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Bowring Treaty
The Bowring Treaty (สนธิสัญญาเบาว์ริง) was an 1855 treaty of amity and commerce between Siam and Britain, signed at Bangkok under King Mongkut and Sir John Bowring.
Bowser
Bowser (クッパ, Kuppa), King of the Koopas, is the main antagonist of Nintendo's Super Mario franchise; debuted in Super Mario Bros. (NES), kidnaps Princess Peach, breathes fire, and is voiced by Jack Black in the films.
Bowsette
Bowsette (クッパ姫, Koopa-hime) is a fan-made gender-swapped Bowser created via the Super Crown by artist ayyk92 in a September 19, 2018 comic; unofficial, viral in Japan and the West, never adopted by Nintendo.
Box
Box, Wiltshire, England: village and civil parish whose major Roman villa, a scheduled monument with 20 mosaic floors and at least 170 by 100 m of structures, was occupied from the second to fourth centuries AD.
Box braids
Box braids, or box braiding, are individual three-strand braids started from square scalp sections, usually with synthetic extensions, worn as a protective style for Afro-textured hair.
Box Car Racer
Box Car Racer: American rock side project of Blink-182's Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker, formed 2001 in San Diego with David Kennedy and Anthony Celestino; one self-titled 2002 MCA album, Billboard 200 number 12, disbanded 2003, later source of Blink-182's "Terrified."
Box counting
Box counting is a numerical method for estimating the fractal dimension of a set, pattern, or image, by counting how the number of boxes covering it grows as box size shrinks.
Box Cutter (Breaking Bad)
"Box Cutter" is the season 4 premiere of Breaking Bad, in which Gus Fring kills his henchman Victor with a box cutter in the meth superlab.
Box for Buddy, Box for Star
Box for Buddy, Box for Star is the 2024 debut album by Nate Amos as This Is Lorelei, his 67th release, on Double Double Whammy; a recovery-themed indie rock and country record later issued in Deluxe and Super Deluxe editions.
Box girder bridge
A box girder bridge is a bridge whose deck is carried by one or more girders with a hollow box-shaped cross-section, first used on the Britannia Bridge in 1850.
Box jellyfish
Box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) are cube-belled cnidarians with tentacles at four corners, 24 eyes of four types, active swimming, and potent venom; around 45 species, deadliest in the Indo-Pacific, including Chironex fleckeri and Irukandji.
Box jellyfish venom and toxins
Box jellyfish venom is the toxic protein mixture injected by cubozoan jellyfish, dominated by pore-forming CfTX toxins that cause extreme pain and cardiovascular collapse within minutes.
Box junction
A box junction is a road marking of yellow cross-hatched lines that drivers may not enter unless they can clear it, used in the UK, Ireland, and Hong Kong.
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo (boxofficemojo.com) is an online box-office reporting service founded by Brandon Gray in 1999 and operated by IMDb since 2008; its 2019 IMDbPro redesign moved some data behind a paywall, distinguishing it from the free rival The Numbers.
Box plot
A box plot, or box-and-whisker plot, is a statistical graphic that summarizes a distribution using the median, quartiles, whiskers, and individually plotted outliers, with comparison of groups its main strength.
BOX trial
The BOX trial was a Danish randomized trial testing blood pressure and oxygen targets, plus fever prevention, in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, finding no benefit from higher targets.
Box truck
A box truck, also called a dry freight truck, is a commercial truck with an enclosed cargo box mounted behind the cab, used for furniture, appliances, and pallets.
Box Tunnel
Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in Wiltshire, England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway, opened in 1841 as the world's longest railway tunnel.
Box turtle
Box turtle, genus Terrapene, is a North American emydid turtle distinguished by a hinged plastron that allows it to nearly close its shell, ranging from the eastern U.S. into Mexico.
Box-office bomb
Box-office bomb (also box-office flop): a film whose theatrical revenue fails to cover production and marketing costs. Key facts: ~2.5× budget break-even rule, 18.6% flop rate among wide releases 1999–2018, Hollywood accounting distortions.
Box-Office Bunny
Box-Office Bunny is a 1991 five-minute Looney Tunes short directed by Darrell Van Citters, the first theatrical Bugs Bunny cartoon since 1964, made for Bugs' 50th anniversary and shown with The NeverEnding Story II.
Box-spring
A box-spring is a mattress foundation of wire spring elements on a frame, placed beneath a mattress on a bed frame; most sold today contain no springs.
Box–Behnken design
The Box–Behnken design is a three-level experimental design for fitting quadratic response surface models, introduced by Box and Behnken in 1960, placing runs at edge midpoints to avoid extreme factor combinations.
Box–Cox transformation
The Box–Cox transformation is a family of power transformations of positive data, introduced by Box and Cox in 1964 to help data meet the assumptions of the normal linear model.
Box–Jenkins method
The Box–Jenkins method is an iterative procedure in time series analysis for building ARIMA models, described by George Box and Gwilym Jenkins in their 1970 book Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control.
Box, Inc.
Box, Inc. is an American cloud content management company in Redwood City, California, founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, that went public on the NYSE in 2015.
Box2D
Box2D is a free, open source 2D rigid body physics engine in C by Erin Catto, used in many games and game engines under the MIT license.
Boxanagar Mound
The Boxanagar Mound is an excavated Buddhist archaeological site in Sepahijala district, Tripura, India, where the Archaeological Survey of India uncovered a brick stupa, prayer hall, and monastery.
Boxberg power station
Boxberg power station (Kraftwerk Boxberg) is a lignite-fired power station in Boxberg in the Saxon district of Görlitz, Germany, operated by LEAG; its 2,575 megawatts make it the largest plant in LEAG's Lusatian fleet.
Boxcar
A boxcar is an enclosed, roofed railroad freight car with side doors, the general-purpose car of the classic railroad era, now used mainly for paper, lumber, and auto parts.