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Bon Jovi (album)
Bon Jovi (1984) is the American hard rock band Bon Jovi's self-titled debut album on Mercury, produced by Tony Bongiovi and Lance Quinn at the Power Station, with the Top 40 hit Runaway.
Bon Jovi discography
The Bon Jovi discography catalogs the 16 studio albums of Bon Jovi, the American rock band formed in New Jersey in 1983, with 130 million records sold.
Bon Scott
Bon Scott, born Ronald Belford Scott (1946–1980), was a Scottish-born Australian singer and lyricist who fronted AC/DC from 1974 until his death, co-writing "Highway to Hell".
Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home
Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, also St Mary's, Tuam, County Galway: Catholic-run institution for unmarried mothers, 1925–1961, where 796 children died and a septic-tank mass grave is being excavated since 2025.
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) is a 1980 animated film, the fourth Peanuts theatrical feature, directed by Bill Melendez and Phil Roman, in which Charlie Brown and friends travel as exchange students to a mysterious French château inspired by Schulz's 1944 wartime stay.
Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey
Bon-Adrien Jeannot (Jannot) de Moncey, duc de Conegliano (1754–1842), Marshal of the Empire and first Inspector General of the French Gendarmerie (1801–1815); later Governor of the Invalides who received Napoleon's ashes in 1840.
Bon-Kwon Koo
Bon-Kwon Koo (구본권) is a South Korean interventional cardiologist and professor at Seoul National University, known for leading the FLAVOUR coronary stenting trial published in 2022.
Bona (김지연) (singer)
Bona (보나, Kim Ji-yeon, born 1995, Daegu) is a South Korean singer and actress, center and main dancer of WJSN (Cosmic Girls), WJSN THE BLACK member, and award-winning actress known for Twenty-Five Twenty-One, Homemade Love Story, and The Haunted Palace.
Bona Dea Subsaxana, Aedes
Aedes Bona Deae Subsaxanae: temple of the Roman goddess Bona Dea on the Aventine below the Saxum cliff; a women-only healing sanctuary restored by Livia and Hadrian, attested in Regio XII, with no identified remains.
Bona fide purchaser
A bona fide purchaser, also known as Equity's darling, is a buyer who acquires property for value and good faith without notice of title defects.
Bona Mugabe
Bona Mugabe (Bona Chikore), only daughter of Robert and Grace Mugabe, is a Zimbabwean businesswoman appointed to the 2017 Censorship Board and 2026 EmpowerBank deputy chair; her 2023 divorce exposed alleged assets including 21 farms and a Dubai mansion.
Bona Sforza
Bona Sforza, an Italian princess of the House of Sforza, became Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania in 1518 as the second wife of Sigismund I the Old.
Bonaduz
Bonaduz (Romansh Panaduz, first recorded 960 as Beneduces) is a Graubünden village in the Rhäzüns lordship, known for the 700-grave early medieval Valbeuna cemetery and a 1860-1990 Romansh-to-German language shift.
Bonaerensean Drainages
Bonaerensean Drainages, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 347 in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: temperate coastal rivers (Salado del Sur, Sauce Grande) plus 339 coastal lagoons, bounded by the Colorado basin divide.
Bonaire
Bonaire (Boneiru), a Caribbean special municipality of the Netherlands since 2010 in the Caribbean Netherlands, capital Kralendijk; Dutch- and Papiamentu-speaking, US-dollar island famed for its 1979 marine park, shore diving, and tourism-based economy.
Bonalu (బోనాలు)
Bonalu (బోనాలు) is the state festival of Telangana, an annual Hindu thanksgiving to the goddess Mahakali, celebrated mainly in Hyderabad and Secunderabad during July–August, when women carry food offerings to temples.
Bonamia ostreae
Bonamia ostreae is a 2–3 µm haplosporidian protozoan parasite of flat oyster haemocytes causing bonamiosis. A WOAH-listed disease, it reached Europe in 1979 via oyster transfers and collapsed Ostrea edulis production; no treatment exists.
Bonampak
Bonampak: ancient Maya site in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico, 30 km south of Yaxchilan, famous for the 790 CE murals of the Templo de las Pinturas, discovered in 1946.
Bonampak murals
The Bonampak murals are extensive Maya wall paintings of about 790 CE in Structure 1 at Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico, recording court life, warfare, sacrifice, and royal succession.
Bonang Matheba
Bonang Dorothy Matheba, known as Queen B, is a South African TV presenter, radio host, author, and businesswoman famous for co-hosting SABC1's Live (2007-2012), Revlon's first South African ambassador, and founder of the House of BNG sparkling wine brand.
Bonanno crime family
Bonanno crime family: one of New York's five La Cosa Nostra families, founded under Maranzano and led by Joseph Bonanno; marked by the Donnie Brasco infiltration, Pizza Connection trial, and boss Joseph Massino's 2003 cooperation.
Bonanza
Bonanza is an American Western series that ran on NBC from 1959 to 1973. It was the first full-hour Western color film series starring Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker.
Bonanza Exotic Park
Bonanza Exotic Park (สวนสัตว์โบนันซ่าเอ็กโซติกซู), also Bonanza Exotic Zoo, is a small private zoo in Pak Chong, Nakhon Ratchasima, near Khao Yai, Thailand, with over 50 species on a 700-meter circular path, feeding activities, and 150-baht adult admission.
Bonaparte Archipelago
Bonaparte Archipelago: island group on the northwest Kimberley coast of Western Australia, named by Baudin's 1801 French expedition after Napoleon Bonaparte; known for 225 intertidal coral species, 8 m tides, and reefs that survived the 2016 bleaching event.
Bonapartism
Bonapartism: French political tradition and authoritarian, plebiscitary regime type tied to the Bonaparte dynasty, from Napoleon I's Consulate and Empire through Napoleon III's Second Empire, later theorized by Marx and linked to Caesarism and populism.
Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923), Canadian-born Conservative statesman and UK Prime Minister 23 October 1922 to 20 May 1923, 209 days, the shortest 20th-century premiership; ended the Lloyd George coalition, resigned with throat cancer, succeeded by Baldwin.
Bonaventure
Bonaventure, born Giovanni di Fidanza, was a 13th-century Franciscan friar and Minister General who taught at Paris, wrote the Itinerarium mentis in Deum, and died in 1274.
Boncuklu Tarla
Boncuklu Tarla, a Neolithic settlement mound in Dargeçit, Mardin Province, Turkey, occupied from the Late Epipaleolithic to Late PPNB (about 11,000-8,000 BC), known for burial labret earrings and finds reportedly older than Göbekli Tepe.
Bond (finance)
A bond is a tradable debt security in which an issuer borrows from investors, promising repayment of principal at maturity and, in many cases, periodic interest payments.
Bond (Martian crater)
Bond crater, Mars crater, IAU Feature 811; 110.60 km diameter impact crater at 32.89°S, 324.00°E near Hale and Holden craters on the Uzboi–Ladon–Morava outflow system.