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Bond Electraglide The Bond Electraglide was a carbon fiber electric guitar manufactured by Bond Guitars between 1984 and 1985. It resembled a matte-black, 3-pickup Gibson Melody Maker, with a unique stepped aluminum fingerboard (anodized black) instead of traditional frets.
Bond Exchange Offer In a Bond Exchange Offer, bondholders may consensually exchange their existing bonds for others with new terms the company can satisfy and new values in conformity with the writedown of stranded investment or whatever else.
Bond for deed A bond for deed is a contract to sell real property in which the purchase price is to be paid by the buyer to the seller in installments and in which the seller, after payment of a stipulated sum, agrees to deliver title to the buyer. It may also be called a "contract for deed".
Bond Hill, Ohio Founded as a railroad suburb and temperance community in 1871 in northeastern Millcreek Township in Hamilton County, Ohio, Bond Hill is currently a neighborhood of the City of Cincinnati. It is one of a number of neighborhoods lining the Mill Creek, an urban stream in southwestern Ohio.
Bond market The bond market, also known as the debt, credit, or fixed income market, is a financial market where participants buy and sell debt securities usually in the form of bonds. The size of the international bond market is an estimated $45 trillion and the size of outstanding U.
Bond measure A bond measure is an initiative to sell bonds for the purpose of acquiring funds for various public works projects, such as research, transportation infrastructure improvements, and others. These measures are put up for a vote in general elections and must be approved by a plurality or majority of voters, depending on the specific project in question.
Bond order Bond order is the number of bonds between a pair of atoms. For example in nitrogen N:::N the bond order is 3, in acetylene H:C:::C:H the bond order between the two carbon atoms is 3 and the C:H bond order is 1.
Bond plus option In finance, a Bond+Option is a capital guarantee product that provides an investor with a fixed, predetermined participation to an option. Buying the zero coupon bond ensures the guarantee of the capital, and the remaining proceeds are used to buy an option.
Bond Street Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London which runs through Mayfair from Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north. It is one of the principal streets in the West End shopping district and is more upmarket than nearby Regent Street and Oxford Street.
Bond v The Queen Bond v The Queen [2000] HCA 13; (2000) 201 CLR 213; (2000) 169 ALR 607, was a significant case decided in the High Court of Australia regarding the power of the Commonwealth DPP to institute appeals in state courts.
Bond valuation Bond valuation is the process of determining the fair price of a bond. As with any security or capital investment, the fair value of a bond is the present value of the stream of cash flows it is expected to generate.
Bondage In its most basic sense, the word bondage refers to the state or condition of being bound to an unfree labor system, as in slavery, indentured servitude, or serfdom. More generally, "bondage" may refer to any state of subjection to a force, influence, or power.
Bondage bed A bondage bed is a bed designed for bondage and BDSM play. The design typically falls into two main variants; a standard bed designed primarily for sleeping on but which has purpose built attachments for bondage, and a table-like piece of furniture with a padded top and multiple fixing points around it.
Bondage belt A bondage belt is a wide waist belt used in bondage, sporting D-rings or attachment points. It is a physical restraint popular in BDSM play and usually used as an anchoring point for other restraints such as bondage cuffs.
Bondage harness A bondage harness is a series of leather straps, typically between 1 and 2 cm wide, attached together in such a way as to allow a person to "wear" the item. The item can be worn by both men and women.
Bondage Photographer Bondage Photographer was a bondage magazine published by House of Milan from 1982 to 2000. Its speciality, similar to that its sister magazine Bondage in the Buff, was the depiction of completely nude models, generally photographed in an artistic style.
Bondage rope harness A bondage rope harness, sometime also referred to as a bondage web, rope web, rope dress or karada, is a bondage technique involving the tying of an intricate structure of rope around the body in a complex web-like fashion.
Bondage tape Bondage tape is a 2-3 inch wide strip of thin plastic material that adheres only to itself, without any adhesive, that is typically intended to be used in erotic bondage. Since it does not stick to the hair or skin, a bottom can be tightly bound and/or gagged without causing harm when the tape is removed.
