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Boethius
Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, c. 475–526) was a Roman senator, philosopher, and Theodoric's Master of Offices; translator of Aristotle's logic, author of the Opuscula sacra, De Institutione Musica, and the prison-written Consolation of Philosophy on fortune, providence, and free will.
Boetius of Dacia
Boetius of Dacia (Boethius Dacus), Danish master of arts at Paris c. 1270, Aristotelian philosopher of the autonomy of the sciences and leading modist, targeted in the 1277 Paris condemnation; not the sixth-century Roman Boethius.
Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70
The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70, also called the Bofors L70, is a Swedish autocannon developed in the late 1940s and still in production.
Bofors 40 mm gun
The Bofors 40 mm gun, also known as the Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun, is a Swedish automatic anti-aircraft cannon that became the most widely used anti-aircraft weapon of World War II.
Bogan
Bogan: Australian and New Zealand slang for an uncultured, boorish person, used of the white working-class poor; closest to British 'chav'. Origin unknown, spread from 1980s Melbourne, with variants cashed-up bogan and boganette.
Boğazköy archive
The Boğazköy archive, also called the Hattusa archive, is the corpus of some 25,000 to 35,000 cuneiform tablets from Ḫattuša, capital of the Hittite kingdom, about 1650–1180 BC.
Bogd Khan (Богд хаан)
Bogd Khan (Богд хаан), 1869–1924, born Agvaan Luvsan Choijinnyam Danzan Vanchüg, was the eighth Jebtsundamba Khutuktu and last theocratic monarch of Mongolia, enthroned 29 December 1911, restored by Ungern in 1921, and succeeded after his 1924 death by the Mongolian People's Republic.
Bogd Khanate of Mongolia
Bogd Khanate of Mongolia (Mongol Uls, Olnoo örgögdson): theocratic state in Outer Mongolia, 1911-1924, under the Eighth Jebtsundamba Khutuktu as Bogd Khaan; autonomous under Chinese suzerainty by the 1915 Treaty of Kyakhta, ended with the 1924 Mongolian People's Republic.
Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski
Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski is a Polish politician of the Civic Coalition who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014, after serving as Minister of Culture.
Bogdan Filov
Bogdan Filov (Богдан Филов, 1883–1945) was a Bulgarian archaeologist and politician who served as prime minister from 1940 to 1943, taking Bulgaria into World War II on the Axis side.
Bogdan Rzońca
Bogdan Rzońca (born 1961) is a Polish Law and Justice politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, chairing its Committee on Petitions since 2024.
Bogdanov affair
Bogdanov affair: 2002 dispute over French TV twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, whose theoretical physics papers and Bourgogne PhD theses were called meaningless 'reverse Sokal' publications.
Bogenbay Batyr
Bogenbay Batyr (Бөгенбай батыр) was an eighteenth-century Kazakh batyr and army commander of the Middle Horde, a leader of the resistance to the Dzungar invasions.
Bogeyman
The bogeyman (boogeyman, boogieman) is an imaginary hobgoblin used to frighten children into obedience; formless, worldwide in parallels like Namahage and Krampus, and studied by Marina Warner.
Boggart
Boggart: a feared supernatural being of northern English folklore, attested from the 1560s and traced to Middle English bugge; a catch-all term for ghosts, goblins, and house spirits, with heartland in 'greater Lancashire', revived via Harry Potter.
Bogoljub Jevtić
Bogoljub Jevtić was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat, minister of foreign affairs from 1932 to 1935 and prime minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from December 1934 to June 1935.
Bogoljub Karić (Богољуб Карић)
Bogoljub Karić (Богољуб Карић), born 1954 in Peć, is a Serbian businessman and politician who built the BK Group, co-founded Mobtel and BK TV, served as a minister in 1998, led Pokret snaga Srbije, and returned from exile in 2016.
Bogomilism
Bogomilism, whose followers were called Bogomils, was a dualist Christian heresy that arose in Bulgaria in the mid-10th century and spread through the Balkans and Byzantine Empire.
Bogotazo
The Bogotazo was the wave of riots that swept Bogotá, Colombia, after Liberal Party leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was assassinated on 9 April 1948, leaving several thousand dead.
Bogusław Leszczyński
Bogusław Leszczyński (c. 1612–1659) was a Polish magnate and statesman who served as Grand Treasurer and Vice-Chancellor of the Crown and presided over the Sejm three times.
Bogusław Radziwiłł
Bogusław Radziwiłł (Lithuanian: Boguslavas Radvila), 1620 to 1669, was a prince of the Radziwiłł family and general who sided with Sweden in 1655, becoming a Polish byword for treason.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький)
Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Богдан Хмельницький, c. 1595–1657), Cossack hetman who led the 1648–57 uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, founded the Cossack Hetmanate, signed the 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement with Muscovy, and is revered in Ukraine but blamed for Jewish massacres.
Bohdan Ruzhynsky
Bohdan Ruzhynsky (Богдан Ружинський), also called Bohdanko, was a Cossack hetman of a Lithuanian-Ruthenian princely family who died in 1576 besieging the Tatar fortress Aslan Kermen.
Bohemian Club
The Bohemian Club is a private men-only San Francisco club founded in 1872 by journalists and artists, known for its 2,700-acre Bohemian Grove retreat in Sonoma County, the Cremation of Care ritual, and a membership of political and business elites.
Bohemian Confederation
The Bohemian Confederation (Czech: Česká konfederace, Latin: Confoederatio Bohemica) was a constitutional charter adopted at Prague in 1619, uniting the lands of the Bohemian Crown against Habsburg rule.
Bohemian Diet
The Bohemian Diet (český sněm) was the estates assembly of the Kingdom of Bohemia, meeting in Prague and serving for centuries as the main counterweight to royal power.
Bohemian Estates
The Bohemian Estates (Czech stavy) were the privileged nobles, knights, and royal towns of the Kingdom of Bohemia, whose diets elected kings and granted taxes until 1620.
Bohemian Reformation
The Bohemian Reformation was a church reform movement in the Kingdom of Bohemia from the late 14th century, centered on John Hus and producing the Hussite movement.
Bohemian Revolt
The Bohemian Revolt (České stavovské povstání) was an uprising of the non-Catholic estates of Bohemia and Austria against Habsburg rule from 1618 to 1620, beginning with the Defenestration of Prague.
Bohemian-Polish War (1038–1039)
The Bohemian-Polish War of 1038–1039 was Duke Bretislav I of Bohemia's invasion of a Poland collapsed by dynastic strife, in which he seized Silesia and Kraków.