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Bow Down to Washington Bow Down to Washington is the official fight song of the University of Washington. It was written by Lester Wilson in 1915 for a competition requesting a new song for the university; the competition, sponsored by The Daily, had a grand prize of US$25 (the equivalent of $500 in 2006).
Bow Glacier Bow Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, approximately 37 km (23 miles) northwest of Lake Louise, and can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway. Bow Glacier is an outflow glacier from the Wapta Icefield, which rests along the Continental divide, and runoff from the glacier supplies water to Bow Lake and the Bow River.
Bow Lake (New Hampshire) Bow Lake is a 1,160-acre water body located in Strafford and Rockingham counties in eastern New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Strafford and Northwood. Its outlet is the Isinglass River, flowing east to the Atlantic Ocean via the Cocheco and Piscataqua rivers.
Bow Leg The Bow Leg is a highly resilient leg being developed for running robots at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. The key technology is the fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) spring that bends like a bow to store elastic energy
Bow Quarter Bow Quarter is a luxurious apartment complex, located in Bow, London. It consists of 733 one and two bedroom apartments and penthouses, together with a handful of unique workers cottages built around late 1800's.
Bow railway station Bow railway station was a former railway station in Bow, London on the North London Railway, between Old Ford and South Bromley. It was situated on the north side of Bow Road, very close to Bow Road railway station, which is now also closed.
Bow Rider A Bow Rider is a kind of runabout boat with an open bow area where there are extra seats in front of the helm station. This term can be confused with Bow Riding, a dangerous and illegal activity involving sitting or standing on the bow itself while the boat is underway.
Bow shock In a planetary magnetosphere, the bow shock is the boundary at which the solar wind abruptly drops as a result of its approach to the magnetopause. The best-studied example of a bow shock is that occurring where the solar wind encounters the Earth's magnetopause, although bow shocks occur around all planets.
Bow Sim Mark Bow Sim Mark () is a well known martial artist residing in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. Originally from Guangzhou, China, she founded the Chinese Wushu Research Institute upon emigrating to Boston in 1972, and currently teaches and performs in the area.
Bow Street Magistrates' Court Bow Street Magistrates' Court was the most famous magistrates' court in England for much of its existence, and was located in various buildings on Bow Street in central London close to Covent Garden throughout its history.
Bow tie The bow tie is a men's fashion accessory popularly worn with other formal attire, such as suits or dinner jackets. It consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar in a symmetrical manner such that the two opposite ends form loops.
Bow Valley Provincial Park Bow Valley Provincial Park is a provincial park located in Alberta, Canada. Established in 1959 in the arch of Bow River, at the confluence with Kananaskis River, the park is one park of many within Kananaskis Country park system.
Bow Wow Sauce Bow Wow Sauce or Wow Wow Sauce is a sauce composed of stock, vinegar, port wine, mustard and pickled walnuts usually served with roast meats. Developed in the Cotswolds village of Painswick for the occasion of a feast with the neighboring village of Stroud in which Painswick revenged itself upon Stroud's accusations of dog sacrifice to a shepherd god by the serving of a pie made of puppies.
Bowater Baronets The first Bowater Baronetcy was created in 1914 for Thomas Vansittart Bowater who had been Lord Mayor of London from 1913 to 1914. A second baronetcy was created in 1939 for Thomas' brother, Frank Henry Bowater, who had been Lord Mayor from 1938 to 1939.
Bowater Forest Products Bowater Forest Products in Thunder Bay, Ontario began as Great Lakes Forest Products (GLFP) in 1898. Investments by American entrepreneurs from Chicago and Minneapolis created one of the largest paper and newsprint mills in the world on the northern shore of the Kaministiquia River.
Bowbank Bowbank is a village in Teesdale, in the Pennines of England. It is traditionally located in the North Riding of Yorkshire but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham for administrative and ceremonial purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.
Bowcraft Amusement Park Bowcraft Amusement Park or Bowcraft Playland is located on Route 22 West in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. It is a medium size family amusement park with a large selection of rides for children and teens, including the Dragon roller coaster.
