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BowLingual Bowlingual (or "Bow-Lingual" as the North American version is spelled) is a computer-based dog-to-human language translation device developed by Japanese toy company Takara. The device was honored by Time Magazine as a "Best Invention of 2002.
Bowman (communications system) Bowman is the name of the new tactical communications system being deployed by the British Army. Bowman C4I system consists of a range of HF radio, VHF radio and UHF radio sets to provide voice and data services to dismounted soldiers, individual vehicles and HQs.
Bowman Gray Stadium Bowman Gray Stadium is a NASCAR sanctioned 1/4-mile asphalt flat oval short track located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is one of stock car racing's most legendary venues, and is referred to as "NASCAR's longest running weekly race track".
Bowman International School Bowman International School is a K-8, Montessori school located in Palo Alto, California. It emphasizes cultural awareness, with a multi-disciplinary curriculum focused on a different area of the world each year, along with courses in Japanese, Spanish, and Latin.
Bowman Lake Bowman Lake is a lake in the northwestern portion of Glacier National Park in Montana. It is not commonly visited by most visitors to Glacier National Park, because it is located in one of the more remote areas of the park.
Bowman Park Bowman Park () is a public park on the Crystal Brook about 5 km northeast of the township of Crystal Brook and 200 km north of the major city of Adelaide. The park has an area of about 40ha and is in the Northern Agricultural Area of the state of South Australia.
Bowman Peninsula Bowman Peninsula () is a peninsula, 25 miles long in a north-south direction and 15 miles wide in its north and central portions, lying between Nantucket Inlet and Gardner Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land. The peninsula is ice covered and narrows toward the south, terminating in Cape Adams.
Bowman's castle Bowman's Castle, also known as Nemacolin Castle, was built in the 1850's by Jacob Bowman in Brownsville, Pennsylvania in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Nemacolin Castle is one of a couple dozen large buildings of the 1850's still standing in western Pennsylvania, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bowman's Hill Tower Bowman's Hill Tower, also known as Bowman's Tower, is a 125 foot tall stone tower located in Washington Crossing Historic Park in Bucks County Pennsylvania. It is administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve (134 acres) is a nature preserve and botanical garden located at 1635 River Road (Pennsylvania Route 32), New Hope, Pennsylvania. It is open daily except for major holidays; an admission fee is charged.
Bowmanville Foundry Established in 1901, The Bowmanville Foundry has a long history of technical innovation and process leadership in the manufacture of Ductile, Gray Iron and Malleable Iron castings. The Bowmanville Foundry achieved ISO 9002 certification in 1996 and undergoes re-audits by SGS International twice each year to ensure continuous improvement of all quality related systems.
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Bowmanville, Ontario Bowmanville is a town, now part of the Municipality of Clarington in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario and located about 55 km east of Toronto. It is located about 15 km east of Oshawa along the former Ontario King's Highway 2.
Bowness-on-Solway Bowness-on-Solway is a small village of less than 100 houses on the Solway Firth separating England and Scotland, in North-West Cumbria to the west of Carlisle. The western end of Hadrian's Wall is a major tourist attraction, along with beaches and wading birds.
Boworn Maha Senanurak Boworn Maha Senanurak(Thai:สมเด็จพระบวรราชเจ้าฯ กรมพระราชวังบวรมหาเสนานุรักษ์) was the Vice-King in the reign of King Rama II of Thailand(Siam). He was the younger brother of King Rama II.
Bowron Lake Provincial Park Bowron Lake Provincial Park is a lake and mountain-filled wilderness park located in northern British Columbia, Canada, about 120 kilometers east of the city of Quesnel and near the town of Wells and the historic destination of Barkerville. The main attraction is the 166 km (103 mile) canoe circuit through the Cariboo Mountains, which follows lakes, rivers, and short portages between waterways.
