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Boys of Summer (The Wire episode) "Boys of Summer" is the first episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Joe Chapelle.
Boys railway station, Victoria Boys was a railway station on the South Gippsland line in South Gippsland, Victoria. The station was opened during the 1890s and was one of the first to close on the South Gippsland line, closing in the 1960's.
Boys Suck Boys Suck was a Boston-based band that was formed somewhere around 2000 by members of the New York goth-rock outfit Binary Test Record. Originally known for being a sort of smug twee act with a drum machine, keyboard, bass, and acoustic guitar, the band had some lineup changes, which eventually led to it being a primarily solo venture by The Sleepwalker.
Boys Town (1938 film) Boys Town is a 1938 film based on (real-world) Father Flanagan's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named Boys Town. It starred Spencer Tracy as Father Edward J.
Boys Will Be Boys (Gary Glitter Album) Six years after his last album and seven years after his last Top 30 UK hit, Gary Glitter bounded back into action in 1984 with a brace of singles that not only restored him to his rightful manor, they left Glitter himself teetering on the brink of what could...should...
Boys' Bowl Boys' Bowl, is a yearly highschool match between Detroit Catholic Central High School and another Catholic school under the archdiocese of Detriot. It is usually the most hyped football event for Catholic Central(though not necessarily the most important), and referred to as the "Homecoming" for the Varsity football team.
Boys' High School & College, Allahabad Boys' High School & College, founded in 1861, is an independent school in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was founded for the purpose of providing a Christian education to the children of Europeans and Anglo-Indians, but has always accepted children from all backgrounds.
Boys' Latin School of Maryland The Boys' Latin School of Maryland is a private, all-boys, college-preparatory school located in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1844, it is the oldest independent, non-sectarian secondary school in the state of Maryland.
Boys' Night Out (film) Boys' Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon. The movie is about three well-to-do men planning to commit adultery.
Boys' Town Public School Boys' Town Public School, in Nashik, Maharashtra, India, is one of the oldest and best english medium schools in the region. Alumni of the school include Nari Contractor, former captain of the Indian cricket team.
Boys/Girls State Boys State and Girls State are summer leadership and citizenship programs sponsored by The American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary for high school students between their junior and senior years. Boys and Girls State programs are held in each of the U.
Boysetsfire boysetsfire was a post-hardcore band from Delaware that formed in October 1994. Boysetsfire was composed of guitarists Chad Istvan and Josh Latshaw, bassist Robert Ehrenbrand, drummer Matt Krupanski, and vocalist Nathan Gray.
Boyshorts Boy Shorts, also known as Boy Short Panties, boys' cut, booty shorts shorties or Boyleg Briefs are a sort of lingerie that goes all the way down the hips. They are a relatively new but increasingly popular style of lingerie and are named for their similarity in looks to men's shorts.
Boysie Oakes Boysie Oakes is fictional secret agent created by the British spy novelist John Gardner in 1964 at the height of the fictional spy mania. Oakes is a richly comic character who is inadvertently taken to be a tough, pitiless man of action and is thereupon recruited into a British spy agency.
Boystown, Chicago *Boystown is the popular name of the northside Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Lakeview, Chicago. It is the first officially recognized gay village in the United States, center of one of the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities in the nation and popular throughout the Midwest for its nightlife.
Boyton, Cornwall Boyton (Cornish:Trevoya) is a village and civil parish in the North Cornwall district of Cornwall, United Kingdom, situated close to the River Tamar and the border with Devon. It is about six miles north of Launceston.
Boyton, Suffolk Boyton is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England, about eight miles east of Woodbridge, and close to Orford Ness. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 154.
Boyton, Wiltshire Boyton is a village and civil parish in the West Wiltshire district of Wiltshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 179, including the village of Corton, which forms part of the parish of Boyton.
Boytown BoyTown is a 2006 Australian comedy film, directed by Kevin Carlin and starring an ensemble cast of prominent Australian comedians, including Glenn Robbins, Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin, Wayne Hope and Gary Eck. It was filmed in Melbourne, Australia.
Boyz Boyz is a free magazine, targeted mainly at gay men and distributed mainly through gay bars, clubs and saunas in the United Kingdom. Published weekly, it tends to focus on news about the gay scene and celebrities (generally pop artists) popular with scene-going gay men.
