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Bombing of Pyongyang
The bombing of Pyongyang was the sustained US and UN air campaign against North Korea's capital during the Korean War (1950–1953), starting with B-29 strikes on June 29, 1950.
Bombing of Sinuiju
The bombing of Sinuiju was a United States Air Force fire-bombing attack on the North Korean border city of Sinuiju on 8 November 1950, during the Korean War.
Bombing of Tokyo
Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Great Tokyo Air Raid): US firebombing of Japan's capital in 1945. Operation Meetinghouse, March 9-10, 1945, over 300 B-29s burned 16 square miles, killed over 100,000, left 1 million homeless; deadliest air raid in history, exceeding Nagasaki.
Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)
Operation Meetinghouse (東京大空襲), the US B-29 firebombing of Tokyo on 9–10 March 1945: 279 bombers dropped 1,665 tons of napalm incendiaries, burning 16 square miles, killing about 100,000, and leaving 1 million homeless in the deadliest single air raid in history.
Bombing of Warsaw in World War II
German air attacks on Warsaw in September 1939, starting 1 September and peaking in the 25 September raid with 560 tons of bombs and about 25,000 dead, ending in the city's capitulation on 28 September 1939.
Bombings in Sweden
Bombings in Sweden (sprängningar): gang-linked explosive attacks against homes and vehicles, prosecuted as publicly dangerous destruction; record 159 detonations in 2025, falling to 76 in January–September 2026.
Bomilcar (admiral)
Bomilcar was a Carthaginian general appointed against Agathocles of Syracuse in 310 BC who later attempted to make himself tyrant of Carthage and was crucified around 308 BC.
Bomilcar (Numidian)
Bomilcar was a Numidian nobleman in the confidence of King Jugurtha during the Jugurthine War, serving him before conspiring against the king, who executed him.
Bomilcar (suffete)
Bomilcar was a Carthaginian suffete and naval commander of the late 3rd century BC, married to a daughter of Hamilcar Barca and father of Hanno.
Bon (བོན)
Bon (བོན), also spelled Bön, is the indigenous religious tradition of Tibet, known today as Yungdrung Bon, a monastic religion with its own founder, Tonpa Shenrab, canon, and monasteries.
Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home
Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, also St Mary's, Tuam, County Galway: Catholic-run institution for unmarried mothers, 1925–1961, where 796 children died and a septic-tank mass grave is being excavated since 2025.
Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey
Bon-Adrien Jeannot (Jannot) de Moncey, duc de Conegliano (1754–1842), Marshal of the Empire and first Inspector General of the French Gendarmerie (1801–1815); later Governor of the Invalides who received Napoleon's ashes in 1840.
Bona fide purchaser
A bona fide purchaser, also known as Equity's darling, is a buyer who acquires property for value and good faith without notice of title defects.
Bona Mugabe
Bona Mugabe (Bona Chikore), only daughter of Robert and Grace Mugabe, is a Zimbabwean businesswoman appointed to the 2017 Censorship Board and 2026 EmpowerBank deputy chair; her 2023 divorce exposed alleged assets including 21 farms and a Dubai mansion.
Bona Sforza
Bona Sforza, an Italian princess of the House of Sforza, became Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania in 1518 as the second wife of Sigismund I the Old.
Bonalu (బోనాలు)
Bonalu (బోనాలు) is the state festival of Telangana, an annual Hindu thanksgiving to the goddess Mahakali, celebrated mainly in Hyderabad and Secunderabad during July–August, when women carry food offerings to temples.
Bonanno crime family
Bonanno crime family: one of New York's five La Cosa Nostra families, founded under Maranzano and led by Joseph Bonanno; marked by the Donnie Brasco infiltration, Pizza Connection trial, and boss Joseph Massino's 2003 cooperation.
Bonapartism
Bonapartism: French political tradition and authoritarian, plebiscitary regime type tied to the Bonaparte dynasty, from Napoleon I's Consulate and Empire through Napoleon III's Second Empire, later theorized by Marx and linked to Caesarism and populism.
Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923), Canadian-born Conservative statesman and UK Prime Minister 23 October 1922 to 20 May 1923, 209 days, the shortest 20th-century premiership; ended the Lloyd George coalition, resigned with throat cancer, succeeded by Baldwin.
Bonaventure
Bonaventure, born Giovanni di Fidanza, was a 13th-century Franciscan friar and Minister General who taught at Paris, wrote the Itinerarium mentis in Deum, and died in 1274.
Bond (finance)
A bond is a tradable debt security in which an issuer borrows from investors, promising repayment of principal at maturity and, in many cases, periodic interest payments.
BOND (venture capital firm)
BOND, or Bond Capital, is a San Francisco growth-stage venture capital firm co-founded by Mary Meeker in 2018 as a spinout of Kleiner Perkins's digital growth fund.
Bond convexity
Bond convexity measures the curvature of the relationship between a bond's price and its yield, capturing the second-order, non-linear price change that duration, a first-order measure, misses.
Bond credit rating
A bond credit rating, also called a bond rating, is a rating agency's opinion of a debt issuer's relative credit risk, expressed on letter scales from AAA down to D.
Bond indenture
A bond indenture is the contract between a bond issuer and a trustee, acting for bondholders, that sets out bond terms, covenants, events of default, and remedies.
Bond lease
Bond lease covers two instruments: a lease bond, a surety bond guaranteeing a tenant's lease performance in place of a cash deposit (premiums 1–5% yearly), and the bond lease of credit tenant finance, an absolute net lease treated as a bond for Schedule D reporting.
Bond market
The bond market, also called the debt or credit market, is where bonds are issued and traded, the world's largest securities market at over $150 trillion.
Bond of 1844
The Bond of 1844 was an agreement signed at Cape Coast Castle on 6 March 1844 between Britain and eight Fante chiefs, submitting serious crimes to British jurisdiction.
Bondage pornography
Bondage pornography: sexually explicit media centered on restraint and binding imagery within the BDSM spectrum. Also called kinbaku-related content in Japan. Defined by depiction of consensual restraint for arousal; historically a print-magazine specialty, now regulated, e.g., UK 2026 strangulation ban.
Bondelswarts Rebellion
The Bondelswarts Rebellion was a May and June 1922 rising by the Bondelswarts, a Nama people of southern South West Africa, against the South African administration, put down with aircraft bombing.