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Board game A board game is a game played with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board" (a premarked surface, usually specific to that game). Simple board games often make ideal "family entertainment" since they are often appropriate for all ages.
Board of Broadcast Governors The Board of Broadcast Governors was a Canadian arms-length government agency created in 1958 to regulate television and radio broadcasting, originally taking over that function from the CBC. It was replaced by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 1968.
Board of Control In municipal government a Board of Control is an executive body that usually deals with financial and administrative matters. The idea is that a small body of four or five people is better able to make certain decisions than a large, unwieldy city council.
Board of Economic Warfare The Office of Administrator of Export Control was established in the United States by Presidential Proclamation 2413, July 2 1940, to administer export licensing provisions of the act of July 2 1940 (54 Stat. 714).
Board of Finance The Board of Finance is one of a variety of names (Budget Committee, Finance Committee, Ways and Means Committee, Appropriations Committee, Advisory Committee, or Warrant Committee are used in different parts of New England) for a body that reviews local government budgets in towns or school districts that have the town meeting form of government. Whether the board is appointed or elected, and whether it is merely advisory or has authority over the budget, depends on state and local laws.
Board of Governors of the BBC The Board of Governors of the BBC was a group of twelve people who together regulated the BBC and represented the interests of the public, in particular those of viewers and listeners. It existed from 1927 until it was replaced by the BBC Trust on 1 January 2007.
Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service is an eleven-member board comparable to a board of directors of a private corporation, except in service of the American postal system. Nine members are appointed by the President of the United States, subject to confirmation by the Senate.
Board of Internal Economy The Board of Internal Economy (French: Bureau de régie interne) is the body that governs the administrative and financial policies of the House of Commons of Canada. Unlike other committees of the Parliament of Canada, the Board of Internal Economy continues through prorogation and dissolution.
Board of Jewish Education of Toronto The Board of Jewish Education (BJE) is a Toronto, Ontario administrative body that offers direction to the Greater Toronto Area's Jewish schools. The BJE was established in 1949 and currently serves more than 70 day and supplementary schools, 1700 educators and 17,000 students.
Board of Longitude The Board of Longitude was a British Government body formed in 1714 to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea. Its establishment was largely motivated by the 1707 grounding of Vice-Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet off the Isles of Scilly.
Board of Navy Commissioners The Board of Naval Commissioners was a United States Navy administrative body in existence from 1815 to 1842, with responsibility for the Navy's material support. The three-member Board was created as part of an expansion of the U.
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) is a body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which decides issues of patentability. If an applicant for an invention cannot convince a patent examiner that they are entitled to their claims, then the applicant can appeal the examiner's decision to the board.
Board of Review (Boy Scouts of America) In the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), a Board of Review is a commission charged with interviewing a Scout to verify that he has successfully completed the requirements for an advancement in rank. (The same term also refers to the interview process itself.
Board of Studies, New South Wales The Board of Studies is the state government education board in New South Wales, Australia. It provides educational leadership by developing the curriculum from Kindergarten to Year 12 and awarding secondary school credentials: the School Certificate (Year 10) and the Higher School Certificate (Year 12).
Board of Tea Appeals The Board of Tea Appeals was a United States federal agency under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration. From its establishment in 1897 until its abolition in 1996, it adjudicated the claims of tea importers whose products were denied entry into the United States by federal tea-tasters.
Board of Trade The Board of Trade is a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, originating as a committee of inquiry in the 17th century and evolving gradually into a government department with a diverse range of functions. This department has been known as the Department of Trade and Industry since 1970, headed by a Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, who is also President of the Board of Trade.
Board support package In embedded systems, a Board Support Package is implementation specific support code for a given board that conforms to a given operating system. It is commonly built with a bootloader that contains the minimal device support to load the operating system and device drivers for all the devices on the board.
BoarderX Four riders race down a track comprised of dirt obstacles such as; rollers, doubles, triples, step-ups, step-downs, table tops, berms, and straights. The tracks are on various gradients, some are extremely steep and other quite shallow.
