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Bounty (reward) A bounty is often offered by a group as an incentive for the accomplishment of a task by someone usually not associated with the group. Bounties are most commonly issued for the capture or retrieval of a person or thing.
Bounty Day Bounty Day is the national holiday of Norfolk Island, celebrated annually on 8 June, in memory of the arrival of the Pitcairn Islanders on Norfolk Island in 1856. Prior to 8 June 1856, Norfolk Island had been a penal colony, but was granted by Queen Victoria to the Pitcairners as a home in 1856.
Bounty Hamster Bounty Hamster is an animated children's cartoon created by Dave Freeman and Alan Gilbey. It follows the adventures of Cassie, a 13 year old girl, who is searching the universe for her father after he was kidnapped by space pirates.
Bounty Islands The Bounty Islands () are a small group of 13 islets and numerous rocks in the south Pacific Ocean which are territorially part of New Zealand. They are located between 179°02' and 179°07' E, and 47°40' and 47°45' S, 650 km southeast of the South Island of New Zealand.
Bounty jumper Bounty jumpers were men that enlisted in the Union army during the American Civil War only to collect a bounty and then leave. The draft of 1863 allowed individuals to pay a bounty to someone else to fight in their place rather than be drafted.
Bouquet garni The bouquet garni (French for "garnished bouquet") is a bundle of herbs usually tied together with string and mainly used to prepare soup, stock, and various stews. The bouquet is boiled with the other ingredients, but is removed prior to consumption.
Bouquet of Barbed Wire Bouquet of Barbed Wire is a novel by Andrea Newman first published in 1969. It sold modestly and despite its subtly controversial subject matter, barely raised a murmur until 1976, when it was turned into a British television mini-series made by LWT for ITV.
Bouquet of Black Orchids 'Bouquet Of Black Orchids' is a 1993 The Tear Garden compliation created by Nettwerk Europe for the European market. It contains songs from The Tear Garden's first two LPs (Tired Eyes Slowly Burning, The Last Man To Fly) and first two EPs (The Tear Garden, Sheila Liked The Rodeo).
Bouquet of circles In mathematics, a bouquet of circles or rose is a construction in topology occurring when some number of circles are "glued" to each other so that they share a single common point. The number of circles used in the construction may be finite or infinite.
Bouquet, Garcin & Schivre The Bouquet, Garcin & Schivre (also known as the BGS) was a French electric car manufactured between 1899 and 1906. It could cover up to 60 miles on one charge of its 770 pound battery pack; its top speed was 15 mph.
Bouquets to Art Bouquets to Art is an annual floral exhibition hosted by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Florists, designers and garden clubs are invited to present floral interpretations of works in the museums' permanent collections, and the floral displays are presented in juxtaposition with the works that inspired them.
Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol The dangerous bend symbol was created by Bourbaki and appears in the margins of mathematics books written by the group. It is analogous with a street sign that indicates a "dangerous bend" in the road ahead.
Bourbaki–Witt theorem In mathematics, the Bourbaki–Witt theorem in order theory , named after Nicolas Bourbaki and Ernst Witt, is a basic fixed-point theorem for partially ordered sets. It states that for X be a chain complete poset, and
Bourbon Democrat Bourbon Democrat was a term used in the United States from 1876 to 1904 to refer to a conservative or classical liberal member of the Democratic Party, especially one who supported President Grover Cleveland in 1884–1896 and Alton B. Parker in 1904.
Bourbon Family Compact A series of 18th century alliances between France, Spain and the Two Sicilies known as the Bourbon Family Compact or just the Family Compact (pactes de familles in French), because the kingdoms were all ruled by members of the House of Bourbon.
Bourbon Princess Bourbon Princess is an alternative rock/new wave band based in Boston. It includes Monique Ortiz on bass and vocals, drummer Jerome Deupree (formerly of Morphine), saxophonist Russ Gershon (also of the Either/Orchestra) and Jim Moran on piano and guitar.
Bourbon Reforms The Bourbon Reforms were a series of measures taken by the Spanish Crown in the 18th century (under the House of Bourbon), intended to increase political and economic control over Spain itself, and later also over its American colonies.
