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BOM
BOM might be an acronym or abbreviation for: Base Object ModelBergen Ocean ModelBid-O-MaticBill of materialsBillings ovulation methodBoard of ManagersBoard of MedicineBook of MormonBureau of Meteorology, AustraliaByte Order MarkBody of Minds (band)BOM, the IATA airport code for Chhatrapati Shivaji ..
Boma
For the acronym, see Boma (acronym). The port town of Boma (1984 pop. 197,617) in Bas-Congo was the capital city of the Belgian Congo (the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1 May 1886 to 1926, when it was moved to Léopoldville (since renamed Kinshasa). A port and railhead, it export..
Bomaderry, New South Wales
Bomaderry is a town in the Shoalhaven council district area of New South Wales, Australia. It is on the north shore of the Shoalhaven River, across the river from Nowra (which is the main town in the area after Kiama and Wollongong). It is the terminus of the South Coast railway line, which is pa..
Bomaderry (Nowra) railway station, New South Wales
Bomaderry (Nowra) is a CityRail railway station on the South Coast railway line. It serves the suburb of Bomaderry, which is a suburb of Nowra but on the northern side of the Shoalhaven River. The line was intended to be built across to Nowra proper, but the bridge was used for vehicle traffic ins..
Boman Delgado
Boman Delgado (ボーマン・デルガド) is a video game character from the Rival Schools series. An American student at Pacific High School, he is a preacher in training and he believes that violence is against the principles of God. Contents 1 History1.1 Rival Schools1.2 Proj..
Boman Irani
Boman Irani (born 1962) is an actor of Indian Film Industry Bollywood. He started his career as a photographer, but soon expanded to theatre with a first cameo in Alyque Padamsee's Roshni and a double role opposite Pearl Padamsee in Raell Padamsee's Family Ties. He made his Bollywood film debut..
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. It is located in /System/Library..
Bomarc Missile Program
Bomarc missile launch The Bomarc Missile Program was a joint United States of America-Canada effort between 1957 and 1971 to protect against the USSR bomber threat. It involved the deployment of tactical stations armed with Bomarc missiles along the east and west coasts of North America and ..
Bomarsund
Bomarsund can refer to: Bomarsund, a fortress in the Åland IslandsBomarsund, a village in Northumberland in England This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to poin..
Bomarsund, Åland
Bomarsund is a 19th century fortress in Sund on the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea. It was built in 1832 by Russia but destroyed twenty two years later in 1854 in Crimean War by a British-French fleet. In the Treaty of Paris 1856, the entire Åland Islands were demilitarized, which is a status t..
Bomarsund, Northumberland
Bomarsund is a village in Northumberland, in England. It is situated to the north of Bedlington. The village grew around a coal pit opened in 1854 and named after the battle at the fort of Bomarsund in Sund, Åland. It is now home to the Northumberland Brewery. External links [link] ..
Bomarzo
Bomarzo is also a film by Michelangelo Antonioni Bomarzo is a town and comune of Viterbo province (Lazio, central Italy), in the lower valley of the Tiber. It is located at 15 kilometers from Viterbo and 68 from Rome. Contents 1 History2 Park of the Monsters3 Reference4 Exter..
Bomarzo (Ginastera)
Bomarzo is an opera in two acts by Alberto Ginastera to a Spanish libretto by Manuel Mujica Laínez, based on his 1962 novel. First performance: Opera Society of Washington, Washington D.C., 1967. ..
Bomarzo (Mujica Laínez)
Bomarzo is a novel by Manuel Mujica Laínez written in 1962, later adapted by its author to an opera libretto set by Alberto Ginastera. The opera won the Pulitzer Prize for both collaborators. It is set in the eerie and surrealistic Italian Renaissance town and palace of Bomarzo and concerns the mo..
Bomassa
Bomassa is a town in the northern Republic of Congo, lying on the Sanga River and the border with the Central African Republic. It is known for its local rainforests, home to a wide variety of large mammals. There have been repeated calls for its immediate area to be designated a national park. ..
Bomas of Kenya
Bomas of Kenya is a tourist village in Langata, Nairobi. Bomas (homesteads) displays traditional villages belonging to the several Kenyan tribes. It was established by the government in 1971 as a subsidiary company of Kenya Tourist Development Corporation as a tourist attraction. It also wanted to..
Boma (acronym)
During the colonial era in Africa, BOMA stood for British Overseas Management Administration. The term has since been adopted into several vernacular languages of former British colonies in East Africa (for example Chichewa and Chitumbuka in Malawi) to mean government in general, or locations of gov..
Boma (Ghost in the Shell)
Boma (ボーマ Bōma) is a fictional character in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell anime and manga. Boma's name can be romanized in several ways as Bommer, Boumer, Bouma or Borma. Background Boma is Section 9's resident explosives specialist, as shown several times during [[List of Ghost i..
