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Bostar (Carthaginian commander)
Bostar (Greek Βώστωρ) was a Carthaginian general of the First Punic War, elected in 256 or 255 BC to oppose the consul Regulus's invasion of Africa.
Bostar (Carthaginian envoy)
Bostar was a Carthaginian envoy sent by Hannibal to Philip V of Macedon in 215 BC to ratify their alliance against Rome; he was captured at sea by the Romans.
Boston accent
Boston accent: the Eastern New England English variety of Boston, Massachusetts, defined by non-rhotic r-dropping ("pahk the cah"), broad a, cot-caught merger, vocabulary like bubbler; returning rhoticity among younger speakers.
Boston Brahmin
Boston Brahmin, or First Families of Boston, describes Boston's traditional upper class, descendants of Puritan merchant families like the Adamses, Cabots, and Lowells, named by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in 1860.
Boston College
Boston College is a private Jesuit, Catholic research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, founded in 1863 to educate Boston's Irish Catholic immigrant community and comprising nine schools and colleges.
Boston College High School
Boston College High School, also known as BC High, is a Jesuit, Catholic, all-boys college preparatory school in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its mission to form leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion.
Boston Corbett
Boston Corbett, born Thomas P. Corbett, was an English-born American hatter and Union Army sergeant who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, in 1865.
Boston Herald
The Boston Herald, founded August 31, 1846, is Boston's conservative-leaning daily tabloid, now owned by Alden Global Capital via MediaNews Group, with about 25,000 weekday print circulation in 2023.
Boston Latin School
Boston Latin School (BLS), founded April 23, 1635, in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest school in the United States and the origin of America's first public school system; a selective grades 7-12 exam school with alumni including Benjamin Franklin and Leonard Bernstein.
Boston Marathon bombing
The Boston Marathon bombing: April 15, 2013 pressure cooker bomb attack by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev near the finish line, killing three, injuring hundreds, leading to manhunt, Tsarnaev conviction, death sentence, and appeals.
Boston marriage
Boston marriage: a late 19th- to early 20th-century New England term for a long-term cohabiting relationship between two unmarried, often college-educated and financially independent women; popularized by Henry James's The Bostonians (1886), exemplified by Annie Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett.
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre: March 5, 1770 shooting on King Street, Boston, where British soldiers killed five colonists including Crispus Attucks; John Adams defended the soldiers, and Paul Revere's propaganda engraving spread Patriot outrage.
Boston Naming Test
The Boston Naming Test is a neuropsychological assessment in which a person names 60 line drawings of common objects, measuring word retrieval in dementia and other conditions.
Boston Police Department
The Boston Police Department (BPD) is Boston, Massachusetts's municipal police force, tracing to the 1631 town watch and formally founded in 1854; led by Commissioner Michael A. Cox, appointed 2022, it runs 12 district stations and bureau-based operations.
Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library (BPL), established in 1848, was the first large free municipal library in the United States and the first to lend books.
Boston Review
Boston Review is an independent, nonprofit American magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, founded in 1975 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and known for long-form essays and its Forum debates.
Boston Scientific
Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX), Marlborough, Massachusetts medical device maker; segments Cardiovascular and MedSurg; Farapulse PFA and Watchman; competes with Abbott and Medtronic; $20B 2025 net sales.
Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler, also called the Silk Stocking Murders, killed 13 women around Boston, 1962-1964. Albert DeSalvo confessed but was never charged; 2013 DNA linked him only to final victim Mary Sullivan.
Boston University
Boston University (BU), private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, founded 1839 as Newbury Biblical Institute, chartered 1869. Three campuses, 17 schools plus Computing & Data Sciences, 38,000+ students, AAU member since 2012, president Melissa Gilliam.
Bota Bio (Enhe Bio)
Bota Bio (恩和生物), later Enhe (恩和科技), is a synthetic biology startup founded in Hangzhou, China, in 2019, which raised over $100 million in 2021 and makes enzymes and bio-preservatives.
Botanical Culture Center
A botanical culture center, often called a visitor education center, is an educational facility at a botanical garden offering indoor exhibits, lectures, and programs on plant science.
Botanical garden herbarium
Botanical garden herbarium: a dried, pressed plant specimen collection (hortus siccus) maintained by a botanical garden, registered in Index Herbariorum; documents living collections and regional flora, from Luca Ghini's 1540s herbaria to Kew and NYBG.
Botanical museum herbarium
Botanical museum herbarium: the Herbarium Patavinum (code PAD) of the University of Padua, about 600,000 dried specimens, displayed since 2023 in the Botanical Museum beside the 1545 UNESCO Botanical Garden.
Botolph of Thorney
Botolph of Thorney, also known as St Botolph, was an Anglo-Saxon abbot who founded a monastery at Icanhoe, now Iken in Suffolk, and died around 680.
Botsa Satyanarayana
Botsa Satyanarayana is an Indian YSR Congress Party politician who serves as Leader of the Opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council, representing the United Visakhapatnam District Local Bodies constituency.
Botswana Democratic Party
Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), founded 1962 as Bechuanaland Democratic Party by Seretse Khama, ruled Botswana 1966-2024, winning 12 elections, until its 2024 defeat by the UDC left it with 4 of 61 seats.
Botswana Independence Act 1966
The Botswana Independence Act 1966 is an Act of the UK Parliament that made the Bechuanaland Protectorate an independent republic within the Commonwealth, as Botswana, on 30 September 1966.
Botswana pula
The Botswana pula (BWP) is the currency of Botswana, introduced in 1976 to replace the South African rand; its name means "rain" and it divides into 100 thebe.
Botswana Stock Exchange
The Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) is Botswana's only licensed securities exchange, established in 1994, demutualised in 2018, and listing equities, bonds, and ETFs with 33 equity counters in 2025.
Bottleneck analysis
Bottleneck analysis is an operations management method that identifies the process stage limiting overall throughput, so improvement effort targets the constraint rather than the whole system.