New Orleans Pelicans: 60-metre) point guard Muggsy Bogues and sharpshooter Dell Curry, but, like most expansion teams, they won few of their games. The team drafted forward Larry Johnson in 1991 and centre Alonzo Mourning in 1992, and the pair helped Charlotte to its first playoff appearance (and postseason series win)…

Polish literature: Religious writings: …of the Virgin Mary, “Bogurodzica” (“Mother of God”), in which language and rhythm are used with high artistic craftsmanship. The earliest extant copy of the song’s text dates from 1407, but its origins are much earlier. Preaching in Polish became established toward the end of the 13th century; the…

Norman Jewison: …a third Oscar nod, and Bogus (1996), a film about a boy and his imaginary friend, played by Gérard Depardieu. The Hurricane (1999) featured Denzel Washington as Rubin (“Hurricane”) Carter, a boxer wrongly accused of murder. In 2003 Jewison directed The Statement (2003), chronicling the real-life efforts of vigilantes and…

yucca moth: Larvae of the related bogus yucca moth (Prodoxus) feed in the stems and seed capsules of the yucca plant and also attack the century plant.

Wojciech Bogusławski was the leading playwright of the Polish Enlightenment, a period of cultural revival much influenced by French writers such as Voltaire and Rousseau. Bogusławski was born in Glinno, near Poznań. After studying singing, he joined the court of the bishop of Kraków. He

Romanian literature: After World War II: …beginnings the poet and essayist Geo Bogza became a disciple of socialism only to later turn against the dictatorship; Mihai Beniuc became, as he said, “the drummer of the new age,” praising the achievements of the postwar period. Demostene Botez, whose prewar poetry described the sadness of provincial life, later…

Southern Buh, river, southwestern and south-central Ukraine. The Southern Buh is 492 miles (792 km) long and drains a basin of 24,610 square miles (63,740 square km). It rises in the Volyn-Podilsk Upland and flows east and southeast, first through a narrow valley with rapids and then across rolling

Assam: Cultural life: The Bohag Bihu, celebrated in the spring (usually mid-April), marks the commencement of the new year (first day of the Bohag or Baishakh month). Also known as Rongali Bihu (from the Assamese word rong, connoting merrymaking and fun), it is accompanied by much dancing and singing.…

Parhae, state established in the 8th century among the predominantly Tungusic-speaking peoples of northern Manchuria (now Northeast China) and northern Korea by a former Koguryŏ general, Tae Cho-Yŏng (Dae Jo-Yeong). Parhae was the successor state to Koguryŏ, which had occupied most of northern

Bohai Sea, gulf, shallow northwestern arm of the Yellow Sea, off the northern coast of China. It is enclosed by the Liaodong Peninsula (northeast) and the Shandong Peninsula (south). Liaodong Bay to the northeast and Laizhou Bay to the south are generally considered part of Bohai Sea. Within these

Coptic language: …the dialect are extant), and Bohairic (from Arabic, al-Buḥayrah), originally spoken in the western part of Lower Egypt including the cities of Alexandria and Memphis. Bohairic has been used for religious purposes since the 11th century by all Coptic Christians. The latest Coptic texts date from the 14th century.

Hadejia: Emir Buhari (also Bohari, or Bowari; reigned 1848–50, 1851–63) renounced Hadejia’s allegiance to the Fulani sultanate centred at Sokoto in 1851, raided the nearby emirates of Kano, Katagum, Gumel, Bedde, and Jama’are, and enlarged his own emirate. Hadejia was brought back into the Fulani empire after…

Hans Henrik Jæger: …leader of the Norwegian “Bohème,” a group of urban artists and writers in revolt against conventional morality. His role in Norwegian literature stems in part from the police suppression of his first novel.

La Bohème, opera in four acts by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) that premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, on February 1, 1896. The story, a sweetly tragic romance, was based on the episodic novel Scènes de la vie de bohème

Bohemia, historical country of central Europe that was a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently a province in the Habsburgs’ Austrian Empire. Bohemia was bounded on the south by Austria, on the west by Bavaria, on the north by Saxony and Lusatia, on the northeast by Silesia, and on the

Unitas Fratrum, (Latin: “Unity of Brethren”), Protestant religious group inspired by Hussite spiritual ideals in Bohemia in the mid-15th century. They followed a simple, humble life of nonviolence, using the Bible as their sole rule of faith. They denied transubstantiation but received the

the Bohemian Club, an elite invitation-only social club founded in San Francisco in 1872 by a group of male artists, writers, actors, lawyers, and journalists, all of means and interested in arts and culture. Since its founding, the club has expanded to include politicians and affluent businessmen.