Bowden cable Invented by Frank Bowden, a bowden cable is a type of flexible cable used to transmit mechanical force or energy by the movement of an inner cable (most commonly of steel or stainless steel) relative to a hollow outer cable housing. The cable housing is generally of composite construction, consisting of a spiral steel wire, often coated with plastic, and with a plastic outer sheath.
Bowden Lithia Springs Short Line Railroad Originally opened in 1885 as a private railroad operating only for guests of the Sweet Water Park Hotel near Lithia Springs, GA, the Bowden Lithia Springs Short Line Railroad operated 2.5 miles of narrow gauge track and was also known as the Salt Springs and Bowden Lithia Railroad.
Bowden Wyatt Bowden Wyatt (born October 4, 1917 in Kingston, Tennessee, died January 21, 1969 in Kingston, Tennessee) was the head football coach at the University of Tennessee from 1955-1962. He compiled a 49-29-4 record during his tenure.
Bowditch (crater) Bowditch is a lunar crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. It is located on a region of the lunar surface that is occasionally brought into view due to libration, but at such times the area is viewed from the edge and so not much detail can be observed.
Bowditch Middle School Nathaniel Bowditch Middle School, is a middle School in Foster City, California on Tarpon Street and Beach Park Blvd. It was built in the late 1960s, and made use of the popular pod system of architecture that was famous during that time period.
Bowditch's American Practical Navigator Bowditch's American Practical Navigator was written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published in 1802 and has remained the textbook of American sailors. It has played the important part of guiding the navigator in every American adventure on the sea.
Bowdoin (MBTA station) Bowdoin Station of the MBTA, is a station on the Blue Line, serving Bowdoin Square in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. Bowdoin Station is lightly used except at rush hour, and is only open from 5:15AM to 6:30PM, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.
Bowdoin College Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1794, located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine. It is consistently ranked among the top 10 liberal arts colleges, and admissions is highly competetive.
Bowdoin Street (Boston) Bowdoin Street was originally called "Middlecott Street," at least as far back as the 1750s. It became "Bowdoin" probably sometime in the early-to-mid-1800s, and was named after the Governor James Bowdoin.
Bowdon Railway The Bowdon Railway was founded in 1910 and began operations in 1911. It ran a 12-mile section of track between Bowdon, Georgia, Georgia, and a connection with the Central of Georgia Railroad at Bowdon Junction, GA.
Bowed Clavier The Bowed Clavier (Bogenclavier in German) is a keyboard instrument strung with gut strings, the tone of which is produced by a steadily revolving well rosined cylinder (powered by a foot pedal), a mechanism not dissimilar to that found in the hurdy-gurdyDolmetsch Online
Bowed guitar A bowed guitar is a method of playing an guitar, acoustic or electric, in which the guitarist uses a bow to play the instrument, similar to playing a cello, or a viola da gamba, the latter also having six strings and frets, but tuned like a lute.
Bowed kite Bowed kites such as the Japanese Rokkaku, and traditional versions of the more familiar "diamond" shaped kites such as the Malay or Eddy, are tensioned into a bow in order to improve their stability to the point where a tail often becomes unnecessary.
Bowel infarction Bowel infarction or 'bowel death' results from a severely restricted blood supply to part of the bowel; this can in turn be due to an uncorrected bowel twist or bowel strangulation, or to occlusion of one of the mesenteric arteries.
Bowen (crater) Bowen is a small lunar crater that is located to the southwest of the Montes Haemus, on the edge of a small lunar mare named the Lacus Doloris. It is distinguished only by having a relatively flat floor, rather than being bowl-shaped like most small craters.
Bowen Bridge The Bowen Bridge in Tasmania was built with Federal funds following the collapse of the Tasman Bridge in 1975. It Is a 4 Lane Highway-style bridge that links the East Derwent Highway with the Brooker Highway at Glenorchy some 10 kilometres (6.
Bowen Designs Bowen Designs is a company dealing in the creation and sale of entertainment-based collectible statues. Most Bowen products released thus far are based on Marvel Comics characters, but products based on independent comics and movies have also been created.
