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Boxcar Bertha
Boxcar Bertha (1972) is Martin Scorsese's second feature, a Roger Corman-produced AIP crime drama with Barbara Hershey and David Carradine, loosely based on Sister of the Road, shot in Arkansas.
Boxcar Willie
Boxcar Willie (Lecil Travis Martin, 1931-1999) was an American country singer in hobo costume with a train-whistle imitation; a 1981 Grand Ole Opry member whose TV-advertised King of the Road album sold over 3 million copies.
Boxer (Animal Farm)
Boxer is the loyal carthorse in Orwell's Animal Farm (1945), motto 'I will work harder', an allegory of the exploited Soviet working class, sold to the knacker after collapsing from overwork.
Boxer (armoured fighting vehicle)
The Boxer, or GTK Boxer, is an 8x8 multi-role armored vehicle developed by Germany and the Netherlands, serving as an armored personnel carrier, ambulance, and command post.
Boxer at Rest
Boxer at Rest, also called the Terme Boxer, is a Hellenistic bronze statue of a wounded seated boxer, unearthed in Rome in 1885 and now in the National Roman Museum.
Boxer cardiomyopathy
Boxer cardiomyopathy (Boxer ARVC) is an inherited arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy of Boxer dogs caused by a striatin-gene mutation, causing ventricular arrhythmias, syncope, and sudden death; screened by Holter and DNA tests.
Boxer Protocol
Boxer Protocol (Xinchou Treaty), signed at Peking September 7, 1901, ended the Boxer Uprising: 450 million tael indemnity at 4% over 40 years, legation guards, punishments, and later US remissions funding education.
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion (义和团运动, 1899–1901) was an anti-foreign, anti-Christian uprising in northern China led by the Yihetuan martial arts society, ending with an eight-nation intervention, the 55-day legation siege, and the punitive Boxer Protocol.
Boxer Rebellion and Russian occupation of Manchuria
The Boxer Rebellion and Russian occupation of Manchuria (Восстание ихэтуаней и оккупация Маньчжурии) were the connected events of 1900–1901 in which the anti-foreign Ihetuan uprising swept north China and Russian forces occupied all of Manchuria.
Boxer's fracture
A boxer's fracture is a break in the neck of the fifth metacarpal, the hand bone behind the little finger, usually from punching a hard object.
Boxgrove Man
Boxgrove Man: Middle Pleistocene human fossils (a tibia and two incisors) from Boxgrove, West Sussex, England, about 480,000-500,000 years old, the earliest human remains in Britain, usually assigned to Homo heidelbergensis.
Boxing
Boxing: combat sport of two gloved fighters scoring punches in a ring; Olympic since 688 BC (ancient) and 1904 (modern). Two codes, amateur and professional, differ in headgear, rounds, and 10-point must scoring.
Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio 2016): 13 events, 286 boxers at Riocentro Pavilion 6, 5–21 August 2016; first Games allowing professionals, no men's headguards, 10-point must scoring; later confirmed bout manipulation by referees and judges.
Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held 24 July to 8 August 2021 at Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, ran under IOC Boxing Task Force oversight after AIBA's suspension, with 13 events, 289 boxers, and Cuba topping the medal table.
Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics: Paris boxing tournament, 27 July to 10 August 2024, 13 events (7 men, 6 women), IOC-run after IBA ban; Uzbekistan won five golds; Khelif and Lin golds amid eligibility row.
Boxing at the 2026 Commonwealth Games
Boxing at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow boxing tournament, SEC Centre, 23 July to 2 August 2026. Seven weight classes each for men and women under World Boxing rules; India led with 10 medals including 7 gold, England 10, Australia and Northern Ireland 6 each.
Boxing at the 2028 Summer Olympics
Boxing at the 2028 Summer Olympics (LA28): 14 events, seven weight classes each for men and women, first gender parity, run by World Boxing after the IBA's removal; 248 quota places, Peacock Theater and DTLA Arena, 15–30 July 2028.
Boxing at the Summer Olympics
Boxing at the Summer Olympics is a weight-class tournament at every Games since St. Louis 1904 except Stockholm 1912; women's events began in 2012 and pros have been eligible since 2016.
Boxing career of Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali's boxing career: Olympic light-heavyweight gold 1960, three-time lineal heavyweight champion (1964, 1974, 1978), 56-5 in 61 fights, exile 1967-1970, Frazier and Foreman rivalries.
Boxing Day
Boxing Day, December 26, is a UK and Commonwealth public holiday also called St. Stephen's Day. Named for Christmas boxes given to servants or church alms boxes, it is now marked by sales and sports, not the sport of boxing.
Boxing Day Test
Boxing Day Test: annual Test cricket match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground starting December 26, held every summer since 1980 (except 1989). First MCG Boxing Day-era Test 1950; first to start on Boxing Day 1968/69; record 2024 India Test attendance.
Boxing Helena
Boxing Helena is a 1993 American erotic thriller, the directorial debut of Jennifer Chambers Lynch, starring Julian Sands as a surgeon who keeps an amputated woman captive.
Boxing styles and technique
Boxing styles and technique: swarmer, out-boxer, slugger, boxer-puncher archetypes; orthodox vs southpaw mechanics; jab, cross, hook, uppercut biomechanics; punch force data, CompuBox analytics, 10-point must scoring, and 2013 headgear rule effects.
Boxmoor
Boxmoor, or Boxmoor House Roman villa, is a scheduled Romano-British villa in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, occupied 1st-4th centuries AD, excavated by John Evans (1851-52) and David Neal (1966-70), abandoned mid-4th century.
BoxOff
BoxOff is Steven Meyers' 2013 solitaire puzzle: remove same-colored pairs at opposite corners of empty rectangles to clear a grid. NP-complete with four colors; standard 6x8, three colors.
BoxRec
BoxRec, also known as BoxRec.com, is an online database of professional boxing records founded in 2000, endorsed as official record keeper by the Association of Boxing Commissions in 2018.
Boxted Roman villa
Boxted Roman villa: minor Romano-British villa east of Boxted Farm, Lower Halstow, Kent, excavated 1882-1883 by George Payne; late 1st to late 2nd century AD, scheduled monument 1009022, near a contemporary Romano-Celtic temple.
Boxwood blight
Boxwood blight, or box blight, is a fungal disease of Buxus, Sarcococca, and Pachysandra caused by Calonectria pseudonaviculata and C. henricotiae; first seen in England in 1994, in the US in 2011, now in 30 US states.
Boy
Boy: a male child; boyhood as a biological and social stage. Covers word history, developmental vulnerability, nurture gaps, education outcomes, masculinity norms, manosphere influence, and care research.
Boy (2010 film)
Boy (2010) is Taika Waititi's New Zealand comedy-drama about an 11-year-old Michael Jackson fan (James Rolleston) meeting his ex-con father in 1984; highest-grossing NZ film until Hunt for the Wilderpeople.