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Boris Stürmer
Boris Stürmer (Борис Владимирович Штюрмер) was a Russian statesman of German descent who served as prime minister of the Russian Empire under Nicholas II from January to November 1916.
Boris Susko
Boris Susko is a Slovak politician of the Smer-SD party who serves as Minister of Justice of Slovakia in the government led by Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Boris Vallaud
Boris Vallaud, born 1975 in Beirut, is a French Socialist politician who has been deputy for the Landes since 2017 and leads the Socialist group in the National Assembly.
Boris Vannikov
Boris Lvovich Vannikov (Борис Львович Ванников, 1897 to 1962) was a Soviet colonel-general who headed the armaments and ammunition commissariats during World War II and directed the Soviet atomic bomb project from 1945 to 1953.
Boris Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин)
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин), first president of Russia 1991–1999, ex-Sverdlovsk party chief; won the 1991 election with 57.30%, dissolved parliament by Decree 1400 in 1993, resigned 31 December 1999 in favor of Putin.
Boriswave
Boriswave is an informal British political term for the sharp increase in UK immigration after the 2021 points-based visa system began. Net migration rose to 873,000 by 2022.
Bořivoj I of Bohemia
Bořivoj I of Bohemia (c. 852 – c. 889) was the first historically documented Přemyslid prince of Bohemia, first mentioned in the Fulda Annals in 872.
Borjana Krišto
Borjana Krišto is a Bosnian politician and lawyer serving as Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country's head of government.
Borjigin (Боржигин)
Borjigin (Боржигин) is the royal Mongol clan of Genghis Khan, also called the Golden Clan, ancestor-name Borjigidai; it ruled the Mongol Empire and Yuan dynasty, and remains Mongolia's most chosen surname.
Borland
Borland, initially Borland International, was an American software company in Scotts Valley, California, founded by Philippe Kahn in 1983 and known for Turbo Pascal, dBASE, and Delphi.
Borley Rectory
Borley Rectory, a Victorian Essex rectory built in 1863 and burned in 1939, was called England's most haunted house through Harry Price's investigations and the disputed 1956 SPR report.
Born again
Born again, or new birth, is a Christian term for spiritual rebirth drawn from John 3; since the 1970s "born-again Christian" has also been a common American religious and political self-identification.
Bornless Ritual
The Bornless Ritual is a ceremonial invocation in Western occultism addressed to the "Bornless" or "Headless One", adapted from a Graeco-Egyptian papyrus and reworked by Aleister Crowley as Liber Samekh.
Borno Emirate
The Borno Emirate is a traditional state in Borno State, Nigeria, headed by the Shehu of Borno and reconstituted in 1900 from Rabih az-Zubayr's lands.
Bornu armoured cavalry
Bornu armored cavalry was the mailed heavy cavalry of the Bornu state in the central Sudan, dominant in warfare during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Bornu campaigns against the Sao
The Bornu campaigns against the Sao were military efforts by the Kanem-Bornu Empire from the 13th to 17th century to subdue the walled Sao city-states around Lake Chad.
Bornu–Ottoman military cooperation
Bornu–Ottoman military cooperation was a 16th-century diplomatic exchange in which Bornu's mai Idris Alooma sought Ottoman firearms, gunners, and safe trade routes from Sultan Murad III.
Bornu's reconquest of Kanem
Bornu's reconquest of Kanem was the Sayfawa dynasty of Bornu's recovery, between the late fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, of its lost Kanem heartland east of Lake Chad from the Bulala.
Boro people
The Boro people, also referred to as Bodo or Kachari, are an ethnic community of Northeast India and the Brahmaputra valley, speaking the Tibeto-Burman language.
Borommakot
Borommakot, also styled King Maha Thammarachathirat II, was king of Ayutthaya (Siam) from 1733 to 1758, remembered as a golden age of literature whose monks founded the Siam Nikaya in Sri Lanka.
Borommarachathirat I
Borommarachathirat I, also known as Khun Luang Pha Ngua, was the third king of Ayutthaya from 1370 to 1388 and founder of the Suphannaphum dynasty.
Borommarachathirat II
Borommarachathirat II, also known as Chao Sam Phraya, was the seventh king of Ayutthaya from 1424 to 1448, who took Angkor from the Khmer in 1431 and annexed the Sukhothai lands in 1438.
Borommatrailokkanat
Borommatrailokkanat, also known as King Trailok (1431–1488), was the eighth king of Ayutthaya who reigned 40 years and reorganized the Siamese state with his sakdina law.
Bororo
Bororo (Boe): indigenous people of Mato Grosso, Brazil, speaking a Macro-Jê language; matrilineal, eight clans, circular villages around a men's house; studied by Lévi-Strauss.
Borotbists
The Borotbists (боротьбісти) were the left faction of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries that broke away in May 1918, adopting a communist but independentist platform.
Borouge
Borouge is an Abu Dhabi-based producer of polyethylene and polypropylene, founded in 1998 as a partnership between ADNOC and Borealis, with a 5-million-tonne complex at Ruwais.
Borpatrogohain
The Borpatrogohain (বৰপাত্ৰগোহাঁই) was the third of the three great Gohain councillors of the Ahom kingdom of Assam, created in 1532 as the kingdom expanded.
Borris Miles
Borris L. Miles is an American Democratic politician representing District 13 in the Texas Senate, after five terms in the Texas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017.
Borrowing costs
Borrowing costs are the interest and other costs an entity incurs in connection with borrowing funds; IAS 23 and ASC 835-20 govern when they are capitalized.
Bors
Bors (Bohors, Bohort), knight of the Round Table in the Vulgate Cycle and Malory's Morte d'Arthur: cousin of Lancelot, one of three Grail achievers with Galahad and Perceval, and the only one to return to Camelot.