Bowen Island Bowen Island, an island municipality, lies near Vancouver, British Columbia in Howe Sound, within the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Approximately 6 kilometres wide by 12 km long, the island sits about 6 km west of the mainland, with regular ferry service from West Vancouver.
Bowen Island Elementary School Bowen Island Community School (commonly referred to as "BICS", pronounced as one word as though it were spelled "bicks") is a K-7 school located on Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada. The school, while being on Bowen Island is part of the West Vancouver school district.
Bowen knot The Bowen knot (or Bowen's Knot) is not a true knot, but is rather an emblem, sometimes used in heraldic designs. It consists of a rope in the form of a continuous loop laid out as an upright square shape with loops at each of the four corners.
Bowen Road Bowen Road (寶雲道) is a road from the Mid-levels to Wong Nai Chung Gap of Hong Kong Island, on the slope above Central, Wan Chai and Happy Valley in Hong Kong. Bowen Road starts from Magazine Gap Road near the rail of Peak Tram and ends at the junction with Stubbs Road, Tai Hang Road and Wong Nai Chung Gap Road.
Bowen Technique The Bowen Technique is one version of a group of technical interpretations of the work of Australian self proclaimed osteopath Tom Bowen 1916 - 1982 known as Bowen Therapy which is a holistic system of healing. The Bowen Technique was limited to Australia until 1986, four years after Bowen's death in 1982, when it was named, and spread to other countries around the world by Mr.
Bowen University Bowen University is a private Nigerian university owned and operated by the Nigerian Baptist Convention. Bowen University is located at Iwo in Osun State, and is housed in the old 1,300 acre (6 km²) campus of the Baptist College, a teacher-training institution on a beautiful hill just outside the city.
Bowen Wells Petrie Bowen Wells, known as Bowen Wells; (born August 4, 1935) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He served as Member of Parliament for Hertford and Stevenage from 1979 (defeating Shirley Williams) to 1983, and after boundary changes, for Hertford and Stortford from 1983 until 1997.
Bowen's Kale Produced by Humphry Bowen, the reference material called Bowen's Kale was used for the calibration of early scientific instruments intended to measure trace elements in the 1960s. With Peter Cawse, Bowen grew, dried and crushed a large amount of kale (Brassica oleracea) into 100kg of a homogeneous and stable powder in 1960 that was subsequently freely distributed to researchers around the world for over two decades.
Bowen's reaction series Within the field of geology, Bowen's reaction series is the work of the petrologist, Norman L. Bowen who was able to explain why certain types of minerals tend to be found together while others are almost never associated with one another.
Bowenia The genus Bowenia, includes two living and two fossil species of cycads in the family Stangeriaceae, and is entirely restricted to Australia. The two living species occur in Queensland, where they grow in the warm, wet, tropical rainforests, on protected slopes and near streams, primarily in the lowlands.
Bower Ashton Bower Ashton is a small district two miles to the west of the centre of Bristol on the western boundary with North Somerset. It is mainly a residential area, but also contains Bristol City Football Club’s ground, part of the University of the West of England, much of Bristol’s historic docks, the Ashton Court Estate (where Bristol’s famous outdoor festivals take place), a golf course, and a large number of allotments.
Bower's Hill, Virginia Bower's Hill is a community located in the independent city of Chesapeake, Virginia (formerly Norfolk County) in the United States. It is located in the South Hampton Roads region at the northeastern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, an area consisting of generally low-lying sandy terrain of the coastal plain.
Bowerbirds (band) 'Bowerbirds' is an indie-folk type band from Durham, North Carolina. They consist of Phil Moore (songwriting, vocals, guitar, high hat), Beth Tacular (accordion, vocals, bass drum) and Mark Paulson (violin, vocals, bass drum).
Bowerman's Nose Bowerman's Nose is a large stack of weathered granite on Dartmoor, in the United Kingdom. It is situated on the northern slopes of Hayne Down, about a mile from Hound Tor and close to the village of Manaton at .
Bowers & Pitsea F.C. The club began life in an old wooden cricket pavilion in 1947 on the site of what is now Pitsea Market. A move to Gun Meadow in Pitsea saw the purchase of a prefabricated building which was used as changing rooms.