Bohemian Confession, Protestant doctrinal statement formulated in Bohemia by the Czech Utraquists (moderate Hussites) in 1575 and subscribed to by the Unitas Fratrum, Lutherans, and Calvinists in the kingdom. The document was based on the Augsburg Confession, and it upheld the Lutheran position on

Devonian Period: Europe: …calcareous Lower Devonian succession, the Bohemian facies, occurs in the Prague Basin of eastern Europe. A continuous marine succession formed from the Silurian into the Devonian, and the boundary is drawn at the top of the Silurian Series with the crinoid genus Scyphocrinites. The overlying Lochkovian and Pragian formations include…

Bohemian Forest, forested southwestern highlands of the Bohemian Massif largely on the German–Czech Republic frontier and extending from the upper valley of the Ohre River, in the northwest, to a section of the Danube River valley in Austria (between Melk and Krems), in the southeast. The

pyrope, magnesium aluminum garnet (Mg3Al2), the transparent form of which is used as a gemstone. Its colour varies from brownish red to purplish red. A beautiful, deep-red pyrope is often called ruby, in combination with the locality of occurrence, as Cape ruby from South Africa. It is also used in

Michael William Balfe: …ballad style of his opera The Bohemian Girl.

Bohemian glass, decorative glass made in Bohemia and Silesia from the 13th century. Especially notable is the cut and engraved glass in high Baroque style made from 1685 to 1750. Early in the 17th century, Caspar Lehmann, gem cutter to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague, adapted to glass the technique of

the Bohemian Club: …at what is known as Bohemian Grove in the redwood forest of California’s Sonoma county, an event that continued into the 21st century. Notable members over the years have included Clint Eastwood, Henry Kissinger, Walter Cronkite, Richard Nixon,

Bohemian Massif, dissected quadrangular plateau, with an area of about 60,000 square miles (about 158,000 square km), occupying Bohemia, Czech Republic. Centring on Prague, it reaches a maximum elevation of 5,256 feet (1,602 m) and is bounded by four ranges: the Ore Mountains (Krušné hory, or

Czech language, West Slavic language closely related to Slovak, Polish, and the Sorbian languages of eastern Germany. It is spoken in the historical regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and southwestern Silesia in the Czech Republic, where it is the official language. Czech is written in the Roman (Latin)

Spanish literature: Drama: Luces de Bohemia (1920; Bohemian Lights) illustrates his theory and practice of esperpento, an aesthetic formula he also used in his fiction to depict reality through a deliberately exaggerated mimesis of its grotesqueness. His work sometimes recalls that of Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, or Picasso. Jacinto Grau, another would-be…

Liberec, city, northwestern Czech Republic. It lies in the valley of the Lužická Nisa (German: Lausitzer Neisse) River amid the Giant (Krkonoše) Mountains. Founded in the 13th century and chartered in 1577, Liberec was inhabited mainly by Germans until their expulsion after World War II. Called the

Bohemian Massif, dissected quadrangular plateau, with an area of about 60,000 square miles (about 158,000 square km), occupying Bohemia, Czech Republic. Centring on Prague, it reaches a maximum elevation of 5,256 feet (1,602 m) and is bounded by four ranges: the Ore Mountains (Krušné hory, or

Czech Republic: Relief: …roughly ovoid elevated basin (the Bohemian Plateau) encircled by mountains divided into six major groups. In the southwest are the Šumava Mountains, which include the Bohemian Forest (Böhmerwald). In the west are the Berounka River highlands. In the northwest, the Ore Mountains (Czech: Krušné hory; German: Erzgebirge) form the frontier…

Czechoslovak history: The Counter-Reformation and Protestant rebellion: …rebellion against the Habsburgs in Bohemia and opened the Thirty Years’ War. The Bohemian estates established a new government steered by 30 directors, who assembled troops and gained allies in the predominantly Lutheran Silesia and in the Lusatias; the estates of Moravia, however, were reluctant to join at first.

