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Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co.
Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., 26 N.Y.2d 219 (1970), New York Court of Appeals nuisance case: cement plant near Albany could avoid an injunction by paying $185,000 in permanent damages, creating the classic liability-rule remedy.
Boomerang (TV network)
Boomerang is an all-animation cable network and streaming brand launched April 1, 2000 by Turner as a Cartoon Network spinoff for classic Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. cartoons, targeting ages 4-7, reaching over 144 million homes and now owned under Skydance.
Boomerang Generation
Boomerang generation: young adults who leave the family home and return to their parents, often for financial reasons. Also called boomerang kids; measured by rising coresidence rates in the US, OECD, UK, and Australia.
Boondocks
Boondocks: American English slang for a remote rural area, borrowed from Tagalog bundok (mountain) by US soldiers during the Philippine-American War; shortened to boonies in the Vietnam era.
Boonie hat
Boonie hat, also called sun hat or jungle hat (from Tagalog bundok): wide-brim military hat adopted by U.S. forces in Vietnam, with crown foliage loops, vents, chin cord, and MIL-DTL-44105 specification.
Boonsanong Punyodyana
Boonsanong Punyodyana (บุญสนอง บุณโยทยาน) was a Thai sociologist at Thammasat University who led the Socialist Party of Thailand and was assassinated in Bangkok in 1976, at age 39.
Booster Robotics
加速进化, also known as Booster Robotics, is a Beijing startup founded in 2023 by Cheng Hao that develops small bipedal humanoid robots for education, research, and robot competitions.
Boot (torture)
The boot (boots, bootikin) was a leg-crushing judicial torture device, especially in early modern Scotland, where wedges hammered into a leg sheath broke bones to extract confessions; outlawed in 1707.
Boot Barn
Boot Barn is the largest US specialty retailer of western and work-related footwear and apparel, founded in 1978 and operating 539 stores in 49 states as of March 2026.
Bootblacking (BDSM)
Bootblacking, in leather and BDSM communities, is the ritual care, cleaning, and polishing of boots and leather gear, often as service submission; known for bar stands since the 1970s and contests like International Mr./Ms. Bootblack (split 1998) and International Community Bootblack (2003).
Boots (company)
Boots, also known as Boots the Chemists, is the United Kingdom's largest retail pharmacy chain, operating more than 1,800 stores from roots in a Nottingham herbalist shop founded in 1849.
Bootstrap Europe
Bootstrap Europe is a Luxembourg-based venture-debt fund manager founded in 2015 by Fatou Diagne and Stephanie Heller, which lends to European growth-stage technology and life-science companies.
Bopai
Bopai (博湃养车) was a Beijing-based door-to-door car-maintenance startup founded by Ji Wei, which raised $18 million from JD and BitAuto before collapsing in December 2015.
Bopolu
Bopolu, called Bokoma by the Mandingo, was a trading town in western Liberia, capital of the Condo Confederation and the largest market between the interior and the Atlantic coast.
Bopomofo (注音符號)
Bopomofo (注音符號, Zhuyin fuhao), the 37-symbol Mandarin phonetic script created in 1913 and promulgated in 1918, official in Taiwan and taught in the first 10 weeks of first grade; distinct from Hanyu Pinyin, the PRC's Latin-alphabet system.
BOPPPS model
The BOPPPS model, also called the BOPPPS teaching model, is a six-phase lesson-planning framework structuring lessons from Bridge-in to Summary, widely used in higher education.
Borah High School
Borah High School, formally Borah Senior High School, is a public high school in Boise, Idaho, opened in 1958 and named for Senator William E. Borah.
Bórd na Móna
Bórd na Móna, successor to the Turf Development Board, is an Irish semi-state company established in 1946 to harvest peat, now focused on renewable energy.
Borda count
Borda count: positional voting method by Jean-Charles de Borda assigning n-1 to 0 points by rank; also called Borda scoring. Contrasted with Condorcet methods; used in Slovenia, Nauru (Dowdall rule), and sports awards.
Borden Parker Bowne
Borden Parker Bowne (1847–1910) was an American philosopher and Methodist theologian who founded the Boston personalist school, taught at Boston University from 1876 to 1910, and was acquitted in the only heresy trial in Methodist history.
Border Campaign
The Border Campaign (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Biên giới 1950) was a Việt Minh offensive from September to October 1950 in the First Indochina War, destroying the French border garrisons on Route Coloniale 4.
Border Protection Corps
The Border Protection Corps (Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza, KOP) was a Polish military border guard created in 1924 to secure the eastern frontier against Soviet raids.
Border Roads Organisation
The Border Roads Organisation is a government agency that builds strategic infrastructure in India's border areas. It operates in countries like Bhutan and has built the Atal Tunnel.
Border Security Command
Border Security Command: UK Home Office body established 5 July 2024, led by Border Security Commander Martin Hewitt, coordinating NCA, Border Force and police against organised immigration crime and Channel small-boat smuggling.
Border Security Force (सीमा सुरक्षा बल)
Border Security Force (सीमा सुरक्षा बल, BSF), India's central border guarding force raised 1 December 1965 after the Sardar Post attack, first DG K. F. Rustamji; guards India-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh borders under the 1968 Act.
Border states (American Civil War)
Border states (American Civil War): the slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia that stayed in the Union, tried neutrality, supplied about 275,000 Union versus 71,000 Confederate soldiers, and were exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation.
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership (BCPP)
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is a Leeds-based asset manager, owned equally by eleven English Local Government Pension Scheme funds, that pools their investments and went live in 2018.
Border treaty of Kara-indaš and Aššur-bēl-nišešu
The border treaty of Kara-indaš and Aššur-bēl-nišešu, also called the Kara-indaš treaty, was a boundary agreement between Kassite Babylonia and Assyria concluded around 1407 BCE and confirmed by later kings.
Border war of Assur-resh-ishi I and Nebuchadnezzar I
The border war of Assur-resh-ishi I and Nebuchadnezzar I was a late 12th-century BC conflict on the Assyrian-Babylonian frontier, ending in Nebuchadnezzar's total defeat at Idi.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza is Gloria Anzaldúa's 1987 hybrid book of prose and poetry from Aunt Lute Books on the U.S.-Mexico border, Chicana feminism, code-switching, and mestiza consciousness; issued in five editions plus a 2021 critical edition.