Bowser and Blue George Bowser and Rick Blue, better known as Bowser and Blue, are a musical duo from Quebec, Canada who write and perform comedic songs. Their material ranges from absurdist humour ("I've Got a Great Big Dick", "Canadian Psychedelic Snowboarding Team", "I'm in Like with a Dyke Named Spike") to pointed political and cultural satire ("You Should Speak French", "Driving in Quebec", "Bouchard's Speech", "Clinton's Thing").
Bowser, British Columbia Bowser, (Population 131), is community on the east coast of Vancouver Island located 66 km north of Nanaimo. It is situated in a region informally known as Lighthouse Country, which is a stretch of highway extending from Qualicum Beach in the South to Fanny Bay in the North and across to Denman and Hornby Islands.
Bowsprit The bowsprit, or boltsprit, of a sailing vessel is a pole extending forward from the vessel's prow. It provides an anchor point for the forestay(s), allowing the fore-mast to be stepped further forward on the hull.
Bowtell Bowtell is a medieval term in architecture for a round or corniced molding; the word is a variant of boltel, which is probably the diminutive of bolt, the shaft of an arrow or javelin. A roving bowtell is one which passes up the side of a bench end and round a finial, the term roving being applied to that which follows the line of a curve.
Bowyangs Bowyangs are, usually leather, thongs used to hold trousers legs up so that the wearer can squat or bend often without dragging the waist-belt down to the point where the trousers fall off. The thong, string, or whaterver, is tied above the calf muscle of the lower leg and in such a way as to hold a suitable amount of the upper leg of the trouser above the knee.
Bowyer Baronets There have been five Baronetcies created for people with the surname Bowyer, three in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Three of the titles are extinct while the remaining extant baronetcies have been united in one holder.
Box (Klinik album) Box, a compilation of rare and unreleased tracks by Klinik, was released as a 3LP or 2CD box with a 24 page booklet, containing song lyrics and photos by Sabine Voss. The 2CD was re-released in 2004 by Hands Productions.
Box 13 Box 13 was a syndicated radio series about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holliday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 premiered August 22, 1948, on Mutual's New York flagship, WOR, and aired in syndication on the East Coast from August 22, 1948, to August 14.
Box and One Defense The Box-and-One Defense is a particular type of defense used in basketball. The Box-and-One is a hybrid between a man-to-man defense in which each defensive player is responsible for marking a player on the other team, and a zone defense in which each defensive player is responsible for guarding an area of the court.
Box and pan brake The box and pan brake is a metalworking machine that allows the bending of sheet metal to form box and pan shapes, and to form bends and creases in sheet metal. It is also known as a bending machine or bending brake.
Box battery The box battery disposition of the main armament in a battleship was commonly used in ships built in the latter half of the nineteenth century; it was an interim disposition between full length broadside guns and turret-mounted artillery.
Box blur A box blur is an image filter in which each pixel in the resulting image has a value equal to the average value of its neighboring pixels in the input image. It is a form of low-pass ("blurring") filter and is a convolution.
Box cut A box cut is a small open cut created to provide a secure and safe portal as access to a decline to an underground mine. Generally the box cut is sunk until sufficiently unweathered rock is found to permit the development of the decline.
Box Car Racer Box Car Racer was a side-project created by Tom DeLonge of pop punk band blink-182. While blink took a break in 2002, DeLonge formed Box Car Racer to experiment with and record ideas he felt were not "blink-friendly.
Box Car Racer DVD Box Car Racer features Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker from blink-182, and this is their first release in the DVD-Single format. Two tracks are included, "There Is," and "I Feel So," plus interviews and behind the scenes footage.
Box drawing characters Box drawing characters, also known as line drawing characters, or pseudographics, are widely used in text user interfaces to draw various frames and boxes. In graphical user interfaces these characters are useless, because it is much simpler to draw lines and rectangles directly with graphical APIs; besides, box drawing characters work only with fixed-width (monospaced) fonts.
Box girder bridge A box girder bridge is a bridge where the main beams comprise girders in the shape of a hollow box. The box girder normally comprises either prestressed concrete, structural steel, or a composite of steel and reinforced concrete.