Boardgamer The Boardgamer was a magazine founded by Bruce Monnin after Avalon Hill was bought out by Hasbro and the future of their games was in doubt. The intention was to continue support for Avalon Hill products in the same way The General had, as well as (according to Monnin in issue 46 of Operations Magazine), any games contested at the World Boardgaming Championships.
BoardGameGeek BoardGameGeek is a website that was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko as a resource for the board gaming hobby.The Dice Tower: Interviews by an Optimist #32 - Scott Alden Retrieved December 29, 2006KublaCon: Special Guests Aldie and Derk Retrieved December 29, 2006 The database holds reviews, articles, and session reports for over 25,000 different games, expansions, and designers.
Boarding (ice hockey) Boarding in ice hockey is a penalty called when an offending player violently pushes an opposing player into the boards of the hockey rink, when the player is facing the board. The boarding call is quite often a major penalty due to the likelihood of injury sustained by the player who was boarded.
Boarding house A boarding house can also be called a "rooming house" (mainly in the United States) or a "lodging house". It is a house (often a family home) in which people on vacation or lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years.
Boarding pass A boarding pass is a document provided by an airline during check-in, giving a passenger the authority to board an aircraft. As a minimum, it identifies the passenger, the flight number, and the date and scheduled time for departure.
Boardman House The Boardman House (circa 1687), also known as the Scotch-Boardman House or the Bennett-Boardman House, is a historic house located at 17 Howard Street, Saugus, Massachusetts. It is owned by Historic New England and open to the public two days per year.
Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of ÂŁ2000 awarded by the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust to an author or authors for 'an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.' It was established in memory of Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker after their deaths on the north-east ridge of Mount Everest in 1982.
Boardman Township, Mahoning County, Ohio Boardman is a suburban township located in Mahoning County, Ohio, United States, just south of Youngstown. As of the 2000 census, the township had a total population of 42,518, making Boardman the fifth most populous township in the state of Ohio.
Boardwalk A boardwalk is a wooden path for pedestrians and sometimes vehicles. Boardwalks are often found along beaches, but they are also common as paths through wetlands, coastal dunes, and other sensitive environments.
Boardwalk (music club) The Boardwalk nightclub was located on Little Peter Street in Manchester, England. This small club, owned by Colin Sinclair, was a popular live music venue in the late 1980s and early 1990s where bands such as Oasis made their live debuts.
Boardwalk and Baseball Boardwalk and Baseball was a theme park built in Polk County, Florida, United States, on the east corner of the intersection of US 27 and Interstate 4. It replaced Circus World at the same location, and was owned by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (now Harcourt, a division of Reed Elsevier).
Boardwalk Bowl The Boardwalk Bowl was a post-season college football game held at the former Atlantic City Convention Center (now Boardwalk Hall) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The game featured smaller, lesser-known schools and teams.
Boardwalk Hall Boardwalk Hall, also known as the Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall is an arena which served as the primary convention center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, until the 1997 opening of the Atlantic City Convention Center.
Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ The Boardwalk Hall Organ is the pipe organ in the Main Auditorium of the Boardwalk Hall (formerly known as the Atlantic City Convention Hall) in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company. It is usually called the "Main Auditorium Organ", to distinguish it from the other organ in the Boardwalk Hall, the Kimball Organ in the Ballroom.
Boardwalk Chapel Boardwalk Chapel (most often referred to as "The Boardwalk Chapel") is a summertime Christian Gospel outreach on the two mile boardwalk on the barrier island of The Wildwoods, NJ. Unique in that it is sandwiched between a pizzeria on the left and a gift shop/henna tattoo parlor on the right, its wide entrance offers thousands of board walkers the opportunity to move freely in and out of any one of its 77 consecutive evening services held during June, July, and August.
Boarhouse Doug and Marty's Boarhouse or Chesterfields, as it was previously known, is a 24 hour bar and restaurant located in central Moscow. The bar was opened in 1997 by Canadian Doug Steele along with expat club-owner Jean-Michel and Englishman Martin Bainbridge.
