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Borghese Gladiator
The Borghese Gladiator is a Hellenistic marble statue of a naked fighting warrior, signed by Agasias of Ephesus around 100 BC and now in the Louvre in Paris.
Borghese Vase
The Borghese Vase is a monumental ancient marble calyx-krater carved in Athens in the 1st century BC, unearthed in Rome and held by the Louvre since 1811.
Borgia (TV series)
Borgia (Borgia: Faith and Fear), 2011–2014 French-German-Czech historical drama created by Tom Fontana, starring John Doman as Rodrigo Borgia; distinct from the parallel Showtime series The Borgias with Jeremy Irons.
Borgora
Borgora, alternate name of Borohoro Shan (博罗科努山), a 5,248 m ultra-prominent peak (2,576 m prominence) in the Borohoro Mountains of the Tian Shan, Xinjiang, China; elevation from Soviet military maps.
Borgou Department
Borgou, a department of Benin in the northeast with chief town Parakou; 25,856 km², 8 communes, 1,214,249 inhabitants (2013 census), second most populous, bordering Nigeria and holding over 65% of Benin's cattle.
Borgu
Borgu is a historical region of West Africa west of the Niger River, divided between Nigeria and Benin and known for kingdoms that resisted the Sokoto Caliphate.
Borgward
Borgward was a Bremen-based German automobile and commercial vehicle maker founded by Carl Borgward, known for the Isabella before its insolvency in 1961; the name was revived in China from 2015.
BorgWarner
BorgWarner Inc., founded in 1928 as the Borg-Warner Corporation, is an American automotive parts supplier in Auburn Hills, Michigan, making turbochargers, drivetrain components, and electric drive systems.
Boric acid
Boric acid (H3BO3), also known as orthoboric acid, is a weak inorganic acid occurring as odorless, colorless crystals, best known as a slow-acting insecticide against cockroaches.
Boriding
Boriding, also called boronizing, is a thermochemical surface treatment that diffuses boron into metals at 750 to 1050 °C, forming hard iron boride layers that greatly improve wear and corrosion resistance.
Borie
A borie is a traditional dry-stone hut of Provence in southeastern France, built without mortar and roofed with a corbelled vault, serving farmers and shepherds as a seasonal shelter.
Boril of Bulgaria
Boril (Борил) was tsar of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218, seizing the throne after Kaloyan's death, losing territory to the Latin Empire, and convoking the first anti-Bogomil council in 1211.
Boring (manufacturing)
Boring, also called internal turning, is a machining process that enlarges an existing drilled hole to a precise diameter, straightness, and concentricity, performed on lathes, boring mills, and line-boring equipment.
Boring and bioeroding sponges
Boring and bioeroding sponges are sponges that excavate cavities in coral skeletons, limestone, and mollusc shells, combining chemical dissolution with removal of mineral chips, and dominate reef macrobioerosion.
Boring demosponges (Clionaida)
Boring demosponges (Clionaida) are an order of sponges that excavate tunnels and chambers in limestone and coral skeletons by chemically dissolving them, accounting for up to 90% of macrobioerosion on Caribbean reefs.
Boring, Oregon
Boring, Oregon: unincorporated census-designated place in Clackamas County near Portland, named for settler William H. Boring; population 1,931 (2020); sister community of Dull, Scotland since 2012.
Boris (ボリス) (band)
Boris (ボリス, Borisu) is a Japanese experimental rock trio formed in Tokyo in 1992: Takeshi, Wata, and Atsuo. Named after a Melvins song, it has released 30-plus albums spanning drone, doom, sludge, shoegaze, and pop, including Pink (2005).
Boris A. Malomed
Boris A. Malomed, also published as B. A. Malomed, is a theoretical physicist at Tel Aviv University known for work on solitons and Bose–Einstein condensates.
Boris Aleksandrov
Boris Aleksandrov (Борис Викторович Александров, 1955–2002), Kazakhstani-born Soviet ice hockey forward; 1976 Olympic gold with USSR, CSKA Moskva titles, later head coach of Kazakhstan's national team; died in a car crash.
Boris Alexandrovich of Tver
Boris Alexandrovich of Tver (Борис Александрович Тверской) was grand prince of Tver from 1425 until his death in 1461, balancing alliances between Moscow and Lithuania.
Boris Altshuler
Boris Altshuler, born 1955 in Leningrad, is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and Columbia University professor known for the Altshuler-Aronov corrections, universal conductance fluctuations, and many-body localization.
Boris and Gleb
Boris and Gleb (Борис и Глеб), in baptism Roman and David, were younger sons of Vladimir of Kiev, murdered in 1015 and venerated as the first saints of Rus'.
Boris and Natasha: The Movie
Boris and Natasha: The Movie (1992) is a Showtime live-action comedy directed by Charles Martin Smith, starring Dave Thomas and Sally Kellerman as the Rocky and Bullwinkle spies, without Rocky and Bullwinkle themselves.
Boris Arbuzov (chemist)
Boris Aleksandrovich Arbuzov (Борис Александрович Арбузов; 1903–1991) was a Soviet organic chemist who led the Kazan school of chemistry and pioneered conformational analysis in the USSR.
Boris Becker
Boris Becker, German tennis player born 1967 in Leimen; youngest Wimbledon men's champion at 17 in 1985, six-time Grand Slam winner, 1991 world No. 1, later Djokovic's coach and convicted in 2022 bankruptcy case.
Boris Berezovsky (Борис Абрамович Березовский) (businessman)
Boris Berezovsky (Борис Абрамович Березовский), born in Moscow in 1946, was a Russian mathematician turned oligarch who helped elect Yeltsin, broke with Putin, and fled to Britain in 2000.
Boris Bošnjaković (Борис Бошњаковић)
Boris Bošnjaković (Борис Бошњаковић), born 1974 in Novi Sad, is a Serbian tennis coach and former player (ATP career-high 740) who heads Novak Djokovic's coaching team since 2025, led the Novak Tennis Center 2020-2023, and worked with Serbia's Davis Cup team since 2010.
Boris Brejcha
Boris Brejcha (born 1981, Ludwigshafen) is a German DJ and producer who coined the genre High-Tech Minimal, wears a Carnival-inspired joker mask, plays only his own music, runs the Fckng Serious label, and tours the REFLECTIONS show worldwide.
Boris Bresler
Boris Bresler (1918–2000) was an American structural and civil engineer, a UC Berkeley professor for 30 years, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
Boris C. Bastian
Boris C. Bastian is a German-trained physician-scientist and Gerson and Barbara Bakar Distinguished Professor at UCSF whose research showed melanoma is not one disease but genetically distinct subtypes.