Box hive The box hive is a beehive shaped like a Langstroth hive but it pays no attention to bee space and therefore can be longer, taller and wider. Because of this, the bees would build wild (also called brace and bridge) comb.
Box Hill artists' camp The Box Hill artists’ camp was a site in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia favoured for plein air painting in the late 1880s by a group of artists who were part of a movement that later became known as the Heidelberg School.
Box Hill bus terminus, Melbourne The Box Hill bus terminus is a bus terminus located on the rooftop of Box Hill Central (also known as Centro Box Hill) shopping centre near the corner of Whitehorse Road and Station Street. It has connecting services with Tram and Train.
Box Hill Central Box Hill Central in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia is a medium-sized shopping centre owned by the Centro Properties Group, who acquired it in 2000. It has been officially renamed to Centro Box Hill, but many still refer to it as Box Hill Central.
Box Hill Institute of TAFE [Hill Institute of TAFE is a Technical and Further Education institute located in the eastern suburb of Box Hill] in [[Victoria, Australia|Victoria, Australia. It has four campuses in central Box Hill (Elgar, Whitehorse, Nelson and Ellingworth), one in Doncaster and one in Nunawading (Ceylon Campus).
Box Hill railway station, Melbourne Box Hill railway station is on the Belgrave and Lilydale lines in Melbourne, Australia. It is located in the Box Hill Central (also known as Centro Box Hill) shopping centre near the corner of Whitehorse Road and Station Street in Box Hill.
Box jellyfish Box jellyfish are water-dwelling invertebrates belonging to the class Cubozoa, named for their cube-shaped medusae. They share many characteristics with their relatives the true jellyfish in the class Scyphozoa.
Box junction A box junction is a traffic control measure designed to prevent gridlock at busy road junctions. The surface of the junction is marked with a criss-cross grid of diagonal painted lines (or only two lines crossing each other in the box junction) and vehicles may not enter the area so marked unless their exit from the junction is clear (or, if turning, to await a gap in the oncoming traffic flow).
Box lacrosse Box lacrosse (sometimes shortened to boxla, boxcrosse, or indoor lacrosse) is an indoor version of lacrosse played all across Canada and parts of the United States. The game is generally played in summer on an ice hockey rink from which the ice has been removed; the playing area is called the box, in contrast to the unenclosed playing field of field lacrosse.
Box modeling Box modeling is a technique in 3D modeling where the model is created by modifying primitive shapes in a way to create a "rough draft" of the final model. This is in contrast with the edge modeling method, where the modeler edits individual vertices.
Box motor A box motor, in railroad terminology, is a self-propelled boxcar, normally powered by electricity and running on an interurban railway or a streetcar line. Many box motors were converted from passenger cars on the systems that ran them, with the seats and most of the windows removed and large freight doors fitted.
Box of Frogs Box of Frogs were a blues-based hard rock band featuring former members of the 1960s group, The Yardbirds. Founded in 1983 by guitarist Chris Dreja, bass player Paul Samwell-Smith and drummer Jim McCarty, after a performance at the famous Marquee Club in London, which also included ex-Medicine Head John Fiddler on vocals.
Box of Scorpions The Box of Scorpions is a triple-CD compilation album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in May 25, 2004. It contains songs from their albums between the years 1977 and 2001 as well as Live songs.
Box office bomb The phrase box office bomb refers to a film for which the production and marketing costs greatly exceeded the revenue retained by the movie studio. This should not be confused with instances when official figures show large losses, yet the movie is a financial success; see Hollywood accounting.
Box office slump A box office slump is an ongoing occasion in which all major theatrical movies fail to meet expectations at the box office. The longest slump in the North American box office on record started in March 2005 and ended on July 10, 2005.
Box orbit In stellar dynamics a box orbit refers to a particular type of orbit which can be seen in triaxial systems, that is, systems which do not possess a symmetry around any of its axes. They contrast with the loop orbits which are observed in spherically symmetric or axisymmetric systems.
