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Bolivian pension reform of 2010
The Bolivian pension reform of 2010 is Law No. 065, enacted by President Evo Morales in December 2010, which created the hybrid Sistema Integral de Pensiones.
Bolivian peso
The Bolivian peso (peso boliviano) was Bolivia's currency from 1963 until 1987, collapsing in the 1984 to 1985 hyperinflation before the new boliviano replaced it.
Bolivian Popular Assembly
The Bolivian Popular Assembly (Asamblea Popular) was a body of worker, peasant, and student delegates convened by the Bolivian Workers' Central trade union federation in 1971.
Bolivian Revolution of 1949
The Bolivian Revolution of 1949 was a nationwide armed uprising in Bolivia by the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR), which even organized a rebel government in Santa Cruz.
Bolivian rubber boom
The Bolivian rubber boom, or auge de la goma, was the period from the late 1800s to the early 1900s when wild rubber from the Bolivian Amazon became one of Bolivia's leading exports.
Bolivian Socialist Falange
The Bolivian Socialist Falange (Falange Socialista Boliviana, FSB) is a Bolivian political party founded in 1937 by exiled students in Chile, led by Óscar Únzaga de la Vega.
Bolivian tin crash of 1985
The Bolivian tin crash of 1985 was the October collapse of the international tin market, which destroyed the export Bolivia depended on and triggered mass mine closures.
Bolivian tin nationalization of 1952
The Bolivian tin nationalization of 1952 was the October 31 transfer of the Patiño, Hochschild, and Aramayo tin companies to the Bolivian state, run by the new corporation COMIBOL.
Bolivian universal suffrage reform of 1952
The Bolivian universal suffrage reform of 1952 was a decree by President Víctor Paz Estenssoro's MNR government that enfranchised women, illiterate, and Indigenous Bolivians, roughly quintupling the electorate by 1956.
Bolivian War of Independence
The Bolivian War of Independence (1809–1825) was the sixteen-year armed struggle by which Upper Peru, now Bolivia, separated from Spanish rule and became a republic.
Bolivian Workers' Central
The Bolivian Workers' Central (Central Obrera Boliviana, COB) is Bolivia's national trade union federation, founded in La Paz in 1952 under its first leader, Juan Lechín Oquendo.
Boliyan
Boliyan (ਬੋਲੀਆਂ; singular boli) are couplet-based Punjabi folk verses sung in call-and-response with percussion and clapping, accompanying bhangra and giddha at weddings, festivals, and harvest celebrations.
Bolkiah
Bolkiah, remembered as Nakhoda Ragam, was the fifth Sultan of Brunei whose 1485 to 1524 reign brought the sultanate its greatest territorial extent, covering most of Borneo.
Boll weevil
Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis), a Mexican snout beetle that entered Texas in 1892 and became the costliest U.S. cotton pest, over $22 billion in losses; eradicated from over 99 percent of U.S. cotton acreage by the APHIS program begun in 1978.
Bollard
A bollard is a sturdy vertical post installed to control road traffic, protect people and property from vehicles, or, originally, to secure a ship's mooring line.
Bollea v. Gawker
Bollea v. Gawker, also known as Hogan v. Gawker, was the privacy lawsuit by wrestler Hulk Hogan over Gawker posting his sex tape, won in 2016 for $140 million.
Bolliger & Mabillard
Bolliger & Mabillard, often abbreviated B&M, is a Swiss roller coaster manufacturer founded in 1988 by Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard, known for the inverted coaster.
Bølling–Allerød interstadial
The Bølling–Allerød interstadial was a warm interval of the last deglaciation, beginning about 14,700 years ago and ending with the cold Younger Dryas about 12,900 years ago.
Bollingen Prize
The Bollingen Prize for American Poetry is a biennial $175,000 prize established in 1948 by Paul Mellon and administered by Yale University Library since 1949.
Bollinger Bands
Bollinger Bands are a technical-analysis overlay of a moving average with bands set a multiple of the standard deviation above and below it, described by John Bollinger in 1992.
Bollitree Castle
Bollitree Castle, Weston under Penyard, Herefordshire: an 18th-century folly facade added to a Queen Anne mansion on the Roman Ariconium site; Grade I listed farm buildings, Merrick and Palmer owners, cider fame.
Bollman truss
Patented in 1852 by Wendel Bollman, the Bollman truss was an American bridge system that utilized cast and wrought iron in its rigid and suspension design.
Bollocks
Bollocks is British vulgar slang for testicles and for nonsense, also an exclamation of disagreement; from Old English beallucas, recorded from 1744, famous from the 1977 Sex Pistols obscenity case.
Bolloré family
The Bolloré family is a French business dynasty founded in Brittany in 1822 as a paper manufacturer, now controlling Bolloré SE through a pyramid of holding companies.
Bollywood Parks Dubai
Bollywood Parks Dubai, also called Bollywood Park, was the world's first Bollywood-themed amusement park at Dubai Parks and Resorts, Jebel Ali; opened 31 October 2016, closed permanently 20 April 2023, later partly redeveloped as Real Madrid World.
Bolmen
Bolmen is a large lake in western Småland, Sweden, about 184 km² with over 360 islands, the largest being Bolmsö. Since 1987 it supplies Skåne with drinking water via the 80 km Bolmen Tunnel, and it is studied for brownification.
Bolmen Water Tunnel
The Bolmen Water Tunnel (Bolmentunneln) is an 80 km raw-water tunnel in southern Sweden carrying drinking water from Lake Bolmen to northern Skåne, in service since 1987.
Bolo knife
The bolo (binangon/súndang) is a long, single-edged knife from the Philippines, serving as a working tool or a weapon during times like the Spanish-American War and Japanese occupation.
Bolo Ta Ra Ra
Bolo Ta Ra Ra is the 1995 debut album by Indian singer Daler Mehndi, released on Magnasound, whose title track carried Punjabi bhangra into mainstream Indian pop.
Bolo tie
Bolo tie, also bola tie or cowboy tie: a cord necktie with a decorative slide and metal tips, emerging in the 1940s American Southwest, popularized by Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni silversmiths, and the official state neckwear of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.