Bowers House (Illinois) Bowers is an intentional community located in Hyde Park, on Chicago's south side. With just over 20 members, Bowers House is the largest of the three Qumbya co-ops which are all members of North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO).
Bowers Mountains Bowers Mountains () is a group of north-south trending mountains in Antarctica, about 145 km (90 mi) long and 56 km (35 mi) wide, bounded by the coast on the north and by the Rennick, Canham, Black and Lillie glaciers in other quadrants. The seaward end was first sighted in February 1911 from the Terra Nova, under Lt.
Bowery (BMT Nassau Street Line) Bowery is a station on the BMT Nassau Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of the Bowery and Delancey Street in Manhattan, it is served by the train (all times), by the train (weekdays), and by the train (rush hours in the peak direction).
Bowery (Manhattan) The Bowery is a small neighborhood in southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its boundaries are East 4th Street and the East Village to the north, Canal Street and Chinatown to the South, Allen Street and the Lower East Side to the east and Bowery (the street) and Little Italy to the west (citidex.
Bowery at midnight Bowery at Midnight is a 1942 Bela Lugosi horror film. Lugosi plays a psychology professor by day who, secretly and under an assumed name, runs a Bowery soup kitchen by night called the Bowery Friendly Mission.
Bowery Boys The Bowery Boys were a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish gang based North of the Five Points district of New York City. The most famous of the Bowery Boys was William Poole, also known as Bill the Butcher.
Bowery Theatre The Bowery Theatre was a playhouse in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City. Although it was founded by rich families to compete with the upscale Park Theatre, the Bowery saw its most successful period under the populist, pro-American management of Thomas Hamblin in the 1830s and 1840s.
Bowes & Bowes Bowes & Bowes was a celebrated bookselling and publishing company based in Cambridge, England. It was established by Robert Bowes (1835–1919), a nephew of Daniel Macmillan (1813–1857 — the founder, with his brother Alexander, in 1843, of Macmillan & Co.
Bowes Park railway station Bowes Park railway station is in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, and is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 3 and Travelcard Zone 4. The station and all trains serving it are is operated by First Capital Connect, on the Hertford Loop Line.
Bowfin The bowfins are an order (Amiiformes) of primitive ray-finned fish. Only one species, the bowfin Amia calva, family Amiidae, exists today, although additional species in six families are known from Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Eocene fossils.
Bowie (Shining Force II) Bowie is the main protagonist of the 1994 video game Shining Force II, the third game in the Shining Force series of video games. During the game, he may be renamed to whatever the user desires, but his default name is Bowie.
Bowie Bonds Bowie Bonds are asset-backed securities of current and future revenues of the first 25 albums (287 songs) of David Bowie's collection recorded before 1990. Issued by David Bowie in 1997, they were bought for $55 million by the Prudential Insurance Company.
Bowie High School (Arlington, Texas) James Bowie High School is a secondary school in Arlington, Texas. The school is a part of Arlington Independent School District and serves students in grades 9 through 12 in southeast Arlington and southwest Grand Prairie.
Bowie High School (Austin, Texas) James Bowie High School is a renowned public high school in South Austin. Founded in 1988 Bowie High has become the proud father of Michael and Marcus Griffin, two "gansta's" from south Austin who have proved themselves as stellar intercollegiate atheletes, playing football for the University of Texas.
Bowie knife Bowie knife is a term commonly used in modern times to refer to any large sheath knife. It also applies to a specific style of knife designed by Colonel James "Jim" Bowie and originally created by James Black.
Bowie Kuhn Bowie Kent Kuhn (born October 28, 1926 in Takoma Park, Maryland) was commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969 to September 30, 1984. For almost 20 years, he served as legal counsel for Major League Baseball owners prior to his election as commissioner.
Bowie Lam Bo-Yee Bowie Lam Bo-Yee (Traditional Chinese : 林保怡), born September 4 in Hong Kong is a famous Hong Kong television and movie star as well as singer. He is known for his vast singing range and versatile acting abilities.
BowieChick BowieChick (real name Melody Oliveria, born 7 August, 1988) is the author of the popular video entitled "My Webcam", which includes her showing off her Logitech webcam. "My Webcam", which to date has been viewed 354,867 times (as of January 7, 2007), has raised significant publicity as it is said to help with Logitech's sales.
