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Bournemouth University
Bournemouth University (BU), a public university in Bournemouth and Poole, England, granted university status 27 November 1992 under the Further and Higher Education Act; formerly Bournemouth Municipal College, College of Technology, Dorset Institute, and Bournemouth Polytechnic; over 16,400 students, Talbot Campus, motto Discere Mutari Est.
Boursa Kuwait
Boursa Kuwait is the privately owned company that operates Kuwait's stock market, formed in 2014 to take over the state-run Kuwait Stock Exchange and renamed in 2016.
Bourse de Casablanca
The Bourse de Casablanca, the Casablanca Stock Exchange, is Morocco's securities exchange, tracing to 1929 with 80 listed equities and record capitalization of MAD 1,040.7 billion at end-2025.
Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières S.A
The Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) is the stock exchange shared by the eight UEMOA countries of West Africa, headquartered in Abidjan and operating fully electronically since 1998.
Boussouma
Boussouma (Busuma) is a traditional Mossi kingdom centered on the town of Boussouma in Sanmatenga province, Burkina Faso, whose Dima ranks equal to the Mogho Naaba of Ouagadougou.
Boustrophedon
Boustrophedon (βουστροφηδόν, "as the ox turns") is alternating-direction writing used in archaic Greek, Etruscan, Phrygian, and other inscriptions, often with mirrored letters, before left-to-right became standard.
Bouteillière
Bouteillière: French feminine of bouteillier, an old word for a cup-bearer (échanson); also a rare surname and several lieu-dits, notably at Fréjus with a Roman aqueduct bridge and at Saint-Macaire-en-Mauges with a classified Neolithic menhir.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (بطرس بطرس غالي)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (بطرس بطرس غالي), Egyptian diplomat and Cairo law professor, sixth UN Secretary-General 1992–1996, first African and first Arab in the post; Camp David negotiator, Agenda for Peace author, denied a second term by US veto.
Boutros Ghali
Boutros Ghali (بطرس غالي) was a Coptic Egyptian statesman who served as prime minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910, and was assassinated by a nationalist after presiding over the Dinshaway court.
Bouvier Affair
The Bouvier Affair is the 2015 dispute in which Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev accused Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier of overcharging him on 38 artworks; all cases were discontinued and the men settled in December 2023.
Bouvier family
Bouvier family: the American family founded by Michel Bouvier of Pont-Saint-Esprit, Philadelphia cabinetmaker turned real-estate tycoon; best known through Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and the 1953 Kennedy marriage.
Bouyei language
Bouyei (Haausqyaix, 布依语) is a Northern Tai language of the Tai-Kadai family with about 2.6 million speakers in Guizhou, China, and northern Vietnam, closely related to Northern Zhuang, with three sub-dialects and a Latin script standardized on Wangmo County speech.
Bouygues
Bouygues SA is a family-controlled French industrial group spanning construction, services, telecoms, and media, founded by Francis Bouygues in 1952 and active in over 80 countries.
Bow Capital
Bow Capital is a California-based venture capital firm, formed in 2016 with the University of California, that invests in early-stage technology companies from offices in Palo Alto and Menlo Park.
Bow Street Magistrates' Court
Bow Street Magistrates' Court, also known as Bow Street Police Court, was a famous magistrates' court in Covent Garden, London, operating from the 1730s or 1740s until 2006.
Bow Street Runners
Bow Street Runners: London detective force founded by Henry Fielding in 1749 at Bow Street magistrates' office, developed by John Fielding, government-funded thief-takers turned professional detectives, disbanded 1839 into the Metropolitan Police.
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College: private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine, chartered 1794, opened 1802; coeducational since 1971; about 1,900 undergraduates, 6.5% admit rate, need-blind no-loan aid, $2.9B endowment.
Bowe Bergdahl
Bowe Bergdahl (Robert B. Bergdahl), U.S. Army sergeant who left his Afghanistan post in June 2009, was held nearly five years by the Haqqani network, released in a May 2014 Guantanamo prisoner exchange, and convicted of desertion in 2017.
Bowers v. Hardwick
Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), the Supreme Court case upholding Georgia's sodomy statute against a due process challenge by Michael Hardwick; overruled by Lawrence v. Texas in 2003.
Bowing
Bowing (ojigi, お辞儀) is a noncontact greeting gesture of inclining the head or bending the trunk, standard in Japan with graded angles (eshaku 15°, keirei 45°, saikeirei ~90°), used for greeting, thanks, and apology, with roots in Chinese ritual and distinct East Asian variants like namaste and wai.
Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone is Robert D. Putnam's 1995 Journal of Democracy article and 2000 Simon & Schuster book arguing that American civic engagement and social capital declined sharply after the 1960s, mainly through generational succession.
Bowling Green massacre
Fictitious terrorist attack cited by Kellyanne Conway on MSNBC, February 2, 2017, to defend Trump's travel ban; based loosely on a real 2011 Iraqi refugee case in Bowling Green, Kentucky, but no massacre occurred and Conway later corrected it.
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University (BGSU), founded 1910 in Bowling Green, Ohio, is a public R2 research university with over 20,000 students, two campuses, 200+ undergraduate majors, and the 1984 NCAA hockey title.
Boworadet rebellion
The Boworadet rebellion (กบฏบวรเดช) was a royalist revolt in Siam led by Prince Boworadet in October 1933 against the post-revolutionary government, which defeated it within two weeks.
Bowring Treaty
The Bowring Treaty (สนธิสัญญาเบาว์ริง) was an 1855 treaty of amity and commerce between Siam and Britain, signed at Bangkok under King Mongkut and Sir John Bowring.
Boxer Protocol
Boxer Protocol (Xinchou Treaty), signed at Peking September 7, 1901, ended the Boxer Uprising: 450 million tael indemnity at 4% over 40 years, legation guards, punishments, and later US remissions funding education.
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion (义和团运动, 1899–1901) was an anti-foreign, anti-Christian uprising in northern China led by the Yihetuan martial arts society, ending with an eight-nation intervention, the 55-day legation siege, and the punitive Boxer Protocol.
Boxer Rebellion and Russian occupation of Manchuria
The Boxer Rebellion and Russian occupation of Manchuria (Восстание ихэтуаней и оккупация Маньчжурии) were the connected events of 1900–1901 in which the anti-foreign Ihetuan uprising swept north China and Russian forces occupied all of Manchuria.
Boy
Boy: a male child; boyhood as a biological and social stage. Covers word history, developmental vulnerability, nurture gaps, education outcomes, masculinity norms, manosphere influence, and care research.
Boy Scouts of America sexual abuse settlement (2022)
The Boy Scouts of America sexual abuse settlement of 2022 is the roughly $2.7 billion compensation plan for survivors approved in BSA's bankruptcy, the largest in US history.