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Boston Hunters
Based in Boston, the Boston Hunters is a professional women's baseball team and one of the four founding clubs of the Women's Pro Baseball League (WPBL) in 2026.
Boston Latin School
Boston Latin School (BLS), founded April 23, 1635, in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest school in the United States and the origin of America's first public school system; a selective grades 7-12 exam school with alumni including Benjamin Franklin and Leonard Bernstein.
Boston Legacy FC
Boston Legacy FC, formerly BOS Nation FC, is an NWSL women's soccer expansion club in Boston owned by Boston Unity Soccer Partners (Jennifer Epstein); debuted 2026, $53M fee, playing at Gillette and Centreville Bank Stadium until White Stadium in 2028.
Boston Legal
Boston Legal is an American legal comedy-drama created by David E. Kelley, airing on ABC 2004–2008 as a spin-off of The Practice, set at the firm Crane, Poole & Schmidt with James Spader as Alan Shore and William Shatner as Denny Crane.
Boston Manor
Boston Manor are an English five-piece band from Blackpool, formed in 2013, whose music has moved from pop-punk through post-hardcore and grunge into darker, electronic-tinged alternative rock.
Boston Marathon
Boston Marathon: world's oldest annual marathon, run since 1897 from Hopkinton to Boston on Patriots' Day; B.A.A.-organized, qualifying-time entry, wheelchair division pioneer, world-record-ineligible downhill course.
Boston Marathon bombing
The Boston Marathon bombing: April 15, 2013 pressure cooker bomb attack by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev near the finish line, killing three, injuring hundreds, leading to manhunt, Tsarnaev conviction, death sentence, and appeals.
Boston Market
Boston Market, originally Boston Chicken, is an American fast-casual rotisserie chicken chain founded in Newton, Massachusetts in 1985, which peaked above 1,200 locations, went through McDonald's and Sun Capital ownership, and shrank to about two dozen stores under Jay Pandya.
Boston marriage
Boston marriage: a late 19th- to early 20th-century New England term for a long-term cohabiting relationship between two unmarried, often college-educated and financially independent women; popularized by Henry James's The Bostonians (1886), exemplified by Annie Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett.
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre: March 5, 1770 shooting on King Street, Boston, where British soldiers killed five colonists including Crispus Attucks; John Adams defended the soldiers, and Paul Revere's propaganda engraving spread Patriot outrage.
Boston Micromachines Corporation
Boston Micromachines Corporation is a photonics company founded in 1999 as a Boston University spin-off in Cambridge, Massachusetts, making MEMS deformable mirrors for astronomy, microscopy, retinal imaging, and laser communication.
Boston Micromachines deformable mirror
Boston Micromachines deformable mirrors are MEMS wavefront-correction devices made by Boston Micromachines Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose electrostatic actuators deform a mirror surface to cancel optical aberrations in microscopy, astronomy, and space systems.
Boston Naming Test
The Boston Naming Test is a neuropsychological assessment in which a person names 60 line drawings of common objects, measuring word retrieval in dementia and other conditions.
Boston Pizza
Boston Pizza is a Canadian casual-dining and sports bar chain founded in Edmonton in 1964 by Gus Agioritis, acquired by Jim Treliving and George Melville in 1983, with 374 Canadian locations and a TSX-listed royalty fund.
Boston Police Department
The Boston Police Department (BPD) is Boston, Massachusetts's municipal police force, tracing to the 1631 town watch and formally founded in 1854; led by Commissioner Michael A. Cox, appointed 2022, it runs 12 district stations and bureau-based operations.
Boston Public
Boston Public is a David E. Kelley Fox drama (2000, four seasons, 81 episodes) about teachers at fictional Winslow High School in Boston, starring Chi McBride; Peabody-winning, Emmy-honored, now unavailable to stream.
Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library (BPL), established in 1848, was the first large free municipal library in the United States and the first to lend books.
Boston Red Sox
Boston Red Sox, formerly Boston Americans, MLB American League East team founded 1901 in Boston. Nine World Series titles (1903-2018), home at Fenway Park since 1912, ended the 86-year Curse of the Bambino in 2004.
Boston Review
Boston Review is an independent, nonprofit American magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, founded in 1975 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and known for long-form essays and its Forum debates.
Boston Scientific
Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX), Marlborough, Massachusetts medical device maker; segments Cardiovascular and MedSurg; Farapulse PFA and Watchman; competes with Abbott and Medtronic; $20B 2025 net sales.
Boston Scott
Boston Scott (Boston Nealand Scott, born 1995) is a retired NFL running back from Baton Rouge, a Louisiana Tech walk-on and 2018 sixth-round pick who played six seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles, became the 'Giant killer' with 10 TDs vs. New York, and later joined esports org Dignitas.
Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler, also called the Silk Stocking Murders, killed 13 women around Boston, 1962-1964. Albert DeSalvo confessed but was never charged; 2013 DNA linked him only to final victim Mary Sullivan.
Boston Strangler (film)
Boston Strangler (2023) is Matt Ruskin's Hulu true-crime thriller starring Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon as reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole, who connected the 1962-1964 Boston Strangler murders and doubted Albert DeSalvo's guilt.
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), American orchestra founded 1881 by Henry Lee Higginson, based at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood. Music director Andris Nelsons' contract was not renewed in March 2026, ending his tenure in 2027 after 13 seasons.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party: December 16, 1773 protest at Griffin's Wharf, Boston Harbor, where colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of East India Company tea from the Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver to oppose the Tea Act monopoly, prompting the Intolerable Acts.
Boston Terrier
Boston Terrier: American companion dog breed, nicknamed "The American Gentleman," developed from Hooper's Judge (English Bulldog x White English Terrier cross) around 1870; AKC-recognized 1893, first Non-Sporting Group member, official dog of Massachusetts.
Boston United F.C.
Boston United F.C., the Pilgrims, an English football club founded 1933 in Boston, Lincolnshire; Northern Premier League founder member and four-time champions, Conference winners 2002, Football League 2002-2007, National League since 2024.
Boston University
Boston University (BU), private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, founded 1839 as Newbury Biblical Institute, chartered 1869. Three campuses, 17 schools plus Computing & Data Sciences, 38,000+ students, AAU member since 2012, president Melissa Gilliam.
Boston-Power
Boston-Power Inc. was a lithium-ion battery manufacturer founded by Christina Lampe-Önnerud in 2005 and based in Westborough, Massachusetts, known for Sonata notebook cells and Swing cells for electric vehicles and utility storage.
Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It
Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It is an 1860 photograph by James Wallace Black, taken from a balloon over Boston and the earliest surviving aerial photograph.