BowieNet BowieNet is the paid subscription website of David Bowie, founded in 1997. A main feature which distinguishes it from other artist fansites is the ability to interact with David Bowie himself, via message boards and organised live chats.
Bowin Koala The Koala was a Formula Junior class of car, designed and built in 1962 by John Joyce founder of Bowin Cars in his grandparents backshed. John Joyce's previous achievements was a Cooper-based Formula Junior he built in 1959.
Bowing (social) Bowing is the act of lowering the head, or sometimes the entire upper body from the waist, as a social gesture. This is common around the world, but is especially prominent in Oriental cultures especially in China, Korea, and Japan.
Bowl (vessel) The bowl, a common open-top vessel in many cultures, is used to serve food, and is sometimes also used for drinking and storing other items. They are generally small and shallow, although some, such as punch bowls and salad bowls, are larger and are sometimes intended to serve many people at once.
Bowl Alliance The Bowl Alliance was an agreement among college football bowl games for the purpose of trying to match the top two teams in a national championship bowl game and to provide quality bowl game matchups for the champions of its member conferences. The agreement was in place for the 1995, 1996, and 1997 seasons.
Bowl cut A bowl cut, also known as a beach cut, pot haircut, and a mushroom cut, is a haircut where the hair is cut short on the sides and back and allowed to grow long on the top, looking as though someone put a bowl on the head and cut off all the visible hair. A famous bowl cut wearer in the USA was Moe Howard, who wore it as part of his Three Stooges persona.
Bowl Coalition The Bowl Coalition is a predecessor of the Bowl Championship Series that was formed through an agreement among college football bowl games and conferences for the purpose of trying to match the top two teams in a national championship bowl game and to provide quality bowl game matchups for the champions of its member conferences. It was established for the 1992 season after co-national champions in both 1990 and 1991.
Bowl eligible The term bowl eligible refers to any NCAA football team that is able to play in one of the 32 bowl games. In order to be bowl eligible, a team must have at least six wins, including conference and out-of-conference games, and the team must not be on probation.
Bowl game In the USA, a bowl game is traditionally a post-season college football game; however the term "bowl" has become synonymous with a major football event and variations of the traditional post-season match-up between two successful college teams do exist. In college football parlance, the term "bowl" can also be used as a verb: as in a successful team going "bowling".
Bowl Challenge Cup The Bowl Challenge Cup was created by ESPN in 2001 as a competition among the conferences in the NCAA's Division I Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A) to see which one was the best in the college football bowl games that take place. The eleven conferences are the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Conference USA (C-USA), Mid-American Conference (MAC), Mountain West Conference (MWC), Pacific 10 Conference (Pac-10), Southeastern Conference (SEC), Sun Belt Conference and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).
Bowl Championship Series The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is designed to pair the top two teams in college football against each other in the BCS National Championship Game, with the winner being the BCS national champion. The system also selects matchups for the other prestigious BCS bowl games.
Bowled Over Bowled Over: A Roll Down Memory Lane is a cultural history book about the origins and developments in the game of ten-pin bowling, and the architecture relating to the game. The book that was released August 1, 2002 by Chronicle Books LLC.
Bowler hat The bowler hat is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown created for Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, in 1850.Fred Miller Robinson, The Man in the Bowler Hat: His History and Iconography (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
Bowler Wildcat The Bowler Wildcat is an off-road vehicle made by Bowler Offroad Ltd of Belper, Derbyshire, based on the Land Rover Defender. The vehicle has direct official support from Land Rover, and has been entered in various rallies including the Dakar Rally
Bowles Hall Bowles Hall is an all-male residence dormitory at the University of California, Berkeley. The dormitory was the first residence hall on campus, dedicated in 1929, and was California's first state-owned dormitory.
Bowles West Peak Bowles West Peak (Vrah Zapaden Bowles 'vr&h 'za-pa-den 'bOls) is a peak rising to 678 m at the western extremity of Bowles Ridge in eastern Livingston Island in Antarctica. The peak has steep and partly ice free western slopes and overlooks Perunika Glacier to the southwest.
