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Bole, Xinjiang
Bole (博乐市, Bortala) is the county-level city seat of Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in northern Xinjiang, bordering Kazakhstan (69 km). Known for Sayram Lake, a 1992 border economic cooperation zone, and a 2025 GDP of 26.635 billion yuan.
Bolei Technology
Bolei Technology (伯镭科技) is a Shanghai-based autonomous-driving company founded in 2015 that builds electric unmanned mining trucks and filed for a Hong Kong IPO in 2026.
Bolero
Bolero: slow romantic Latin American song genre born in Santiago de Cuba's trova tradition (Pepe Sánchez's 'Tristezas', 1883); distinct from the Spanish dance and Ravel's Boléro; UNESCO-inscribed in 2023.
Boléro
Boléro (M. 81) is Maurice Ravel's 1928 one-movement ballet for orchestra, commissioned by Ida Rubinstein, premiered 22 November 1928 at the Paris Opéra; a single C major melody over a snare-drum ostinato builds through one long crescendo, and a 2024 French court confirmed Ravel as sole author.
Bolero (1984 film)
Bolero (1984) is an erotic drama directed, written, and shot by John Derek, starring Bo Derek as an heiress seeking her ideal lover in Morocco and Spain. Released by Cannon Films, it earned $9 million, a Metascore of 13, and six Razzie Awards including Worst Picture.
Boleskine House
Boleskine House is a listed manor house on Loch Ness in Scotland, once owned by Aleister Crowley and Jimmy Page and restored after fires in 2015 and 2019.
Boleslaus I of Bohemia
Boleslaus I of Bohemia, called "the Cruel," was a Přemyslid prince who ruled from 935 to 972 after ordering the murder of his brother Saint Wenceslaus.
Boleslaus II of Bohemia
Boleslaus II of Bohemia, called the Pious, was a Přemyslid duke who reigned until his death in 999, founded the bishopric of Prague in 973, and completed the unification of the Bohemian lands.
Bolesław Bierut
The Institute of National Remembrance described Bolesław Bierut as the creator and leading ideologue of Stalinism in postwar Poland and nominal head for twelve years.
Bolesław I the Brave
Bolesław I the Brave (Bolesław I Chrobry, 967–1025), Piast duke of Poland 992–1025 and its first crowned king (1025, Gniezno). Son of Mieszko I; founded the Gniezno archbishopric (1000), won the Peace of Bautzen (1018), took Kiev, and died soon after coronation.
Bolesław II of Masovia
Bolesław II of Masovia (Bolesław II mazowiecki), born after 1251, was a Piast duke who ruled Płock and later all of Masovia, and is linked to early Warsaw.
Bolesław II the Bold
Bolesław II the Bold (Polish Bolesław II Śmiały) was duke of Poland from 1058 and king from 1076 until his deposition and exile in 1079.
Bolesław III Wrymouth
Bolesław III Wrymouth (Bolesław III Krzywousty) was a Piast duke of Poland who repelled Emperor Henry V in 1109, conquered Pomerania, and in 1138 divided Poland among his sons.
Bolesław IV the Curly
Bolesław IV the Curly (Polish: Bolesław IV Kędzierzawy) was a Piast duke who ruled Mazovia and Kuyavia, and served as senior duke of Poland from 1146 until 1173.
Bolesław Prus
Bolesław Prus was the pen name of Aleksander Głowacki, a Polish novelist, short-story writer, and journalist (1847–1912) whose novels The Doll and Pharaoh rank among the greatest works of Polish literature.
Bolesław V the Chaste
Bolesław V the Chaste (Polish: Bolesław Wstydliwy) was a Piast duke who ruled Kraków from 1243 until his death in 1279 and issued Kraków's 1257 location charter under Magdeburg law.
Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski
Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski (1881–1942) was a Polish general, diplomat, physician, and writer known as the "First Lancer of the Second Polish Republic," who served as ambassador to Italy and was designated presidential successor in 1939.
Boletaceae
Boletaceae, the bolete family of order Boletales (Agaricomycetes), holds ~1,427 species in 95 genera of mostly ectomycorrhizal pore fungi including Boletus edulis, the porcini; reclassified into eight genome-based subfamilies in 2024.
Boletus
Boletus is a genus of pore-bearing, ectomycorrhizal mushrooms in Boletaceae, typified by the porcini Boletus edulis. Molecular phylogenetics has narrowed the genus to Boletus sensu stricto, moving most former species to other genera.
Boletus barrowsii
Boletus barrowsii, commonly called Barrow's bolete or the white king bolete, is a whitish, probably edible bolete fungus of western North America, closely related to porcini and described in 1976.
Boletus edulis
Boletus edulis (penny bun, cep, porcino, Steinpilz) is a prized wild ectomycorrhizal bolete mushroom; head of a ~25-species porcini complex, 20,000–100,000 tons eaten yearly, not farmed commercially.
Bolevî Mustafa Efendi
Bolevî Mustafa Efendi (died 1675) was an Ottoman Hanefî scholar who served as şeyhülislâm from 1657 to 1659 under Mehmed IV, appointed by Grand Vizier Köprülü Mehmed Paşa.
Boleyn family
The Boleyn family (also Bullen) was a Norfolk-origin English gentry family that rose through Geoffrey Boleyn and Thomas Boleyn to royal rank when Anne Boleyn married Henry VIII in 1533; her 1536 execution ended its prominence.
Boleyn Ground
The Boleyn Ground, commonly known as Upton Park, was West Ham United's stadium in east London from 1904 to 2016, hosting 2,398 matches over 112 years.
Bolghar
Bolghar (Bolgar, Болгар) is a medieval city site on the Volga in Tatarstan, capital of Volga Bulgaria and first capital of the Golden Horde, where Islam was adopted in 922; a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2014 and Tatar Muslim pilgrimage destination.
Bolide
A bolide is an exceptionally bright meteor, generally classified as a fireball; some definitions reserve the term for fireballs that explode or fragment in Earth's atmosphere.
Boliden
Boliden is a Swedish metals company mining and smelting zinc, copper, and precious metals, operating seven mines and five smelters across Sweden, Finland, Norway, Ireland, and Portugal.
Bolis Pupul
Bolis Pupul is the stage name of Boris Zeebroek, a Belgian electronic musician of Chinese-Belgian heritage based in Ghent, known for Topical Dancer with Charlotte Adigéry and his 2024 solo debut Letter to Yu.
Bolitoglossa
Bolitoglossa, the mushroomtongue or tropical lungless salamanders (Plethodontidae), is the largest salamander genus with 144 species from Mexico to Bolivia, seven subgenera, webbed climbing feet, and a Miocene colonization of South America.
Bolívar
Bolívar (Bolívar, una lucha admirable) is a 2019 Colombian Caracol Televisión historical drama created by Juana Uribe about Simón Bolívar: 60 episodes, Netflix release 21 June 2019, starring Luis Gerónimo Abreu.