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Bootblock The bootblock is a small portion of software code read from a specific area of boot device after control is handed to it by the BIOS (or similar structure depending of system architecture involved, eg: OBP on Sun SPARC systems). This small portion of code will then execute other code, usually read from a specific partition, that understands the file system structure in order for the boot process to proceed.
Bootcut A bootcut, alternatively spelled boot cut, this is a style of trouser and/or jeans that tapers to the knee and flares out to accommodate a boot. The style appeared in the 1990s and were worn by both men and women.
Booterstown Booterstown (Baile an BhĂłthair in Irish) is a townland and parish situated in the DĂşn Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Area along the coast, about 5 miles [8 kilometers] south of the city of Dublin in Ireland.
Booth capturing Booth capturing is a type of electoral fraud, witnessed primarily in India where armed party loyalists "capture" a polling booth and vote on behalf of the voters to ensure that their candidate wins. Though it is a kind of voter suppression, unlike other forms of voting fraud, booth-capturing is a malpractice witnessed mainly in India and the least subtle of all.
Booth family The Booth family was a British-American theatrical family of the 19th century. Its most famous and infamous members were Edwin Booth, one of the leading actors of his day, and John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Booth Island Booth Island (or Wandel Island) is a rugged, Y-shaped island, 5 miles long and rising to 980 m, off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica in the northeastern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. Booth Island is located at .
Booth School The Booth School or "The Booth School: A Country School for Boys and Girls" was a private or independent schoool in the Philadelphia Main Line suburbs from 1938 to the mid 1970s. The 27-acre campus was located at the intersection of Ithan Avenue and Clyde Road in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, and is now the site of Hill Top Preparatory School.
Booth Stradivarius The 1716 Booth Stradivarius instrument is owned by the Nippon Music Foundation. It was previously owned by the virtuoso Iona Brown, who was particularly famous for her recording of The Lark Ascending with the Academy of St.
Booth Street (Ottawa) Booth Street is a major street just to the west of downtown Ottawa, Canada. North of Albert Street, Booth Street is desginated as a city arterial road which proceeds to the Chaudière Bridge, connecting Ottawa to Gatineau.
Booth's Gin Booth's Gin is a famous brand of London dry gin, founded by the Booth family around 1740 and, as of March 2006, still produced today. The distinctive bottle has a reference to the Red Lion distillery where the drink was produced.
Boothby Boothby is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe, playing the groundskeeper of the Starfleet Academy and Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco. He was first seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The First Duty, and brought to life by Ray Walston.
Boothby Pagnell Boothby Pagnell is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, just north of Bitchfield on the B1176 and about six miles south-east of Grantham. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 150.
Boothby-Lund The Boothby-Lund family can be traced back to the 14th Century, with the binding together of the Lund family, a noble Anglo-Saxon family, originally from Sweden and based in Yorkshire and the Boothby clan, the Highland Lairds of Camster and Argyll.
Bootheel The Missouri Bootheel is the southeasternmost part of the state of Missouri and called the "Bootheel" due to the shape of its boundaries. Strictly speaking, it is composed of the counties of Dunklin, New Madrid, and Pemiscot, but the term is sometimes broadly used to refer to the entire southeastern corner of the state.
Boothferry Boothferry is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire in England, straddling the River Ouse, not far from where it joins the River Trent and becomes the Humber. It gave its name to the Boothferry borough of Humberside from 1974 to 1996 and to the Boothferry parliamentary constituency which, in 1997, was largely amalgamated into the Haltemprice and Howden constituency represented by David Davis MP.
Boothferry (district) The Borough of Boothferry was a local government district and borough of the short-lived non-metropolitan county of Humberside from April 1, 1974 to April, 1996. The district is now split between the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.
Boothferry (UK Parliament constituency) Boothferry was a constituency in Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Named after the village of Boothferry, it was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.
Boothferry Park Boothferry Park (nicknamed Fer Ark) was a football stadium in Kingston upon Hull, and was home to the football club for over 50 years from 31 August 1946 until December 2002, when the club moved to a brand-new ground, the Kingston Communications Stadium.
