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Bontshe the Silent

Bontshe the Silent (Yiddish: באָנטשע שװײַג) is an 1894 short story by I. L. Peretz about a meek poor man honored in a heavenly court.

Bonwit Teller

Bonwit Teller, a luxury New York women's department store founded by Paul Bonwit and Edmund Teller in the 1890s, famed for its Art Deco Fifth Avenue flagship demolished in 1980 for Trump Tower, and defunct as a chain after 1990.

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, also the Bonzo Dog Dada Band and Bonzo Dog Band: British comedy rock group formed in London in 1962 by art students, led by Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes, known for Gorilla, Do Not Adjust Your Set, and the UK number 5 hit I'm the Urban Spaceman.

Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

Boo 2! A Madea Halloween is a 2017 American comedy horror film written and directed by Tyler Perry, the tenth film in the Madea series.

BOO Seattle 2026

BOO Seattle 2026 is Insomniac's annual Halloween-season electronic dance music festival, held October 30–31, 2026 at WAMU Theater in Seattle, Washington, headlined by GRiZ and Subtronics.

Boo, Bitch

Boo, Bitch is an American teen comedy limited series released on Netflix in 2022, starring Lana Condor as a high school senior who believes she has become a ghost.

Boo! A Madea Halloween

Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016) is a Tyler Perry horror comedy, written, produced, and directed by Perry, inspired by a Top Five joke; it grossed $73.2 million domestically for Lionsgate and spawned Boo 2! in 2017.

Booba

Booba (Élie Yaffa, born 1976, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French rapper, ex-Lunatic duo member, solo from Temps Mort (2002) through Blanco Nemesis (2026), founder of the 92i label and the 2026 electro label Sublife.

Booboo Stewart

Booboo Stewart (Nils Allen Stewart Jr., born 1994) is an American actor and musician known as Seth Clearwater in Twilight, Jay in Disney's Descendants, and Warpath in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Boogeyman (film)

Boogeyman (film) is a 2005 supernatural horror film directed by Stephen Kay, and it was the first theatrical release for Ghost House Pictures, grossing over $67 million worldwide.

Boogie

Boogie (boogie-woogie) is a blues-based piano style with a repeated left-hand eighth-note bass over 12-bar blues, arising in Southern barrelhouse camps around 1900 and popularized in the late 1930s by Ammons, Johnson, and Lewis, later feeding rock and roll.

Boogie Down Productions

Boogie Down Productions (BDP), South Bronx hip hop group formed 1985 by KRS-One and DJ Scott La Rock with D-Nice; debut Criminal Minded (1987) founded hardcore rap; disbanded 1992.

Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Mark Wahlberg as a young porn actor discovered in California's San Fernando Valley.

Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie: a blues-based piano style with a rolling left-hand bass, 12-bar I-IV-V form, "8 to the bar" rhythm; origins in 1870s Texas, hit record Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie (1928).

Boogie's in My Soul

Boogie's in My Soul: 2026 single by Chaka Khan and Snoop Dogg, written with Sia and Greg Kurstin, from the album Chakzilla; UK sales chart peak No. 27.

Boogie2988

Boogie2988, also known as Boogie or Francis, is the YouTube alias of Steven Jason Williams (born 1974), an American gaming YouTuber famous for his rage character Francis, the 2016 Trending Gamer Award, and later controversies including a faked-cancer scandal.

Boohbah

Boohbah is a British preschool TV series from Ragdoll Productions, created by Teletubbies creator Anne Wood, first aired on ITV in April 2003. Five fuzzy creatures communicate through movement and sounds; it also aired on PBS in the US.

Boohoo

Boohoo is a British online fast-fashion retailer founded in Manchester in 2006, which grew through acquisitions including PrettyLittleThing and Debenhams and faced a 2020 Leicester factory pay scandal.

Book

Book: a non-periodical written or printed work of at least 49 pages (UNESCO definition), also called codex in bound form; exists in print, e-book, and audiobook formats; research shows small paper comprehension advantage over screens.

Book Club (film)

Book Club is a 2018 American romantic comedy directed by Bill Holderman, starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen as four friends.

Book culture in Goryeo

Book culture in Goryeo (918–1392) was the writing, printing, and circulating of texts in Goryeo Korea, culminating in the Tripitaka Koreana and metal movable type.

Book from the Sky

Book from the Sky (天書, Tianshu) is Xu Bing's 1987–1991 installation of hand-printed books and scrolls set in over 4,000 invented, unreadable Chinese-style characters, first shown in Beijing in 1988 and completed in 120 four-volume sets.

Book of Animals

The Book of Animals (Kitāb al-Ḥayawān) is a seven-volume Arabic encyclopedia of animals written in ninth-century Basra by al-Jāḥiẓ, regarded as the first comprehensive Arabic book on animals.

Book of Armagh

The Book of Armagh, also called the Canon of Patrick, is an Irish manuscript written around 807 containing a complete New Testament and St Patrick's Confessio.

Book of Durrow

The Book of Durrow is an illuminated Latin Gospel book of around 650 to 700, the earliest surviving fully illuminated Insular Gospel book, held at Trinity College Dublin.

Book of Histories

The Book of Histories (Girk patmuteants, also Book of History) is a chronicle of 17th-century Armenia by Arakel of Tabriz, first printed in Amsterdam in 1669.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is a 2000 American horror film directed by Joe Berlinger, the first sequel to The Blair Witch Project, released by Artisan Entertainment.

Book of the Stranger

Book of the Stranger is the fourth episode of Game of Thrones season 6, aired May 15, 2016, and was written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.

Book review

Book review: a critical evaluation of a book published shortly after publication, also called a review essay or scholarly book review. Distinguished by venue (trade, newspaper, academic journal), 250–500 word scholarly norms, anonymity history, and measurable reviewer bias.

Book series

Book series: related books sharing characters, settings, or storylines, descended from 19th-century serialized fiction such as Dickens's Pickwick Papers. Covers reading-order levels, reader-development research, and modern serialized platforms like Royal Road.