Bondarzewiaceae Bondarzewiaceae is a family of fungi in the order Russulales. The type species for both its genus and the family as a whole, Bondarzewia montana, closely resembles memembers of Polyporales (and was formerly placed there), but has ornamented spores like those of Lactarius or Russula.
Bonde Palace The Bonde Palace (Swedish: Bondeska palatset) in Stockholm was built as the private residence of the Lord High Treasurer of Sweden, Gustaf Bonde, between 1662 and 1673 on the islet Stadsholmen, close to the Stockholm Palace. The chief architects were Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and Jean De la Vallée.
Bonded Leather Bonded Leather , or "Reconstituted Leather" is not really a true leather but a man-made material composed of 60% to 90% leather fibers (often scrap from leather tanneries or leather workshops). It consists of collagen fibers obtained from macerated hide pieces bonded together with latex binders constructed into a fibrous mat to create a look and feel similar to that of genuine leather but at a fraction of the cost.
Bondi Beach, New South Wales Bondi Beach (pronounced "Bond-eye" with a long i, or bĂłndai) is a popular beach in the suburb of Bondi, New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. It is situated in the Eastern Suburbs, roughly seven kilometres from the centre of the city.
Bondi Junction, New South Wales Bondi Junction is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 6kms east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the Waverley.
Bondi United Football Club Bondi United is an amateur Football (soccer) club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The club is heavily supported by the Russian community of Sydney, and currently plays in the 3rd Division of the Eastern Suburbs Soccer Football Association.
Bondoukou Bondoukou (Bonduku) is the capital of CĂ´te d'Ivoire's Zanzan region. Originally a Dyula trading center, the capital was conquered by the Abron, an Akan people, in the early seventeenth century; it soon became the economic hub of the Gyaaman kingdom.
Bonds on Bonds Bonds on Bonds was a 10 part reality TV series starring San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds that aired on ESPN. The show revolved on the life of Bonds and his chase of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron's home run records, but mostly met with public indifference.
Bone (comics) Bone was originally serialized in an independently, irregularly published comic book series for 55 issues, from 1991 to 2004, notable as one of the longest-running self-published comic book series by a single writer/artist.
Bone age Bone age is a way of describing the degree of maturation of a child's bones. As a person grows from fetal life through childhood, puberty, and finishes growth as a young adult, the bones of the skeleton change in size and shape.
Bone Anchored Hearing Aid A Bone Anchored Hearing Aid is a type of hearing aid based on bone conduction. It is primarily suited to people who have conductive hearing losses, unilateral hearing loss and people with mixed hearing losses who cannot otherwise wear 'In the ear' or 'behind the ear' hearing aids.
Bone density Bone density is a medical term referring to the amount of matter per cubic centimeter of bones. It is measured by a procedure called densitometry, often performed in the radiology departments of hospitals or clinics.
Bone exercise monitor A bone exercise monitor is an instrument which is used to measure and analyze the bone strengthening qualities of physical activity and to help in prevention of osteoporosis with physical activity and exercise.
Bone fires "Bone fires" is believed by some to be the origin of the word "bonfires". It is thought that bone fires were fires lit with bones instead of wood, so that when livestock were driven between two such fires the acrid smoke drove off parasites.
Bone folder A Bone folder is a dull edged device used to crease material in crafts such as bookbinding, card making and any other craft where a sharp crease is needed. It is also used for marking fabric where a temporary mark needs to be made without damaging the material.
Bone fracture A bone fracture is a medical condition in which a bone becomes cracked, splintered, or bisected as a result of physical trauma. A bone fracture can also occur as a result of certain medical conditions that weaken the bones, such as osteoporosis or certain types of cancer.
Bone char Bone char, also known as bone black or animal charcoal, is a granular black material produced by calcinating animal bones: the bones are heated to high temperatures in the absence of air to drive off volatile substances. It consists mainly of calcium phosphate and a small amount of carbon.
