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Bonn
Bonn is a city of about 324,000 on the Rhine in western Germany, the birthplace of Beethoven and the capital of West Germany from 1949 until reunification in 1990.
Bonn Agreement (1969)
Bonn Agreement (1969): treaty signed at Bonn 9 June 1969, in force 9 August 1969, for cooperation against North Sea oil pollution; original parties Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Sweden, UK; replaced by 1983 oil-and-harmful-substances agreement.
Bonn–Oberkassel dog
Bonn–Oberkassel dog: juvenile domestic dog buried about 14,200 years ago with two humans at Oberkassel near Bonn, Germany; earliest known joint dog-human burial, survived distemper through human care.
Bonna
Bonna is the Roman name for the settlement and legionary fortress at modern Bonn, Germany, first recorded by Florus (13-9 BC). Known for its 27.8-hectare Legio I Minervia fortress, part of the Lower German Limes UNESCO site.
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, commonly called Bonnaroo, is a four-day June camping festival held since 2002 on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, founded by Ashley Capps and Superfly.
Bonne of Bourbon
Bonne of Bourbon (Bonne de Bourbon, 1341–1403), Bourbon princess, daughter of Pierre I and Isabelle de Valois; married Amédée VI of Savoy by the 1355 Treaty of Paris and governed Savoy as regent for about thirty years.
Bonner Fellers
Bonner Frank Fellers (1896–1973), US Army brigadier general, military attaché in Cairo 1940–1942 whose intercepted Black Code reports aided Rommel, and MacArthur's military secretary who helped shield Emperor Hirohito from trial.
Bonnet (headgear)
Bonnet (headgear): a hat tied under the chin with ribbons, brim framing the face; dominant women's headwear of the 18th-19th centuries, also a Scottish male cap (glengarry, balmoral).
Bonnet Carré Spillway
The Bonnet Carré Spillway is a flood-control structure in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, that diverts Mississippi River floodwater into Lake Pontchartrain to protect New Orleans.
Bonnevie (Venusian crater)
Bonnevie, Venusian impact crater, 92.2 km diameter at 36.10 S, 127.00 E in Artemis Chasma quadrangle V-48; IAU-approved 1991, named for a Norwegian biologist; pristine modification state.
Bonneville
Bonneville names the largest closed basin of the Great Basin, Pleistocene Lake Bonneville (20,000 sq mi, over 1,000 ft deep), its catastrophic flood, and namesakes including Bonneville cutthroat trout and the Bonneville Power Administration.
Bonneville Dam
Bonneville Dam is a run-of-river federal dam on the Columbia River about 40 miles east of Portland, Oregon, generating over 1,200 MW of hydroelectric power.
Bonneville Power Administration
The Bonneville Power Administration is a nonprofit federal power marketing administration in the Department of Energy, created in 1937 to market power from Bonneville Dam in the Pacific Northwest.
Bonneville Salt Flats
The Bonneville Salt Flats, also known as the Utah Salt Flats, are a 30,000-acre salt pan in Utah where the 300 through 600 mph land-speed barriers were broken.
Bonnie
Bonnie is a feminine given name meaning "pretty", from the Scottish word bonnie, long popular in America and rising sharply in Britain, Australia, and New Zealand since the 2010s.
Bonnie & Clyde (musical)
Bonnie & Clyde is a 2009 musical by Frank Wildhorn, Don Black, and Ivan Menchell about Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, blending blues, gospel, and rockabilly. It flopped on Broadway in 2011 (36 performances) but won the 2023 WhatsOnStage Best New Musical award in the West End.
Bonnie Aarons
Bonnie Aarons, American actress (born 1960, Maryland), plays demon nun Valak in The Conjuring 2, The Nun, and The Nun II; also the Bum in Mulholland Drive and Baroness Joy von Troken in The Princess Diaries.
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde were the American outlaw couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who committed robbery and murder across the South and Southwest until police killed them in 1934.
Bonnie and Clyde (film)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Arthur Penn's crime drama starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the Depression-era outlaws, written by David Newman and Robert Benton for Warner Bros. Initially panned, it became the landmark New Hollywood film, earning 10 Oscar nominations and 1992 National Film Registry selection.
Bonnie Bartel
Bonnie Bartel is an American plant geneticist, the Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor at Rice University, known for research on auxin, plant microRNAs, and peroxisomes in Arabidopsis.
Bonnie Bartlett
Bonnie Bartlett (Bonnie Bartlett Daniels), American actress born June 20, 1929, in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin; two-time Emmy winner as Ellen Craig on St. Elsewhere, also Grace Snider Edwards on Little House on the Prairie, married to William Daniels since 1951.
Bonnie Bedelia
Bonnie Bedelia (Bonnie Bedelia Culkin), American actress born 1948 in New York City; starred as Shirley Muldowney in Heart Like a Wheel, Holly McClane in Die Hard and Die Hard 2, and Camille Braverman on Parenthood; aunt of the Culkin actors.
Bonnie Berger
Bonnie Berger is an applied mathematician and computational biologist, Simons Professor of Mathematics at MIT, known for pioneering computational molecular biology, compressive genomics, and privacy-preserving genomic analysis.
Bonnie Blair
Bonnie Blair (Bonnie Kathleen Blair-Cruikshank), born 1964 in Cornwall, New York, American speed skater; most decorated female U.S. Winter Olympian with five golds and one bronze; only woman to win the Olympic 500 m at three straight Games (1988, 1992, 1994).
Bonnie Blue
Bonnie Blue (Tia Emma Billinger, born 1999), British OnlyFans/Fansly adult creator known for the January 2025 claim of sex with 1,057 men in 12 hours, her June 2025 OnlyFans ban, Channel 4 documentary, Bali detention and 10-year Indonesia ban, and a later dropped UK charge.
Bonnie Bramlett
Bonnie Bramlett (Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell, born 1944), American soul and rock singer, half of Delaney & Bonnie with Eric Clapton; co-wrote "Superstar"; solo albums and Roseanne acting role.
Bonnie Brunkhorst
Bonnie Brunkhorst is a science education and geology education researcher, professor emerita at California State University, San Bernardino, and past president of the National Science Teachers Association.
Bonnie Crombie
Bonnie Crombie (born 1960), Canadian politician; MP for Mississauga—Streetsville 2008–2011, Mississauga councillor 2011–2014, mayor 2014–2024 (64/77/79% wins), Ontario Liberal leader Dec 2023–2025; resigned after 57% review; again running for Mississauga mayor.
Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Franklin, born Bonnie Gail Franklin, was an American actress and dancer. She is best known for playing Ann Romano on One Day at a Time (1975–1984).
Bonnie Henry
Bonnie Henry, Canadian physician and BC's Provincial Health Officer since 2018, first woman in the role; led British Columbia's COVID-19 pandemic and overdose emergency responses; formerly Toronto SARS response lead and BCCDC executive.