Boothia Peninsula The Boothia Peninsula (formerly Boothia Felix) is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic, south of Somerset Island. It is the northernmost point of mainland Canada, and thus, the northernmost point of mainland North America.
Boothie The term boothie refers to people who either own or operate booths at craft shows, historical reenactments, conventions, or other such venues. At renaissance festivals or faires, many boothies are persons who are faire chasers - i.
Boothroyd First Nation The Boothroyd First Nation is a First Nations government Fraser Canyon area of the Central Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Located near Boston Bar, it is a member of the Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council along with the Boston Bar First Nation, also located in Boston Bar, and the Ashcroft First Nation near the town of Ashcroft.
Boothstown Boothstown is a suburb of Greater Manchester, in the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford, in England. Once known for its mining community, Boothstown is now a mainly residential area located on the border between the boroughs of Salford and Wigan.
Boothville-Venice, Louisiana Boothville-Venice is a census-designated place and collection of neighboring communities in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. This area, consisting of the communities of Boothville, Venice, and Orchid are counted as a single town for purposes of the United States Census.
Bootie (club night) Bootie is the first and biggest club night in the United States dedicated solely to mashups and bootlegs. The monthly party began at the Cherry Bar (now Annie's Social Club) in San Francisco in August 2003, and moved to DNA Lounge in March 2006.
Bootie Call "Bootie Call" was the fourth single released from the All Saints debut album , All Saints. Bootie Call was released on August 31, 1998 and became their third #1 single in the UK and sold 237,153 copies.
Booting In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the set of operations the computer performs when it is switched on that load an operating system.
Bootle New Strand railway station Bootle New Strand railway station is a railway station in the centre of Bootle, England. It is located on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network and serves in particular the nearby New Strand Shopping Centre.
Bootleg Bootlegging is an informal term for smuggling, sale or transport of illicit goods. While it originally described the illegal transport and sale of alcoholic beverages on which excise taxes had not been paid (derived from a method of hiding alcohol in flasks in the shanks of a boot), it now refers more broadly to the transportation or sale of many types of pirated, counterfeit, black market, grey market or parallel import goods.
Bootleg (comics) Bootleg is a fictional super heroine created by Eric Stephenson and Todd Nauck for the Image Comics (under the Extreme Studios imprint) title New Men and was the second team member the two introduced to the series, after Pilot, a character who was almost identical to the X-Men's Bishop, and debuted in her civilian identity in the 9th issue of the New Men ongoing series, but did not encounter the team themselves until issue 12
Bootleg (miniseries) Bootleg was a 2002 miniseries for children, commissioned by the BBC and based on a book of the same name by Alex Shearer. It was made shown as a three-part series in the UK in 2002, then was broadcast in Australia and all over the world.
Bootleg a Bootleg, You Cut Out the Middleman Bootleg a Bootleg, You Cut Out the Middleman is a live, self-released album by Less Than Jake, recorded in May 1997 in Las Vegas, NV. It was originally recorded by a bootlegger, who was selling it for extortionate prices on eBay.
Bootleg Blondie Bootleg Blondie is a London-based tribute band, featuring the songs of Debbie Harry and Blondie. The band was formed in 2003 by Debbie Harris, who had already worked for many years as a singer and Debbie Harry lookalike.
Bootleg Canyon Internationally renowned Bootleg Canyon Mountain Bike Park near Boulder City, Nevada and 45 minutes southeast of Las Vegas in the desert near Lake Mead and Hoover Dam. Consisting of a variety of different types of trails, the Park was created by artist and cycling enthusiast Brent Thompson.
Bootleg play In American football, a bootleg play is a play in which the quarterback runs with the ball in the direction of either sideline behind the line of scrimmage. This can be accompanied by a play action, or false hand off of the ball to a running back running the opposite direction.
Bootleg recording A bootleg recording (or simply bootleg or boot) is an audio and/or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist, or under other legal authority. A great many such recordings are simply copied and traded among fans of the artist without financial exchange, but some bootleggers are able to sell these rarities for profit, sometimes by adding professional-quality sound engineering and packaging to the raw material.
