dacoit Bikram Pramanik alongside Jisshu Sengupta.
Bohuslän
Bohuslän, Sweden's westernmost province on the Skagerrak between Norway and Gothenburg; Norwegian until the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde; granite archipelago of about 3,000 islands, Tanum World Heritage rock carvings, fishing and tourism.
Boi (slang)
Boi is an informal spelling of "boy" used as playful internet slang and as a queer identity term rooted in Black American vernacular and lesbian communities; also a Welsh greeting and the BOI finance acronym.
Boi-1da
Boi-1da (Matthew Jehu Samuels, b. 1986, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Grammy-winning Toronto hip-hop producer and songwriter behind Drake's Best I Ever Had, God's Plan, Rihanna's Work, and Eminem's Not Afraid, with four Hot 100 No. 1s.
Boibe (Crete)
Boibe (Boibe, Crete; Greek Βοίβη) was a small dependent town of Gortyn in the Mesara plain of Crete, known from Stephanus of Byzantium; distinct from the Thessalian Boibe on Lake Karla, with location and polis status uncertain.