Boma (restaurant)
Boma (aka Boma - Flavors of Africa) is a restaurant in Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge in the Walt Disney World Resort. Boma features African style cooking in a buffet setting. The selection features items from fifty different African countries. The 270-seat restaurant is designed to resemble an ope..
Bomb
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. The Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, also known as Mother Of All Bombs, produced in the United States. A bomb is an explosive device that, although not containing more energy than ordinary fuel, except in the case of a nuclear weapon, generates..
Bomba
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Bomba is one of Puerto Rico's most famous musical styles. Although there is some controversy surrounding its origin, most agree that it is a largely African music. The rhythm and beat are played by a set of hand drums and a maraca. Dance is an integral par..
Bombaby the Screen Goddess
Bombaby the Screen Goddess refers to the fictional charecter created by Slave Labour Graphics, and based upon an avatar of the goddess Mumbadevi. Contents 1 Credits2 Plot summary3 Accolades4 See also Credits Written by Antony Mazzotta. Plot summary Sangeeta Mukherjee is th..
Bombacaceae
The name Bombacaceae is a botanical name at the rank of family and, as is true for any botanical name, [[wiktionary:circumscription|circumscription]] and status of the taxon varies with taxonomic point of view. The family name is based on the genus Bombax. Recent phylogenetic research has shown ..
Bombacoideae
Herbaceous or woody plants; leaves alternate,commonly palmately lobed, with small and caducous stipuules; hermaphrodite, actinomorphic flowers; calyx of 5 sepal united at the base, accompanied frequently by an epicalyx (involucel); corolla of 5 free petals; androecium of numerous stamens, typicall..
Bombacopsis
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Bombacopsis quinata
"Pochote" redirects here. For , see . A relatively common timber tree of western Costa Rica, pochotes bear large, stubby thorns on their trunk and branches, and are often planted as living fenceposts, with barbed wire strung between them. It can also be found in the Central American dry forest of ..
Bombah Point
Bombah Point is in Myall Lakes National Park on the mid north coast of New South Wales, (Australia). Traditionally aboriginal groups would use this, the narrowest crossing point on the 4 lake system, to move from summer hunting grounds in the hills towards Barrington Tops to winter grounds on the co..
Bombaiyer Bombete
Bombaiyer Bombete is a thriller film directed by Sandip Ray based on the story of the same name by Satyajit Ray. Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu - a sidekick of Feluda - has been invited to Mumbai to watch the shooting of a film being made on a novel written by him. Once in Mumbai, he, along with ..
Bombala, New South Wales
Bombala ([36°55′S 149°14′E]) is a town and local government area in the Monaro region of south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 500 kilometres south of the state capital, Sydney, and 80 kilometres south of the town of Cooma. The name derives from an Abo..
Bombali District
Bombali District Statistics Population 2004 320,995 Male Population 2004 154,128 Female Population 2004 166,867 Land Area (sq. KM) 7,800 Number of Chiefdoms 14 Number of Provisional Households 49,179 Number of Primary Schools 280 Primary School Enrolment 7..
Bombard
Bombard may refer to: Bombard (weapon), a type of late medieval siege weapon.Bombard (music), a medieval instrument, the forerunner of the bass oboe.Alain Bombard, a French sailor who crossed the Atlantic on a rigid-hulled inflatable boat with no water or food.Bombard Tower, a type of medieval tower..
Bombarda
Bombarda is a type of weighted float used in rod and reel fishing. The main line is passed through the bombarda. The end of the main line is tied to a swivel, to the other end of the swivel a three to six foot terminal line with hook is tied. The bombarda when cast, sinks slowly, at the same time,..
Bombarde
The bombarde , or bombard (in Breton) is a folk musical instrument from Brittany and Cornwall that is a cross between an oboe and a conical-bored pipe chanter (the part of the bagpipe upon which the player creates the melody). The bombarde is blown by the mouth; the reed is held between the lips. ..
Bombarde (Siege Weapon)
The Bombarde was a large-caliber, front-loading, siege gun, that was first noted and sketched in a French historical text around 1380. It used heavy rocks as ammunition. ..
Bombardier
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Bombardier Inc. (IPA /bɔ̃baʁdje/) is a Canadian company, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec. It is a large manufacturer of regional aircraft, business..
Bombardier (air force)
For other uses, see Bombardier (disambiguation). A bombardier, in the United States Army Air Forces and United States Air Force, or a bomb aimer, in the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces, was the crew member of a bomber responsible for assisting the navigator in guiding the plane to ..
Bombardier (disambiguation)
Bombardier is a Canadian company. Bombardier may also be: Bombardier (rank), a rank equivalent to corporal used in some artillery corpsBombardier (air force), a crew member on a bomber aircraftBombardier beetle, one of many types of insect of family Carabidae that expel noxious chemicals from spec..
