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Bolshevism (большевизм)
Bolshevism (большевизм), the Bolshevik trend founded by Lenin from the 1903 RSDLP split with the Mensheviks; a professional-revolutionary party of democratic centralism that seized power in October 1917, became the Russian Communist Party in 1918, and spread via the Comintern.
Bolsonarism
Bolsonarism (bolsonarismo) is the far-right Brazilian political movement around Jair Bolsonaro: 2018 election win, agribusiness-military-evangelical coalition, environmental dismantling, January 8, 2023 uprising, and post-presidency persistence.
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. is a research and engineering company founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1948, known for building the ARPANET and sending the first network email.
Bolt Biotherapeutics
Bolt Biotherapeutics, formerly Bolt Therapeutics, Inc., is a California biopharmaceutical company founded in 2015 to commercialize Stanford dendritic-cell research, developing Boltbody immune-stimulating antibody conjugates for cancer.
Bolu
Bolu (孛鲁) was a Mongol commander of the early Mongol Empire, son and successor of Muqali, who led campaigns in northern China for Genghis Khan.
Bom Kim (Coupang)
Bom Kim, born Kim Bom-seok (김범석) in Seoul in 1978, is a Korean-American businessman who founded the e-commerce company Coupang in 2010 and serves as its CEO and chairman.
Bomani Jones
Bomani Jones, American sports journalist and Emmy-winning podcast host; hosts The Right Time with Bomani Jones (ESPN, then Wave/Playmaker) and HBO's Game Theory; former High Noon and Highly Questionable co-host.
Bomb shelter massacres on October 7, 2023
Bomb shelter massacres, October 7, 2023: killings of Nova festivalgoers and residents in roadside miklatim shelters along Route 232 near Re'im, Be'eri, and Alumim, where attackers fired and threw grenades into shelters.
Bombardment of Alexandria
The Bombardment of Alexandria (قصف الإسكندرية) was a July 1882 attack by the British Mediterranean Fleet on the forts of Alexandria, Egypt, beginning the British occupation of Egypt.
Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
The Bombardment of Algiers was an 1816 naval attack by an Anglo-Dutch fleet under Admiral Lord Exmouth, forcing the Dey of Algiers to renounce Christian slavery.
Bombardment of Casablanca
The Bombardment of Casablanca was a French naval attack of 5 to 7 August 1907 that destroyed districts of the Moroccan port city and began its occupation.
Bombardment of Corinto
The bombardment of Corinto was the 1895 seizure of Corinto, Nicaragua, by a British squadron over arrested British subjects; the ships left after Nicaragua promised payment of a $75,000 indemnity.
Bombardment of Lagos
The Bombardment of Lagos, also called the Reduction of Lagos, was a pair of British naval attacks on Lagos in 1851 to suppress the slave trade.
Bombardment of San Juan
The Bombardment of San Juan was a US Navy attack on San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 12, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, causing civilian casualties but little military damage.
Bombay Army
The Bombay Army was the army of the Bombay Presidency under the East India Company, established in 1662 and merged into the Indian Army in 1895.
Bombay High Court (बॉम्बे उच्च न्यायालय)
Bombay High Court (बॉम्बे उच्च न्यायालय), the chartered High Court of Bombay, inaugurated 14 August 1862; serves Maharashtra, Goa, Daman & Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli with benches at Nagpur, Aurangabad, and Panaji.
Bombay Hindi
Bombay Hindi (Bambaiyya Hindi, Mumbai Hindi, tapori language) is the contact variety of Hindi-Urdu spoken in Mumbai, based on Hindustani with a Marathi/Konkani grammatical frame, -ko datives like mereko, and heavy Marathi, Gujarati and Urdu borrowing, popularized by Hindi cinema.
Bombay riots
Bombay riots: recurring Hindu–Muslim communal violence in Bombay (Mumbai), notably 1893, 1929–1938, and December 1992–January 1993, when over 1,000 died after the Babri Masjid demolition; investigated by the Srikrishna Commission.
Bombay Stock Exchange
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), also known as BSE India, is India's oldest stock exchange, founded in Mumbai in 1875 and home to the Sensex index.
Bombing of Berlin in World War II
The Bombing of Berlin in World War II was an Allied air campaign against Nazi Germany's capital from 1940 to 1945. The largest raid occurred on March 18, 1945.
Bombing of Darwin
The Bombing of Darwin: Japanese air attack on Darwin, Northern Territory, on 19 February 1942, the first on mainland Australia; 188 carrier and 54 land-based aircraft, about 250 killed, first of 64 Darwin raids ending 12 November 1943.
Bombing of Dresden in World War II
The bombing of Dresden, or Dresden firebombing, was a series of RAF and USAAF air raids on Dresden, Germany, from 13 to 15 February 1945, killing about 25,000 people.
Bombing of Guernica
The Bombing of Guernica (Gernika): 26 April 1937 aerial attack by Nazi Germany's Condor Legion and Italy's Aviazione Legionaria on a Basque market town in Franco's service, destroying most of it, inspiring Picasso's painting, and followed by decades of denial.
Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
The bombing of Hamburg in World War II culminated in Operation Gomorrah of July 1943, a British and American air campaign that created the war's first large firestorm.
Bombing of Kure
The bombing of Kure was a series of 1945 Allied air attacks that destroyed the Imperial Japanese Navy's surviving warships at its Kure Naval Base near Hiroshima.
Bombing of Milan in World War II
The bombing of Milan in World War II: Allied air attacks on Italy's industrial hub from June 1940 to 1944, peaking with RAF raids in August 1943 and the Gorla school massacre of 184 children in October 1944.
Bombing of Nagoya
The bombing of Nagoya (名古屋空襲) is the collective name for 63 American air raids on Nagoya, Japan, from 1942 to 1945, killing nearly 8,000 people.
Bombing of North Korea
The bombing of North Korea was a sustained US and UN air campaign during the Korean War, 1950 to 1953, that destroyed most North Korean cities and industry.
Bombing of Osaka
The bombing of Osaka (大阪大空襲), the great Osaka air raids, was the American strategic bombing campaign against Osaka, Japan's leading industrial center after Tokyo, in 1945.
Bombing of Plaza de Mayo
The bombing of Plaza de Mayo (Bombardeo de la Plaza de Mayo) was a 1955 air attack on Buenos Aires that killed more than 300 people in an attempt to overthrow President Perón.