Bootleg role-playing games Bootleg role-playing games are unauthorised copies of game instructions and gameplay rules of role-playing games. As with the music and video industries, the business of RPGs changed markedly in response to high-tech methods of illegal copying.
Bootleg turn A bootleg turn is a radical type of U-turn intended to reverse the direction of travel of a forward-moving automobile by 180 degrees in a minimum amount of time while staying within the width of a two-lane road. This maneuver is also known as a handbrake turn or simply as a bootlegger.
Bootlegged in Japan Bootlegged in Japan is a live album from the August 5, 1996 concert at the Liquid Rooms, Tokyo, Japan by Napalm Death. It was recorded as a bootleg and after the band received the recording, they found it was good enough to release it as an actual and official live album.
Boots on the ground "Boots on the ground" is an all-purpose term used to describe ground forces actually fighting in a war or conflict at the time of speaking, rather than troops not engaged or being transported to the fighting.
Boots on the Ground (book) Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq is a book written by journalist Karl Zinsmeister, who was embedded with the storied 82nd Airborne Division during the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Bootsie and Snudge Bootsie and Snudge was a UK television series written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, also known for the BBC radio series Round the Horne. It featured Clive Dunn, more famous for being in Dad's Army as well as Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser and was a follow on from The Army Game.
Bootstrap aggregating Bootstrap aggregating (bagging) is a meta-algorithm to improve classification and regression models in terms of stability and classification accuracy. Bagging also reduces variance and helps to avoid overfitting.
Bootstrap funding Financial bootstrapping is a term used to cover different methods for avoiding using the financial resources of [external investors]. Bootstrapping can be defined as “a collection of methods used to minimize the amount of outside debt and equity financing needed from banks and investors” (Ebben and Johnsen, 2006:853).
Bootstrap model In physics, the term bootstrap model is used for the class of theories that assume that very general consistency criteria are sufficient to determine the whole theory completely. In such theories, typically examples of quantum field theory, it is impossible to divide the objects and concepts to elementary and composite ones.
Bootstrap Network The Bootstrap Network is where people help each other start businesses through trust and support. Influenced by the successes of the Open source model and successful entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, it encourages development through modular groups and on-line tools so that anyone can contribute to the community.
Bootstrap Protocol In computing, BOOTP, short for Bootstrap Protocol, is a UDP network protocol used by a network client to obtain its IP address automatically. This is usually done in the bootstrap process of computers or operating systems running on them.
Bootstrappers (album) Bootstrappers is the eponymous, and only, release by the Bootstrappers, a one-time ensemble of avant-garde guitarist Elliott Sharp and the Minutemen/fIREHOSE rhythm section of bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley. The project recorded and released one full-length CD of improvised music, which was released on Watt's New Alliance Records label.
Bootstrapping Tall boots, such as those designed for military dress and horseback riding, may have a tab, loop or handle at the top known as a bootstrap, allowing one to use fingers or a tool to provide better leverage in getting the boots on.
Bootstrapping (biology) The idea of bootstrapping is significant in a number of fields in the biological sciences. The process by which a fertilised ovum develops into an embryo, particularly the way in which the nuclear genome is expressed differently in its various cells as these differentiate, is one example of bootstrapping.
Bootstrapping (computing) In computing, bootstrapping refers to a process where a simple system activates another more complicated system that serves the same purpose. It is a solution to the Chicken-and-egg problem of starting a certain system without the system already functioning.
Bootstrapping (law) The bootstrapping rule in the rules of evidence dealt with admissibility as non-hearsay of statements of conspiracy in United States federal courts. The rule was that, in a criminal prosecution for conspiracy, the court, in deciding whether to allow the jury to consider a statement of conspiracy, cannot hear the statement itself, and that the allegation should be supported by independent evidence.
Bootstrapping (science fiction) In science fiction, to bootstrap a culture is to give it technology until that culture is technologically equal or close to equal to one's own culture. An example of this can be seen in the video game series Star Control, in which the Yehat bootstrapped the Shofixti.
Bootstrapping (statistics) In statistics, bootstrapping is a method for estimating the sampling distribution of an estimator by resampling with replacement from the original sample. It is distinguished from the jackknife procedure, used to detect outliers, and cross-validation, used to make sure that results are repeatable.