Boas' sign Boas' or Boas's sign is hyperaesthesia (increased or altered sensitivity) below the right scapula can be a symptom in acute cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder) It is one of many symptoms a medical provider may look for during an Abdominal examination
Boat 'n Bank The Boat 'N Bank of Kilmarnock, Virginia-based Chesapeake National Bank was the nation's first floating bank branch. A converted houseboat, the floating bank provided banking services to seafood houses on the Northern Neck of Virginia.
Boat (car) A boat is an informal (although once widely used) term for the massive cars produced by the Detroit manufacturers during the 1950s and onward. The age of the boats came to a rather abrupt end in the early 1970s, when the first gas crisis hit and driving a needlessly large car became impractical financially.
Boat anchor In computing, a boat anchor is a piece of useless computer hardware - so-called because theoretically their only productive use is to be thrown into the water as a boat mooring (a common use for large obsolete or non-functional pieces of machinery). Early computers, where the term originated, were physically large and heavy devices, making them eminently suitable for such a use.
Boat boy Boat Boy and boat person are terms used for a junior altar server position found in some Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. The role of a Boat Boy is to assist the thurifer (the senior server who carries the thurible) during services in which incense is used.
Boat Force Operations Badge The Boat Force Operations Insignia is intended to identify those United States Coast Guard personnel currently working in the Boat Force operations field and to recognize the commitment of Coast Guard members who have repeatedly served in the community.The Boat Force operations community is the Coast Guard’s primary source of direct service to the public and executes missions to support all five Strategic Operational Goals.
Boat Harbour, Tasmania Boat Harbour is both a geographical location and a population region (Australian Postcode 7321) on the north west coast of Tasmania, west of Tasmania. It was originally named Jacob's Boat Harbour after Captain John Jacob, master of small vessels owned by the Van Diemen's Land Company trading between its establishments at Circular Head and Woolnorth with Launceston between the late 1820s and the 1840s.
Boat people Boat people is a term (usually) referring to impoverished illegal immigrants or asylum seekers, who arrive en masse in old or crudely-made boats. The term came into common use during the late 1970s, with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from communist-controlled Vietnam, following the Vietnam War.
Boat positions (sport rowing) In all boats, with the exception of single sculls, each rower is numbered in sequential order from the bow to the stern. The person who is seated on the first seat is always the bowman, or more commonly called just the bow.
Boat People SOS Boat People SOS is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization headquartered at Falls Church, Virginia. Its mission is to assist Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in their search for a life in liberty and dignity, by empowering, equipping and organizing Vietnamese American communities in their progress toward self-sufficiency.
Boat Railway Post Office Route Agents and, later, Railway Post Office (RPO) clerks were placed on inland boat lines at a very early date; postmarks go back to 1857. By the 1890s the famed river packets and steamers on the Ohio and Mississippi usually carried RPO mail units, such as the old Cairo & Memphis, and the Vicksburg & New Orleans.
Boat service A boat service is regularly scheduled transport using one or more boats, typically on a river, at a set charge, normally depending on the length of the trip and the type of passenger. The service may only be available for foot passengers.
Boat ski The Boat ski is a shock absorbing system invented by Spede Pasanen for the bow of a small motorboat with a powerful outboard motor. Its functioning principle is damping the chopping motion of the boats bow with a ski-like device attached to the bow through a car shock absorber.
Boat Sharing Boat Sharing means the operation of boats, mainly sailing boats, by an non-profit organisation for its members. The organisation may be an association, a cooperative, a club or a society or—if it is set up more professionnally and/or more commercially—a company or a corporation.
Boathouse Row Boathouse Row is an historic site located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, consisting of a row of boathouses housing racing sculls, on the east bank of the Schuylkill River. Each of the ten boathouses has its own history, and all have addresses on Kelly Drive (named after famous Philadelphia oarsman John B.
Boating Boating, the leisurely activity of traveling by boat typically refers to the recreational use of boats whether power boats, sail boats, or yachts (large vessels), focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or waterskiing. Boating is an extremely popular activity, and there are millions of boaters worldwide.
Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads is a four-disc (or cassette) box-set of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band's greatest hits, rarities, and unreleased songs. Released in 1992, the collection reached quadruple platinum.
Boatswain Bird Island Boatswain Bird Island (pronounced bosen) is an island of the east coast of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is administered from Georgetown on Ascension, which, together with Tristan da Cunha, is a dependency of Saint Helena.
