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Boys Planet (보이즈 플래닛)

Boys Planet (보이즈 플래닛) is Mnet and CJ ENM's 2023 boy group survival audition, the male follow-up to Girls Planet 999 after the Produce 101 scandal, with Group K versus Group G and 100% viewer voting verified by Samil PwC; it created ZEROBASEONE.

Boys Town (film)

Boys Town (1938) is an MGM drama directed by Norman Taurog, starring Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan and Mickey Rooney as Whitey Marsh; it won Oscars for Best Actor and Original Story.

Boys Town (organization)

Boys Town (Father Flanagan's Boys' Home) is a US nonprofit child and family care organization founded by Father Edward Flanagan in Omaha in 1917, known for the Teaching-Family Model residential care, its Nebraska village campus, and Boys Town National Research Hospital.

Boys' Brigade

The Boys' Brigade, founded in Glasgow on 4 October 1883 by William Alexander Smith, was the world's first voluntary uniformed youth movement. A Christian organisation for ages 5 to 18 with motto "Sure and Stedfast" and anchor emblem, it inspired Scouting and now operates in nearly 100 countries.

Boysenberry

Boysenberry, a large soft reddish-purple Rubus hybrid berry from 1920s California, developed by Rudolph Boysen and commercialized by Walter Knott; parentage involves loganberry, raspberry, and blackberry; New Zealand is now the largest producer.

Boystown (website)

Boystown (BoysTown) was a darknet child sexual abuse material forum active June 2019 to April 2021, with over 400,000 users and one million posts; shut down by Germany's BKA and ZIT in a Europol-coordinated operation, distinct from the Chicago neighborhood and Boys Town charity.

Boyuan Capital

Boyuan Capital (博远资本, BioTrack Capital) is a Shanghai venture capital firm focused solely on Chinese healthcare, co-founded in 2017 by Chen Penghui (陈鹏辉), formerly of Sequoia Capital China.

Boyuan Yingen (Yingen Mining)

Boyuan Yingen, or Yingen Mining, is a Chinese natural soda (trona) mining company that operates the large Tamusu deposit in Alxa Right Banner, Inner Mongolia, majority owned by Boyuan Chemical.

Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men is an American R&B vocal harmony group from Philadelphia, formed in 1985, whose ballads "End of the Road" and "One Sweet Day" set Hot 100 records.

Boyz n the Hood

Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American drama film written and directed by John Singleton, following three young men coming of age in South Central Los Angeles.

Boyz-n-the-Hood

Boyz-n-the-Hood: 1987 gangsta rap single by Eazy-E, written by Ice Cube, produced by Dr. Dre; first Ruthless Records release, launched N.W.A, later covered by Dynamite Hack and Megan Thee Stallion.

Boyzone

Boyzone: Irish boy band formed in Dublin in November 1993 by Louis Walsh; members Ronan Keating, Stephen Gately, Mikey Graham, Keith Duffy, Shane Lynch; six UK number-one singles, five number-one albums, 25 million records.

Boz Scaggs

Boz Scaggs (born William Royce Scaggs, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose 1976 album Silk Degrees produced the hits "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle".

Boza

Boza: thick, lightly fermented cereal drink of Turkey and the Balkans (braga, busa), made from millet, wheat, or maize; sweet-sour, pH 3.16–4.63, alcohol 0.03–0.79%, served in winter with cinnamon and roasted chickpeas.

Boza (musician)

Boza, born Humberto Ceballos in Panama City in 1997, is a Panamanian urbano latino singer whose viral 2020 hit "Hecha Pa' Mi" made him Panama's most visible urban artist.

Bozdoğan (air-to-air missile)

Bozdoğan, called Merlin in export references, is a Turkish within-visual-range air-to-air missile developed by TÜBİTAK SAGE under the GÖKTUĞ project, with an imaging infrared seeker and a range above 25 km.

Bozeman, Montana

Bozeman, Montana: fourth-largest Montana city and Gallatin County seat, home of Montana State University; fast-growing Rocky Mountain hub with a high-tech economy, Yellowstone gateway recreation, and high housing costs.

Bozeman, MT Micro Area

Bozeman, MT Micro Area (CBSA 14580) was the OMB micropolitan statistical area covering all of Gallatin County, Montana, centered on Bozeman; the fastest-growing US micro area, later published as a metropolitan statistical area with about 127,000 residents in 2024.

Bozena (demining vehicle)

Božena is a Slovak family of remote-controlled demining vehicles made by Way Industries in Krupina since the early 1990s, used by more than a dozen armies.

Bozena Komestikova

Bozena Komestikova (Komestiková), Czechoslovak javelin thrower; her 25.11 m throw at Pardubice on 10 June 1921 is listed as a women's javelin world record in the IAAF World Records Progression.

Božena Němcová

Božena Němcová, born Barbora Novotná (1820–1862), was a Czech writer and folklorist regarded as the founder of modern Czech prose, best known for the novel Babička (1855).

Bozena Rouhova

Bozena Rouhova (Božena Rouhová), Czechoslovak athlete; 1922 women's shot put 5 kg (BH) record of 13.39 at Brod on 13 September 1922; distinct from Nela and Dominika Rouhová.

Bozena Srncova

Božena Srncová (Srncová-Krejcarová), Czechoslovak artistic gymnast (1925–1997); won women's team gold at London 1948 and team bronze at Helsinki 1952, all-around 22nd in 1952.

Bozhi Tian

Bozhi Tian is a University of Chicago chemist who designs soft, porous silicon semiconductors that sense and stimulate living cells and tissue without genetic modification.

Bozhidar Sarâboyukov

Bozhidar Sarâboyukov (Божидар Саръбоюков), Bulgarian long jumper born 2004 in Harmanli; national record 8.49 m, 2025 European indoor champion, 2026 World Indoor and European outdoor bronze medallist.

Bozhong 19-6 Gas Field

Bozhong 19-6 Gas Field (渤中19-6气田) is a large offshore condensate gas field in the central Bohai Sea, China, the first 100-billion-cubic-meter gas field found in the Bohai Bay Basin.

Bozhou campaign (Yang Yinglong rebellion)

The Bozhou campaign (播州之役) was the Ming dynasty's 1600 expedition against Yang Yinglong, the hereditary chieftain of Bozhou, ending with the fall of his Hailongdun fortress.

Bozhou, Anhui

Bozhou (亳州市) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Anhui, China, established in 2000 with Qiaocheng District and Guoyang, Mengcheng, and Lixin counties; known as the World Capital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, hometown of Hua Tuo and Cao Cao, GDP 262.1 billion yuan in 2025.

Bozi Oil and Gas Field

The Bozi Oil and Gas Field (博孜气田) is an ultra-deep gas and condensate field in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China, discovered in 2019 and operated by PetroChina.

Bozidar Jovic

Božidar Jović, born 1972 in Banja Luka, is a Croatian handball pivot who won Olympic gold in 1996, World Championship gold 2003 and silver 1995, and later managed RK Zagreb.