Bone Chillers Bone Chillers is a formerly popular series of children's horror fiction novellas and TV show created and authored by Betsy Haynes. It's about four freshmen at Edgar Allan Poe High School, who not only have to deal with the normal pressures of competing with the cool kids and the jocks, but also have to contend with all sorts of weird happenings.
Bone marrow biopsy Bone marrow examination refers to the pathologic analysis of samples of bone marrow obtained by bone marrow biopsy (often called a trephine biopsy) and bone marrow aspiration. Bone marrow examination is used in the diagnosis of a number of conditions, including leukemia, multiple myeloma, and anemia.
Bone marrow transplant Bone marrow transplantation or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a medical procedure in the field of hematology and oncology that involves transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC). It is most often performed for people with diseases of the blood or bone marrow, or certain types of cancer.
Bone metabolism It is a common misconception that bones are static in nature and hardly change once an individual becomes an adult. On the contrary, bones are continuously undergoing a dynamic process of resorption and deposition known as bone metabolism.
Bone mineral density A bone mineral density (BMD) test, also called a bone mass measurement, is used to measure bone density and determine fracture risk for osteoporosis. It may also be used to determine how effective an osteoporosis treatment is.
Bone morphogenetic protein 10 Bone morphogenetic protein 10 (BMP10) is a polypeptide belonging to the TGF-β superfamily of proteins. It is a novel protein that, unlike most other BMP's, is likely to be involved in the tabeculation of the heart.
Bone morphogenetic protein 2 Bone morphogenetic protein 2 or BMP-2 is a protein that belongs to the TGF-β superfamily of proteins. It, like other bone morphogenetic proteins, plays an important role in the development of bone and cartilage.
Bone morphogenetic protein 3 Bone morphogenetic protein 3 (BMP3) is a polypeptide member of the Transforming growth factor beta superfamily of proteins. It, like other bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP's) is known for its ability to induce bone and cartilage development.
Bone morphogenetic protein 4 Bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) is a polypeptide belonging to the TGF-β superfamily of proteins. It, like other bone morphogenetic proteins, is involved in bone and cartilage development, specifically tooth and limb development and fracture repair.
Bone morphogenetic protein 7 Bone morphogenetic protein 7 or BMP7 (also known as Osteogenic Protein-1 or OP-1) is a member of the TGF-β superfamily of proteins. Like other members of the bone morphogenetic protein family of proteins, it plays a key role in the transformation of mesenchymal cells into bone and cartilage.
Bone morphogenetic protein 8b Bone morphogenetic protein 8b (BMP8b) is a polypeptide belonging to the TGF-β superfamily of proteins. It has close sequence homology to BMP7 and BMP5 and is believed to play a role in bone and cartilage development.
Bone morphogenetic protein receptor, type 1 Bone morphogenetic protein type I receptors are single pass, type I transmembrane proteins. They belong to a class of receptor serine/threonine kinases that bind members of the TGF beta superfamily of ligands-the Bone morphogenetic proteins.
Bone rank system The bone rank system was the system of aristocratic rank used in the ancient Korean kingdom of Silla. It was used to segregate society, and particularly the layers of the aristocracy, on the basis of their closeness to the throne and the level of authority they were permitted to wield.
Bone resorption Bone resorption is the process by which osteoclasts break down bone and release the minerals, resulting in a transfer of calcium from bone fluid to the blood. The osteoclasts are multi-nucleated cells that contain numerous mitochondria and lysosomes.
Bone sialoprotein Bone sialoprotein (BSP) is a component of mineralized tissues such as bone, dentin, cementum and calcified cartilage. It was first isolated from bovine cortical bone by Herring [Herring GM (1972) The organic matrix of bone.
Bone spur Bone spurs, also known as osteophytes, are bony projections that form along joints. Bone spurs form due to the body's increase of a damaged (usually due to arthritis) joint's surface area in a futile attempt to improve weight distribution.
Bone state Bone or Boni was a vassal state of the government of Celebes, Dutch East Indies, in the south-west peninsula of Celebes, on the Gulf of Boni. Covering an area of 2600m², Bone's chief town Boni, lay 130km northeast of Macassar and home to the Bugis people.
Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology is a graphic novel written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Big Time Attic. The book tells the somewhat-fictionalized yet true story of the Bone Wars, a period of intense excavation, speculation, and rivalry which led to a greater understanding of dinosaurs in the western United States.
Bone to Pick Bone to Pick from 1995 is the second album of the hard rock group Gone Jackals (referred to as The Gone Jackals on this album). The songs are otherwise traditional hard rock/heavy metal numbers but played with a type of classic Rock N Roll tint.
Bone tool Bone tools have been documented from the advent of Homo Sapiens and are also known from Homo Neanderthalis contexts. Bone is a ubiquitous material in hunter-gatherer societies even when other tool materials were scarce or unavailable.
Bone tumor Bone tumor is an inexact term, which can be used for both benign and malignant abnormal growths found in bone, but is most commonly used for primary tumors of bone, such as osteosarcoma (or osteoma). It is less exactly applied to secondary, or metastatic tumors found in bone.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are an American rap group from Cleveland, Ohio known for their fast rapping style and harmonizing vocals. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are one of the biggest selling rap artists of all time with 40 million albums sold worldwide and winning numerous awards including a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance for Tha Crossroads.
Bone Valley The Bone Valley is a region of central Florida, encompassing portions of present-day Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Polk counties, in which phosphate is mined for use in the production of agricultural fertilizer. Florida currently contains the largest known deposits of phosphate in the United States.
Bone Voyage Recording Company The Bone Voyage Recording Company is a record label founded in 2005 by Finish band 22-Pistepirkko and their manager Quintus Kannegiesser. At first its focus was on the broad back catalogue of the band, but soon the label have signed younger Finish debuting acts to its roster, like Kytäjä, Goodnight Monsters and The Micragirls.
Bone Wars The Bone Wars were an infamous period in the history of paleontology when the two pre-eminent paleontologists of the time, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, were competing to see who could find the most, and most sensational, new species of dinosaur. This competition was marred by bribery, politics, violations of American Indian territories, and virulent personal attacks.
Bone-setting Bone-setting is an ancient art of healing through bone manipulation. It is known as Bhagna, a part of Ayurvedic medicine in India, Dit-da in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Sekkotsu in Japan, and is also used in Finland.
Bone: The Great Cow Race Bone: The Great Cow Race is the third video game endeavor by Telltale Games, and the second episode of the Bone adventure game series. It was released in April 2006 after approximately seven months of production.
Boneless Fish The Boneless Fish (骨なし魚) is a fish-based frozen food invented by Dairei Corporation (大冷株式会社) of Japan in 1998. It is essentially a fish that has been scaled, gutted and deboned by a skilled worker before being reassembled to look like a dressed fish (gutted and with its head and fins removed).
Boner Records Boner Records is a Berkeley, California based independent record label, run by Tom Flynn. They have released recordings by Fang, Verbal Abuse, MDC, Steel Pole Bath Tub, The Melvins, The Dicks, The Warlock Pinchers, and Bomb among others.
Bones (instrument) The bones are a musical instrument (more specifically, a folk instrument) which, at the simplest, consists of a pair of bones, human or animal, or pieces of wood or a similar material. Sections of large rib bones, such as those of a bovine, are the most commonly used true bones, although wooden sticks shaped like the earlier true bones are now more often used.
Bones Hillman Bones Hillman (1958) is a New Zealand musician. His first band was The Masochists, one of the early NZ punk acts, with his friends from the Auckland suburb of Avondale (they were alternatively known as The Avondale Spiders), playing bass guitar.
Bonesetter Reese John D. "Bonesetter" Reese (May 6, 1855 - November 29, 1931) became one of the most beloved figures in early 20th major league baseball because of his ability to get injured athletes "back in the game".