Boatswain's pipe A boatswain's pipe or boatswain's call (pronounced "Bosun") is a whistle that is made of a tube, called the gun, that directs air over a grape-sized metal sphere with a hole cut in the top. The player opens and closes the hand over the hole to change the pitch.
Boavista Sport Club Boavista Sport Club, usually known simply as Boavista (the club is sometimes misspelled Boa Vista Sport Club, or Boa Vista), is a Brazilian football team, from the Bacaxá district, city of Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro state. The club was formerly known as Esporte Clube Barreira.
Boaz and Jachin Boaz and Jachin were the name of the two pillars that stood in the porch of Solomon's Temple, the first Temple in Jerusalem (1 Kings 7:21; 2 Kings 11:14; 23:3). Boaz ("in strength") was on the left, and Jachin ("he establishes"), also spelled Jakin (יָכִין, Standard Hebrew Yaḫin, Tiberian Hebrew Yāḵîn) was on the right.
Boaz Ellis Boaz Ellis (born October 15, 1981 in the moshav of Tzippori in Israel) is a foil fencer. He is a 5-time Israeli national champion, and after his junior year at the Ohio State University is a 3-time NCAA champion.
Boaz Island, Bermuda Boaz Island, formerly known as Gate's Island or Yates Island, is one of the six main islands of Bermuda. It is part of a chain of islands in the west of the country that make up Sandys Parish, lying between the larger Ireland Island and Somerset Island, and is connected to both by bridges.
Boîte Diabolique The Boîte Diabolique (French for "Diabolical Box") is a fictional musical instrument from the BBC television comedy series Look Around You which is said to contain the 19 "forbidden notes".
Boëthius (family) Boëthius is a Swedish clerical family descended from Herr Anders, the first Protestant vicar of Sidensjö in Ångermanland (early 16th century). His grandson Boëtius Olai Moræus (died 1628) took his surname from Mora, where he served as vicar.
BoĂ´ A boĂ´ (also spelled boo or boe) is an old Saxon building where a farmer could spend the night with his cattle if he let them graze far outside the village. The building, which had separate areas for cattle and farmer to live, would have been made with cheap materials.
Boötes Boötes (), a name deriving from Egypt, is one of the 88 modern constellations and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy. Boötes is generally referred to as the Bear Watcher, since it appears to be watching over the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
Boötes void The Boötes void is a tremendously large, approximately spherically shaped nearly-empty region of space, devoid of galaxies. At nearly 250 million light-years in diameter, it is one of the largest known voids, and is referred to as a supervoid.
Bođani monastery The Bođani Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Бођани / Manastir Bođani) is a Serb Orthodox monastery in the Bačka region, in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. The monastery is near the village of Bođani, in the Bač municipality.
Boğaziçi Boğaziçi is the general term, specific to İstanbul and overlapping administrative divisions, used to denote those parts of the city with view of the Bosphorus. The respective nuances of the two terms (the strait itself and the urban area of Boğaziçi) being somewhat similar to those between San Francisco Bay and the Bay Area, they are not used interchangeably in correct parlance.
Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University is widely considered to be one of the prominent educational institutions in Turkey. The university is located on the European Side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul (hence the name, which means 'University of Bosphorus').
Bob and Carol Look for Treasure Bob and Carol Look for Treasure was the first story produced by the BBC as part of their Look and Read programme. The ten part serial was filmed, in September 1966, with the intention of being shown as part of the BBC's Merry-Go-Round series but was instead broadcast, between January and March of 1967, as part of their new Look and Read format.
Bob and Doug McKenzie Bob and Doug McKenzie were a pair of fictional Canadian brothers who hosted "The Great White North", a sketch which was introduced on SCTV for the show's third season when it moved to the CBC in 1980. Bob is played by Rick Moranis and Doug is played by Dave Thomas.
Bob and Joan "Bob and Joan", also known as "Boban John", "Bobbing Joan", "Bobbing Joe", "Stoney Blatter", "Hey for Stoney Batter", "The Rakes of Stony Batter", etc., is an Irish ditty set in the Stony Batter quarter of Dublin.
