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Boudu Saved from Drowning
Boudu Saved from Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux) is Jean Renoir's 1932 French comedy starring Michel Simon as a tramp rescued from the Seine by a bourgeois bookseller, whose household he disrupts; adapted from René Fauchois's play, remade as Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
Bougainville campaign
The Bougainville campaign, also called Operation Cherryblossom, was a World War II campaign on Bougainville Island, the largest of the Solomon Islands, from 1943 to 1945.
Bougainville conflict
The Bougainville conflict was an armed secessionist war between Papua New Guinea and Bougainville fighters from 1988 to 1998, sparked by grievances over the Panguna copper mine.
Bougainville Island
Bougainville Island, main island of Papua New Guinea's Autonomous Region of Bougainville (with Buka Island), former German then Australian territory, site of the Panguna mine, civil war, and a 2019 referendum where 97.7% voted for independence.
Bougainville Peace Park
The Bougainville Peace Park is a city park in Arawa, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, hosting local events showcasing Bougainville heritage.
Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea, a South American genus of Nyctaginaceae woody climbers grown for colorful bracts around small true flowers; discovered in Rio de Janeiro on the 1766-1769 La Boudeuse voyage and named after Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
Bougainvillea (film)
Bougainvillea (ബൗഗൈൻവില്ലേയ്) is a 2024 Malayalam psychological crime thriller directed by Amal Neerad, starring Kunchacko Boban, Jyothirmayi, and Fahadh Faasil, released 17 October 2024 and streaming on SonyLIV from 13 December 2024.
Bought By Many
Bought By Many is a London-based insurtech company founded in 2012 by Steven Mendel and Guy Farley. It became a specialist pet insurer with £146m in annual gross written premium.
Bougon
Bougon (Tumulus de Bougon, Nécropole de Bougon): Neolithic burial-mound necropolis at Bougon, Deux-Sèvres, France. Five tumuli plus earthwork D, eight chambers, built 4700–4200 BC, used into the 3rd millennium BC; classified 1960, museum opened 1993.
Bouguer (Martian crater)
Bouguer is a 107.78-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 18.46°S, 27.27°E, named in 1973 for French physicist-hydrographer Pierre Bouguer (1698-1758) and cataloged by the USGS/IAU Gazetteer.
Bouguer anomaly
The Bouguer anomaly is a gravity anomaly corrected for elevation and the surrounding terrain, so remaining values reflect density variations used in mineral exploration and crustal studies.
Bouillabaisse
Bouillabaisse: Marseille's Provençal rock-fish stew, from Provençal boui-abaisso ("when it boils, lower the heat"), served as saffron broth with rouille and croutons, then fish cut at table; governed since 1980 by a 17-signatory charter requiring at least 4 fish species.
Bouillante Geothermal Power Station
The Bouillante Geothermal Power Station is a geothermal power plant in Bouillante, on Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, commissioned in 1986 and still the only operating geothermal plant in the Caribbean.
Bouillon cube
Bouillon cube, also stock or broth cube, dehydrated broth in about 4 g cubes; invented by Julius Maggi in 1908 using hydrolyzed vegetable protein; followed by OXO and Knorr; high in salt, used worldwide.
Bouillotte
Bouillotte, French vying card game of the Brelan family, introduced around the French Revolution; four players, 20-card pack, three cards plus a turned card; ancestor of Poker, supplanted by it.
Bouira Province
Bouira Province (البويرة), a wilaya of north-central Algeria created in 1974, capital Bouira city; 728,290 people, 4,454 km², Djurdjura Mountains, Lalla Khedidja (2,308 m), Tikjda ski station, and Kabyle Berber culture.
Boukephala
Boukephala (Bucephala, Alexandria Bucephalos), city founded by Alexander the Great in 326 BC on the Hydaspes (Jhelum) River after defeating Porus, named for his dead horse Bucephalas; twin of Nikaia, probably at Jalalpur Sharif, Pakistan.
Boukephalos
Boukephalos (Βουκέφαλος, bull-headed): ancient port on the Saronic coast of the Corinthia, probably at Frankolimano near Kenchreai; also the name of Alexander the Great's horse and of Boukephala on the Hydaspes.
Boukman's rebellion
Boukman's rebellion (Insurrection de Boukman) was a mass slave uprising that broke out in the Northern Plain of Saint-Domingue in August 1791, led by the Vodou priest Dutty Boukman.
Boulanger (Venusian crater)
Boulanger is a 71.50-km-wide impact crater on Venus at 26.60°S, 99.20°E, IAU-approved in 1991 and named for Nadia Boulanger, the French pianist and composer (1881–1979).
Boulder Canyon Project
The Boulder Canyon Project is the United States federal undertaking authorized in 1928 to build Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the All-American Canal for irrigation, flood control, and power.
Boulder City, Nevada
Boulder City, Nevada: city in Clark County founded in 1931 as a federal reservation for Hoover Dam workers; gambling illegal, growth-capped, 14,885 residents (2020), city-owned utilities.
Boulder County
Boulder County, Colorado: one of the original 17 territorial counties (Nov. 1, 1861), county seat Boulder, population 330,758 (2020), 726.4 sq mi, three-commissioner board, $745M 2026 budget, wildfire and flood top hazards.
Boulder field
Boulder field: a geomorphic term for boulder-covered landforms of glacial or periglacial origin, including block fields (felsenmeer), glacial till, and talus slopes; mostly Pleistocene relicts, 50,000–10,000 years old, that can persist through multiple glacial cycles.
Boulder Food Group
Boulder Food Group, also known as BFG Partners, is a venture capital firm founded in Boulder, Colorado in 2014 by Tom Spier that backs early-stage better-for-you food and beverage brands.
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado: home-rule city in Boulder County at the Rocky Mountain foothills, pop. 108,250 (2020). Home of CU Boulder, federal research labs, dual-slope water supply, and Colorado's highest flash-flood risk.
Bouldering
Bouldering is a form of ropeless rock climbing on short routes called problems, typically under 6 meters high, with falls cushioned by crash pads at the base.
Boulders Beach
Boulders Beach, Simon's Town, False Bay, Cape Town: Table Mountain National Park site of a mainland African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) colony begun in 1982 with two pairs, one of only two mainland breeding sites, with boardwalks, a No-take marine zone, and about 2,200 birds in recent years.
Boule lyonnaise
Boule lyonnaise, also called sport-boules, is a precision boules sport in which players roll steel balls toward a jack or knock away opponents' balls with a running throw.
Boulengerula niedeni
Boulengerula niedeni, the Sagalla caecilian, is a limbless, soil-burrowing amphibian described in 2005 and found only in the Sagalla Hills of the Taita Hills, southern Kenya.