Rami Malek: Stardom: Mr. Robot and Bohemian Rhapsody: For Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) he took on the challenge of portraying Freddie Mercury, the flamboyant yet enigmatic lead singer of the rock band Queen. To prepare for the role Malek took extensive vocal training and analyzed countless hours of stage footage. The result was an uncanny…

music video: …created by Queen’s clip for “Bohemian Rhapsody” showed how video could augment if not outright define a song’s qualities (whether they were virtues or vices was up to the listener-viewer). In the late 1970s key videos by Devo and other new wave artists crystallized the nature of the form—including an…

Bohemian school, school of the visual arts that flourished in and around Prague under the patronage of Charles IV, king of Bohemia from 1346 and Holy Roman emperor from 1355 to 1378. Prague, as Charles’s principal residence, attracted many foreign artists and local masters. Although it was heavily

waxwing: …common, or Bohemian, waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) is 20 cm (8 inches) long and has yellow and white wing markings in addition to red. It breeds in northern forests of Eurasia and America and every few years irrupts far southward in winter. The cedar waxwing (B. cedrorum), smaller and less…

Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, plateau (125 miles [200 km] long and 35 to 50 miles wide) forming the southeastern boundary of the Bohemian Massif, which separates the former historic provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, now in the Czech Republic. The highlands are roughly defined by the Lužnice River

bohemianism, unconventional lifestyle or subculture, followers of which prioritize community living and artistic endeavours while rejecting certain constraints of mainstream society, such as money and social etiquette. Usually associated with writers, the movement is thought to have formed as a

Bohemond I was the prince of Otranto (1089–1111) and prince of Antioch (1098–1101, 1103–04), one of the leaders of the First Crusade, who conquered Antioch (June 3, 1098). The son of Robert Guiscard (the Astute) and his first wife, Alberada, Bohemond was christened Marc but nicknamed after a

Bohemond II was the prince of Antioch from 1119 to 1130. The son of Bohemond I and Constance of France, he went from Apulia to Antioch in 1126. Antioch had been under the regency of Baldwin II of Jerusalem since 1119, when the previous prince, Roger, had been killed. Soon after his arrival in

Bohemond III was the prince of Antioch from 1163 to 1201. The son of Constance (daughter of Bohemond II) by her first husband, Raymond of Poitiers, he succeeded to the principality upon attaining his majority and then exiled his mother. In the following year (1164) he suffered defeat and was

Bohemond IV was the count of Tripoli (1187–1233) and prince of Antioch (1201–16, 1219–33). The younger son of Bohemond III and Orguilleuse, he became count of Tripoli in 1187 and succeeded his father in the principality of Antioch to the exclusion of his nephew Raymond Ruben in 1201. In 1216

Bohemond III was the prince of Antioch from 1163 to 1201. The son of Constance (daughter of Bohemond II) by her first husband, Raymond of Poitiers, he succeeded to the principality upon attaining his majority and then exiled his mother. In the following year (1164) he suffered defeat and was

Bohemond III was the prince of Antioch from 1163 to 1201. The son of Constance (daughter of Bohemond II) by her first husband, Raymond of Poitiers, he succeeded to the principality upon attaining his majority and then exiled his mother. In the following year (1164) he suffered defeat and was

Bohemond IV was the count of Tripoli (1187–1233) and prince of Antioch (1201–16, 1219–33). The younger son of Bohemond III and Orguilleuse, he became count of Tripoli in 1187 and succeeded his father in the principality of Antioch to the exclusion of his nephew Raymond Ruben in 1201. In 1216

Bohemond I was the prince of Otranto (1089–1111) and prince of Antioch (1098–1101, 1103–04), one of the leaders of the First Crusade, who conquered Antioch (June 3, 1098). The son of Robert Guiscard (the Astute) and his first wife, Alberada, Bohemond was christened Marc but nicknamed after a

Bohemond III was the prince of Antioch from 1163 to 1201. The son of Constance (daughter of Bohemond II) by her first husband, Raymond of Poitiers, he succeeded to the principality upon attaining his majority and then exiled his mother. In the following year (1164) he suffered defeat and was

Bohemond IV was the count of Tripoli (1187–1233) and prince of Antioch (1201–16, 1219–33). The younger son of Bohemond III and Orguilleuse, he became count of Tripoli in 1187 and succeeded his father in the principality of Antioch to the exclusion of his nephew Raymond Ruben in 1201. In 1216

Bohemond III was the prince of Antioch from 1163 to 1201. The son of Constance (daughter of Bohemond II) by her first husband, Raymond of Poitiers, he succeeded to the principality upon attaining his majority and then exiled his mother. In the following year (1164) he suffered defeat and was

