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Boxing the compass Boxing the compass is the action of naming all thirty-two principal points of the compass in clockwise order. Such names, formed by the initials of the Cardinal directions and their intermediate directions, are accepted internationally, even though they have their origin in the English language, and are very handy to refer to a heading (or a course) in a general or colloquial fashion, without having to resort to computing or recalling angle numbers.
Boxing training Boxing training is the training method that boxers use in order to get in shape for their sport. This training method is often cited by medical doctors, boxing trainers, and writers as one of the most spartan forms of sports training.
Boxing World Cup Boxing World Cup, also sometimes credited as AIBA World Cup, is the international team event in boxing, similar to Davis Cup in tennis. Individual boxers are competing in their weight categories as part of the team bout, overall winner decided by the higher number of total wins.
Boxology A boxology is a representation of an organized structure as a graph of labeled nodes ("boxes") and connections between them (as lines or arrows). The concept is useful because many problems in systems design are reducible to modular "black boxes" and connections or flow channels between them.
Boxted, Essex The village of Boxted is approx 5 miles north of the ancient Roman town of Colchester, Essex, England. Split into 2 components - 'Boxted' and 'Boxted Cross' during the plague - when non infected villagers moved across the valley from old Boxted to escape infection.
Boxwork Boxwork is a speleothem composed of thin blades of the mineral calcite that project from cave walls and ceilings, forming a honeycomb pattern. The fins intersect one another at various angles, forming "boxes" on all cave surfaces.
Boy and Girl Boy and Girl (Traditional Chinese: 男才女貌, Pinyin: Nan Cai Nu Mao) is a successful youth drama in China. When broadcasted in 2003 on China Central Television (CCTV) in 2003, it dominated over all other series with an average of 80 million audience each night.
Boy band A boy band is a type of pop group usually featuring three to five young male singers, though it can go up to six, like bands like Shinhwa, or KAT-TUN. It is disputed whether or not music groups that have more than five members should be considered boybands, such as Super Junior who have 13 members.
Boy bishop Boy bishop was a name given to a custom very widespread in the Middle Ages, whereby a boy was chosen, for example among cathedral choristers, to parody the real Bishop, commonly on the feast of Holy Innocents. This custom was linked with others, such as that of the Feast of Fools and the Feast of Asses.
Boy Bitten by a Lizard (Caravaggio) Boy Bitten by a Lizard is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. It exists in two versions, both believed to be authentic, one in the Collezione Longhi in Florence, the other in the National Gallery, London.
Boy Blue (Cyndi Lauper song) Boy Blue was released in 1987 as the fourth single from the True Colors album. The single version is a remix (which cuts much of Lauper's more impressive vocal wailing, presumably in effort to make it more commercially accessible).
Boy Capel Arthur 'Boy' Capel was an English polo player best remembered for his affair with, and influence on the style of, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. He was wealthy and supplied her with resources she needed to open her first shop.
Boy Commandos Boy Commandos was a 1940s comic book series created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for DC Comics. A combination of "kid gang" comics and war comics, the title starred an international cast of little tough guys fighting the Nazis — or in their own parlance, "the Ratzies".
Boy Eats Girl Boy Eats Girl is a 2005 horror film directed by Stephen Bradley and starring Samantha Mumba. Produced in Ireland, it was (temporarily) banned there following the refusal of the producers to cut a scene which appeared to portray a suicide, however the Irish Film Censor's Office appeals board overturned this decision and passed the movie uncut as a "15A" cert, not the highest available certification.
Boy Edgar Prijs The Boy Edgar Prijs, is an annual award given to a Dutch jazz musician, composer, or bandleader. The individual must have made significant contributions to the Dutch jazz scene over a significant period of time.
Boy Howdy Productions Boy Howdy Productions is a locally owned production company located in Oxford, Alabama. Although rumored to have started in summer 2005 with Halo Python (a short video made by syncing the opening scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail with the popular Halo game), it officially began in February 2006.
Boy Charlton Andrew Murray Charlton (12 August 1907 – 10 December 1975), known popularly as Boy Charlton, was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1920s and 1930s who won a gold medal in the 1500m freestyle at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He set five world records and also won a further three silver and one bronze medal in his Olympic career.
