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Bokpoort CSP plant
Bokpoort CSP is a 50 MW concentrating solar power plant near Groblershoop in South Africa's Northern Cape, operated since 2016 with about 9 hours of molten-salt storage.
Boksburg
Boksburg, East Rand city in Gauteng, South Africa, within Ekurhuleni; proclaimed 1887 on Vogelfontein farm, named for ZAR State Secretary W.E. Bok; gold, coal, ERPM, Boksburg Lake, Chris Hani assassination site.
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (Zoku Bokura no Taiyō) is Konami's 2004 GBA action RPG sequel with a cartridge solar sensor, day-night clock, melee weapons, and a Metascore of 78.
Boku no Pico (ぼくのぴこ)
Boku no Pico (ぼくのぴこ), also romanized Boku no Piko, is a 2006 Japanese shotacon hentai OVA by Natural High, studios Sugar Boy and Blue Cat, about Tamotsu and the boy Pico; notorious as a troll recommendation and first of the Pico series.
Bokutō Kidan
Bokutō Kidan (濹東綺譚), also read Bokutō kitan, is a 1937 novel by Nagai Kafū about a writer's acquaintance with Oyuki, a prostitute in Tokyo's Tamanoi district.
Bol (بول) (film)
Bol (بول) is a 2011 Urdu Pakistani social drama written, directed and produced by Shoaib Mansoor, starring Humaima Malick, Manzar Sehbai, Atif Aslam and Mahira Khan; a death-row daughter's story about gender, family planning and transgender rights, and the highest-grossing Pakistani film at the time.
Bol Bachchan (बोल बच्चन)
Bol Bachchan (बोल बच्चन) is a 2012 Rohit Shetty Hindi action comedy starring Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan, officially inspired by the 1979 Gol Maal; it earned ₹102.94 crore net in India and won Bachchan comic-role awards.
Bol Bol
Bol Bol (born 1999, Khartoum, Sudan) is a 7'3" Sudanese-American NBA center-forward, son of Manute Bol; Oregon one season, drafted 44th in 2019, played for the Nuggets, Magic, and Suns.
Bol Bol Rani
Bol Bol Rani (बोल बोल राणी) is a 2026 Marathi mystery thriller directed by debutant Sid Vinsurkar, starring Sai Tamhankar, Chinmay Mandlekar, and Subodh Bhave, retelling a small-town murder through three unreliable narrators; adapted from Bhalchandra Sule's 1978 play.
Bol Radha Bol (बोल राधा बोल)
Bol Radha Bol (बोल राधा बोल) is a 1992 Hindi comedy thriller directed by David Dhawan, starring Rishi Kapoor in a double role as Kishan Malhotra and impostor Tony, with Juhi Chawla; a Hit per Bollywood Hungama, distinct from the 2022 Bhojpuri film of the same name.
Bolʹshoĭ Salbykskiĭ kurgan
Bolʹshoĭ Salbykskiĭ kurgan (Большой Салбыкский курган), Great Salbyk barrow, royal Tagar-culture burial mound in the Salbyk Valley, Khakassia; 70×70 m megalithic fence, stelae to 50 tons, excavated by Kiselev 1954–1956, dated about 670 BC.
Bola Parpati
Bola Parpati (Bol Parpati) is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral flake formulation of purified mercury, purified sulphur, and Commiphora myrrha exudate, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India for bleeding disorders such as menorrhagia, Raktapitta, and bleeding hemorrhoids.
Bola Sete Billiards
Bola Sete Billiards, a billiards hall in Alagoinha, Pernambuco, Brazil; named for the bola sete, the black 7 ball of Brazilian billiards; related to Bola Sete Snooker Bar, São Caetano do Sul, operating since 1982 with 13 snooker tables.
Bola Tinubu
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigerian president since 29 May 2023, former Lagos governor 1999–2007 and APC leader; won the disputed 2023 election with 36.61% of the vote; launched fuel subsidy removal and FX unification reforms with severe inflation and cost-of-living effects.
Bolad
Bolad, also called Bolad Chingsang, was a Mongol statesman who served as Qubilai Khan's representative at the Ilkhanid court in Iran until his death in 1313.
Boladi Vati
Boladi Vati (Bolādi vaṭī), AFI000496, is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral tablet with borax, ferrous sulphate, myrrh, jatamansi, aloe, and asafoetida, dosed 150–500 mg for menstrual disorders including dysmenorrhea and oligomenorrhea.
Bolaji Badejo
Bolaji Badejo (1953-1992), Nigerian graphic designer, played the adult Xenomorph in Alien (1979); discovered in a Soho pub, 6 ft 10 in tall, his only acting credit.
Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee
Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee is a 1957 English High Court medical negligence ruling by McNair J that established the Bolam test for professional standards.
Bolama-Bijagos Biosphere Reserve
Bolama-Bijagós Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site since 1996, is an 88-island archipelago off Guinea-Bissau covering 1,047,953 ha, Africa's most important green sea turtle nesting site and a Ramsar wetland.
Bolas
Bolas, also called boleadoras, are throwing weapons of weights tied to cords, used to entangle animals' legs; characteristic of the Pampa and Patagonia and later adopted by gauchos.
Bolas spider
The bolas spider is an orb-weaver spider of the genera Mastophora, Cladomelea, Ordgarius, and Exechocentrus that catches flying insects by swinging a sticky silk droplet instead of building a web.
Bolata Cove
Bolata Cove (Болата) is a small crescent-shaped bay with a 300 m sandy beach near Balgarevo, north of Cape Kaliakra, Bulgaria; the only sandy beach between Kavarna and Shabla, protected in Stepite and Natura 2000, managed by the Ministry of Tourism since 2025.
Bolbitiaceae
Bolbitiaceae (Singer, 1948) is a family of brown-spored basidiomycete fungi in Agaricales, with over 700 species including Bolbitius, Conocybe, and Pholiotina; synonym Galeropsidaceae.
Bolbitine Mouth of the Nile
The Bolbitine Mouth (Βολβιτίνη) was a western mouth of the Nile Delta, corresponding to the later Rosetta branch, one of two ancient mouths still flowing today.
Bolboceratidae
Bolboceratidae, the earth-boring or dor beetles, are scarabaeoid beetles with convex, hemispherical bodies, about 40 genera and 400 species, treated as a family or as Geotrupidae's Bolboceratinae.
Bölcske
Bölcske (Tolna County, Hungary), village on the Danube limes with a late Roman fortified river port and counter-fort in the Danube bed, Teutanus altars, and the Leányvár watchtower.
Bold Care
Bold Care is a Mumbai-based direct-to-consumer men's sexual health and wellness brand founded in 2019, selling condoms, lubricants, and supplements in over 3,500 Indian stores.
Boldenone undecylenate
Boldenone undecylenate, sold as Equipoise, is an injectable anabolic steroid ester used in horses, acting for 2 to 4 weeks and not approved for humans.
Boldstart Ventures
Boldstart Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Ed Sim and Eliot Durbin that makes inception-stage investments in enterprise software companies.
Boldt Castle
Boldt Castle is a six-story, 120-room Rhineland-style castle on Heart Island near Alexandria Bay, New York, begun in 1900 by hotelier George C. Boldt for his wife Louise, halted at her 1904 death, and restored by the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority since 1977.