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Bombardier Global Express
The Bombardier Global Express (model BD-700) is a large-cabin, ultra-long-range business jet built by Bombardier of Canada, certified in 1998 and in service since 1999.
Bombardier Inc.
Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian aerospace company based in Montréal, founded in 1942 as a snow-vehicle maker, that now builds Challenger and Global business jets.
Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation was the rail equipment division of Canada's Bombardier Inc. and one of the world's largest makers of passenger rail cars, sold to Alstom in 2021.
Bombardment of Alexandria
The Bombardment of Alexandria (قصف الإسكندرية) was a July 1882 attack by the British Mediterranean Fleet on the forts of Alexandria, Egypt, beginning the British occupation of Egypt.
Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
The Bombardment of Algiers was an 1816 naval attack by an Anglo-Dutch fleet under Admiral Lord Exmouth, forcing the Dey of Algiers to renounce Christian slavery.
Bombardment of Casablanca
The Bombardment of Casablanca was a French naval attack of 5 to 7 August 1907 that destroyed districts of the Moroccan port city and began its occupation.
Bombardment of Corinto
The bombardment of Corinto was the 1895 seizure of Corinto, Nicaragua, by a British squadron over arrested British subjects; the ships left after Nicaragua promised payment of a $75,000 indemnity.
Bombardment of Lagos
The Bombardment of Lagos, also called the Reduction of Lagos, was a pair of British naval attacks on Lagos in 1851 to suppress the slave trade.
Bombardment of San Juan
The Bombardment of San Juan was a US Navy attack on San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 12, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, causing civilian casualties but little military damage.
Bombax
Bombax (red silk cotton trees) is a genus of about eight Malvaceae trees native from tropical Africa to northern Australia; type species Bombax ceiba, source of kapok-like fibre, low-grade timber, and traditional medicine.
Bombax ceiba
Bombax ceiba, the red silk-cotton tree or Indian kapok (Salmalia malabarica), is a large Malvaceae tree native from tropical Asia to northern Australia, grown for kapok floss, matchwood, medicine, and crimson dry-season flowers; IUCN Least Concern.
Bombay (பம்பாய்)
Bombay (பம்பாய்) is Mani Ratnam's 1995 Tamil romantic drama starring Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala, with music by A. R. Rahman, about a Hindu-Muslim couple caught in the 1992–93 Bombay riots; censored, protested, and banned in Singapore and Malaysia, yet a record-breaking hit.
Bombay Army
The Bombay Army was the army of the Bombay Presidency under the East India Company, established in 1662 and merged into the Indian Army in 1895.
Bombay Beach, California
Bombay Beach, California: a census-designated place on the east shore of the Salton Sea in Imperial County; 231 residents (2020), a former 1950s resort now known for the Bombay Beach Biennale art festival and wetland restoration.
Bombay Begums
Bombay Begums (बॉम्बे बेगम्स) is a 2021 Hindi Netflix drama series by Alankrita Shrivastava and Bornila Chatterjee, starring Pooja Bhatt, about five women in Mumbai; it premiered March 8, 2021 and drew an NCPCR notice over its portrayal of children.
Bombay Bicycle Club
Bombay Bicycle Club: English indie rock band formed in Crouch End, London in 2005 (Steadman, MacColl, Nash, de Saram). Six albums 2009-2023; So Long, See You Tomorrow hit UK number one in 2014 and was Mercury Prize-nominated; hiatus 2016-2019.
Bombay cat
Bombay cat: man-made cat breed from crossing black American Shorthair with sable Burmese, created by Nikki Horner in Kentucky; jet-black patent-leather coat, copper eyes, mini-panther look; CFA championship 1976, TICA 1979.
Bombay High
Bombay High, renamed Mumbai High, is a giant offshore oil and gas field in the Arabian Sea about 160 km west of Mumbai, discovered in 1974 and operated by ONGC.
Bombay High Court (बॉम्बे उच्च न्यायालय)
Bombay High Court (बॉम्बे उच्च न्यायालय), the chartered High Court of Bombay, inaugurated 14 August 1862; serves Maharashtra, Goa, Daman & Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli with benches at Nagpur, Aurangabad, and Panaji.
Bombay Hindi
Bombay Hindi (Bambaiyya Hindi, Mumbai Hindi, tapori language) is the contact variety of Hindi-Urdu spoken in Mumbai, based on Hindustani with a Marathi/Konkani grammatical frame, -ko datives like mereko, and heavy Marathi, Gujarati and Urdu borrowing, popularized by Hindi cinema.
Bombay Jayashri
Bombay Jayashri (Jayashri Ramnath, born 1964, Kolkata) is a Carnatic vocalist, composer, and playback singer trained by Lalgudi Jayaraman; Oscar-nominated for 'Pi's Lullaby' in Life of Pi, Padma Shri 2021, Sangita Kalanidhi 2023.
Bombay Lokal
Bombay Lokal is a politically charged hip-hop collective from Vasai-Nalasopara-Virar in Mumbai's northern suburbs, founded by Shaikhspeare, whose members rap, beatbox, breakdance, paint graffiti, and DJ, and appeared in Gully Boy (2019).
Bombay Presidency
Bombay Presidency: western India province of the East India Company and British Raj, established 1687, capital Bombay (Mumbai). Covered Gujarat, Deccan, Konkan, Sind, and Aden; 25.5 million people in 1901; became Bombay province, then split into Maharashtra and Gujarat in 1960.
Bombay riots
Bombay riots: recurring Hindu–Muslim communal violence in Bombay (Mumbai), notably 1893, 1929–1938, and December 1992–January 1993, when over 1,000 died after the Babri Masjid demolition; investigated by the Srikrishna Commission.
Bombay Sapphire
Bombay Sapphire is a Bacardi-owned London dry gin launched in 1987 by IDV, sold in a blue bottle, made by vapour infusion of ten botanicals at Laverstoke Mill, Hampshire; about 4.3 million cases sold in 2025.
Bombay School of Indian English poetry
The Bombay School of Indian English poetry was a group of poets, led by Nissim Ezekiel, who dominated Indian poetry in English from Bombay from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Bombay State
Bombay State was an Indian state, enlarged into a bilingual Marathi-Gujarati state on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, with capital Bombay (Mumbai); it was divided on 1 May 1960 into Maharashtra and Gujarat by the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960.
Bombay Stock Exchange
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), also known as BSE India, is India's oldest stock exchange, founded in Mumbai in 1875 and home to the Sensex index.
Bombay Talkies (film)
Bombay Talkies is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language anthology film directed by Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, and Anurag Kashyap, made to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema.
Bombay Velvet (बॉम्बे वेलवेट)
Bombay Velvet (बॉम्बे वेलवेट) is Anurag Kashyap's 2015 Hindi period crime drama set in 1960s Bombay, adapted from Gyan Prakash's Mumbai Fables, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, and Karan Johar; it underperformed critically and commercially.