Bohemond V was the prince of Antioch and count of Tripoli from 1233 to 1252. The son of Bohemond IV by his wife Plaisance, he succeeded his father in 1233 and carried on the struggle with Armenia until 1251, when the marriage of the future Bohemond VI to the sister of the Armenian king finally

Bohemond VI was the prince of Antioch (1252–68) and count of Tripoli (1252–75). The son of Bohemond V by Luciana, he succeeded his father in 1252. In 1250 his sister Plaisance had married Henry I of Cyprus, the son of Hugh I, and the Cypriot connection of Antioch was thus maintained. In 1252

Bohemond VII was the count of Tripoli from 1275 to 1287. The son of Bohemond VI by Sibyl, sister of Leo III of Armenia, he succeeded to the county of Tripoli in 1275, with his mother as regent. He had trouble with the Templars, who were established in Tripoli; and in the very year of his death he

Dominican Republic: Daily life: …their own small huts, or bohios, often on company-owned land. Some bohios have double-reed walls filled with rubble and plastered with mud, whereas others are little more than lean-tos of palm leaves and bamboo. In the relatively prosperous Cibao Valley, houses are built solidly of palm board or pine and…

Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was a German industrialist, the last member of the Krupp dynasty of munitions manufacturers. Alfried Krupp was the son of Bertha Krupp, the heiress of the Krupp industrial empire, and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Shortly after the outbreak of World War

Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was a German diplomat who married the heiress of the Krupp family of industrialists, Bertha Krupp, and took over operation of the family firm. At the time of their wedding, the Krupp name was added to his own. Bertha’s father, Friedrich Krupp, committed suicide

David Bohm was an American-born British theoretical physicist who developed a causal, nonlocal interpretation of quantum mechanics. Born to an immigrant Jewish family, Bohm defied his father’s wishes that he pursue some practical occupation, such as joining the family’s furniture business, in order

Gottfried Böhm: …assistant architect alongside his father, Dominikus Böhm, one of the most prominent architects of Roman Catholic churches in Europe. (Gottfried’s paternal grandfather was an architect as well.) After apprenticing at firms in Cologne and New York City in 1950–51, Gottfried became a partner at his father’s office. The two collaborated…

Gottfried Böhm: Böhm was married to architect Elisabeth Böhm, and the couple had four sons, three of whom also took up their parents’ profession. The Böhm architecture dynasty was the subject of the documentary Die Böhms: Architektur einer Familie (2014; Concrete Love). To celebrate Böhm’s 100th birthday in 2020, a number of…

Georg Böhm was a German composer known primarily for his keyboard music. The son of an organist-schoolmaster, Böhm went to study at the University of Jena in 1684 and left probably in 1690. In 1698 he became organist at the Church of St. Johannis in Lüneburg, where he remained for the rest of his

Gottfried Böhm was a German architect who combined traditional architectural styles with modern materials and sculptural forms to create Expressionist sculptures that were gracefully integrated into their landscapes. He was the recipient of the Pritzker Prize in 1986. After serving in the German

Karl Böhm was an Austrian conductor who earned an international reputation for his concert performances and recordings of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, W.A. Mozart, and other composers. Böhm studied law but also studied music in Vienna with Eusebius Mandyczewski and Guido Adler. His debut at the

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk was an Austrian economist and statesman and a leading theorist of the Austrian school of economics. After graduating from the University of Vienna, Böhm-Bawerk worked in the Austrian Ministry of Finance (1872–75) and was allowed by the ministry to study at several German

Jakob Böhme was a German philosophical mystic who had a profound influence on such later intellectual movements as idealism and Romanticism. Erklärung über das erste Buch Mosis, better known as Mysterium Magnum (1623; The Great Mystery), is his synthesis of Renaissance nature mysticism and biblical

Bohemia, historical country of central Europe that was a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently a province in the Habsburgs’ Austrian Empire. Bohemia was bounded on the south by Austria, on the west by Bavaria, on the north by Saxony and Lusatia, on the northeast by Silesia, and on the

Bohemian Forest, forested southwestern highlands of the Bohemian Massif largely on the German–Czech Republic frontier and extending from the upper valley of the Ohre River, in the northwest, to a section of the Danube River valley in Austria (between Melk and Krems), in the southeast. The