Boy in Darkness "Boy in Darkness" is a horror novella written by Mervyn Peake and first published in 1956 by Eyre & Spottiswoode as part of the anthology Sometime, Never: Three Tales of Imagination. Boy in Darkness has also been published separately in the United Kingdom.
Boy in the bubble "Boy in the bubble" and "bubble boy" are colloquialisms used to describe a person who must live in a sterile environment because of medical conditions, like severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Notable examples include David Vetter (1971–1984) and Ted DeVita (1962–1980).
Boy Krazy Boy Krazy was a New York City girl group that saw brief fame in 1993 as a one-hit wonder. Their signature dance-pop song That's What Love Can Do, created by British music producers Stock Aitken Waterman and recorded in 1991, bubbled under for two years before getting significant airplay.
Boy next door The boy next door is an archetype of storytelling. He is often invoked in American contexts to indicate wholesome, unassuming, or "average" masculinity; he is the male counterpart of the "girl next door.
Boy Next Door (song) "Boy Next Door" is the fifth single from British R&B artist Jamelia and the fourth and final single from her debut album Drama. "Boy Next Door" is Jamelia's smallest hit, missing the UK Top 40, peaking at #42 and spending only two weeks inside the Top 75.
Boy soprano Boy soprano (or treble in British English; see below) is a term applied in music to a young male singer with an unchanged voice in the soprano range. Occasionally boys whose voices have changed can continue to sing in the soprano range for a period of time.
Boy Scout A Boy Scout is a boy, usually 11 to 17 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement. This movement began in 1907, when General Robert Baden-Powell held the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, South England.
Boy Scout Committee A Boy Scout Committee is a group of adult Scout leaders responsible for administration of duties related to the Boy Scouts of America. There are four levels of committees: unit, district, council, and national.
Boy Scout Handbook The Boy Scout Handbook is the official handbook of the Boy Scouts of America. Robert Baden-Powell's handbook, Scouting for Boys, has been the basis for Scout handbooks in many countries, with some variations to the text of the book depending on each country's codes and customs.
Boy Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) Boy Scouting is one of the traditional membership divisions of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), available to boys 10–17. It is the oldest division of the three Scouting programs (Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing) from the BSA.
Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Austria Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Ă–sterreichs (PPĂ–; Austrian Boy Scouts and Girl Guides) is the largest Scouting and Guiding organization in Austria and the only one approved by World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). There are more than 300 troops (local units) with more than 85,000 Scouts nationwide (according to the website).
Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act The Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act was passed to prevent State and Federal agencies from reducing their support for the Boy Scouts of America (and other youth organization). The bill was passed in the wake of a number of controversies involving the Boy Scouts of America, such as their exclusion of gays and atheists, and subsequent attempts to limit government support of the organization.
Boy Scouts of America membership controversies The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), the largest youth organization in the United States, has policies which prohibit or restrict certain people from membership and participation. Some of these membership policies are controversial and have resulted in the dismissal of Scouts and adult Scout leaders from the BSA or a Scouting unit for being an atheist, agnostic, or homosexual.
Boy Scouts of Liberia The Boy Scouts of Liberia, the national Scouting organization of Liberia, was founded in 1922, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1965. The boys only Boy Scouts of Liberia has 2,418 members as of 2004.
Boy Scouts of Nigeria Boy Scouts of Nigeria (BSN) is the national Scouting organisation of Nigeria. Scouting was founded in the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1915 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1961.
Boy Scouts of the United Nations The Boy Scouts of the United Nations existed from 1945 through perhaps the early 1980s as the Scouting association serving the families of diplomats and staff of the United Nations, active in both Geneva and at Parkway Village in New York.
Boy with Thorn Boy with Thorn, also called Fedele (Fedelino) or Spinario, is a Greco-Roman Hellenistic Bronze sculpture of a boy withdrawing a thorn ifrom the sole of his foot, now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome (illustration, right). A Roman marble of this subject from the Medici collections is in a corridor of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Boy Who Never Slept Boy Who Never Slept is the title of an open-source movie that was released online on July 2, 2006 by Solomon Rothman. It is a comedy with some elements of romance, and is available for download by many means, (including direct HTTP and Bittorrent download).