Bob and Margaret Bob and Margaret was a Canadian/UK animated television series that was also shown in the United States. It was based on the Academy Award winning animated short Bob's Birthday, featuring the same main characters.
Bob and Ray Bob Elliott (born 1923) and Ray Goulding (1922–1990) were an American comedy team whose career spanned five decades. Their format was typically to satirize the medium in which they were performing, such as conducting radio or television interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style as though it were a serious interview.
Bob and Rose Bob and Rose is a British television drama, originally screened in six one-hour episodes on the ITV network in the UK in the autumn of 2001. It was produced for the network by the independent Red Production Company, and was that company's first prime-time drama for the ITV network.
Bob and the Showgram Bob and the Showgram is a morning radio show on WDCG-FM in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina that airs from 6 am to 10 am weekdays. The current cast consists of radio personalities Bob Dumas, a "redneck" despite his six-figure plus salary (see Larry the Cable Guy), Mike Morse, a local 'hot' Disc Jockey, and Kentucky Kristin, the newest member of the crew.
Bob and Tom Radio: The Comedy Tour Bob and Tom Radio: The Comedy Tour is a DVD made as a spin-off from The Bob & Tom Show. This is a syndicated US radio program established by Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold at radio station WFBQ in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1983.
Bob and wheel Bob and wheel is the common name for a metrical device most famously used by the Pearl Poet in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The feature is found mainly in Middle English and Middle Scots poetry, where the bob and wheel occur typically at the end of a stanza.
Bob Abate Robert Abate (November 25 1893 – January 23 1981) was a Canadian sports coach and the driving force behind the Elizabeth Playground sports teams in Toronto. The Lizzies, as they were known, won more than 150 titles at the city, provincial, and national levels in baseball, basketball, football, and hockey.
Bob Addie Robert Addie (February 6 1910 - January 18 1982) was an American sportswriter who covered baseball for The Washington Post and Washington Times-Herald. Addie was known for his clean style, hilarious anecdotes, unabashed sentiment, red socks and dark glasses.
Bob Addy Robert Edward "The Magnet" Addy (February 1845 - April 9, 1910) was a 19th century Major League Baseball player who hailed from Rochester, New York. He was an outfielder and second baseman for the majority of his career in the National Association and the National League.
Bob Allen Robert Gilman Allen (July 10, 1867 - May 14, 1943) was a shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Boston Beaneaters, and the Cincinnati Reds, as well as a manager for two brief stints with both the Phillies and the Reds. He was born in Marion, OH, and as a youth, he played baseball with future president Warren G.
Bob Allietta Robert George Allietta (born May 1, 1952 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is a former Major League Baseball catcher. On January 13, 1971 he was drafted by the California Angels in the 1st round (7th pick) of the 1971 amateur draft (Secondary Phase).
Bob Allison William Robert "Bob" Allison (July 11, 1934 - April 9, 1995) was a Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played in the American League for the Washington Senators and Minnesota Twins from 1959 to 1970. He was born in Raytown, Missouri.
Bob Andras Robert Knight (Bob) Andras, PC (February 21, 1921-November 17, 1982) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Port Arthur from 1965 to 1979, and Thunder Bay—Nipigon from 1979 to 1980, in the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Bob Angelle Robert Joseph "Bob" Angelle (August 26, 1896 - December 22, 1979) was a businessman and politician from Breaux Bridge in St. Martin Parish, who was the Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1957-1960, the last term of Governor Earl Kemp Long.
Bob Appleyard Bob Appleyard (Robert Appleyard; born June 27 1924, Wibsey, Bradford, Yorkshire, England) was one of the best English bowlers of the 1950s, a decade which saw England develop its strongest bowling attack of the twentieth century. Able to bowl fast-medium swingers or seamer and off-spinners with almost exactly the same action, Appleyard was a tragic figure whose career was almost destroyed by injury and illness after an amazing first full season in 1951.
Bob Armstrong Joseph James (born October 3, 1939 in Marietta, Georgia) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Bullet" Bob Armstrong. In the course of his career, which spanned five decades, Armstrong held numerous championships throughout the Southeastern United States.