Johann Friedrich Böhmer was a historian known for his Regesta, an annotated collection of charters and imperial documents of medieval Germany. After studying at the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg, Böhmer journeyed to Italy, where he became interested in art history. Upon his return to

Bohol, island, Visayan group, south-central Philippines. The island, roughly oval in shape, lies between the Camotes Sea (north) and the Bohol Sea (south). Its volcanic core is mostly covered with coralline limestone. The rivers are short, and there are few good anchorages. Settlement is mainly

Bohol Sea, section of the western North Pacific Ocean. Measuring about 170 miles (270 km) east–west, it is bounded by the islands of the Philippines—Mindanao (south and east), Leyte, Bohol, and Cebu (north), and Negros (west). It opens north to the Visayan Sea through Bohol and Tañon straits and

Franciszek Bohomolec was a Polish dramatist, linguist, and theatrical reformer who was one of the principal playwrights of the Polish Enlightenment. After completing his studies in Rome for the Jesuit priesthood, Bohomolec taught in Warsaw and began to adapt the comedies of Carlo Goldoni and

reedbuck: …and most hooked in the bohor reedbuck (Redunca redunca) and the mountain reedbuck (R. fulvorufula). They are 30–45 cm (12–18 inches) and less hooked in the southern, or common, reedbuck (R. arundium). The southern reedbuck is the largest species, standing 65–105 cm (26–41 inches) tall and weighing 50–95 kg (110–210…

Bohrā, in general, any Shīʿī Ismaʿīlī Muslim of the Mustaʿlī sect, living in western India. The name is a corruption of a Gujarati word, vahaurau, meaning “to trade.” The Bohrās include, in addition to this Shīʿī majority, often of the merchant class, a Sunnī minority who are usually peasant

Slovene literature: …Bible into Slovene (1584), and Adam Bohorič, who established a Slovene orthography and analyzed Slovene grammar (1584), created, with others, a corpus of writings in Slovene that even the Counter-Reformation, which was otherwise successful in restoring Catholicism to Slovenia, could not eradicate. The words of the Slovene Protestants survived and…

Bohr model, description of the structure of atoms, especially that of hydrogen, proposed (1913) by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr. The Bohr model of the atom, a radical departure from earlier, classical descriptions, was the first that incorporated quantum theory and was the predecessor of wholly

blood: Respiration: …bind oxygen is called the Bohr effect: when pH is low, hemoglobin binds oxygen less strongly, and when pH is high (as in the lungs), hemoglobin binds more tightly to oxygen. The Bohr effect is due to changes in the shape of the hemoglobin molecule as the pH of its…

Bohr magneton, unit of magnetic moment used in the study of subatomic particles. It is defined asμB = eh 4πme , where e is the charge of an electron, h is Planck’s constant, and me is the mass of an electron. It is named for the 20th-century Danish physicist Niels Bohr and is equal to about 9.274 ×

Bohr model, description of the structure of atoms, especially that of hydrogen, proposed (1913) by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr. The Bohr model of the atom, a radical departure from earlier, classical descriptions, was the first that incorporated quantum theory and was the predecessor of wholly

Bohr model, description of the structure of atoms, especially that of hydrogen, proposed (1913) by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr. The Bohr model of the atom, a radical departure from earlier, classical descriptions, was the first that incorporated quantum theory and was the predecessor of wholly

Aage N. Bohr was a Danish physicist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physics with Ben R. Mottelson and James Rainwater for their work in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. Bohr was educated at the University of Copenhagen, where he received a doctorate in 1954. During

Aage N. Bohr was a Danish physicist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physics with Ben R. Mottelson and James Rainwater for their work in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. Bohr was educated at the University of Copenhagen, where he received a doctorate in 1954. During

Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician who devised a theory that concerned generalizations of functions with periodic properties, the theory of almost periodic functions. The brother of the noted physicist Niels Bohr, he became professor at the Polytechnic Institute in Copenhagen in 1915 and

Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who is generally regarded as one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century. He was the first to apply the quantum concept, which restricts the energy of a system to certain discrete values, to the problem of atomic and molecular structure. For that work he

Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who is generally regarded as one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century. He was the first to apply the quantum concept, which restricts the energy of a system to certain discrete values, to the problem of atomic and molecular structure. For that work he

Harald August Bohr: …the theorem (now called the Bohr–Landau theorem), which concerns the conditions under which the zeta function is equal to zero (distribution of zeros).