Bourbon Restoration Following the ousting of Napoleon I of France in 1814, the Allies restored the Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. The ensuing period is called the Restauration, following French usage, and is characterized by a sharp conservative reaction and the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church as a power in French politics.
Bourbon Spain The Bourbon connection with Spain did not begin with the ascension of Philippe, duc d'Anjou [1683-1745] of France to the throne of Spain as Philip V. It can be traced to nearly a century before with the birth of the child who would grow up to become Louis XIV.
Bourbon Street Bourbon Street ("Rue Bourbon" in French), is a famous and historic street that runs the length of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the city was founded in 1718, it was originally centered around the French Quarter.
Bourbon Street Beat Bourbon Street Beat was a private detective series which ran on the American Broadcasting Company from 1959 through 1960 and featured Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer (the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they all worked).
Bourbon Tabernacle Choir The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir were a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in 1985 in Toronto, Ontario. Their R&B-flavoured rock made them a mainstay on Canadian campus radio in the early 1990s, but the band never quite broke through to the mainstream.
Bourbonnais Bourbonnais (Occitan: Borbonés / Barbonés) was an historic province in the centre of France that corresponded to the modern département of Allier, along with part of the département of Cher. Its capital was Moulins.
Bourbonnais train accident The Bourbonnais train accident was a train-truck collision between Amtrak's southbound City of New Orleans passenger train and a semi truck in the city of Bourbonnais, Illinois, south of Chicago. The impact derailed almost the entire train, killing 11 passengers.
Bourda The Bourda is a cricket ground in Georgetown, Guyana, used by the Guyanese cricket team for matches with other nations in the Caribbean as well as some Test matches involving the West Indies. Located in Bourda in Georgetown, Guyana, between Regent Street and North Road, it is home to the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC).
Bourdon (organ pipe) The name Bourdon is derived from the French word for 'buzz' and normally denotes a stopped flute/flue type of pipe in an organ, though in organ building the stop has no "buzz", but rather a very dark, heavy tone, strong in fundamental, with little overtone development.
Bourekas films Bourekas films (Hebrew: סרט בורקס), or movies, are a film genre, that was very popular in the Israeli cinema in the 1960's and the 1970's. The term "Bourekas films" was supposedly coined by the Israeli director Boaz Davidson, the creator of several Bourekas films.
Bourg-Madame Bourg-Madame (Catalan: la Guingueta d'Ix) is a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales département in southwestern France, right on the border with Spain. It abuts directly onto the Spanish town of Puigcerda, and is near the Spanish exclave of Llivia.
Bourgeois Alternative Bourgeois Alternative (in Danish: Borgerligt Alternativ) is a local political party in Hørsholm, Denmark. BA was launched by a local Venstre personality, Ib Lunde Rasmussen, who felt dissatisfied with the local Venstre leadership.
Bourgeois liberalism Bourgeois liberalism was a term of disparagement used by People's Republic of China rulers of the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to a perceived political and cultural threat -- in political terms as parliamentary democracy and in cultural terms as Western popular culture. A number of campaigns were launched against bourgeois liberalism around the time of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and immediately afterwards.
Bourgeois pseudoscience Bourgeois pseudoscience (Буржуазная лженаука) was a term of condemnation in the Soviet Union for certain scientific disciplines that were deemed unacceptable from an ideological point of view.
Bourgeoisie Bourgeoisie (RP [], GA []) is a classification used in analyzing human societies to describe a class of people ranked below the nobility, whose status or power comes from employment, education, and wealth as opposed to aristocratic origin. In a capitalist society the term often refers to the owning and ruling classes.
Bourj Hammoud Bourj Hammoud (or Burj Hammud) (Armenian: Պուրճ Համուտ, Arabic: برج حموﺪ) is a suburb in east Beirut, Lebanon heavily populated by Armenians. It is sometimes referred to as the heart of the Armenians of Lebanon as it is where most Armenians settled after the Armenian Genocide.
Bourke B. Hickenlooper Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper (July 21, 1896 – September 4, 1971), was a member of the Republican Party, first elected to statewide office in Iowa as lieutenant governor, serving from 1939 to 1942 and then as Governor from 1943 to 1944. Hickenlooper was first elected to the United States Senate in 1944.