Bob Aspromonte Robert Thomas Aspromonte - Born June 19, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York is a former utility player who had a 13 year career in 1956 and from 1960 to 1971. He played first base, second base, shortstop, third base, and outfield.
Bob Babbitt Bob Babbitt (born Robert Kreinar) is an American bassist, most famous for his work as a member of Motown Records' studio band, the Funk Brothers. Babbitt traded off sessions with main Motown bassist James Jamerson, and was favored over Jamerson by producer Norman Whitfield.
Bob Babcock Bob Babcock (born August 3, 1968 in Agincourt, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward who played two games in the National Hockey League for the Washington Capitals. He was selected by the Capitals in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft.
Bob Bailey (baseball) Robert Sherwood (Bob) Bailey (born October 13, 1942 in Long Beach, California) is an American former third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1962-66), Los Angeles Dodgers (1967-68), Montreal Expos (1969-75), Cincinnati Reds (1976-77) and Boston Red Sox (1977-78). He batted and threw right-handed.
Bob Barber Robert ("Bob") William Barber (born on 26 September 1935 in Withington, Manchester) is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Lancashire and Warwickshire from 1954 to 1969. He also played 28 Test matches for England.
Bob Baumhower Bob Baumhower (born August 4, 1955 in Portsmouth, Virginia) was an American football player who played college football for the University of Alabama and professional football for the Miami Dolphins of the NFL.
Bob Beall Robert Brooks Beall (born April 24, 1948, in Portland, Oregon) is a former professional baseball player who played Major League Baseball for the Atlanta Braves in 1975, 1977–1979 and for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1980. Beall was drafted in the 28th round of the 1970 amateur draft after playing for Oregon State University in college, and played in 148 career games over four seasons.
Bob Beauprez Robert L. "Bob" Beauprez (born September 22 1948) is an American politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 7th Congressional District of Colorado.
Bob Beemer Bob Beemer, (AKA Robert Joseph Beemer; Bobby Beemerino) was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California. Graduating from Loyola High School (Los Angeles) in 1973, he studied Communication Arts and English at Loyola Marymount University in Weschester, California, earning a bachelors degree with a double major in those two fields.
Bob Berring Since 1982, Bob Berring (a Harvard University graduate) has been a professor of Law and Law Librarian at the University of California (Boalt Hall) School of Law. From 1986 to 1989, he held a joint appointment as dean of the School of Library and Information Studies; He also served as interim dean of the law school from January 2003 to June 2004.
Bob Bertles Bob Bertles is an Australian jazz tenor saxophonist who began his performing career in 1956. In the late 1950s and early 60s Bertles was an important member of the developing modern jazz scene that grew out of venues like the Mocambo in Newtown and especially the El Rocco Jazz Cellar in Sydney's Kings Cross.
Bob Bertucci Bob Bertucci (born September] [[1954) is an American former volleyball player Springfield College 1974 and is the current volleyball coach of the Temple University Owls of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Bertucci, in his 12th year as the coach of the Owls, is the winningest volleyball coach in Temple volleyball history.
Bob Bescher Robert Henry "Bob" Bescher (February 25, 1884-November 29, 1942) was a former baseball outfielder who played 11 seasons in the major leagues. Born in London, Ohio, he played his best seasons with the Cincinnati Reds, and was one of the National League's best base stealers during his time.
Bob Beswick Bob Beswick is a former rugby Wigan St Pats amateur and Deanery pupil, he played for Wigan's Academy U17s during the 2002 season. He was rumoured to have been released by Wigan and to have joined rivals St Helens in October 2002, but he played for the Wigan Academy U21s in 2003, winning the Academy Championship.
Bob Blackman Bob Blackman (July 7, 1918 - March 18, 2000) was a college football head coach. Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987, Blackman is best known for his years as the head coach of the Dartmouth College football team.
Bob Blue Bob Blue (July 31, 1948-March 17, 2006) a native of Huntington, NY and a resident of Massachusetts, was a teacher and songwriter. His most well-known song, The Ballad of Erica Levine was occasionally performed by Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary.

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