Boyz II Men Boyz II Men are an American R&B/soul singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1988 as a quintet, Boyz II Men found fame as a quartet, with members Wanya Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman, and Nathan Morris, on Motown Records during the early 1990s.
Boyz n da Hood Boyz n da Hood is an American Southern hardcore rap quartet from Atlanta, Georgia. Current members of the group are Lee "Duke" Dixon, Miguel "Big Gee" Scott, Jacoby "Jody Breeze" White, and Gorilla Zoe.
Boyz N Girlz United Boyz N Girlz United were a pop group consisting of members (two male; two female) Robbie Carrico (born November 13, 1981), Daniel Dix (born May 11, 1980), Rina Mayo (born April 25, 1981) and Criss Ruiz (born April 15, 1979). The group were signed to Johnny Wright's record label, Wire Records in 1999.
Boyz Nite Out Boyz Nite Out (sometimes known as BNO for short) is a contemporary a cappella quintet based in Sacramento, California. Originally formed in October of 1993 as a sextet, Boyz Nite Out quickly established itself as a high-energy vocal band.
Boz * Boz (long "o") was an early pen name of Charles Dickens, and the name under which he published his first work, Sketches by Boz. The name came from "the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honour of The Vicar of Wakefield, which, being pronounced Bozes, got shortened into Boz.
Bozdar BOZDAR, a Baluch tribe of Rind (Arab) extraction, usually associated with the mountain districts of the frontier near Dera Ghazi Khan. They are also to be found in Zhob, Thal-Chotiali and Las Bela, whilst the majority of the population are said to live in the Punjab.
Boze Berger Louis William (Boze) Berger (May 13, 1910 - November 3, 1992) was a second baseman who played for the Cleveland Indians (1932, 1935-1936), Chicago White Sox (1938) and Boston Red Sox (1939). Berger batted and threw right handed.
Bozeat Bozeat is a village and civil parish in the Wellingborough borough of Northamptonshire, England, located six miles south of Wellingborough on the A509 road, near Wollaston. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,353.
Bozeman Trail The Bozeman Trail was an overland route connecting the Oregon Trail to the gold rush territory of Montana. The flow of white settlers along the trail caused several military campaigns between the Indians and the U.
Bozhentsi Bozhentsi (; also variously transliterated as Bozhenci, Bojenci, Bojenzi, Boženci, Bojentsi, Bojentzi, Bozhentzi, etc.), officially but not commonly Bozhentsite (Боженците), is a village and architectural reserve in Gabrovo municipality, Gabrovo Province, in central northern Bulgaria.
Bozhidar Dimitrov Bozhidar Dimitrov () (born 3 December 1945) is a well-known Bulgarian historian working in the sphere of Medieval Bulgarian history, the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria and the Macedonian Question. He is the director of the National Historical Museum and a Bulgarian Socialist Party politician.
Bozhidar Iskrenov Bozhidar Iskrenov () (born 1 August 1962), nicknamed Gibona (Гибона; "The Gibbon") and Gibi (Гиби), is a former Bulgarian footballer who spent most of his career playing for PFC Levski Sofia as an attacker.
Bozhou Bozhou () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Anhui province, People's Republic of China. It borders Huaibei to the northeast, Bengbu to the southeast, Huainan to the south, Fuyang to the southwest, and the province of Henan to the north.
Bozo bit In his 1995 book Dynamics of Software Development (ISBN 1-55615-823-8), Jim McCarthy presented a series of rules about the political and interpersonal forces that drive software development. At the time, it's fair to say that most coders still thought of themselves as technology experts first, team members second.
Bozo people The Bozo are a West African ethnic group located predominantly along the Niger River in Mali. The name Bozo is thought to derive from Bambara bo-so, 'Bamboo house'; the people accept it as referring to the whole of the ethnic group but use more specific clan names such as Sorogoye, Hain, and Tieye themselves.
Bozo the Clown Bozo the Clown (also known as Bozo), is the name of a clown whose widespread franchising in early television made him the best-known clown character in the United States. Partly as a result, the word "bozo" has become synonymous with a foolish person.
