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Borassus
Borassus (borassus palm, palmyra palm, Borassus flabellifer) is a genus of massive, dioecious fan palms in Arecaceae, tribe Borasseae, native to tropical Africa, Madagascar, and tropical Asia, with 5-6 accepted species and very large mammal-dispersed fruits.
Borassus flabellifer
Borassus flabellifer, the Asian palmyra or toddy palm (Arecaceae), is a dioecious fan palm from India to Indonesia tapped for sucrose-rich sap made into jaggery, palm sugar, and toddy; fruits, timber, and leaves are also used.
Borat
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 mockumentary comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a Kazakh journalist, directed by Larry Charles.
Borat Sagdiyev
Borat Sagdiyev is the fictional Kazakh journalist created and played by Sacha Baron Cohen, first seen on Da Ali G Show (2000) and in the 2006 mockumentary Borat and its 2020 sequel, satirizing American prejudice.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020), Jason Woliner's Amazon mockumentary sequel starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev and Maria Bakalova as daughter Tutar, targets Trump-era America, earned Oscar nominations, and sparked Kazakh and Evans-family controversies.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, also called simply Borat, is a 2006 mockumentary comedy by Larry Charles starring Sacha Baron Cohen as fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev; it grossed over $261 million, won a Golden Globe, and was banned in Kazakhstan and Russia.
Borate
A borate is a boron-containing oxyanion or its salt, such as borax, or by extension a borate ester, formed through boron's high affinity for oxygen.
Borate ester
A borate ester is an organic ester of boric acid with formula B(OR)₃, ranging from trimethyl borate to triphenyl borate and used in flame retardants, lubricants, and desiccants.
Borax
Borax, also called sodium tetraborate decahydrate (Na2B4O7·10H2O), is a white crystalline sodium borate mineral found in arid evaporite deposits and used chiefly in glass, ceramics, detergents, and fertilizers.
Borax combo
Borax combo: slang for a research-chemical drug mixture mimicking MDMA, combining 5-MAPB and 5-MeO-MiPT, often with 2-FMA; not the mineral borax; tracked by NDEWS.
Borazine
Borazine, also called borazole or inorganic benzene, is a colorless liquid with a ring of alternating boron and nitrogen atoms, used to make boron nitride.
Borbaad (বর্বাদ) (2025 film)
Borbaad (বর্বাদ) is a 2025 Bangladeshi Bangla-language romantic action thriller directed by Mehedi Hasan Hridoy in his debut, starring Shakib Khan, Nussrat Jahan, and Idhika Paul.
Borborema Plateau
Borborema Plateau (Planalto da Borborema, Serra da Borborema), a plateau in northeastern Brazil across Pernambuco, Paraíba, and Rio Grande do Norte, part of the Borborema Province shield, averaging ~1,000 m elevation with peaks near 1,200 m and debated Cenozoic uplift mechanisms.
Borchardt C-93
The Borchardt C-93 is a German semi-automatic pistol designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893 and made by Ludwig Loewe & Co. of Berlin, the first commercially successful self-loading pistol.
Bórd na Móna
Bórd na Móna, successor to the Turf Development Board, is an Irish semi-state company established in 1946 to harvest peat, now focused on renewable energy.
Borda count
Borda count: positional voting method by Jean-Charles de Borda assigning n-1 to 0 points by rank; also called Borda scoring. Contrasted with Condorcet methods; used in Slovenia, Nauru (Dowdall rule), and sports awards.
Bordeaux
Bordeaux (Burdigala), capital of Nouvelle-Aquitaine on the Garonne, is a French port city and wine capital, UNESCO-listed in 2007 as Port of the Moon for its 18th-century classical urban ensemble; 270,000 inhabitants, 1,810-hectare World Heritage area.
Bordeaux mixture
Bordeaux mixture (bouillie bordelaise) is a copper sulfate and lime fungicide-bactericide devised by Millardet and Gayon in 1885 against grapevine downy mildew; the first widely used fungicide, still standard in organic viticulture.
Bordeaux wine
Bordeaux wine: PDO wines from the Gironde region of southwest France, blended mainly from Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon on the Left and Right Banks, ranked by the fixed 1855 classification of 88 classified growths.
Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855
The 1855 Bordeaux classification (Grands Crus Classés en 1855) ranks 61 Médoc red estates in five growths plus Haut-Brion, and 27 Sauternes-Barsac sweet whites in three tiers, by broker price records for Napoleon III's 1855 Paris Exposition; only Cantemerle (1855) and Mouton Rothschild (1973) changed.
Bordeaux, Port of the Moon
Bordeaux, Port of the Moon (Port de la Lune): UNESCO World Heritage historic center of Bordeaux, France, inscribed 2007 under criteria ii and iv; 1,731 ha Enlightenment-era classical ensemble named for the crescent of the Garonne.
Bordello of Blood
Bordello of Blood (Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood) is a 1996 horror comedy directed by Gilbert Adler, starring Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, and Angie Everhart as the vampire Lilith; a box-office failure that ended the Crypt film series.
Borden Island
Borden Island, an uninhabited 2,794 km2 island of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; discovered by Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1915 as First Land, named for Prime Minister Robert Borden, split between Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Borden Mine (Ontario)
Borden Mine is an underground gold mine near Chapleau in northern Ontario, Canada, which reached commercial production in October 2019 as Canada's first underground mine mostly powered by battery-electric vehicles.
Borden Parker Bowne
Borden Parker Bowne (1847–1910) was an American philosopher and Methodist theologian who founded the Boston personalist school, taught at Boston University from 1876 to 1910, and was acquitted in the only heresy trial in Methodist history.
Border
Border: a line dividing political, social, or legal territories; also called boundary or frontier. Covers terminology, border studies, border management (WCO, IOM, OSCE, UN), economic border effects, walls, and Schengen developments.
Border (1997 film)
Border (बॉर्डर) is a 1997 Hindi war film written, produced and directed by J.P. Dutta, based on the 1971 Battle of Longewala. Starring Sunny Deol, it was 1997's highest-grossing Indian film and won the Nargis Dutt Award for National Integration.
Border (2018 Swedish film)
Border (Gräns) is a 2018 Swedish-Danish fantasy drama by Ali Abbasi, adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist's short story, starring Eva Melander as customs officer Tina. It won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes 2018 and was Oscar-nominated for makeup.
Border 2
Border 2 is a 2026 Hindi war film directed by Anurag Singh, a sequel to J.P. Dutta's 1997 Border, set in the 1971 India-Pakistan War. Starring Sunny Deol, Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh, and Ahan Shetty, it released 23 January 2026 and grossed about ₹464.5 crore worldwide.
Border 2 (soundtrack)
Border 2 is the soundtrack album for the 2026 Bollywood war film Border 2, released by T-Series with nine songs by Anu Malik, Mithoon, and Vishal Mishra.