Boneshaker Boneshaker is a name used from about 1869 up to the present time, to refer to the first type of true bicycle with pedals, which was called "velocipede" (from the Latin for "fast foot") by its manufacturers. "Boneshaker" refers to the extremely uncomfortable ride, which was caused by the stiff wrought-iron frame and wooden wheels surrounded by tires made of iron.
Bonesinger In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000, Bonesingers are a means of construction within the Eldar, a race comparable to space-elves or the Protoss of Starcraft. These psykers are gifted with construction, and though they had been mentioned in the background before (in, for example, Codex: Craftworld Eldar), they were first introduced as a battlefield unit in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.
Boney James James "Boney James" Oppenheim, (born September 1, 1961 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is a saxophonist who popularized urban jazz (an updated version of contemporary jazz that contains elements of hip-hop).
Boney M Boney M was a Eurodance, pop, and disco group, comprising four West Indian singers and dancers and masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian, and who were successful during the 1970s. They sold nearly 150 million albums worldwide.
Boney piles Boney piles—also called culm, waste coal, gob piles, or slate dumps—are piles of low-coal-content waste from coal mining operations. These waste piles were created from minerals (called tailings) incidentally extracted from underground mines, from partings in the coal seam or from the mine floor and roof.
Boneyard (comic book) Boneyard is a print graphic novel and a quarterly comic book created by Richard Moore, published by NBM Publishing. The title has been in print for over five years which is substantially longer than the average life-span of a creator-owned title in the current market-place.
Boneyard Creek Boneyard Creek is a small waterway that drains much of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. It is a tributary of Saline Branch of the Salt Fork Vermilion River, which is a tributary of the south-flowing Vermilion River and the Wabash River.
Boneyards Boneyards was the massive online server created for the Total Annihilation series of computer games by Cavedog Entertainment, allowing thousands of players to compete in organised battle over the internet. Boneyards was opened to the general public on April 8, 1999 (after an initial beta testing period beginning on November 12, 1998) and was shut down a few months prior to Cavedog's demise in August 2000.
Bonfante Gardens Bonfante Gardens Family Theme Park is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit horticultural-themed family theme park in Gilroy, California and is the home of the world-famous Circus Trees created by Axel Erlandson. The Park opened in June 2001 and now has 19 rides, 27 attractions and 6 gardens.
Bonferroni In statistics, the Bonferroni adjustment procedure is the most basic of SISA procedures, however, the Bonferroni correction concerns an issue about which there is much ongoing discussion. The Bonferroni correction concerns the question of whether, in the case of doing more than one test in a particular study, the significance (alpha) level should be adjusted downward to consider chance capitalization.
Bonferroni correction The Bonferroni correction states that if an experimenter is testing n independent hypotheses on a set of data, then the statistical significance level that should be used is n times smaller than usual. For example, when testing two hypotheses, instead of a p value of 0.
Bonfire A bonfire (commonly mispronounced 'bombfire') is a large controlled outdoor fire made from bales of straw or wood. The word is believed to be a corruption of "bone fire" deriving from a Celtic midsummer festival where animal bones were burnt to ward off evil spirits.
Bonfire of the Vanities The most famous Bonfire of the Vanities (Italian: Falò delle vanità) took place on 7 February 1497, when followers of the priest Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of objects in Florence, Italy, on the Shrove Tuesday festival.
Bonfire Shelter Bonfire Shelter is an archaeological site located in a southwest Texas rock shelter. This archaeological site contains evidence of mass bison hunts, a phenomenon that is usually associated with the Great Plains hundreds of miles to the north.
Bonfire toffee Bonfire toffee , or treacle toffee as it is more commonly known, is a very hard, very brittle toffee that is associated with Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night in the United Kingdom. Treacle toffee was common in sweet shops, but now it is only usually available in supermarkets in October and November.
Bonfires of Saint John Bonfires of Saint John is a popular festival celebrated in June, from 19th to 24th in Spain The festival is celebrated in many cities and towns, the largest being Alicante where it is the most important festival in the city.
Bonfoh Abbass El-Hadj Bonfoh Abbass (born 1948) was the interim President of Togo from February 25, 2005 to May 4, 2005. He took that position when President Faure Gnassingbé resigned due to pressure from the international community.