Bootsy's Rubber Band Bootsy's Rubber Band was a P-Funk spinoff, led by pioneering bassist Bootsy Collins. It also included his brother, Catfish Collins, Kash Waddy, Joel Johnson, Robert Johnson, Mudbone Cooper and The Horny Horns.
Bootsy's Rubber String Band Bootsy's Rubber Band was a P Funk spinoff, led by pioneering bassist Bootsy Collins. It also included his brother, Catfish Collins, Kash Waddy, Joel Johnson, Robert Johnson, Mudbone Cooper and The Horny Horns.
BootSkin BootSkin is a computer program for Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista that allows users to change the screen displayed while the operating system is booting. It is made by Stardock, and distributed for free under the WinCustomize brand.
BootVis BootVis is a computer program that allows end users to check how long their Windows XP machine takes to boot, and then to optimize the boot process, considerably reducing the time required. It was formerly a Microsoft producthttp://www.
BootX BootX is the name of the boot loader used on Apple's PowerPC-based Macintosh computers to load Mac OS X. BootX locates the operating system kernel and the drivers necessary to start the operating system, loads them into system memory, and launches the kernel.
Booty The term booty, originally referring to something valuable acquired by force or daring, has acquired a second group of meanings in contemporary slang, especially among African-Americans, where it refers to the buttocks, to sexual intercourse, to the female genitals, or to a woman regarded as an object of sexual desire."Booty".
Booty Brown Bootie Brown (real name Romye Robinson) is a West Coast rapper who was one of the founding members of the innovative hip hop group The Pharcyde. He has done very few collaborations outside of the group and is currently working with the remaining Pharcyde member Imani Wilcox on new projects with their indie label.
Booty call (slang) A booty call is a telephone call, other communication, or visitation made with the sole intent of engaging in sex with the person being contacted. Traditionally this phenomenon, especially the term booty call, is associated with a person calling another person for a sexual encounter after having already established either a casual or more serious relationship involving sexual relations.
Booty luv Booty Luv are a British girl group consisting of a duo, Cherise and Nadia, who originally appeared in the mixed sex R 'n' B group Big Brovaz. Their debut single, "Boogie 2Nite" - a cover of a Tweet song - was released in the United Kingdom via the Hed Kandi label on November 27th 2006.
Bootylicious "Bootylicious" is an R&B song performed by girl group Destiny's Child. It appears on their third album Survivor (2001) and was released as the third single from the album; it became their fourth U.
Booyo Booyo is a Linux distribution and a Korean standard Linux reference platform being developed with the purpose of promoting free software in Korea. It is being developed by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Korea and six other Korean companies and supported by the Korean government.
Booze bus A booze bus is a mobile truck designed for rapidly assessing the blood alcohol concentration of motor vehicle drivers in large numbers. Operated by various police services in Australia, they allow main arterial roads such as freeways to be blocked, with all or most drivers sampled for compliance with drunk driving laws.
Booze Britain Booze Britain is a fly-on-the-wall television series produced by Granada and airing on British satellite TV channel Bravo in half-hour episodes documenting the binge drinking culture of various towns and cities in the United Kingdom. Typically the program follows a group of friends as they indulge in an evening drinking heavily in various establishments usually in their own town or city, and also paramedics who are called out to handle the consequences of drunkenness.
Boozoo Chavis Boozoo Chavis (born 23 October 1930 in Lake Charles, LA and died 5 May 2001 in Austin, Texas) was a zydeco musician - a form of Cajun music. He was active from 1954 until his death during which time he largely sang and played the accordion.
Bop Cassettes Bop Cassettes is a defunct, Manchester-based, independent record label. It released records (and cassettes) for many Manchester bands in the late 1980s, including the Man From Delmonte, Toss the Feathers, Half Man Half Biscuit, and Hip Hop DJ mixer Mr Spin.
Bop Gun (One Nation) Bop Gun (One Nation) is the fourth single of Ice Cube from his fifth album Lethal Injection. It samples "One Nation Under a Groove" from the album One Nation Under a Groove by Funkadelic released at Warner Bros.