Bowline on a bight The Bowline on a bight is a knot which makes a pair of fixed-size loops in the middle of a rope. Its advantages are that its loops do not slip and it is reasonably easy to untie after being exposed to a strain.
Bowling Bowling is a game in which players attempt to score points by rolling a ball along a flat surface and knocking down objects called pins. There are many forms of bowling, with the earliest dating back to ancient Egypt.
Bowling analysis In the sport of cricket, a bowling analysis (sometimes shortened to just analysis, especially in the phrase innings analysis) usually refers to a notation summarising a bowler's performance in terms of overs bowled, how many of those overs are maidens (ie with no runs conceded), total runs conceded and number of wickets taken. Bowling analyses are generally given for each innings in cricket scoreboards printed in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, newspapers and so on, but they are also sometimes quoted for other periods of time, such as a single spell of bowling.
Bowling at the 2006 Asian Games Bowling took place for the men's and women's individual, doubles, trios, and team events at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 3 to December 10. All events were held at the Qatar Bowling Centre.
Bowling for Soup Bowling for Soup is a grammy nominated pop punk band originally formed in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1994. Now based in Denton, Texas, the band is best known for their singles "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" (a 2003 Grammy Award nominee) and "1985', which was written by SR-71.
Bowling for Soup (album) Bowling For Soup, the self-titled album from the novelty rock band Bowling for Soup, was released in September of 1994, on the band's own self-formed record label Queso Records. There are only 3000 actual copies of this album in existence and is near impossible to get a copy of.
Bowling green In English garden history, a bowling green is a finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of flat lawn for playing the game of Bowls, a fashion in the early 16th century. An Italian version of the game is bocce.
Bowling Green (New York City) Bowling Green is a small public park in Lower Manhattan at the foot of Broadway next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam. It is the oldest existing public park in New York City and is known for being the location of the Charging Bull bronze sculpture.
Bowling Green Handicap The Bowling Green Handicap is a turf race for thoroughbred horses open to three-year-olds and up who are willing to race the one and three-eighths miles distance on the grass. The Grade II race is held in July at Belmont Park for a purse of $150,000.
Bowling Green IRT Control House The Bowling Green IRT Control House or Battery Park Control House is located underneath Bowling Green Park at the southen end of Broadway in Lower Manhattan - New York, New York. This entry to the subway was built in 1905 by Heins & LaFarge on the west side of the Alexander Hamilton U.
Bowling Green State University Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a public four-year institution located in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA; about 20 miles south of Toledo, Ohio on I-75. It was established in 1910; as part of the Lowery Act, which also established Kent State University.
Bowling Green-South Ferry Shuttle The Bowling Green-South Ferry Shuttle (also Bowling Green Shuttle) was a service of the New York City Subway system between Bowling Green and the South Ferry inner loop. It operated to provide South Ferry service for IRT Lexington Avenue Line riders during hours when the service did not stop at South Ferry (weekdays during the day and at first also late nights).
Bowling Green, Maryland The communities of Roberts Place, Bowling Green & Potomac Park are located along McMullen Highway (US 220) between Cumberland to the north, Maryland to the south, the Potomac River to the east and Haystack Mountain to the west. For many years, the community was mostly farmland but was later divided into building lots by the Buchanan, Roberts and Long families.
Bowling railway station Bowling railway station is a railway station serving the village of Bowling in the West Dunbartonshire region of Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line.
Bowling This Month Bowling This Month is a Ten-pin bowling magazine. It's official statement says that if you're serious about bowling and you want to improve your scoring, you need the most up-to-date technical information available on subjects ranging from advanced technique through lane play to balls and ball motion.
Bowloader A bowloader is a crew shell (a type of boat used in sport rowing) in which the coxswain lies semi-supine in the bow, as opposed to the normal seated position at the stern. Bowloaders are often seen as coxed fours and also coxed pairs.
Bowls Bowls (also known as Lawn Bowls or Lawn Bowling) is a precision sport in which the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical balls (called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the "jack" or "kitty") than one's opponent is able to do. It is related to bocce and pétanque.

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