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Border ballad
A Border ballad is a traditional narrative song from the lawless Anglo-Scottish border region, dealing with raids and feuds during the frontier's troubled centuries before 1603.
Border Campaign
The Border Campaign (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Biên giới 1950) was a Việt Minh offensive from September to October 1950 in the First Indochina War, destroying the French border garrisons on Route Coloniale 4.
Border City (historical)
Border City (historical), also known as South Columbus, is a historical populated place in New Mexico, USA, a failed 1928 attempt to revive the southern community at Columbus on the Mexican border.
Border Collie
Border Collie: British herding dog from the Anglo-Scottish border, bred for working ability; ISDS founded 1906, FCI standard 297, AKC recognition 1995; known for the "eye" stare and word-learning dogs like Rico and Chaser.
Border disease
Border disease is a congenital pestivirus disease of sheep, occasionally goats, caused by Border disease virus (Flaviviridae), first described in 1959 near the England-Wales border, producing hairy-shaker lambs and persistently infected virus-excreting lambs.
Border Gateway Protocol
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol that lets independently administered networks, called autonomous systems, exchange reachability information so traffic can find a path between them on the Internet.
Border Protection Corps
The Border Protection Corps (Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza, KOP) was a Polish military border guard created in 1924 to secure the eastern frontier against Soviet raids.
Border Roads Organisation
The Border Roads Organisation is a government agency that builds strategic infrastructure in India's border areas. It operates in countries like Bhutan and has built the Atal Tunnel.
Border Security Command
Border Security Command: UK Home Office body established 5 July 2024, led by Border Security Commander Martin Hewitt, coordinating NCA, Border Force and police against organised immigration crime and Channel small-boat smuggling.
Border Security Force (सीमा सुरक्षा बल)
Border Security Force (सीमा सुरक्षा बल, BSF), India's central border guarding force raised 1 December 1965 after the Sardar Post attack, first DG K. F. Rustamji; guards India-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh borders under the 1968 Act.
Border states (American Civil War)
Border states (American Civil War): the slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia that stayed in the Union, tried neutrality, supplied about 275,000 Union versus 71,000 Confederate soldiers, and were exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation.
Border Terrier
Border Terrier: small rough-coated British working terrier from the Anglo-Scottish border, also once called Coquetdale or Redesdale Terrier; Kennel Club-recognized 1920; bred to bolt foxes, otter-like head, 6-7 kg.
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership (BCPP)
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is a Leeds-based asset manager, owned equally by eleven English Local Government Pension Scheme funds, that pools their investments and went live in 2018.
Border Town
Border Town (Biancheng, 边城) is a 1934 novella by the Chinese writer Shen Congwen, portraying life in Chadong, a river town on the western Hunan border with Sichuan.
Border treaty of Kara-indaš and Aššur-bēl-nišešu
The border treaty of Kara-indaš and Aššur-bēl-nišešu, also called the Kara-indaš treaty, was a boundary agreement between Kassite Babylonia and Assyria concluded around 1407 BCE and confirmed by later kings.
Border war of Assur-resh-ishi I and Nebuchadnezzar I
The border war of Assur-resh-ishi I and Nebuchadnezzar I was a late 12th-century BC conflict on the Assyrian-Babylonian frontier, ending in Nebuchadnezzar's total defeat at Idi.
Border–Gavaskar Trophy
Border-Gavaskar Trophy: the India-Australia Test cricket series trophy, instituted 1996-97 and named for Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar; India lead 22-19 in Tests since inception, Australia won the 2024-25 edition 3-1.
Borderland
Borderland: the region contiguous to an international border, studied in geography, history, and cultural studies; coined by Herbert Bolton in the 1920s, reworked by Gloria Anzaldúa, distinct from the frontier.
Borderlands (film)
Borderlands is a 2024 American science fiction action comedy directed by Eli Roth, starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart, based on Gearbox's Borderlands video games.
Borderlands (series)
Borderlands: Gearbox Software and 2K's looter-shooter FPS/RPG series begun in 2009, known for procedural billions of weapons, cel-shaded art, Pandora, Handsome Jack, Borderlands 3's 5-million-unit launch, and Borderlands 4 (2025) on Kairos.
Borderlands (video game)
Borderlands is Gearbox Software's 2009 shooter-looter for 2K, set on Pandora, blending FPS combat with Diablo-style procedural weapon loot; it founded a four-game, roughly $1 billion franchise.
Borderlands 2
Borderlands 2 (2012) is Gearbox Software's shooter-looter sequel on Pandora, pitting four-player co-op Vault Hunters against Handsome Jack and Hyperion; Metacritic 89, over 30 million units sold, highest-rated mainline Borderlands game.
Borderlands 3
Borderlands 3 is Gearbox Software's 2019 looter-shooter, the fourth main Borderlands entry, released September 13, 2019 on PS4, Xbox One, and Epic Games Store PC, with four Vault Hunters, dynamic co-op scaling, and a Metacritic of 81.
Borderlands 4
Borderlands 4 is Gearbox and 2K's looter shooter, released September 12, 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Set on the open-world planet Kairos, it features four new Vault Hunters, 4-player co-op, Metacritic 84, and notable launch performance issues.
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is a 2015 Gearbox/2K compilation for PS4 and Xbox One bundling Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel with all DLC, four-player split-screen, cross-save, and a 1080p60 patch 1.02.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is a 2014 looter-shooter by Gearbox Software and 2K Australia, set on Pandora's moon Elpis between Borderlands and Borderlands 2, with Oz kits, low gravity, laser and cryo weapons, and Handsome Jack's origin story.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza is Gloria Anzaldúa's 1987 hybrid book of prose and poetry from Aunt Lute Books on the U.S.-Mexico border, Chicana feminism, code-switching, and mestiza consciousness; issued in five editions plus a 2021 critical edition.
Borderline (2024 TV series)
Borderline (2024) is an Irish-German crime drama, also titled Borderline – Grenzenlose Verbrechen, in which PSNI DCI Philip Boyd (Eoin Macken) and Garda DI Aoife Regan (Amy De Bhrún) solve cross-border murders in three two-part cases on the Irish border.
Borderline (2025 film)
Borderline (2025 film): American comedy horror-thriller, Jimmy Warden's directorial debut, starring Samara Weaving and Ray Nicholson; a stalker invades a 1990s LA pop star's home to marry her; released March 14, 2025 by Magnet Releasing.
Borderline (Madonna song)
Borderline (Madonna song): 1984 dance-pop single written by Reggie Lucas, fifth from Madonna's 1983 debut; her first US top ten hit (No. 10, 30 weeks, Gold), with Mary Lambert's first Madonna video.