Bophuthatswana Bophuthatswana was a Bantustan (homeland) in the north-west of South Africa. It had a surface area of approximately 40,000 km² and consisted of seven enclaves dispersed over the former South African provinces of Cape Province, Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Boppard line In German linguistics, the Boppard Line is an isogloss separating the dialects to the north, which have an /f/ is the words Korf "basket", from the dialects to the south (including standard German), which have an /b/: Korb. The line runs from east to west and crosses the river Rhine at the town of Boppard.
Boppin' Boppin' is a puzzle game developed by Accursed Toys, originally published for the Amiga by KarmaSoft. The Amiga version only sold 284 copies, according to the developers, and so it was ported to DOS and released as shareware, published by Apogee Software.
Bopsta/ Rock Webcam Competition 1 The first Bopsta Rock Webcam Competition took place between April 1, 2006 and April 29, 2006. It started with eight different videos and narrowed it down to Louis and David's rendition of "Ding Dong".
Boquete Boquete is a town in Western Panama, in the ChiriquĂ­ Province, near the border with Costa Rica. Because of its altitude (about 1,000 m above sea level) its climate is cooler than the lowlands in Panama, and has become a pleasant escape from the heat.
Bor S. Luh Bor Shium Luh (January 13, 1916-June 4, 2001) was a Chinese-born American food scientist who was known was for his research in fruit and vegetable products and in developing food science and technology in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle EastUC-Davis biography on Luh
Bora Đorđević Borisav "Bora" Đorđević (Serbian: Борисав "Бора" Ђорђевић) (born November 1,1952, in Čačak, Serbia, formerYugoslavia), also known as Bora Čorba, is the lead singer for the Serbian rock band Riblja Čorba (ostensibly meaning fish stew, but with other possible meanings) since its formation in 1978.
Bora Bora Bora Bora () is an island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island, located about 260 km northwest of Papeete (French Polynesia's capital), is surrounded by a lagoon and a fringing reef.
Bora class guided missile hovercraft The Bora Class Hoverborne guided missile corvette of the Russian navy is one of the few types of military side-wall hovercraft built solely for marine combat purposes, rather than troop landing or transport. Its designation in the Soviet and Russian navies is Project 1239; the first vessel produced under this designation was the Sivuch, which was later renamed "Bora".
Borabenzene A borabenzene is a heteroaromatic compound that has a boron atom instead of the carbon atom of a benzene molecule. A free borabenzene, which has no donor ligand on the boron atom, has not yet been isolated despite its simple structure and the chemical robustness of boron-carbon bonds.
Boracay Boracay is a tropical island located approximately 315km (200 miles) south of Manila and 2km off the northwest tip of the island of Panay in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It is one of the country's most popular tourist destinations.
Borae' Records Borae' Records is an independent gospel record label, located in the inner City of Baltimore, Maryland. Borae' Records was established in September 2004 by a native Baltimorean whose plan is to help develop Baltimore as a "Hub City" for Gospel Music.
Borage Borage (Borago officinalis or echium amoenum), also known as "starflower", (گل گاو زبان in Persian) is an annual herb originating in Syria, but naturalized throughout the Mediterranean region, as well as most of Europe, North Africa, and Iran. It grows to a height of 60-100 cm, and is bristly-hairy all over the stems and leaves; the leaves are alternate, simple, and 5-15 cm long.
Borago Borago, common name borage, is a genus of two species of herbs with large, hairy leaves that taste mildly of cucumber, and star-shaped purple-blue flowers which are prized for their flavour. The leaves are often added to teas and salads, and the flowers have been added to wine (Borage has had a reputation to give one courage since Roman times).
Boran Buran or Poran or more correctly Purandokht was daughter of the King Khosrau II of Persia (590–628). She was one of only two women on the throne of the Sassanid dynasty (the other was her sister Azarmedukht).
Borat Borat Sagdiyev ("born" July 30, 1972) (Kazakh Cyrillic: Борат Сагдиев) is a fictional Kazakh journalist invented and portrayed by the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. In Da Ali G Show, a television series starring Baron Cohen, Borat interviews people who believe that he is a real Kazakh television journalist.
