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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), American educator and Tuskegee Institute founder- president 1881-1915; born enslaved in Virginia, author of Up From Slavery, deliverer of the 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech, adviser to presidents Roosevelt and Taft.
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Booker T. Washington National Monument is a National Park Service site in Franklin County, Virginia, preserving the tobacco farm where Washington was born into slavery in 1856.
Bookie
Bookie is an American Max comedy series, also titled How to Be a Bookie, created by Chuck Lorre and Nick Bakay, starring Sebastian Maniscalco as a Los Angeles bookie facing legalized sports betting; two seasons, 2023-2025, then canceled.
Booking Holdings
Booking Holdings is an American travel technology company headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, that operates brands such as Booking.com, Priceline, and was designated a Digital Markets Act gatekeeper in 2024.
Booking.com
Booking.com is an Amsterdam-based online travel agency owned by Booking Holdings, connecting travelers with roughly 4.4 million accommodation properties in more than 220 countries and territories.
Bookish (TV series)
Bookish is a six-part British period detective drama created by and starring Mark Gatiss as 1946 London bookseller-detective Gabriel Book, airing on U&alibi (2025) and PBS (2026), with a second series commissioned.
Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping is the recording of a business's monetary transactions, the administrative part of accounting. Its double-entry method, with debits equal to credits, was first printed by Luca Pacioli in 1494.
Bookmaker
Bookmaker: a person or firm setting odds and taking fixed-odds bets on sports and other contests, also called a bookie. Earns via the overround/vig; distinct from betting exchanges and pari-mutuel pools; regulated nationally, with sharp books like Pinnacle and soft retail books.
Bookmark
Bookmark: a thin card, leather, or fabric marker for keeping one's place in a book, and, in computing, a saved web page reference in a browser. Known since the 6th-century Coptic codices; digital bookmarks are often created but rarely used.
Bookmarklet
A bookmarklet, also called a favelet or favlet, is a browser bookmark whose URL holds JavaScript code that runs against the currently loaded page. Steve Kangas coined the term in 1998.
BookMyShow
BookMyShow is an Indian online entertainment ticketing platform launched in 2007 by Bigtree Entertainment, selling movie, event, and sports tickets across India and five international markets.
BookMyShow Live
BookMyShow Live is the live entertainment division of Indian ticketing platform BookMyShow. Launched in 2017, it produces Lollapalooza India and tours by Coldplay and Ed Sheeran.
Books of Blood
Books of Blood: six-volume Clive Barker horror short story collection published in Britain 1984-1985, thirty stories framed by The Book of Blood and On Jerusalem Street; source of Candyman, Lord of Illusions, The Midnight Meat Train, and a 2020 Hulu film.
Books of Blood (film)
Books of Blood (2020) is a Hulu horror anthology film directed by Brannon Braga, written with Adam Simon, based loosely on Clive Barker's 1984-85 story collection, starring Britt Robertson, Anna Friel, and Rafi Gavron, released October 7, 2020.
Books of Breathing
The Books of Breathing are Egyptian funerary texts of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, descended from the Book of the Dead and meant to reanimate the dead.
Books of Chilam Balam
The Books of Chilam Balam (libros de Chilam Balam) are colonial Yucatec Maya manuscripts, written in Maya with Latin characters in the 17th and 18th centuries, preserving myth, prophecy, and history.
Books of Chronicles
The Books of Chronicles, Hebrew Divrei HaYamim, are one Hebrew Bible work retelling Israel's history from Adam to the exile's return, focused on David, Solomon, and Judah.
Books of Kings
The Books of Kings, originally one Hebrew work called Melakhim, are two biblical books narrating Israelite history from David's last days to Jehoiachin's release in Babylon.
Books of Remembrance (Canada)
Books of Remembrance (Canada): eight memorial volumes on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, recording over 120,000 Canadians who died in military service, from the First World War Book (dedicated 1942) to the War of 1812 Book (2019).
Books of Samuel
The Books of Samuel are two biblical books narrating Samuel, Saul, and David, one book in the Hebrew canon and a test case for literal Bible translation.
Books3
Books3 is a dataset of roughly 196,640 digitized books compiled in 2020 from the Bibliotik shadow library and released in EleutherAI's The Pile for training large language models.
BooksCorpus
BooksCorpus, also called the Toronto Book Corpus, is a dataset of 11,038 free Smashwords ebooks by unpublished authors, scraped in 2014 and used to pretrain BERT and other language models.
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, or Diagram Prize: humorous annual British literary award since 1978 by The Bookseller for the oddest non-fiction book title, decided by public vote, with no author prize.
Booksellers' trade associations
Booksellers' trade associations are organizations representing bookshops through advocacy, education, and services, including the American Booksellers Association, the UK Booksellers Association, and Germany's Börsenverein, which unites the whole German trade.
Bookshops & Bonedust
Bookshops & Bonedust, Travis Baldree's 2023 Tor prequel to Legends & Lattes, follows young orc mercenary Viv recovering in the seaside town of Murk, where she befriends bookseller Fern and baker Maylee.
Booksmart
Booksmart is a 2019 American coming-of-age comedy and Olivia Wilde's feature directorial debut, starring Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein as overachievers cramming four years of fun into one night before graduation; released May 24, 2019.
Bookworm (film)
Bookworm is a 2024 New Zealand adventure family comedy directed by Ant Timpson, starring Elijah Wood and Nell Fisher as an estranged father and daughter hunting the mythical Canterbury Panther; it won the Fantasia 2024 Audience Award.
Bool and Hacks Lagoons
Bool and Hacks Lagoons: Ramsar wetland complex near Naracoorte, South Australia, listed 1 November 1985, about 3,200 ha, comprising Bool Lagoon Game Reserve and Hacks Lagoon Conservation Park; major waterbird drought refuge and brolga flocking ground.
Boole's inequality
Boole's inequality, also called the union bound, is a probability theorem stating that the probability of a union of events is at most the sum of their probabilities.
Boolean algebra
Boolean algebra, also known as Boolean logic or switching algebra, is the algebra of two-valued logic and of sets under union and complementation, introduced by George Boole in 1847.