Bourke engine The Bourke engine was designed by Russell Bourke in the late 1930s, who endeavored to improve upon the Otto cycle engine. Despite finishing his redesign and building several working engines; bad luck (onset of World War II), bad health and a know-it-all attitude compounded to prevent his engine from ever coming to market despite its claimed advantages.
Bourke Street, Melbourne Bourke Street is a major street in the central business district(CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Bourke Street is named for Sir Richard Bourke, the Governor of New South Wales (and thus, of Melbourne as well) in 1837, when the Hoddle Grid was drawn up.
Bourke's Parrot The Bourke's Parrot (Neopsephotus bourkii), also known as the Bourke's Parakeet or "Bourkie", is a small parrot originating in Australia and the only species in its genus Neopsephotus. This species is sometimes placed in the genus Neophema and there is an ongoing discussion about the proper taxonomic placement of this species.
Bourke, New South Wales Bourke is a town and Local Government Area (see Bourke Shire Council) in the north of New South Wales, Australia. The town is located approximately 800 kilometres north-west of Sydney, on the south bank of the Darling River, which is known as the Barwon River upstream from Bourke.
Bourkelands, New South Wales Bourkelands is a rapidly developing southern suburb of Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales, Australia. The suburb consists predominantly of "display homes" and as a large amount of RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) and Australian Army housing.
Bournbrook Bournbrook is an area in Birmingham, UK bordered by Selly Oak to the south, Bournville and Selly Park to the east and Edgbaston to the north and west. The name comes from the Bourn Brook which travels through the area, Bournville is named after a different Bourn.
Bourne Eau Bourne Eau rises in , otherwise known as St Peter's Pool, in the town of Bourne, Lincolnshire. The Wellhead is a natural artesian spring which once formed the source of the water defences of Bourne Castle as well as the power for the town's mills.
Bourne End, Buckinghamshire Bourne End is a village predominantly in the parish of Wooburn, but also in the parish of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated close to the border with Berkshire, near where the River Wye meets the River Thames.
Bourne shell The Bourne shell, or sh, was the default Unix shell of Unix Version 7, and replaced the Thompson shell, whose executable file had the same name, sh. It was developed by Stephen Bourne, of AT&T Bell Laboratories, and was released in 1977 in the Version 7 Unix release distributed to colleges and universities.
Bourne United Charities Bourne United Charities is registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Its purpose is the joint administration of several legacies dedicated for the relief of poverty, the provision of housing and accommodation and environmental, conservation or heritage objectives in the Parish of Bourne.
Bourne, Lincolnshire Bourne is a market town on the western edge of The Fens, in southern Lincolnshire, England. The town owes its origin to the Roman road upon which it was built, and also to the exceptionally fine-quality water supply derived locally from natural springs.
Bournemouth East and Christchurch (UK Parliament constituency) Bournemouth East and Christchurch is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It returned one Member of Parliament, using the first past the post electoral system from the United Kingdom general election, 1950 until the constituency was abolished in 1974.
Bournemouth F.C. Bournemouth Football Club is an English football team currently playing in the Wessex League Premier Division. Their nickname is "The Poppies", and they are often known as Bournemouth Poppies to avoid confusion with the Football League club A.
Bournemouth International Centre The Bournemouth International Centre (BIC) is one of the leading venues for conferences, exhibitions, entertainment and events in Southern England. Owned and managed by Bournemouth Borough Council, the BIC operates alongside its sister venue, The Pavilion Theatre and Ballroom to provide the event organiser and leisure visitor with some of the best facilities on England's south coast.
Bournemouth railway station Bournemouth railway station, once known as Bournemouth Central, is the main railway station serving the town of Bournemouth in Dorset, England. It is located on the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth.
Bournemouth School Bournemouth School (also known as Bournemouth Grammar School or Bournemouth School for Boys and commonly abbreviated to 'BS' or 'BSB'), is a boys grammar school and sixth form college occupying a site located in Charminster, Bournemouth, Dorset, England and teaching children from years 7 to 13 (ages 11 to 18).