Boy's Life (band) Boy's Life was an indie rock band from Kansas City, Missouri formed in 1993 They released their self-titled debut in 1995 followed by a split EP with Denver, Colorado's Christie front drive, and their final album, "Departures and Landfalls." Members went on to bands such as The farewell bend, Canyon and The higher burning fire.
Boy's surface In geometry, Boy's surface is an immersion of the real projective plane in 3-dimensional space found by Werner Boy in 1901 (he discovered it on assignment from Hilbert to prove that the projective plane could not be immersed in 3-space). Unlike the Roman surface and the cross-cap, it has no singularities (pinch points), but it does self-intersect.
Boy's Town, Nuevo Laredo Boy's Town, La Zona de tolerancia, is a commercial section of the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, that provides patrons with a variety of nocturnal entertainment activities, including especially legalized prostitution. Boy's Town is a walled compound containing three east-west streets and two north-south streets (covering approximately 12 hectares).
Boyan Boyan or Bayan is the name of a bard who was active at the court of Yaroslav the Wise. He is apostrophized as Veles's grandson in the opening lines of The Lay of Igor's Campaign (probably a reference to Veles as the patron of musicians).
Boyan Vukelic Canadian-Yugoslav Boyan Vukelic initially studied Construction Management before choosing to train in the dramatic arts at the Gastown Actors' Studio in his hometown of Vancouver. During his high school years, he had forrayed briefly into the world of modelling, but did not enjoy the experience and quickly moved on, later working as a bricklayer.
Boyana Boyana () is a quarter of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, part of Vitosha municipality and situated 8 km south of the city centre, in the outskirts of Vitosha. Boyana is typically regarded as one of the best quarters of Sofia to live in.
Boyana Glacier Boyana Glacier (Lednik Boyana 'led-nik bo-'ya-na) is located to the east of Peshev Ridge, to the south of Silistra Knoll and to the southwest of Serdica Peak in Livingston Island. The glacier flows southeastward into the Bransfield Strait between Vazov Point and Aytos Point.
Boyana Church The Boyana Church (, Boyanska tsarkva) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church situated on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, in the Boyana quarter. The east wing of the two-storey church was originally constructed in the late 10th or early 11th century, then the central wing was added in the 13th century under the Second Bulgarian Empire, the whole building being finished with a further expansion to the west in the middle of the 19th century.
Boyash Boyash (or Bayash; Romanian: Băeşi, Hungarian: Beás, Adjacent Slavic languages: Bojaši) are a Roma ethnic group living in Romania, in Southern Hungary, Balkans, but also in Americas and Australia. Alternative names are Rudari, Lingurari.
Boyce and Hart Tommy Boyce (born Sidney Thomas Boyce, September 29, 1939, Charlottesville, Virginia; died November 23, 1994) and Bobby Hart (born Robert Luke Harshman, February 19, 1939, Phoenix, Arizona) were songwriters best known for the songs they wrote for The Monkees.
Boycott (film) Boycott (1985) is a film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, set in pre-revolutionary Iran. The movie tells the story of a young man named Valeh (Majid Majidi) who is sentenced to death, for his communist tendencies.
Boyd and Parker ambush The Boyd and Parker ambush was a small military engagement in Groveland, New York on September 13, 1779, during the American Revolutionary War. A scout group of the Sullivan Expedition was ambushed and captured by Tories and their Seneca Indian allies lead by Little Beard.
Boyd Banks Boyd Banks is a Canadian stand-up comedian known for doing edgy material, and an actor who has appeared in such films as Dawn of the Dead (2004), Phil the Alien (2004) and Cinderella Man (2005). Among his other television credits he is a member of the repertory cast of the A&E TV original series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001-2002).
Boyd Big Tree Preserve Conservation Area Boyd Big Tree Preserve Conservation Area is a Pennsylvania State Park located in Middle Paxton and Lower Paxton Townships, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The land for the conservation area was donated to the state by real estate developer Alex Boyd in 1999.
Boyd County Public Schools (Kentucky) Boyd County Public Schools is a school district based in Boyd County, Kentucky. The district serves the area within the city limits of Catlettsburg and the rest of Boyd County, excluding the areas within the city of Ashland and the census-designated place of Westwood, each of which have their own school districts.