Bozo the Iron Man Hugh Hazzard and his Robot, Bozo the Iron Man was a fictional character featured in issues 1-42 of the Smash Comics comic book from Quality Comics. Hugh Hazard's adventures were written and crudely drawn by Quality Comics editor George Brenner.
Bozorg Alavi Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی in Persian) (February 2, 1904–February 18, 1997) was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s and spent the rest of his life in exile in Germany, first during the Pahlavi regime and subsequently following the 1979 revolution.
Bozzio Levin Stevens Bozzio Levin Stevens is a supergroup power trio of rock, fusion, jazz and instrumental classical music, consisting of drummer Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa, Missing Persons, Steve Vai, Jeff Beck), bassist and Chapman Stick player Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson) and guitarist Steve Stevens, (Billy Idol). They have recorded two albums via Magna Carta.
BOAC Flight 777 BOAC Flight 777, a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline flight on 1 June 1943 from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal to an airport at Whitchurch near Bristol, United Kingdom, was attacked by eight German Junkers Ju 88s and crashed into the Bay of Biscay, killing several notable passengers, including actor Leslie Howard.
BOAC Flight 911 BOAC flight 911 was a round-the-world flight operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation. A Boeing 707 (registration G-APFE) operating as flight 911 crashed near Mount Fuji while flying the Tokyo-Hong Kong segment on March 5, 1966.
BOCC Computer Systems Development (Postgraduate) Award The BOCC Computer Systems Development (Postgraduate) Award is a prize open to postgraduate computing students at the Department of Computing at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England. The Award encourages the development and effective use of World Wide Web and computer systems techniques in project work.
BODIES... The Exhibition "BODIES... The Exhibition" is a controversial exhibit currently showing in New York City, Las Vegas, Miami, Amsterdam, and Seattle (with previous showings in Tampa and other cities) showcasing preserved human bodies dissected to display bodily systems.
BOGESTRA The Bochum-Gelsenkirchener StraĂźenbahnen AG (abbreviated BOGESTRA, German for Bochum - Gelsenkirchen Tramways Corporation) is a public transport operator in the Ruhr area, most notably in the cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen.
BOINC Credit System The BOINC Credit System is designed to avoid cheating by validating results before granting credit on projects using BOINC as a platform for distributed computing. This ensures users are returning accurate results for both scientific and statistical reasons.
BOK Tower The BOK Tower, formerly One Williams Center, is a skyscraper in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. At 203 m (667 ft) in height, the 52-story tower is the tallest building in Oklahoma (and, in fact, is the tallest building in any of the five "Plains States": Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota).
BOMArchiveHelper BOMArchiveHelper is the default archive file handler in Mac OS X. It is a service application that has no GUI when double-clicked, rather it is invoked by opening its associated files or by choosing "Create archive of 'file'" in the Finder's File or contextual menu.
BOND BOND (Building Object Network Databases) started development in late 2000 as a rapid application development tool for the GNOME Desktop. Its aim was to fill a gap that traditional Microsoft Windows applications like Borland Delphi, Microsoft Access and Visual Basic filled on the Windows desktop, but targeted for the Linux environment.
BOOMERanG experiment The BOOMERanG experiment (Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics) measured the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) during three sub-orbital (high altitude) balloon flights. The first was a test flight over North America in 1997.
BOOMTV BOOMTV was the name of two proposed Canadian premium television services, one in English and one in French, the applications for which were considered at a CRTC public hearing on October 24, 2005 along with three other premium television proposals. The applications were by Archambault] Group Inc.
BOOPSI The BOOPSI, which stands for Basic Object Oriented Programming System for Intuition, is an object oriented system for AmigaOS. It enhances Intuition by an object-oriented interface with a system of classes in which every class individuate a single widget or describes an interface event.
BOR-4 The BOR-4 flight vehicle is a scaled (1:2) copy of the Spiral spaceplane. An unmanned, subscale craft, its purpose was to test the heatshield tiles and reinforced carbon-carbon for the Buran space shuttle, then under development.