Bournemouth Sinfonietta The Bournemouth Sinfonietta was founded in 1968 by the conductor George Hurst as a splinter group of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, in order to perform the classical reportoire in the smaller venues of the south and west of England.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is an English orchestra which, despite its name, is now based in the adjacent town of Poole rather than in Bournemouth where its former home in the Winter Gardens concert hall was demolished in May 2006. The orchestra had some time before moved to the Poole Arts Centre, later renamed the Lighthouse Centre for Performing Arts, where the concert hall has 1596 seats.
Bournville Bournville is an area on the south side of Birmingham, England, best known for its connections with the Cadbury family and chocolate - including a dark chocolate bar branded "Bournville". It is also a ward within the formal district of Selly Oak and home to a campus of the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
Bourrasque class destroyers The Bourrasque-class was a group of twelve French navy destroyers (contre-torpilleur) laid down in 1923 and commissioned from 1926 to 1936. Along with the heavier Chacal class, they were part of a plan to modernise the French fleet after World War I.
Bourré Bourré (also commonly known as Bouré and Boo-Ray) is a trick-taking gambling card game primarily played in the Acadiana region of Louisiana in the United States of America. The game's closest relatives are probably Spades and Euchre; like many regional games, Bourré sports a large number of variant rules for both gameplay and betting considerations.
Bourse de Travail The Bourse de Travail or "labour exchanges", were working class organizations in France that encouraged mutual aid, education, and self-organization amongst their members in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Popularized largely through the efforts of revolutionary syndicalist Fernand Pelloutier, the labour exchanges were intended as a key organizational component in radical social transformation by acting as co-ordinating bodies facilitating communication between sydicates thus co-ordinating production and consumption in the absence of the state or the private ownership of the means of production.
Bourse des Valeurs d'Abidjan The Abidjan Stock Exchange (Bourse des Valeurs d'Abidjan), CĂ´te d'Ivoire, was the only stock exchange in the francophone West African countries until the formation of BRVM in 1998. It was established in 1974, started trading in 1976, and was closed at the end of December 1997.
Bourtreehill The Bourtreehill housing scheme forms part of the Irvine New Town in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Bourtreehill (and Broomlands) are housing estates which were built in the late 1970s to meet the demands of a bugeoning population.
Bourtreehill House Bourtreehill House (now destroyed) and the enclosed land in which it was built, form the original estate of Bourtreehill. The wooded hill-top, is now a landmark that sits at the centre of modern North Bourtreehill in the district of North Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland.
Bourvil André Bourvil, a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in La Grande Vadrouille (1966), was born André Robert Raimbourg (July 27 1917, Prétot-Vicquemare, France). He died September 23 1970 in Paris, of Kahler's syndrome.
Boussinesq approximation In fluid dynamics, the Boussinesq approximation is used in the field of buoyancy-driven flow. It states that density differences are sufficiently small to be neglected, except where they appear in terms multiplied by g, the acceleration due to gravity.
Boustrophedon Boustrophedon or boustrephedon (Greek: βουστροφηδόν: "turning like oxen in ploughing"), is an ancient way of writing manuscripts and other inscriptions in which, rather than going from left to right as in modern English, or right to left as in Hebrew and Arabic, alternate lines must be read in opposite directions. The name is borrowed from the Greek language.
Bout (single) "Bout" is the sixth single from British R&B artist Jamelia and the first single from her second album Thank You. Overall, "Bout" is fairly ignored as a single and "Superstar" is widely regarded to be the first single from the album.
Boutilimit Boutilimit (Arabic: بوتلميت) lies 164 km south east of Mauritania's capital of Nouakchott. The town has been an important center of religious scholarship and training since its founding by an Islamic mystic and scholar in the 19th Century.
Boutique A boutique, from the French word for "shop," is a small shopping outlet, especially one that specialises in elite and fashionable items such as clothes and jewelry. It can also refer to a specialized firm such as a boutique investment bank or boutique law firm.
Boutique hotel Boutique hotel is a term originating in North America to describe intimate, usually luxurious or quirky hotel environments. Boutique hotels differentiate themselves from larger chain/branded hotels and motels by providing personalized level accommodation and services / facilities.
