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Bou Baghla revolt
The Bou Baghla revolt was an uprising in the Djurdjura mountains of Kabylie, Algeria, led by Chérif Boubaghla against French conquest from 1850 to 1854, with Lalla Fadhma N'Soumeur's support.
Bou Buttu Bhuta (ବୋଉ ବୁଟୁ ଭୂତ)
Bou Buttu Bhuta (ବୋଉ ବୁଟୁ ଭୂତ) is a 2025 Odia comedy-horror drama directed by Jagdish Mishra, starring Babushaan Mohanty and Aparajita Mohanty; released 12 June 2025, it became the highest-grossing Odia film.
Bou Hmara's revolt
Bou Hmara's revolt (1902–1909) was a rebellion in northeastern Morocco led by Jilali Ben Driss Zerhouni, known as Rogui Bou Hmara, who claimed to be the sultan's elder brother.
Bou Inania Madrasa
The Bou Inania Madrasa (المدرسة البوعنانية) is a Marinid madrasa and congregational mosque in Fez, Morocco, founded by Sultan Abu Inan Faris in the 1350s.
Bou Khenndak Copper Mines
Bou Khenndak Copper Mines (Mines de Cuivre Bou Khenndak, بوخندق/Boukhandek), a copper mine near Sidi Akkacha, Chlef Province, Algeria; worked 19th-early 20th century, linked to Roman remains at Merachiche.
Bou Kisnaden
Bou Kisnaden (Bou-Kisnaden) is a Roman villa site near Cherchel and Tipaza, Algeria, in the hinterland of Caesarea in Mauretania Caesariensis. A roughly 2,800 m² courtyard villa with pressing installations, active into late antiquity, recorded by Leveau and Pleiades; partly destroyed by the Tipaza-Cherchel highway.
Bou-Maza
Bou-Maza (بومعزة), "the man with the goat," was the nom de guerre of Algerian resistance leader Mohamed ben Abdallah, who led the 1845 Dahra insurrection against France.
Bouaké
Bouaké, formerly Gbékékro, is Côte d'Ivoire's second-largest city, capital of Gbêkê region and Bandama Valley district; founded 1898 around a French military post, railway town and trade hub.
Bouamama resistance
The Bouamama resistance was an armed uprising led by the Sufi sheikh Bouamama against French colonial rule in southwestern Algeria from 1881 until his death in 1908.
Bouba/kiki effect
Bouba/kiki effect, also called maluma/takete effect: people match the nonce word bouba to round shapes and kiki to spiky ones. Robust across 25 languages and 10 scripts, with exceptions like Syuba and Hunjara speakers.
Boubacar Boris Diop
Boubacar Boris Diop, born in 1946 in Dakar, is a Senegalese novelist who writes in French and Wolof and won the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Boubacar Kamara
Boubacar Bernard Kamara, French midfielder/centre-back born 1999 in Marseille; Marseille academy product, Aston Villa player since July 2022 on a free transfer, 5 France caps, Euro 2024 squad, contract to 2030.
Boubacar Kanté
Boubacar Kanté is the Chenming Hu Chaired Professor of electrical engineering at UC Berkeley, known for the topological laser named a top 10 discovery of 2017 by Physics World.
Boubyan Petrochemical Company
Boubyan Petrochemical Company (شركة بوبيان للبتروكيماويات) is a Kuwaiti holding company founded in 1995, the first private-sector investor in Kuwait's petrochemical sector, holding stakes in Equate and TKOC.
Bouc–Wen model
The Bouc–Wen model is a phenomenological hysteresis model in which a single nonlinear differential equation generates the restoring force of dampers, isolators, and structural elements under cyclic loading.
Boucheron
Boucheron is a French high jewelry house founded in Paris in 1858 by Frédéric Boucheron, known for the clasp-free Question Mark necklace and owned by Kering.
Bouches-du-Rhône
Bouches-du-Rhône (13), French department in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, prefecture Marseille; created 4 March 1790 from Provence and Orange; 5,087 km², 2.09 million inhabitants (2023), third most populous in France.
Bouchet & Rocroi taxonomy of Gastropoda
The Bouchet & Rocroi taxonomy of Gastropoda is a 2005 nomenclatural compendium by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi, revised in 2017, classifying gastropod snail families.
Bouchra
Bouchra, originally titled For Aicha, is a 2025 adult animated feature by Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki about a queer Moroccan filmmaker in New York, made in Blender with real phone calls to her mother in Casablanca.
Boucle du Baoule Biosphere Reserve
Boucle du Baoule Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère de la Boucle du Baoulé), a UNESCO MAB site designated 1982 in western Mali, 200 km northwest of Bamako; 918,000 ha with Boucle du Baoulé National Park, Fina, Kongossambougou, and Badinko reserves, Sudanian-Sahelian savanna, over 300 archaeological sites.
Boucle du Mouhoun
Boucle du Mouhoun, former region of western Burkina Faso, capital Dédougou, six provinces, 34,144 km², 1.9 million people (2019), the country's granary; split into Bankui and Sourou regions in July 2025.
Boudewijn Burgering
Boudewijn Burgering is a Dutch molecular biologist, professor of signal transduction at UMC Utrecht since 2003, known for identifying protein kinase B as an insulin signaling target in 1995.
Boudewijn Zenden
Boudewijn 'Bolo' Zenden (born 1976, Maastricht) is a Dutch former left-sided winger and midfielder who won league titles with PSV and Barcelona, the 2004 League Cup with Middlesbrough, and played in the 2007 Champions League final with Liverpool; 54 Netherlands caps.
Boudhanath
Boudhanath, also called Boudha, is a large Buddhist stupa in eastern Kathmandu, Nepal, containing the largest stupa in the country and a major Tibetan pilgrimage site.
Boudica
Boudica, also known as Boudicca, was the queen of the Iceni tribe in eastern Britain. She led a major revolt against Roman occupation in AD 60 or 61.
Boudica (2023 film)
Boudica, also released as Boudica: Queen of War, is Jesse V. Johnson's 2023 British action drama starring Olga Kurylenko as the Iceni queen who revolts against Rome; noted for Tacitus and Dio sources, anachronistic Saxons, and weak reception.
Boudin
Boudin is a type of sausage with two distinct uses. In France, it is a cooked charcuterie preparation, while in Louisiana, it is a seasoned link of pork and rice.
Boudoir
A boudoir is a small, elegantly furnished private room adjoining a lady's bedroom, originating in 18th-century French domestic architecture, where the mistress of the house withdrew to be alone, dress, or converse with intimates.
Boudoir photography
Boudoir photography, also called boudoir portraiture, is intimate semi-clothed studio portraiture made privately for the subject themselves, distinct from glamour and erotic photography. Genre roots trace to 1920s-era boudoir imagery; modern client-led boudoir took shape in the 1990s and 2000s.
Boudoron
Boudoron (Βούδορον), also Budorum, was a 5th-century BC Athenian fort on the northwest promontory of Salamis, built to blockade Megara's harbor; seized by the Peloponnesians in 429 BC and identified with a rubble wall by McLeod in 1960.