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Bolo Yeung

Bolo Yeung (Yang Sze, 楊斯), Hong Kong actor and former Mr. Hong Kong bodybuilder (1970, held ten years), famous as a screen villain in Enter the Dragon (1973), Bloodsport (1988), and Double Impact (1991).

Bologna

Bologna, Italian city, capital of Emilia-Romagna; called Felsina by the Etruscans and Bononia under Rome; seat of the University of Bologna (1088) and of 62 km of UNESCO-listed porticoes.

Bologna FC 1909

Bologna FC 1909 is an Italian professional football club founded in 1909, based in Bologna, that has won seven Italian titles and returned to the Champions League in 2024.

Bologna massacre

Bologna massacre (strage di Bologna): 2 August 1980 neo-fascist time bombing at Bologna Centrale station, 10:25, killing 85 and wounding 200+. NAR members Fioravanti, Mambro, Ciavardini, Cavallini and fifth man Paolo Bellini convicted; P2-linked obstruction; commemorated yearly at 10:25.

Bologna Process

Bologna Process: intergovernmental European higher education reform launched by the 1999 Bologna Declaration (29 countries), creating the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in 2010 with a three-cycle bachelor-master-doctor degree system, ECTS credits, recognition and quality assurance commitments across 49 members.

Bologna sausage

Bologna sausage (also baloney; Hungarian párizsi) is a cooked, emulsion-type sausage in large casings, descended from mortadella of Bologna, Italy; US-regulated like frankfurters, made of beef, pork, or poultry.

Bolognese (The Bear)

"Bolognese" is season 2, episode 8 of FX's The Bear, aired June 22, 2023, directed by Christopher Storer. The episode centers on the restaurant's do-or-die NICET fire suppression test, which Fak saves by uncovering Mikey's sabotage.

Bolognese sauce

Bolognese sauce, or ragù alla bolognese, is Bologna's slow-simmered meat sauce: minced beef and pancetta with soffritto, a little tomato, wine, and milk. Official Accademia recipes date to 1982 and 2023; served with tagliatelle, not spaghetti.

Oct 22, 2026

Bolognese school

The Bolognese school is the tradition of painting that arose in Bologna in the 1580s around the Carracci cousins, whose followers included Guido Reni, Domenichino, and Guercino.

Bolojan cabinet

Bolojan cabinet: Romania's PSD–PNL–USR–UDMR coalition government under PM Ilie Bolojan, invested 23 June 2025, which pursued deficit reduction from 9.3% of GDP via VAT, dividend, and bank tax hikes, and fell to a no-confidence motion on 5 May 2026.

Bolometer

A bolometer is an instrument that measures radiant energy, especially infrared radiation, by absorbing it as heat; it was invented by Samuel Pierpont Langley and announced in 1880.

Oct 22, 2026

Bolond Istók

Bolond Istók, or Istók the Fool, is an unfinished comic-heroic narrative poem by the Hungarian poet János Arany, composed between 1850 and 1880, following a foundling through Hungarian poverty.

Oct 15, 2026

Bolontikú Oil and Gas Field

Bolontikú is an offshore oil field operated by Pemex in the southwest marine region of the Gulf of Mexico, producing 37-degree-API volatile oil from naturally fractured reservoirs.

Bolotnitsa Fluctus

Bolotnitsa Fluctus, a 1,100-km-wide fluctus (lava flow field) on Venus at 50°N, 160°E; IAU-approved 1997, named for an East Slavic swamp mermaid; no distinct source vent identified.

Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires

Founded in 1854, the Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires (BCBA) is a not-for-profit Argentine association. It acts as a self-regulatory body and owns 31 percent of BYMA.

Bolsa de Valores de Colombia

Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC) is Colombia's national stock exchange, created in 2001 by merging the Bogotá, Medellín, and Occidente exchanges and part of nuam since 2023.

Bolsa Família

Bolsa Família is Brazil's conditional cash transfer program, paying monthly benefits to over 20 million poor families on condition that children attend school; it transferred R$168.3 billion in 2024.

Bolsa Latinoamericana de Valores (Latinex)

Bolsa Latinoamericana de Valores, S.A. (Latinex) is Panama's national securities exchange, supervised by the Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores and rebranded from the Bolsa de Valores de Panamá in 2021.

Bolsa Mexicana de Valores

The Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) is Mexico's principal stock exchange, incorporated in 1933 and the second largest in Latin America, with market capitalization above US$530 billion.

Bolsena Lacus

Bolsena Lacus is a 101-km-wide hydrocarbon lake at 75.75°N on Titan, named in 2007 after Lake Bolsena, Italy; one of the larger northern lakes in liquid-filled depressions, filled with methane, ethane, and nitrogen.

Bolshevik Island

Bolshevik Island (остров Большевик), southernmost and second largest island of Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, between the Kara and Laptev seas; 11,296.45 km², about 30% glaciated, discovered 1913, mapped 1930–1932.

Sep 24, 2026

Bolshevik Party

The Bolshevik Party was the Lenin-led wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, organized as a separate party in 1912 and renamed the Russian Communist Party in 1918.

Bolsheviks

Bolsheviks (bolshinstvo, majority) were Lenin's majority-named but minority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, split in 1903 from the Mensheviks, which seized power in October 1917 and became the Russian Communist Party in 1918.

Bolshevism (большевизм)

Bolshevism (большевизм), the Bolshevik trend founded by Lenin from the 1903 RSDLP split with the Mensheviks; a professional-revolutionary party of democratic centralism that seized power in October 1917, became the Russian Communist Party in 1918, and spread via the Comintern.

Bolshezemelskaya Tundra

Bolshezemelskaya Tundra (Большеземельская тундра), northern Pechora Lowland tundra plain in Russia's Nenets Okrug and Komi Republic; hilly moraine relief to 253 m, continuous permafrost, moss-dwarf shrub tundra, reindeer herding, and Pechora coal basin oil and gas fields.

Bolshoi Ballet

Bolshoi Ballet, founded 1776 in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theatre, is the world's largest ballet company by dancer count, known for virtuosic style, its own academy, the 1959 US debut, and state control from the tsars to Gergiev.

Bolshoi Theatre (Большой театр)

The Bolshoi Theatre (Большой театр, GABT) is Russia's national opera and ballet theatre on Theatre Square, Moscow, founded 28 March 1776 under Catherine II; its landmark building by Bove burned in 1853 and was rebuilt by Cavos, reopening 1856 with Klodt's bronze Apollo quadriga.

Bolshoy Begichev Island

Ostrov Bol'shoy Begichev (Большой Бегичев), a 1,764 km² uninhabited island in the Khatanga Gulf, Laptev Sea, Sakha Republic, Russia; proved an island by Nikifor Begichev in 1908, formerly mapped as a peninsula named Sizoy.

Oct 20, 2026

Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island

Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island (Большой Ляховский остров), southernmost and largest of the Lyakhovsky Islands, New Siberian Archipelago, in the Dmitry Laptev Strait; famed for 200,000-year Yedoma Ice Complex permafrost exposures and an ophiolite-blueschist geology.