BOR-5 The BOR-5 flight vehicle was used to test the main aerodynamic characteristics, thermal and acoustic loads and stability for the Shuttle Buran program. As the BOR-4 flight vehicle aerodynamics were different from those of the Buran vehicle, the BOR-5 is a 1:8 Buran model.
BORAX experiments The BORAX Experiments, boiling reactor experiments, were a series of tests using the BORAX-I nuclear reactor which proved Samuel Untermyer's 1952 theory that a reactor using direct boiling of water would be practical, rather than unstable because of the bubble formation in the core. Subsequently the reactor was used for power excursion tests which showed that rapid conversion of steam to water would safely control the reaction.
BOSU A BOSU Balance Trainer, or BOSU ball as it is otherwise called, is an athletic training device consisting of an inflated rubber hemisphere attached to a rigid platform. The name is an acronym which stands for "Both Sides Up," a reference to the myriad ways a BOSU ball can be used.
BOYS LOVE , is a Japanese film coming out on DVD on November 24, 2006. The movie tells the story of Akira Mamiya, a magazine editor who meets and interviews a young model, Noeru Kisaragi, and becomes sinfully attracted by him.
BpNichol Barry Phillip Nichol (September 30, 1944 - September 25, 1988), who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces (bpNichol), was a Canadian poet. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and became widely known for his concrete poetry while living there in the 1960s.
BP Tower The BP Tower (also known as the Sohio Building, Standard Oil building, the BP America Building, BP America Tower, 200 Public Square, or the BP Building) is the third tallest skyscraper in Cleveland, Ohio. The building, located on Public Square in Downtown Cleveland reaches 45 stories and 658 ft (201 m) and holds 1.
BPA Worldwide BPA Worldwide audits the circulation of primarily business-to-business publications. It also provides audit services for consumer magazines, newspapers, Web sites, events, email newsletters, digital magazines and other advertiser-supported media produced by its members.
BPB plc BPB plc was a British company which was the world's largest manufacturer of plasterboard until it was taken over by Saint-Gobain of France in 2005. The company first floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1935 and was one of the original constituents of the FTSE 100 Index.
BPC Generation Infrastructure Trust BPC Generation Infrastructure Trust is a trust established by Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) as part of the constortium to run the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Ontariohttp://www.omers.
BPCS BPCS is an acronym for Business Planning and Control System, pronounced as "Bee picks." BPCS was developed by System Software Associates (SSA), which later became SSA Global Technologies (which was then acquired by Infor Global Solutions), and is used to control the operations of manufacturing companies.
BPDM BPDM, the Business Process Definition Metamodel, is a standard being established by the Object Management Group (OMG). Pursuant to the OMG's policies, the metamodel is the result of an open process involving submissions by member organizations, following a Request for Proposals issued on January 31, 2003.
BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs) are messages which carry the Spanning Tree Protocol information. A switch sends a BPDU frame using the unique MAC address of the port itself as a source address, and a destination address of the STP multicast address 01:80:C2:00:00:00.
BPM (XM) XM 81 BPM is one of five channels in the Dance music cluster offered by XM Satellite Radio. It concentrates primarily on contemporary hit-driven Dance music product, which includes imports and cutting edge Club, House and Trance tracks.
BPM Energy BPM Energy is an energy drink produced by Coca Cola Bottlers Ireland and sold solely in Ireland. It was launched in 2003, and features two flavours, marketed as "BPM Hydrate" and "BPM Focus", which are citrus and red berry flavoured respectively.
BPP In complexity theory, BPP is the class of decision problems solvable by a probabilistic Turing machine in polynomial time, with an error probability of at most 1/3 for all instances. The abbreviation BPP refers to Bounded-error, Probabilistic, Polynomial time.
BPP Professional Education BPP Professional Education is a British professional education company, which specialises in professional training for law, accountancy, marketing, and finance. Centres include Waterloo and Holborn (London), Leeds (West Yorkshire), and Manchester.
BPX BPX is an acronym for the Business Process Expert which describes internal and external individuals or groups of people in an organization, who bridge the gap between IT and Business professionals, and serve as "mediators", "translators", "facilitators" or "marriage counselors".
BQM-74 Chukar The BQM-74 Chukar is a series of aerial target drones produced by Northrop. The Chukar has gone through three major revisions, including the initial MQM-74A Chukar I, the MQM-74C Chukar II, and the BQM-74C Chukar III.