Boyd Dowler Boyd Hamilton Dowler (born November 18, 1937) is a former American Football wide receiver who played twelve seasons for the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins from 1959 to 1971. Before his NFL career, he played for the University of Colorado.
Boyd Family The Boyd family is perhaps Australia’s most famous and prolific artistic dynasty, as painters, artists, illustrationists, sculptors, potters, ceramists, writers, architects, digital technicians, graphic designers, and musicians, over several generations.
Boyd Gaming Boyd Gaming Corporation () is a Las Vegas, Nevada based business engaged in the development, ownership and operation of hotels and casinos throughout the United States. The company continues to be run by founder Sam Boyd's family under the management of Sam's son, Bill Boyd.
Boyd Gang The Boyd Gang was a notorious gang in Canada led by Edwin Alonzo Boyd. Edwin robbed a Toronto branch of the Bank of Montreal with a gun on September 9, 1949 while drunk, and by 1951 became the nation's most notorious bandit and leader of The Boyd Gang.
Boyd Group Income Fund Boyd Group Income Fund was established in 1990 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada by Terry Smith and operates collision repair centres throughout North America. In Canada, the company is known as Boyd Autobody and Glass.
Boyd massacre The Boyd was a 395 ton brigantine convict ship which sailed from Sydney Cove to Whangaroa on the east coast of Northland Peninsula in New Zealand in October 1809, under the command of a Captain John Thompson and carrying about 70 passengers.
Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand is a system of shorthand invented by Robert Boyd, published originally in 1903, and updated in 1912. In this system, symbols are distinguished both by orientation and shape, with the shape representing the vowel and the orientation the consonant.
Boyd, Oregon Boyd was a town in Wasco County, Oregon, United States, disincorporated in 1955, and now vacant except for a few abandoned homes, weathered outbuildings and a derelict wooden grain elevator surrounded by the wheat fields, which still produce the grain that used to fill it. The site of the former settlement is located 9.
Boydell & Brewer Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England that specializes in publishing historical and critical works. In addition to British and general history, the company publishes three series devoted to studies, editions, and translations of material related to the Arthurian legend.
Boydong Island (Queensland) Boydong Island is a small islands in the Boydong cays Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia about 100 km North of Cape Grenville, Cape York Peninsula in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia.
Boyds Creek, Tennessee Boyds Creek is an unincorporated community located in Sevier County, Tennessee. It is named for a small southward-flowing tributary of the French Broad River of the same name, which itself derives its name from a Virginian trader killed by a band of Cherokee Indians whose body was thrown into the stream.
Boyds, Washington Boyds is an unincorporated community in Ferry County, Washington. Boyds is located along the south end of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area near the Kettle River, which serves as a boundary with Stevens County.
Boyer Gallery The Boyer Gallery is a museum located at 1205 M Street in Belleville, Kansas featuring the animated sculptures of Paul Boyer. Many of the displays are hand carved wooden pieces that have been animated with hand-built motors and mechanics, while others are working models of aircraft or tractor engines.
Boyer, Tasmania Boyer (Australian postcode 7140) is a town on the eastern side of the Derwent River (Tasmania), opposite and slightly downstream of New Norfolk. It is named after a family who first settled in the area in the early 1800s.
Boyfriend (fashion) In fashion design, primarily in ready-to-wear lines, boyfriend is any style for women's clothing that was modified from a corresponding men's garment. Examples include boyfriend jackets and boyfriend jeans, which are more unisex in appearance than most women's jackets or pants while they are still designed for the female form.
Boyfriend Robotique Boyfriend Robotique (founded Berkeley, California 2003) are a troupe of performance artists active in Europe and America, numbering roughly 28 members. Notable for their marriage of philosophy and the absurd, the troupe have stead fastly refused to take part in the contemporary celebrity scene viewing it as the fast track to mediocrity.
Boyko Boyko or Boiko is the name for a distinctive group of Ukrainian montagnards of the Carpathian highlands. The Boykos inhabit the central and the western half of the Carpathians in Ukraine, including the Dolynsky and a part of the Rozhniativsky Raions (districts) in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province), the Skolivsky, Turkivsky, and parts of the Drohobytsky, Sambirsky and Starosambirsky Raions in the Lviv Oblast, and parts of the Mizhhirsky Raion in the Zakarpattia Oblast), as well as the adjacent areas of southeast Poland and northeast Slovakia.
