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Boiling Point (3-4X10月) (1990 film)
Boiling Point (3-4X10月, 3-4 x jûgatsu) is Takeshi Kitano's 1990 Japanese yakuza comedy, his second feature and first from his own script, about a gas station attendant and baseball player who goes to Okinawa for a gun; 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Boiling water reactor
A boiling water reactor, or boiling water nuclear reactor, is a nuclear reactor whose coolant boils in the pressure vessel, sending steam directly to the turbine.
Boiling-point elevation
Boiling-point elevation, also called boiling-point rise, is the increase in a solvent's boiling point when a nonvolatile solute dissolves in it, a colligative property depending on particle count.
Boin villa
Boin villa: Gallo-Roman villa at Saint-Éloy-les-Tuileries, Corrèze, France, built around 212, with pars urbana and pars rustica; excavated 1972–1975 by Robert Joudoux and classified a historical monument on 1 September 1988.
BOINC
BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, is an open source middleware system for volunteer computing, created at UC Berkeley in 2002 to let research projects use volunteers' idle computers.
Boingo Wireless
Boingo Wireless, Inc. is an American provider of Wi-Fi, distributed antenna systems, and private 5G networks for airports, venues, and U.S. military bases, founded in 2001.
Boinoa/Oinoe
Boinoa/Oinoe (Βοινώα/Οἰνόη) was an ancient city of Elis in the Peloponnese, on the road to Lasion by the Selleis (Ladon) river, equated by Strabo with Homeric Ephyra; distinct from the Attic deme and other places named Oinoe.
Bois Caïman ceremony
The Bois Caïman ceremony (Cérémonie du Bois-Caïman) was a Vodou gathering of enslaved people in northern Saint-Domingue on the night of 14 August 1791, led by Dutty Boukman and preceding the Haitian Revolution.
Bois de Boulogne
Bois de Boulogne: 846-hectare public woodland in Paris's 16th arrondissement, former royal hunting ground (forêt de Rouvray), redesigned from 1852 under Napoleon III by Hittorff, Alphand, and Haussmann, with lakes, Bagatelle, and the Jardin d'Acclimatation.
Bois de Vincennes
Bois de Vincennes (originally Vilcena) is Paris' largest green space, a 995-hectare wooded park on the city's east, a former royal hunting forest landscaped under Napoleon III, with four lakes, the Parc Zoologique de Paris, and the Parc Floral.
Bois des Lens Quarries
Bois des Lens quarries (carrières du Bois des Lens): ancient Roman and later limestone quarries in the Gard, France, 20-25 km northwest of Nîmes, producing fine white Urgonian oolitic limestone used for the Maison Carrée and exported between Nice and Narbonne.
Bois-Vert
Bois-Vert, former open-pit tin mine at Abbaretz, Loire-Atlantique, France, worked 1952-1957 by the SNMO (3,750 t cassiterite) on a Gallo-Roman mining site; now a leisure area with acid drainage issues.
Boisar (बोईसर)
Boisar (बोईसर) is a census town in Palghar taluka, Maharashtra, population 36,151 (2011), and the nearest railway station to MIDC Tarapur, one of Maharashtra's largest chemical industrial estates, established 1972, with a CEPI score of 93.69.
Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade is an American building products company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, founded in 1957, which manufactures plywood and lumber and wholesales building materials nationwide.
Boise High School
Boise High School, also known as Boise Senior High School, is a public high school in Boise, Idaho. Its campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Boise metropolitan area
Boise City, ID Metro Area (Boise City-Nampa MSA): five-county OMB metropolitan statistical area (Ada, Boise, Canyon, Gem, Owyhee counties) centered on Boise, Idaho; 864,243 residents in July 2025, 74th-largest US metro, about 42 percent of Idaho's population.
Boise River Diversion Dam
The Boise River Diversion Dam is an irrigation dam on the Boise River near Boise, Idaho, completed in 1908 to divert water into the New York Canal.
Boise State Broncos football
Boise State Broncos football: Boise State University's FBS program in Boise, Idaho, known for the blue turf (since 1986) at Albertsons Stadium, the 2007 Fiesta Bowl win, a 2024 College Football Playoff berth, and a 2026 move to the Pac-12.
Boise State University
Boise State University, formerly Boise Junior College, is a public university in Boise, Idaho. Founded in 1932, it is now Idaho's largest university, with about 28,500 students.
Boise Whitewater Park
The Boise Whitewater Park is an engineered stretch of the Boise River in Boise, Idaho, with adjustable waves for kayaking and river surfing, opened in 2012.
Boise, Idaho
Boise, formally Boise City, is the capital and most populous city of Idaho, founded in 1863 during the gold rush and named for the tree-lined Boise River.
Boisea trivittata
Boisea trivittata, the boxelder bug (eastern boxelder bug; formerly Leptocoris trivittatus), is a North American Rhopalidae true bug, about 12 mm, black with red-orange markings, feeding on Acer negundo seeds and a fall household nuisance pest.
Boiserie
Boiserie is wood paneling applied to interior walls, usually floor to ceiling and enriched by carving, gilding, or painting, defining French interiors of the 17th and 18th centuries, from Parisian town houses to Versailles.
Boissonna Garden
Jardin de Boissonna, Boissonna Garden: private English-style garden in Baleyssagues, Lot-et-Garonne, France, created in 1998 by Georges Beylard, labeled Jardin remarquable in 2009, with about 460 rose varieties and a tea room.
BOJ
BOJ, born Bolaji Odojukan in London, is a Nigerian singer and producer who co-founded DRB LasGidi, coined the term alté, and released Gbagada Express in 2022.
BoJack Horseman
BoJack Horseman is Netflix's first original adult animated series (2014–2020, 6 seasons, 76 episodes), created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg with Lisa Hanawalt, starring Will Arnett as a washed-up '90s sitcom horse dealing with depression and addiction.
Bojan Bogdanović
Bojan Bogdanović, Croatian forward born 1989 in Mostar, distinct from Serbian guard Bogdan Bogdanović; NBA 2014-2025 with Nets, Wizards, Pacers, Jazz, Pistons, Knicks; retired June 2025.
Bojan Krkić
Bojan Krkić (born 1990, Linyola, Spain) is a retired Spanish forward, Barcelona's record youth scorer with 423 goals, youngest La Liga debutant at 17, later at Roma, Milan, Ajax, Stoke, Montreal, and Vissel Kobe; now Barcelona football coordinator.
Bojan Marović
Bojan Marović (Бојан Маровић, born 1984 in Podgorica) is a Montenegrin pop singer, songwriter, and actor who won Sunčane Skale 2002 with "Više te nema".
Bojana Novakovic (Бојана Новаковић)
Bojana Novakovic (Бојана Новаковић), Serbian-born Australian actress and filmmaker (born 1981, Belgrade), NIDA 2002; AFI Award for Marking Time; starred in Instinct and Love Me; directed The Forbidden Aunt (2026).