Box plot In descriptive statistics, a boxplot (also known as a box-and-whisker diagram or plot or candlestick chart) is a convenient way of graphically depicting the five-number summary, which consists of the smallest observation, lower quartile (Q1), median, upper quartile (Q3), and largest observation; in addition, the boxplot indicates which observations, if any, are considered unusual, or outliers. The boxplot was invented in 1977 by American statistician John Tukey.
Box Set (Samhain) The Samhain Box Set was released in 2000, more than 13 years after Samhain effectively ceased recording and performing. The set's five CDs and one VHS tape compile nearly all of the band's original catalogue, newly remastered for the original mastertapes, and a wealth of previously unreleased material, the latter of which includes a live CD and a VHS video cassette of live footage.
Box Stacker Box Stacker is a video game that game developer Take-Two Interactive was supposedly going to release sometime in 2005. An article from the satirical newspaper, The Onion, accompanied by a screenshot, described the game as "a first-person vertical-crate-arranger guaranteed not to influence young people's behavior in any way".
Box Step Box Step is a basic dance step named after the pattern it creates on the floor, which is that of a square or box. It can be incorporated into many types of dance, including disco, jazz, and most commonly, in American Style ballroom dances: Rumba, Waltz, bronze-level Foxtrot.
Box topology In topology, the cartesian product of topological spaces can be given several different topologies. The canonical one is the product topology, because it fits rather nicely with the categorical notion of a product.
Box truck A box truck, also known as a cube truck, cube van, or box van, is a truck with a cube-shaped cargo area. They usually range in size from 14 feet to 24 feet in length, with smaller or larger ones existing but being rare in North America.
Box turtle The box turtle is one of several species of turtles. It can refer to either those of the genera Cuora or Pyxidea, which are the Asian box turtles, or more commonly to species of the genus Terrapene, the North American box turtles.
Box Tops The Box Tops were a Memphis pop music group of the late 1960s. They are best known for the hits "The Letter," "Soul Deep" and "Cry Like A Baby," and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period.
Box Tunnel Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in western England, between Bath and Chippenham, dug through the Box Hill. It was built for the original route of the Great Western Railway under the direction of the GWR's engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Box wine A box wine (also known as bag in a box, wine cask or Goon in Australia) is a wine packaged in a bag usually made of aluminized PET film or other plastics, filled with wine and protected by a box, usually made of standard corrugated cardboard. The bag is sealed by a simple plastic tap, which is revealed by tearing away a small perforated panel on the box, and used to dispense the wine.
Box-Cox transformation In statistics, the Box-Cox transformation of the response variable Y is used to make the linear model more appropriate to the data. It can be used to attempt to impose linearity, eliminate skew or stabilize the residual variance.
Box-Death Hollow Wilderness The Box-Death Hollow Wilderness is located in south-central Utah, USA, on the Dixie National Forest. Vertical gray-orange walls of Navajo sandstone stand above two canyon tributaries of the Escalante River in Box-Death Hollow.
Box-Jenkins In econometrics, the Box-Jenkins methodology, named after the statisticians George Box and Gwilym Jenkins, applies autoregressive integrated moving average ARIMA models to find the best fit of a time series to past values of this time series, in order to make forecasts.
Box-Muller transform A Box-Muller transform (by George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller 1958) is a method of generating pairs of independent standard normally distributed (zero expectation, unit variance) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers.
Box-spring A box-spring is a hard sturdy wooden frame, covered in cloth, containing springs or some other form of torsion. Usually the box-spring is placed on top of a metal frame which sits on the floor and acts as a brace.
Boxcar A boxcar (the American term; the British call this kind of car a "goods van") is a railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry general freight. The boxcar, while not the simplest freight car design, is probably the most versatile, since it can carry most loads.