Bohrā, in general, any Shīʿī Ismaʿīlī Muslim of the Mustaʿlī sect, living in western India. The name is a corruption of a Gujarati word, vahaurau, meaning “to trade.” The Bohrās include, in addition to this Shīʿī majority, often of the merchant class, a Sunnī minority who are usually peasant

bohrium (Bh), a synthetic element in Group VIIb of the periodic table. It is thought to be chemically similar to the rare metal rhenium. In 1976 Soviet scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, U.S.S.R., announced that they had synthesized element 107, later given the

Otto von Böhtlingk was a language scholar and lexicographer whose writings and seven-volume Sanskrit–German dictionary formed a notable contribution to 19th-century linguistic study. While completing his education at the University of Bonn (1839–42), Böhtlingk published a two-volume edition

Bohuslän, traditional landskap (province), southwestern Sweden, on the Norwegian border, with the provinces of Dalsland and Västergötland to the east and the Kattegat (strait) to the west. It is included in the administrative län (county) of Västra Götaland. A maritime province, it has a wild,

Boian, Neolithic culture (c. 5000–3500 bce) centred in what is now southern Romania; it was characterized by terrace settlements, consisting at first of mud huts and later of fortified promontory settlements. The Boian phase was marked by the introduction of copper axes, the extension of

Matteo Maria Boiardo, count di Scandiano was a poet whose Orlando innamorato, the first poem to combine elements of both Arthurian and Carolingian traditions of romance, gave new life to the chivalrous epic, which was declining in popularity. Boiardo spent much of his childhood at Ferrara, and

boa, common name for a variety of nonvenomous constricting snakes. There are more than 40 species of true boas (family Boidae). In addition, boa may also refer to two other groups of snakes: the Mascarene, or split-jawed, boas (family Bolyeriidae) and dwarf boas (ground and wood boas of the family

Heinrich Christian Boie was a German poet and editor, chiefly noted as a founder of literary periodicals. Boie studied theology and law at the University of Jena; afterward, with Friedrich Gotter, he published in 1770 the first issue of the journal Göttinger Musenalmanach. Boie and Christian von

François-Adrien Boieldieu was a composer who helped transform the French opéra comique into a more serious form of early romantic opera. Boieldieu studied in Rouen under the organist Charles Broche and composed numerous operas and piano sonatas. His sonatas are remarkable for their form, and they

mangrove snake, (genus Boiga), any of about 30 species (family Colubridae) of weakly venomous, rear-fanged snakes, ranging from South Asia to Australia. They are at home on the ground and in trees; many catch birds at night. Because they have elliptical pupils and may be green-eyed, they are

cat snake: …most spectacular species is the black-and-yellow mangrove snake, or gold-ringed cat snake (B. dendrophila), a shiny black snake with a yellow crossbar pattern on its body. It ranges from the Malay Peninsula to the Philippines and can reach 2.5 metres (about 8 feet) in length.

brown tree snake, (Boiga irregularis), slender, mildly venomous, primarily arboreal snake of family Colubridae that is considered to be one of the most aggressive invasive species in the world. The brown tree snake is native only to the islands immediately west of Wallace’s Line and to New Guinea

Boii, a Celtic tribe, one section of which settled in Cisalpine Gaul around Bononia (Bologna, Italy) and another in what was later Bohemia, to which it gave its name. The Cisalpine group, after struggling against the Romans throughout the 3rd century bc, was subdued and made a Latin colony in 191

Oceanic art and architecture: The Sepik River regions: …in the area are the Boiken, the Abelam, and the Sawos and the Iatmul.

whirlpool: These are called kolks, or boils, and are readily visible on the surface.

boil, a staphylococcus skin infection characterized by an inflamed nodular swelling filled with pus, located at the site of a hair follicle. The lesion is painful and feels hard to the touch; healing begins after the pus is discharged. Boils are usually located in hairy body areas exposed to

Nicolas Boileau: …most successful of mock-heroic epics, Le Lutrin, dealing with a quarrel of two ecclesiastical dignitaries over where to place a lectern in a chapel.

Western architecture: Construction in iron and glass: …Eiffel, together with the architect Louis-Auguste Boileau, gave the retail shop a new and exciting setting in the Bon Marché (1876), where merchandise was displayed around the perimeters of skylighted, interior courts. The United States saw nothing comparable, but cast-iron columns and arches appeared during the 1850s in commercial buildings…