Boylan Catholic High School Boylan "Titans" Catholic High School is a private Catholic school in the city of Rockford, Illinois. Opened in 1960, Boylan is Rockford's only Catholic high school, currently consisting with a student body of 1279.
Boyle (crater) Boyle is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the rugged far side of the Moon. It is adjacent to the larger Hess crater to the southeast, and lies about mid-way between Alder crater to the north-northeast and Abbe crater to the south-southwest.
Boyle Abbey Boyle Abbey is a 12th century Cistercian monastery located in County Roscommon, Ireland, near the modern town of Boyle. It was badly damaged by its use as a military garrison during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Boyle County High School Boyle County High School, located in Danville, Kentucky, is a public secondary school serving nearly 900 students from grades 9-12. Built in the early 1960's, the school was created to consolidate the public county high schools of Perryville, Forkland, Junction City, and Parksville.
Boyle Farm Boyle Farm was the earlier name of the 'Home of Compassion', a mansion on the banks of the River Thames in Thames Ditton, Surrey. The house was built on the site of Forde's Farm by Charlotte Boyle Walsingham in the late 18th century.
Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California Boyle Heights is a district just east of Downtown Los Angeles on the East Side of Los Angeles, California. The neighborhood was once known for its diverse demographics, including large Jewish and Japanese populations, as well as Russian and Yugoslav populations.
Boyle Lectures The Boyle Lectures were named after Robert Boyle, a prominent Irish Natural Philosopher in the 17th Century. Boyle endowed a series of lectures in his will, which were designed as a forum where prominent academics could discuss the existence of God.
Boyle Street Boyle Street (also called the Downtown East Side or Jasper-East) is a neighbourhood located in central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, immediately east of downtown proper. The neighbourhood is bounded by the North Saskatchewan River Valley in the south and the LRT tracks to the north, with the central roads of Jasper Avenue and 103A Avenue running through the district.
Boyle's law Boyle's law (sometimes known as the Boyle Mariotte law) is one of the gas laws. Boyle's Law is named after the Irish natural philosopher Robert Boyle (Lismore, County Waterford,1627-1691) who was the first to publish it in 1662.
Boyle-Workman family The Boyle-Workman family are two interconnected families central to the early history of Los Angeles. Their connection was the result of the marriage of Los Angeles mayor William Henry Workman to Maria Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of A.
Boylston Classic The Boylston Classic is an annual pre-season ice hockey game between the Emerson Lions and the Berklee College of Music IceCats. It was created in 2006 by the two schools to raise funds for their hockey clubs.
Boylston Street Boylston Street is the name of a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts and its western suburbs. It begins at its eastern end in central Boston as the continuation of Essex Street at the intersection of Tremont, and forms the southern boundary of Boston Common, past Charles Street, the Boston Public Garden.
Boyne River Bridge The Boyne River Bridge is Ireland’s longest cable-stayed bridge and is widely regarded as one the most impressive feats of civil engineering in Ireland. Situated 3 kilometres west of Drogheda , the vast majority of the bridge including its central pylon and 56 cables are situated in County Meath, although the last few northern most cables partly stretch across the county boundary into County Louth.
Boyne Viaduct The Boyne Viaduct, a 98ft high railway bridge, or viaduct, that crosses the River Boyne in Drogheda, carrying the main Dublin–Belfast railway line. It was the seventh bridge of its kind in the world when built and considered one of the wonders of the age.
Boynton Beach Club Boynton Beach Club is a 2006 movie directed by Susan Seidelman, produced by her and her mother Florence. Based on experiences of Florence and her widowed friend David Cramer at an adult enclave in South Florida, the movie was scripted by Susan Seidelman and Coral Gables, Florida writer Shelly Gitlow.
Boynton High School Boynton High School is a secondary school located in San Jose, California and is a continuation school for the Campbell Union High School District. For 12 years prior to the establishment of Boynton High School in 2002, continuation students attended what was then Blackford High School.
Boyo Ockinga Boyo Ockinga PhD, is an Egyptologist, epigrapher, and philologist of the ancient Egyptian language, who holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Boyoma Falls Boyoma Falls, formerly known as Stanley Falls, consists of seven cataracts extending over 100 km on the Lualaba River near Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the bottom of the falls the Lualaba becomes the Congo River.