Boutonniere A boutonnière is a flower or floral decoration which was traditionally pushed through the buttonhole of a jacket, but in modern times is most often pinned onto a gentleman’s lapel.worn frequently in the past, boutonnières are now usually reserved for special occasions for which a dinner suit] is standard like [[prom|proms and weddings.
Boutonniere deformity Boutonniere deformity refers to a finger which is bent in a particular way: bent toward the palm at joint nearest the knuckles, and bent back away from the palm at the joint furthest from the knuckles (hyperflexion at the proximal interphalangeal joint with hyperextension at the distal interphalangeal joint.
Boutwell Memorial Auditorium The Boutwell Memorial Auditorium is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. It was built in 1924 as Birmingham's Municipal Auditorium on a site near City Hall, facing Capitol Park (now Linn Park).
Bouvet Island Bouvet Island (Norwegian: Bouvetøya) is an uninhabited sub-antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). It is a dependent area of Norway and is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty, as it is north of the latitude below which claims are suspended.
Bouvier des Flandres The Bouvier des Flandres is a dog breed originating in Flanders. They are used for general farm work including cattle droving, sheep herding, cart pulling, and as guard dogs, police dogs, and security dogs, as well as being kept as pets.
Bouwerie Lane Theatre The Bouwerie Lane Theatre is an off-Broadway theatre venue which is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at 330 Bowery (NW corner of Bond Street) in New York City, presently inhabited by the Jean Cocteau Review since 1974.
Bouygues Télécom (company) The Bouygues Télécom (IPA: ) is a French mobile phone company, part of the Bouygues group. Along with SFR and Orange SA, it has been condemned to pay 535 millions Euros for forming an illegal cartel (see Le Canard Enchaîné).
Bouyon music Bouyon is a form of popular music of Dominica, also known as jump up music in Guadeloupe and Martinique. The famous band is undoubtedly Windward Caribbean Kulture (WCK), who originated the style by fusing cadence-lypso, jing ping and other styles of Caribbean music.
Bouzingo The Bouzingo were a group of eccentric poets, novelists, and artists in France during the 1830’s that practiced an extreme form of romanticism whose influence helped determine the course of culture in the 20th century including such movements as Bohemianism, Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence, Aestheticism, Dadaism, Surrealism, the Lost Generation the Beat Generation, Hippies, Punk Rock, etc.
Bov municipality Bov (German:Bau), is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in South Jutland County on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 148 km², and has a total population of 9,992 (2005).
Bova VDL Bova, better known as Bova, is a Dutch luxury coachbuilder which began building coaches in 1931. In particular, it is well known for the Bova Futura, a streamlined body, often based on a DAF chassis, which was first introduced in the 1980s and continues in a similar form today.
Bovate A bovate was a measure of land which could be ploughed in one year by one eighth of a plough team with eight oxen, or in other words the measure of land representing one eighth of a carucate. The term is used in the Domesday Book for places under the Danelaw.
Bovekerke Bovekerke is a village in the Belgian province of West-Flanders, and since 1971 it’s a “deelgemeente” of the municipality of Koekelare. Besides the chief town of Koekelare proper, Bovekerke also borders the villages Vladslo (part of Diksmuide) and Werken (part of Kortemark).
Bovesia Bovesia, otherwise known as Grecìa Calabra (Calabrian Greece), is one of the two remaining Griko-speaking areas in southern Italy, the other being Grecìa Salentina. It is located at the tip of Calabria, near Reggio, and consists of nine villages.
Bovey Tracey Bovey Tracey is a small town in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor, its proximity to which gives rise to the "slogan" used on the town's boundary signs, "The Gateway to the Moor". The locals just call the town "Bovey" (pronounced "Buvvy").
Bovid A bovid is any of almost 140 species of cloven-hoofed mammals belonging to the family Bovidae. The family is widespread, being native to all continents except South America, Australia and Antarctica, and diverse: members include buffalo, bison, antelopes, gazelles, and both wild and domesticated cattle, sheep, goats, and water buffalo.
Bovichtus variegatus Bovichtus variegatus is a thornfish of the family Bovichtidae, found around New Zealand from the Wellington area southwards to New Zealand's sub-antarctic islands, in rock pools and on shallow rocky reefs. Their length is between 15 and 25 cm.