BQP In computational complexity theory BQP stands for "Bounded error, Quantum, Polynomial time". It denotes the class of decision problems solvable by a quantum computer in polynomial time, with an error probability of at most 1/3 for all instances.
Br'er Bear Br'er Bear is a fictional character from the Uncle Remus folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris. In the 1946 Walt Disney-produced film Song of the South, the character is voiced by Nick Stewart.
Br'er Fox Br'er Fox is a fictional character from the Uncle Remus folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris. In the 1946 Walt Disney-produced film Song of the South, the character is voiced by James Baskett, who also portrayed the live-action character Uncle Remus.
Br'oZ Br'oZ is a short-lived Brazilian vocal group and boy band, formed in the second season of the reality show Popstars, broadcast by SBT in 2003. They released two albums during their career as a band, and spawned two huge hits in Brazil, Prometida (2003) and Vem Pra Minha Vida (2004).
Bra & Wessels B&W (Bra & Wessels) was a chain of Swedish department stores founded in 1976 by a merger of Wessels and Bra. The chain was bought by KF (Kooperativa Förbundet) in 1990 and in 2001 it changed names to Coop Forum.
Bra (Dragon Ball) Bra (or Bura; pronounced as "Bulla" in the FUNimation English dub) is a fictional character in the manga Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z and the anime Dragon Ball Z, as well as Dragon Ball GT. Her seiyū is Hiromi Tsuru.
Bra Boys The Bra Boys are a surfing group centered on the Sydney suburb of Maroubra. The group is named after the Board Riders Association (BRA) though it is often thought that it is after their suburb: "Marou-BRA.
Bra vibrationer (song) Bra vibrationer (English: Good Vibrations), written by Ingela Forsman and Lasse Holm, is a song which Swedish dansband, pop and country singer Kikki Danielsson sung when the song won the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1985 and finished third at Eurovision Song Contest 1985. There is also an English language version of Bra vibrationer, which is called "Right Night for Loving".
Bra'tac In the Stargate universe, Bra'tac [ˈbɹeɪˌtæk] (played by Tony Amendola) is a former First Prime of the Goa'uld System Lord Apophis; as of Season Nine, he is also a leader of the Progressive faction of the High Council of the Free Jaffa Nation and an important liaison with the Tau'ri. Master Bra'tac, as he is often called, is a legendary Jaffa warrior, Teal'c's former teacher and closest friend, and also a guardian to his son, Rya'c.
Braakman The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen. Over the centuries it steadily spread, drowning at least 15 villages between 1200 and 1601: see list of settlements lost to floods in the Netherlands#Drowned villages in the Braakman Then, people fought back.
Braal (band) Braal, a comedy rock band from the San Francisco Bay Area, has achieved a small but loyal fanbase, due primarily to their unique blend of humorous and often vulgar lyrics, catchy music that spans many musical genres from reggae to black metal, and a creative stageshow featuring cartoonish props, silly antics, and homemade costumes. Criticized as being a rip-off of the shock-rock band Gwar, Braal has struggled with schedule conflicts among band members and remains a "part-time" band.
Braal Castle Braal Castle, which rests near the River Thurso in Scotland, dates back to the mid-14th Century. Originally entitled the "Castle of Brathwell", it was granted by Robert II of Scotland to his son, David Stewart, and eventually fell under the ownership of George, Earl of Caithness.
Braastad Braastad (also known as Tiffon) is a brand of cognac. The name Braastad was introduced when Sverre Braastad (1879 – 1979) from Gjøvik, Norway, married the daughter of cognac producer Tiffon, Edith Rousseau, in 1913, and took over Tiffon, founded by Médéric Rousseau in 1875.
Braathens Flight 239 Braathens Flight 239 was a flight between Ă…lesund Airport, Vigra and Oslo Fornebu airport which crashed in Asker on December 23 1972 killing 40 people. It was the worst airline disaster involving a Norwegian airline until Partnair Flight 394, and the worst disaster on Norwegian soil until Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801.