Boyoz Boyoz is a Turkish pastry, associated within Turkey with Ä°zmir, practically the only city where it is prepared for commercial purposes and by following the original recipe. Due to these factors, boyoz acquired the dimension of a symbol of their hometown or of their longing for it when away, in the eyes of Smyrniots, who prefer it plain, without addition of meat or cheese or spinach stuffings, as cooked by a handful of master boyoz bakers in the city.
Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster The Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster (BGCL), located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a non-profit youth organization that serves as a successful arm of its parent organization, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. There are four Clubhouses located in the county.
Boys and Girls Clubs of America Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) is a national non-profit youth organization that links together individual clubs throughout the United States with the aim of providing places to go, activities, health and fitness enhancement, and programs for young people.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary The Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary were founded in 1939 under the name Boys Town and operated out of the basement of the Carleton Hotel in Calgary. They later changed their name to Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary to better reflect the inclusive nature of the programs.
Boys and Girls Missionary Crusade Boys and Girls Missionary Crusade (BGMC) is the missions education emphasis for children in the United States who attend churches affiliated with the General Council of the Assemblies of God. The program provides resources to help teach kids about missions and supports General Council missionaries in their fields of ministry in the United States and around the world.
Boys And Girls (song) "Boys and Girls" was intended to be the Belarussian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, to be performed in English by Angelica Agurbash. As it was not performed, the song enters a very exclusive group of only three of four songs to be announced as an entry before not being performed.
Boys Brigade (band) Boys Brigade was a Canadian New Wave band in the 1980s. Formed in 1981 in Toronto, the band consisted of vocalist and keyboardist Malcolm Burn, guitarist and vocalist Tony Lester, bassist Wayne Lorenz, drummer Billie Brock and percussionists David Porter and Jeff Packer.
Boys Club Boys Club was the R&B duo of Gene Hunt and Joe Pasquale from Minneapolis, Minnesota that had a big hit with "I Remember Holding You" in 1989. Throughout the greater part of Minnesota, Boys Club was also regarded as "Minnesota's version of WHAM!.
Boys Don't Cry (band) Boys Don't Cry was a British studio band who had one hit in the United States, "I Wanna Be a Cowboy", which peaked at #12 in 1986. Brian Chatton had a brief stint on keyboards with 1970s progressive band Jackson Heights, contributing heavily to their Ragamuffin's Fool LP.
Boys Don't Cry (film) Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 independent dramatic film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was raped and murdered by his male friends after they found out he had female genitalia. Hilary Swank stars as Brandon, a role for which she was awarded the 1999 Academy Award for Best Actress, the film also stars Chloë Sevigny, who was also nominated for the Academy Award in the category of Best Supporting Actress.
Boys from the Blackstuff Boys from The Blackstuff is a British television drama series of five episodes, originally transmitted from October 10 to November 7 1982 on BBC2. The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, and was a sequel to a television play called The Black Stuff, which he had originally written for BBC1's Play for Today anthology series in 1978, although it had languished untransmitted for two years before eventually being screened in 1980.
Boys in the Sand Boys in the Sand is a landmark 1971 gay pornographic film. The film, directed by Wakefield Poole and starring Casey Donovan, was the first gay porn film to achieve mainstream crossover success and one of the earliest such films of any stripe to gain mainstream credibility, preceding Deep Throat by nearly a year.
Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls is a four-piece rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. The group completed nationwide tours with Cute Is What We Aim For, Hit the Lights and Butch Walker and topped the Top Unsigned Artist chart on PureVolume, within a few months from forming in late 2005.
Boys Night Out (band) Boys Night Out (sometimes written as boysnightout) is a rock band from Burlington, Ontario. The band officially formed in 2001 when lead vocalist Connor Lovat-Fraser and current guitarist Jeff Davis started collaborating on songs.
Boys of '98 Boys of '98 is an old Irish rebel song giving praise to the 1798 rebellion. In the lyrics and melody there are references to the uprising, the Penal Laws, and the use of the pike as a notable weapon during the uprising, despite the domination of warfare during this time period by primarily smoothbore weaponry.

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