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Bojanala Platinum District Municipality
Bojanala Platinum District Municipality (DC37) is a Category C district municipality in South Africa's North West Province, seat Rustenburg, comprising Kgetlengrivier, Madibeng, Moretele, Moses Kotane, and Rustenburg local municipalities; a platinum-mining and tourism district of 1.62 million people.
Bojang of Goguryeo
Bojang of Goguryeo (보장왕) was the 28th and last king of Goguryeo, placed on the throne by Yeon Gaesomun in 642 and captured when Pyongyang fell to the Silla-Tang alliance in 668.
Bojeux Parc Children's Amusement Park
Bojeux Parc, also recorded as Beaux Jeux, was a children's amusement park in Pétion-Ville, Haiti, that became a free medical clinic after the 2010 earthquake.
Bojhena Se Bojhena (বোঝেনা সে বোঝেনা) (TV series)
Bojhena Se Bojhena (বোঝেনা সে বোঝেনা), a Bengali romantic soap opera on Star Jalsha (2013–2016, 822 episodes), a remake of Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? starring Yash Dasgupta and Madhumita Sarkar as Aranya and Pakhi; distinct from the 2013 Bengali film of the same name.
Bojiang Haizi Coal Mine
The Bojiang Haizi Coal Mine (泊江海子煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, commissioned in 2019 and operated by Inner Mongolia Yinhong Energy Development Company.
Bojinka plot
The Bojinka plot, also called Oplan Bojinka, was a 1995 terrorist plan by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to bomb about a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific.
Bojken Lako
Bojken Lako is an Albanian singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist of alternative-industrial rock, a pioneer of Albanian rock since 1993 and a co-founder of Top Albania Radio.
Bok choy (小白菜)
Bok choy (小白菜, pak choi), Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, is a non-heading Chinese cabbage with dark leaves and thick white stalks; cool-season crop harvested 40–50 days after sowing, 13 kcal per 100 g raw.
Bok globule
A Bok globule is a small, isolated dark cloud of cold gas and dust, opaque to visible light, named for Bart Bok, who proposed in the 1940s that they form stars.
Bok Ji-gyeom
Bok Ji-gyeom (복지겸) was an early Goryeo military commander, one of four cavalry generals who overthrew the Taebong king Gung Ye in 918 and enthroned Wang Geon as Taejo.
Bok Tower Gardens
Bok Tower Gardens, also called Historic Bok Sanctuary, is a National Historic Landmark garden and 205-foot Singing Tower with a 60-bell carillon in Lake Wales, Florida, dedicated by President Coolidge on February 1, 1929.
Bokaloka
Bokaloka is a Brazilian pagode group from Rio de Janeiro, formed in the mid-1990s as Água na Boca, known for "Não Pedi Pra Me Apaixonar" and "Shortinho Saint-Tropez".
Bokar Biro
Bokar Biro, also written Boubacar Biro, was the last independent ruler, or almamy, of the Imamate of Futa Jallon, resisting French conquest until his defeat in 1896.
Bokaro Steel City (बोकारो इस्पात नगर)
Bokaro Steel City (बोकारो इस्पात नगर), a planned industrial city in Jharkhand, India, built from the 1960s around the SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant with Soviet collaboration; also home to Vedanta's ESL Steel.
Bokaro Thermal Power Station
Bokaro Thermal Power Station (BTPS) is a coal-fired power station at Kathara in Bokaro district, Jharkhand, India, opened in 1953 as the Damodar Valley Corporation's first thermal plant.
Boke Prefecture
Boke Prefecture (Préfecture de Boké), a prefecture of Guinea's Boké Region, capital Boké town, 450,278 people over 10,693 km², ten subprefectures, bauxite economy centered on Kamsar's port.
Bokeem Woodbine
Bokeem Woodbine (born 1973) is an American actor from Harlem, New York, known for Mike Milligan in Fargo season 2 (Emmy-nominated), Dead Presidents, Ray, Spider-Man: Homecoming's Shocker, Halo, and his rock band 13 Purple Dragons.
Bokeh
Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of blur in the out-of-focus parts of a photograph, a word borrowed from the Japanese boke, meaning blur or haze.
Bokeh (film)
Bokeh is a 2017 independent sci-fi drama directed and written by Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan, starring Maika Monroe and Matt O'Leary as an American couple in Iceland who wake to find everyone on Earth has vanished; released March 24, 2017 via Screen Media Films.
Bokerley Dyke
Bokerley Dyke (also Bokerley Ditch) is a 5.75 km linear earthwork on Martin Down, Cranborne Chase, forming the Dorset-Hampshire boundary. Bronze Age or Early Iron Age origin, remodelled in the late Roman period (phases c. AD 325-30, after 364, after 393-5), cutting the Old Sarum-Badbury Roman road at Bokerley Junction.
Boki
Boki, born Kamāʻuleʻule, was a Native Hawaiian high chief and royal governor of Oʻahu, a leading figure of the sandalwood trade who was lost at sea in 1829.
Bokito (gorilla)
Bokito (1996–2023) was a western lowland gorilla silverback born at Berlin Zoo, twice escaped there in 2004, and in 2007 escaped Rotterdam's Blijdorp Zoo and attacked a visitor, later inspiring the BokitoKijker gaze-averting visors; he died of heart failure aged 27.
Bokken (木剣)
Bokken (木剣), or bokutō (木刀), is a solid wooden Japanese training sword for kata and suburi, distinct from the bamboo shinai; it emerged in modern form in the Muromachi period and is used in kendo, iaido, and jodo.
Bokmål
Bokmål (nb, nob) is one of Norway's two official written standards, alongside Nynorsk, used by about 90 percent of Norwegian writers. It developed from Danish through Norwegianization after 1814 and was named bokmål in 1929.
Boknafjord
Boknafjord (Boknafjorden) is a broad, open fjord in Rogaland, southwestern Norway, between Jæren and Karmøy; at 96 km it is Norway's fourth largest by area.
Boko Haram
Boko Haram (Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad) is a jihadist insurgent group founded in 2002 in Maiduguri, Nigeria, by Mohammed Yusuf; its 2016 split produced JAS and ISWAP, and the insurgency since 2009 has killed tens of thousands around Lake Chad.
Boko Haram insurgency
Boko Haram insurgency: armed conflict begun in 2009 by the Nigerian jihadist group Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad and its ISWAP splinter against Lake Chad basin states, killing tens of thousands and displacing millions.
Boko Haram–ISWAP conflict
Boko Haram–ISWAP conflict: the 2016 split of Boko Haram into JAS (Shekau's faction) and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), their Lake Chad Basin turf war, rival governance strategies, and the regional MNJTF response.
Bokoesam
Bokoesam is the stage name of Samuel Sekyere, a Dutch rapper of Ghanaian descent from Amsterdam who rose to fame with the 2015 New Wave collective.
Bokor Oil Field
The Bokor Oil Field is an offshore oil field in the Baram Delta off Sarawak, Malaysia, discovered in 1971 and producing since 1982, operated by Petronas Carigali.