Bovinae The biological subfamily Bovinae (or bovines) includes a diverse group of about 24 species of medium-sized to large ungulates, including domestic cattle, Bison, the Water Buffalo, the Yak, and the four-horned and spiral-horned antelopes. The evolutionary relationship between the members of the group is obscure, and their classification into loose tribes rather than formal sub-groups reflects this uncertainty.
Bovine ejaculate The separation of XX bovine sperm from XY bovine sperm is seen as a valuable economic goal and many research projects have been devoted to the pursuit of it on a large enough scale to allow for a commercially viable agricultural product.
Bovine herpesvirus 1 Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) is a virus of the family Herpesviridae that causes several diseases worldwide in cattle, including rhinotracheitis, vaginitis, balanoposthitis, abortion, conjunctivitis, and enteritis. BHV-1 is also a contributing factor in shipping fever.
Bovine herpesvirus 2 Bovine herpesvirus 2 (BHV-2) is a virus of the family Herpesviridae that causes two diseases in cattle, bovine mammillitis and pseudo-lumpyskin disease. BHV-2 is similar in structure to human herpes simplex virus.
Bovine malignant catarrhal fever Bovine malignant catarrhal fever (BMCF) is a disease caused by alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1) of the family Herpesviridae. The disease is fatal in cattle and other ruminants such as deer, antelope, and buffalo.
Bovine papillomavirus Bovine papillomavirus (BPV) is a group of DNA viruses of the family Papillomaviridae that are highly prevalent in cattle, causing warts (papillomas and fibropapillomas) of the skin and alimentary tract, and more rarely cancers of the alimentary tract and urinary bladder.
Bovine serum albumin Bovine serum albumin, Bovine Albumin, BSA: A serum albumin protein that can be used as a diluent or a blocking agent in numerous applications including ELISAs (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay), blots and immunohistochemistry. It is also used as a nutrient in cell and microbial culture.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that surprised biologists on its discovery in the late 20th century. While never having killed cattle on a scale comparable to other livestock diseases, such as foot and mouth and rinderpest, BSE has attracted wide attention because it seems possible to transmit the disease to humans; it is thought to be the cause of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), sometimes called new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD), a human brain-wasting disease.
Bovine Sex Club The Bovine Sex Clvb (note original typography) is an internationally-renowned bar on Toronto's Queen Street West strip. In operation since January 1991, the Bovine Sex Club (often shortened to 'the Bovine' or 'the BSC') has at various times found itself at the forefront of Toronto's goth, punk, alternative, and rockabilly music scenes.
Bovington Tank Museum The Bovington Tank Museum is the foremost collection of armoured vehicles in the United Kingdom. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the most wide-ranging collection of tanks and armoured vehicles in the world, and includes the second working example of a German Tiger I tank in the world and a British World War I Mark V.
Bovis Homes Group Bovis Homes Group plc () is a second tier national British housebuilding company based in Longfield, Kent. It was founded in 1965 as a subsidiary of Bovis Construction, a generalist property development company which was itself a subsidiary of P&O at one time.
Bow (weapon) A bow is an ancient weapon that shoots arrows powered by the elasticity of the bow. Energy is stored in the limbs of the bow and transformed into rapid motion when the string is released, with the string transferring this motion to the arrow.
Bow and arrow sign The bow and arrow sign is an endoscopic sign for determining the location of the ileocecal valve during colonoscopy. This is important as it indicates that the entire colon has been visualized during colonoscopy.
Bow and Bromley (UK Parliament constituency) Bow and Bromley was a parliamentary constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar in London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Bow bearer In Old English law, a bow bearer was an under-officer of the forest who looked after all manner of trespass to vert or venison, and who attached, or caused to be attached, the offenders, in the next court of attachment.
Bow Brickhill railway station Bow Brickhill railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Bow Brickhill in the Borough of Milton Keynes, and the Caldecotte, Tilbrook and Walton areas of south-east Milton Keynes itself. It is located on the Bletchley-Bedford Marston Vale line.
Bow collector A bow collector is one of the three main devices used on tramcars to transfer electric current from the wires above to the tram below, the other devices being the pantograph and trolley pole. While once very common in continental Europe, it has now been largely replaced by the Pantograph.

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