Boxcar (band) Boxcar is an Australian Sydney-based synth pop and techno band. Formed in the mid-1980s in Brisbane by main songwriter, guitarist and vocalist David Smith, he was soon joined by keyboardists Brett Mitchell and Carol Rohde and somewhat later by drummer-percussionist Crispin Trist.
Boxcar Bertha Boxcar Bertha (1972), one of acclaimed director Martin Scorsese's earliest films, is an extremely loose adaptation of "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L.
Boxcar Betty Boxcar Betty was a fictional organizer with the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies) earlier in the 20th century, popularized by a Depression-era book by Ben Reitman. The Wobblies were among the first to organize itinerant workers, and some of their most dedicated organizers were homeless themselves.
Boxcar Satan Boxcar Satan is a three-piece band from San Antonio, Texas, that deconstructs American roots music, depression-era Delta blues, post-industrial field hollers, free improvization and a healthy dose of post-punk noise into a modern blend unique to Texas. When cornered, the band labels themselves as no-account, no wave blues.
Boxer (Turkish magazine) Boxer is a Turkish men's magazine, first published July 2004. Since then, it has been the highest selling and most respectable men's magazine in the country followed by Turkish editions of FHM and Esquire magazines.
Boxer Codex Boxer Codex is a manuscript written in circa 1595 which contains the first illustrations of Filipinos at the time of their contact with Spaniards in the 16th century. Aside from the description and historical allusions to the Philippines and various other countries in the Far East done in 307 pages, it also contains seventy five colored drawings of the inhabitants of these nations and their distinctive costumes.
Boxer MRAV The Boxer is a German-Dutch Multirole Armored Vehicle (MRAV) designed to accomplish a number of operations through the use of installable mission modules. It is produced by the ARTEC GmbH (ARmoured vehicle TEChnology) industrial group, and the programme is being managed by OCCAR (Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation).
Boxer Protocol The Treaty of 1901, known as the Xinchou Treaty (辛丑条约) in China, and more commonly known as Boxer Protocol or Peace Agreement between the Great Powers and China, was a peace treaty signed on September 7, 1901 between the Qing Empire of China and the Eight-Nation Alliance—Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—plus Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands after China's defeat in the Boxer Rebellion at the hands of the Eight-Power Expeditionary Force.
Boxer shorts Boxer shorts (also known as loose boxers or, imprecisely, as boxers) are a type of underwear, worn by men. The term is used in English since 1944 for all-around-elastic shorts, so named after the shorts worn by pugilists, for whom unhindered leg movement ('footwork') is almost as important as the completely free arm movement of the barechested fighters.
Boxercise Box-A-cise (sometimes known as boxercise) is a fitness class based on the exercises that boxers use to keep fit, but does not involve actually hitting anyone (or being hit). It is therefore a safe and fun activity for all sorts of people.
Boxfish The boxfishes are a family, Ostraciidae, of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes. They come in a variety of different colors, and are notable for the hexagonal or "honeycomb" patterns in their skin and skeletons.
Boxing Boxing, also called prizefighting (when referring to professional boxing) or the sweet science (a common nickname among fans) or the gentlemans sport(used mainly in England), is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight classification fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called "rounds". In both Olympic and professional divisions, the combatants (called boxers or fighters) avoid their opponent's punches while trying to land punches of their own.
Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Bantamweight The bantamweight was the second lightest boxing weight class held as part of the Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event, like all other boxing events, was held in Olympic competition.
Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Featherweight The featherweight was the third lightest boxing weight class held as part of the Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event, like all other boxing events, was held in Olympic competition.
Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Flyweight The flyweight was the lightest boxing weight class held as part of the Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event, like all other boxing events, was held in Olympic competition.
Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Heavyweight The heavyweight was the heaviest boxing weight class held as part of the Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event, like all other boxing events, was held in Olympic competition.
Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Lightweight The lightweight was the median boxing weight class held as part of the Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event, like all other boxing events, was held in Olympic competition.
Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Middleweight The middleweight was the second heaviest boxing weight class held as part of the Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event, like all other boxing events, was held in Olympic competition.
Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics - Welterweight The welterweight was the third heaviest boxing weight class held as part of the Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event, like all other boxing events, was held in Olympic competition.
Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics took place in the new stadium at West Melbourne. A total number of 164 competitors entered from 35 nations, of whom 161 from 34 nations weighed-in and boxing was held eight nights and five afternoons.
Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held over a period of sixteen days at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. Three hundred and twelve men representing 74 nations competed in twelve weight categories, with 28 athletes in each category except for the heavyweight and super heavyweight divisions, where there were sixteen each.
Boxing at the 2003 Pan American Games The Boxing Tournament at the 2003 Pan American Games was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from August 8 to August 15. It served as a qualification tournament for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Boxing at the 2006 Asian Games Boxing at the 2006 Asian Games took place in the Academy for Sports Excellence (ASPIRE) in Sports City, 8 kilometers to the west of Doha The Academy for Sports Excellence is hosting the 2006 Asian Games Boxing event. The event was only open to men, and the bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each.
Boxing at the Summer Olympics Boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since its introduction to the program at the 1904 Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, because Swedish law banned the sport at the time.
Boxing Day Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom and most other Commonwealth countries on December 26, the day after Christmas Day. American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition - 'Boxing Day'Oxford English.
Boxing Day Test The Boxing Day Test match is a cricket Test match hosted in Melbourne, Australia involving Australian cricket team and the opposition national team touring Australia that summer. It begins annually on Boxing Day (December 26), and is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Boxing Hefner Boxing Hefner is a compilation of singles, b-sides, and live versions of songs by the British indie rock band Hefner. Released on Too Pure in 2000, it collected various early songs, as well as BBC sessions and a cover of the Jonathan Richman song "To Hide a Little Thought.
Boxing in Latin America Many Latin American countries have a proud history of professional boxing, producing some of the finest champions the sport has known. Boxing in many Latin American countries enjoys widespread grass-roots support, creating an enviroment condusive to the production of young fighters.
Boxing in the 1920s Professional boxing in the 1920s was an exceptionally popular international sport. Many fights during this era, some 20 years away or so from the television era, were social events with many thousands in attendance, both men and women.
Boxing in the 1930s Boxing in the 1930s was affected by one of the biggest economic struggles in the history of the United States: the depression era. Because of the suffering American economy, many boxers were offered lower purses, causing them to decline matches, being unsatisfied with their pay.
Boxing in the 1950s During the 1950s, a couple of relatively new developments changed the world: World War II had only been over for five years when the decade of the 50s began, and television was beginning to make a major impact internationally. In boxing, changes connected to these developments could be seen too, as boxers who fought at the 1940s conflict returned to their homes and many of them were back in the ring.
Boxing in the 1960s During the 1960s, boxing, like mostly everything else around the world, went through changing times. Boxers from the old guard of boxing gave way to a new movement filled with youth, controversy and enthusiasm.
Boxing in the 1980s Boxing in the 1980s was filled with important fights, events and personalities that shaped the sport. Boxing in the 1980s was shaped by many different situations, such as the continuous corporate battles between the different world sanctioning organizations, the void left by Muhammad Ali as the sport's ambassador and consequent search for a new boxing hero, the continuous presence of Don King as the sport's most famous promoter, the surge of rival promoters as Bob Arum, Butch Lewis and Murad Muhammad, and major rule changes.
Boxing in the 1990s As in the 1980s, the 1990s in boxing's popularity focused on all divisions. When 80's legends Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, as well as others retired, newer superstars filled the void: Pernell Whitaker, Julio César Chávez, in the early 90's, Oscar de la Hoya, Felix Trinidad, and Roy Jones Jr.
Boxing out Boxing out is a technique used in basketball to obtain rebounds. A player boxes out another player by positioning himself between the other player and the basket; he or she then uses their buttocks to push the other player away, thereby gaining an advantegous position over the oppossing team's rebounder.

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