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Boyacá necklace bomb incident
The Boyacá necklace bomb incident (collar bomba) of May 15, 2000: hooded criminals strapped an explosive collar on farmer Elvia Cortés near Chiquinquirá, Colombia; initially blamed on the FARC, the crime was later proven to be common crime, with José Miguel Suárez convicted in 2002.
Boyan (Hasidic dynasty)
Boyan (בויאן) is a Hasidic dynasty founded in the town of Boyan in Bukovina, now headquartered in Jerusalem and led by Rabbi Nachum Dov Brayer.
Boyan Jovanovic
Boyan Jovanovic, born 1951 in Belgrade, is a Serbian-born economist and professor at New York University known for models of job matching, firm selection, and entrepreneurship.
Boyana Church (Боянска църква)
Boyana Church (Боянска църква) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church in Sofia's Boyana district, inscribed by UNESCO in 1979 chiefly for its frescoes of 1259.
Boyar (боярин)
Boyar (боярин, бояре): highest service aristocracy of medieval Rus', Muscovy, Lithuania, Moldavia, Wallachia, and the medieval Balkans; council members, army commanders, and administrators; abolished in Russia after Peter I's 1711 Senate, surviving in Romania until 1945.
Boyar Duma
The Boyar Duma (Боярская дума) was the highest council under the prince, and from 1547 under the tsar, in Russia from the 10th century to the early 18th century.
Boybeypınarı inscription
The Boybeypınarı inscription is a set of four Hieroglyphic Luwian basalt blocks from Adıyaman Province, Turkey, dedicated to the goddess Kubaba by Panamuwati, wife of the Kummuh king Suppiluliuma.
Boycott
Boycott: collective refusal to buy from, work for, or deal with a target to force change, named after Captain Charles Boycott, ostracized in Ireland in 1880; a core nonviolent-resistance tactic.
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led campaign launched 9 July 2005 by over 170 organizations, demanding an end to occupation, equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and refugee rights, modeled on anti-apartheid South Africa.
Boyd massacre
The Boyd massacre, also called the Burning of the Boyd, was the killing of about 70 crew and passengers of the ship Boyd by Māori in New Zealand in 1809.
Boyer Lectures
The Boyer Lectures are an annual series of ABC Radio National talks by prominent Australians on major social, scientific, cultural, or political issues, broadcast since 1959.
Boyfriend
Boyfriend: a man or boy someone has a romantic or sexual relationship with; word first recorded 1895-1900, paired with girlfriend in early-1900s US dating culture. Also a fashion adjective for men's-inspired women's clothing.
Boyko Borisov (Бойко Методиев Борисов)
Boyko Borisov (Бойко Методиев Борисов), Bulgarian politician, founder and leader of GERB, three-time prime minister 2009–2013, 2014–2017, 2017–2021, former Sofia mayor and Interior Ministry chief secretary; resigned 2021 amid anti-corruption protests.
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), begun as the 1860 Dashaway Club in Hartford, is a national youth nonprofit with 5,500+ Clubs serving 4 million youth ages 6-18 annually in academics, health, leadership, and workforce readiness.
Boys Town (organization)
Boys Town (Father Flanagan's Boys' Home) is a US nonprofit child and family care organization founded by Father Edward Flanagan in Omaha in 1917, known for the Teaching-Family Model residential care, its Nebraska village campus, and Boys Town National Research Hospital.
Boys' Brigade
The Boys' Brigade, founded in Glasgow on 4 October 1883 by William Alexander Smith, was the world's first voluntary uniformed youth movement. A Christian organisation for ages 5 to 18 with motto "Sure and Stedfast" and anchor emblem, it inspired Scouting and now operates in nearly 100 countries.
Boystown (website)
Boystown (BoysTown) was a darknet child sexual abuse material forum active June 2019 to April 2021, with over 400,000 users and one million posts; shut down by Germany's BKA and ZIT in a Europol-coordinated operation, distinct from the Chicago neighborhood and Boys Town charity.
Boyuan Capital
Boyuan Capital (博远资本, BioTrack Capital) is a Shanghai venture capital firm focused solely on Chinese healthcare, co-founded in 2017 by Chen Penghui (陈鹏辉), formerly of Sequoia Capital China.
Boyuan Yingen (Yingen Mining)
Boyuan Yingen, or Yingen Mining, is a Chinese natural soda (trona) mining company that operates the large Tamusu deposit in Alxa Right Banner, Inner Mongolia, majority owned by Boyuan Chemical.
Bozhou campaign (Yang Yinglong rebellion)
The Bozhou campaign (播州之役) was the Ming dynasty's 1600 expedition against Yang Yinglong, the hereditary chieftain of Bozhou, ending with the fall of his Hailongdun fortress.
Bozoma Saint John
Bozoma Saint John is an American marketing executive who led marketing at Apple Music, Uber, Endeavor, and Netflix, known for her instinct-and-culture style and public "badass" brand.
Bpea Private Equity
BPEA Private Equity, formerly Baring Private Equity Asia, is an Asia-focused private equity fund platform formed through a 2022 combination with Swedish asset manager EQT AB.
BPER Banca
BPER Banca is an Italian commercial bank headquartered in Modena, founded in 1867 as Banca Popolare di Modena and now Italy's fourth-largest bank by customer loans.
BPF Party (Партыя БНФ)
BPF Party (Партыя БНФ), Belarusian national-conservative opposition party founded 1988 as political wing of the Popular Front movement, registered 1993, led by Pazniak, Viachorka, Kastusyou; liquidated by Belarus's Supreme Court in August 2023.
Bpifrance
Bpifrance is the French public investment bank, a state-controlled company created by the law of 31 December 2012 that finances, guarantees, and takes equity in French companies.
BPP University
BPP University is a private, for-profit English university within the BPP Group (owned by TDR), the first private UK company to gain degree-awarding powers in 2007, teaching law, business, technology, and nursing to over 33,000 career-focused students.
Br'er Rabbit
Br'er Rabbit, the trickster rabbit of African American folklore, hero of Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus tales (1880), famous for the tar-baby story and briar-patch escape, with African roots and Disney adaptations.
Brabant killers
Brabant killers (Bende van Nijvel, Tueurs du Brabant): unidentified Belgian gang behind 1982–1985 supermarket robberies and murders, 28 dead, about 40 injured; case closed unsolved in June 2024.
Brace Belden
Brace Belden, aka PissPigGranddad, is a San Francisco podcaster and labor organizer who fought about six months with the Kurdish YPG against ISIS in Syria, then cohosted the TrueAnon podcast.
Bracero Program
The Bracero Program, officially the Mexican Farm Labor Program, was a series of U.S.–Mexico agreements under which millions of Mexican men worked short-term farm jobs from 1942 to 1964.