Brač Brač (pronounced "bräch"; Latin Bratzis, Italian Brazza) is an island in the Adriatic Sea within Croatia, with an area of 396 km², making it the third largest island in the Adriatic, and thus the largest in Dalmatia. Its tallest peak, Vidova Gora, or Mount St.
Brabantian Brabantian or Brabantic (Brabantic: Braobans; ) is a dialect of the Dutch language spoken in the Dutch Province of North Brabant and in the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Flemish Brabant and small parts in the west of Limburg. In the northwest of Brabant (Willemstad), Hollandic is spoken.
Brabazon Committee The Brabazon Committee was a committee formed in 1943 to investigate the future needs of the British civilian airliner market. It was the result of concerns about the United Kingdom's commercial aircraft position after the end of the Second World War.
Brabham BT44 The Brabham BT44 was an F1 car designed by Gordon Murray, Brabham's chief designer. An update of the partially successful BT42 of 1973, the BT44 was a simple design with a standard Ford DFV/Hewland gearbox combination, but was very clean aerodynamically.
Brabham BT46 The Brabham BT46 was a Formula One racing car, designed by Gordon Murray for the Brabham team owned by Bernie Ecclestone for the 1978 Formula One season. The car featured several radical design elements, the most obvious of which was the use of flat panel heat exchangers on the bodywork of the car to replace conventional water and oil radiators.
Brabham BT55 The Brabham BT55 was a Formula One racing car designed by South African Gordon Murray for the Brabham team owned by Bernie Ecclestone. It used a BMW four cylinder turbocharged engine tilted over on its side to allow a clear supply of air to the rear wing.
Brabus BRABUS Weber is a high-performance aftermarket tuning company which specializes in Mercedes-Benz, Smart and Maybach vehicles, similar to Hamann which modifies Ferraris. Founded in 1977 by Bodo Buschmann, Brabus has since become the largest Mercedes tuner other than the DaimlerChrysler affiliate Mercedes-AMG.
Brabus Rocket Frankfurt, Germany, September 12th 2005-The world's fastest four-door coupe comes from Brabus and celebrates its world premiere at the Frankfurt Motor Show IAA 2005 in Frankfurt/Main. This automobile, built in small-series production based on the Mercedes CLS model series, is powered by a 730-hp / 537-kW 6.
Bracari The Bracari were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians and Calaicians or Gallaeci, living in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Minho, between the rivers Tâmega and Cávado, around the area of the modern city of Braga.
Brace (cricket) A brace is the act of taking two wickets with two successive deliveries of the ball. The term brace is not very commonly used, especially compared to a hat-trick, and after a bowler has taken two wickets in a row, it is more common to say that they are On a Hat-Trick.
Brace position To brace or crash position can be an instruction to prepare for a crash, such as on an aircraft, the instruction to brace for impact is often given if the aircraft must make an emergency landing over land or water.
Bracebridge dinner Bracebridge dinner is an annual Christmas event held at Yosemite's Ahwahnee Hotel. Started in 1927, the first year of operation for the Ahwahnee, the dinner is inspired by Squire Bracebridge's Yule celebration in a story from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving.
Bracebridge, Lincolnshire Bracebridge is a suburb of Lincoln, situated approximately two miles south of the city centre on the main A1434 Newark Road, stretching approximately from St Catherine's to Swallowbeck, and uphill to the more upmarket Bracebridge Heath
Braceby Braceby is a small hamlet in Lincolnshire, England, lying south of the A52 and west of the A15, south west of Sleaford. Many of the buildings here, especially those of 16th and 17th-century origin, include locally produced limestone in their construction as this was once a centre of quarrying and masonry.
Braceface Braceface was a Canadian animated series formerly broadcasted on Teletoon in Canada, and on the Disney Channel and ABC Family in the United States. It is produced by American actress Alicia Silverstone, and made by the Canadian company Nelvana.
Bracelet A bracelet is an article of jewelry which is worn around the wrist. Bracelets can be manufactured from leather, cloth or metal, and sometimes contain rocks, wood, and/or shells. Bracelets are also used for medical and identification purposes, such as allergy bracelets and hospital tags. In the late 1980s, "snap bracelets" -- felt-covered metal bracelets that curved around one's wrist when gently hit against it -- were a popular fad.

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