Borazon Borazon, a boron nitride allotrope, is the third hardest artificially produced substance, after aggregated diamond nanorods and man-made diamonds, respectively. Borazon is a crystal created by heating equal quantities of boron and nitrogen at temperatures greater than 1800 °C (3300 °F) at 7 GPa (1 million lbf/in²).
Borðoy Borðoy is an island in the north-east of the Faroe Islands. There are eight settlements: Klaksvík (the second largest town in the Faroes), Norðoyri, Ánir, Árnafjørður, Strond, Norðtoftir, Depil and Norðdepil.
Borbarua Borbarua (Ahom language: Phu-Ke-Lung) was one of the five patra mantris (councillors) in the Ahom kingdom, a position created by the Ahom king Prataap Singha. The position included both executive and judicial powers, with jurisdiction of the Ahom kingdom east of Kaliabor river and those regions not governed by the three great Gohains, Burhagohain, Borgohain and the Borpatrogohain.
Borbonesa Borbonesais a group of artists and writers formed in 2000, collaborating to produce experimental multi-authored artworks. Their artworks are typically printed publications, but have also found manifestation as exhibitions, assemblages and live performances.
Borborema Plateau The Borborema Plateau (Portuguese Planalto do Borborema, also known as the Serra do Borborema) is a plateau in northeastern Brazil which extends across the states of Pernambuco, ParaĂ­ba, and Rio Grande do Norte.
Borborites According to Epiphanius of Salamis book Panarion/Adversus Haereses chapter xxv, xxvi and Theodorets Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium the borborites (or barbelos, barbelites, phibionites, stratiotici, coddians etc) were a libertine Gnostic ophite sect. The word "borborite" comes from the Greek word borboros which means "mud"; thus "borborites" could be translated as "filthy ones.
Borborygmus Borborygmus (plural borborygmi) (from Greek βορβορυγμος) is the rumbling sound produced by the movement of gas through the intestines of animals. The word borborygmus is an actual onomatopoeia for this rumbling.
Bord Gáis Bord Gáis Éireann - The Irish Gas Board (BGE), normally branded as Bord Gáis, is the main supplier and distributer of pipeline natural gas in the Republic of Ireland. The company is currently building an extensive network across the Republic.
Borda (crater) Borda is a lunar crater that lies between Santbech crater to the north-northwest and Reichenbach crater slightly further away to the south-southeast. It has a low rim that is broken along the southeast by a smaller crater.
Borda count The Borda count is a single winner election method in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. The Borda count determines the winner of an election by giving each candidate a certain number of points corresponding to the position in which he or she is ranked by each voter.
Bordeaux mixture Bordeaux mixture is a combination of copper sulphate and hydrated lime, invented in the vineyards of the Bordeaux region of France, and used mainly to control garden, vineyard, nursery and farm infestations of fungus. This fungicide has a history of over a century, and is still used, although the copper can leach out and pollute streams.
Bordeaux Railway Bridge The Bordeaux Railway Bridge is a railway bridge on the Canadian Pacific Railway line across the Rivière des Prairies between Ahuntsic-Cartierville, on Montreal Island, and Laval-des-Rapides, Laval, Quebec, Canada. This bridge is used by freight trains of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), the Chemins de Fer Québec-Gatineau (CFQG) and by the Blainville-Saint-Jerome Line suburban trains of the Agence métropolitaine de transport (Metropolitan Transportation Agency).
Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 For the 1855 Exposition Universelle de Paris, Emperor Napoleon III requested a classification system for France's best Bordeaux wines which were to be on display for visitors from around the world. Brokers from the wine industry ranked the wines according to a château's reputation and trading price, which at that time was directly related to quality.
Bordeaux-Paris The Bordeaux-Paris professional cycle race was one of mainland Europe's Classic cycle races, and the longest in the professional calendar, covering a distance of approximately 560 kilometres (350 miles) - more than twice the distance of most single day races. It would start at Bordeaux in south-west France at 2am and finish in the French capital Paris approximately 14 hours later.
Bordello of Blood Bordello of Blood (also known as Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood) is a 1996 comedy/horror film starring Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, Corey Feldman, and Chris Sarandon. It is based on the television series Tales from the Crypt.

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