Bong cooler A bong cooler or evaporative cooling tower is a bong-shaped device that is able to cool water to temperatures below room temperature (sub-ambient) via evaporative cooling. Its primary use is in computer cooling.
Bong Coo Olivia "Bong" Coo (born June 3, 1948) is a Filipino bowler - 4-time World Champion, won the most gold medals in the Asian Games by a Filipino athlete with five, and the first Filipino athlete listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
Bong game The bong game was a phone-in game show invented in the 1980s by the London-based radio station, Capital FM. It was a game based purely on chance, but remained suspenseful because both rewards and risk increased as it progressed.
Bong Load Custom Records Bong Load Custom Records was an independent record label based in Los Angeles which was owned and operated by producers Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf and Bradshaw Lambert. One of their biggest signings was Beck in 1991.
Bong-Soo Kim Bong-Soo Kim (born November 30, 1962 in Seoul) is a former tennis player from South Korea, who represented his native country as a lucky loser at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he was defeated in the third round by Argentina's Martin Jaite.
Bonga (musician) Bonga Kwenda, better known as Bonga, is a pop singer and songwriter from Angola. Bonga was born José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho in 1943 in the province of Bengo, and left Angola at age 23 to become an athlete, becoming the Angolan record holder for the 400 metre dash.
Bongará Province Bongará is a province of the Amazonas Region, Peru. It borders by the north with the province of Condorcanqui, by the East with the Loreto Region, by the south with the Chachapoyas Province and by the west with the provinces of Luya and Utcubamba.
Bongard problem A Bongard problem is a kind of puzzle invented by the Soviet computer scientist Mikhail Moiseevich Bongard, probably in the mid-1960s. They were published in his eponymous 1967 book on pattern recognition, which became known in English translation from 1970.
Bongga! Bongga (Filipino word for "extravagant") is a regional variety show in the Philippines that airs every Sundays before "SOP" over GMA Network TV 6 in Iloilo and GMA TV 10 in Bacolod City. The show is popular for its segments "Pok Gi Pok", a gay boxing challenge where two gay contestants battle it out using oversized hand gloves; "Bongga Babes", a bikini-open contest featuring the sexiest babes in Western Visayas, and "Bongga Pop Sensation Showdown", a singing contest aimed at discovering new singing talents from Western Visayas.
Bongo Comics Bongo Comics is a comic book publishing company founded in 1993 by Steve and Cindy Vance, Bill Morrison, and Simpsons creator Matt Groening. It publishes comics related to the animated television series The Simpsons and Futurama, along with original material.
Bongo drum Bongo drums or bongos are a percussion instrument made up of two small drums attached to each other. The drums are of different size: the larger drum is called a hembra (Spanish: female), the smaller drum is called a macho (Spanish: male).
Bongo music The combination of various bongo drums that result in an upbeat form of fast paced percussions – most commonly composed of bongo drums and referred to as bongo music. This type of music has very rapid and lively beats.
Bongoville Bongoville is a town in south eastern Gabon, lying east of Franceville. It was known as Lewai until its renaming for President Omar Bongo, who was born in what was then a village but was greatly enlarged under his presidency.
Bongwater (band) Bongwater was an often trippy college rock band formed by Ann Magnuson and Mark Kramer (boss of the Shimmy Disc record label) in 1985 and dissolved in 1992. A guest musician known as Dogbowl would also make substantial contributions.
Bongwater (film) Bongwater is a 1997 comedy film, based on the book of the same name, set in Portland, Oregon, USA and stars Luke Wilson, Alicia Witt, Amy Locane, Brittany Murphy, Jack Black, Andy Dick, Jeremy Sisto, and Jamie Kennedy.
Bonham (band) Bonham was a late 1980's British hard rock band founded by drummer Jason Bonham, the son of the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. Members included Bonham (drums), Ian Hatton (Guitar), John Smithson (Bass/Keyboards), and Daniel MacMaster (vocals).

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