Bombardier (rank)
Bombardier is a military rank used in Commonwealth countries for non-commissioned officers (NCO) United Kingdom Bombardier (Bdr) and Lance-Bombardier (LBdr or L/Bdr) are British Army ranks used in the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery instead of Corporal and Lance-Corporal respectively. ..
Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit
Where most trains have a driver’s cab, ART Mark II trains give passengers a large picture window through which they can see where the train is going. This train above is on the Kelana Jaya Line in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Advanced Rapid Transit or ART is the current name given to a metro sy..
Bombardier Aerospace
Bombardier Aerospace is a division of the Bombardier group and the third largest aerospace workforce (behind Boeing and Airbus) and the fourth largest in yearly delivery of commercial airplanes (behind Boeing, Airbus and Embraer). The aerospace division was launched with the acquisition of Canadair..
Bombardier Badge
Bombing Aviator Badge Bombardier Badge The Bombardier Badge was a military badge of the United States military which was issued between the years of 1918 and 1947. The decoration was intended to recognize the military training and qualification required by those service members who wer..
Bombardier beetle
Bombardier beetles are ground beetles (Carabidae) in the tribes Brachinini, Paussini, Ozaenini, or Metriini - more than 500 species altogether - that are most notable for the defense mechanism that gives them their name: They can fire a mixture of chemicals from special glands in their posterior. ..
Bombardier BiLevel Coach
A BiLevel coach in service with Toronto's GO Transit. Bombardier BiLevel coaches are passenger carriages designed to carry up to 360 passengers for regional railways. These carriages are easily identifiable; they are double-decked and are shaped like elongated octagons. The BiLevel coaches wer..
Bombardier BRJX
The Bombardier BRJX, or Bombardier Regional Jet eXpansion, was a project for a larger regional jet than the Canadair Regional Jet. Instead of 2+2 seating, the BRJX was to have a wider fuselage with 2+3 seating, and underwing engine pods. It was projected to seat 80 to 120 passengers, abutting the sm..
Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet
A Skywest CRJ-200 photographed from the ramp of Cherry Capital Airport (KTVC). The Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) (originally the Canadair CL-600-2B19) is a small airliner manufactured by Bombardier based on the Canadair Challenger business jet. It is, or has been, in service with a..
Bombardier Challenger
The Canadair Challenger business jet is a family of mid-sized jets produced by Bombardier Aerospace. The original Challengers were designed by Bill Lear as the LearJet 600 Bombardier Challenger 600 series : CL-600 - CL-601 - CL-604 The Canadair Regional Jet is a derivative of the business jet turn..
Bombardier Challenger 300
Bombardier Challenger 300 The Bombardier Challenger 300 is a super-mid-sized jet capable of traversing trans-continental distances. The project was launched at the Paris Air Show on July 13, 1999, at which time it was called the Bombardier Continental. After an extensive rebranding exercise, ..
Bombardier Challenger 600
The Challenger 601 is used as a transport by the Canadian Forces. The Bombardier Challenger is a family of business jets designed by Bill Lear and produced first by Canadair until that company was bought by Bombardier Aerospace in 1986. Contents 1 Development2 Variants2.1 CL-..
Bombardier Challenger 605
The Bombardier Challenger 605 aircraft is the newest addition to the Bombardier Challenger family of business jets. Successor of the CL-604, the 605 presents a redesigned cabin and an upgraded state of the art avionics suite. ..
Bombardier Challenger 850
The Bombardier Challenger 850 aircraft is the newest addition to the Bombardier Challenger 800 series of business jets. Based on the success of the CRJ200, the 850 presents a state of the business aircraft. ..
Bombardier CSeries
The Bombardier CSeries was a new family of 100-seat regional jets scheduled to enter service in 2010. As of January 31, 2006, the project has been indefinitely suspended. Contents 1 Suspension of Program2 Background3 Specifications4 Related content4.1 Related development..
Bombardier CX-100 Cars
Bombardier CX-100 Cars are used on the Light Rapid Transit for the Bukit Panjang LRT Line in 1999. These cars are similar to the ones used at Singapore Changi Airport’s Skytrain system in the early 1990s, jointly built by Westinghouse and Adtranz (acquired by Bombardier). Most of the new fea..
Bombardier Double-deck Coach
The Bombardier Double-deck Coach is a passenger car used by various European railways. The current generation of double-deck coaches can be run at speeds up to 160 km/h. Depending on their configuration, each coach can seat 100 to 150 passengers. The ancestry of these coaches can be traced back t..
Bombardier Global 5000
The Bombardier Global Express 5000 is a slightly shortened version of its bigger brother, the Global Express XRS. ..
Bombardier Global Express
The Bombardier BD-700 Global Express is an ultra long range corporate and VIP high speed jet which has also been modified for military missions. Bombardier began studies in 1991 and the aircraft was officially launched in 1993. First flight occurred on October 13 1996. Contents 0.1 Global ..
Bombardier Guided Light Transit
Guided Light Transit (also referred to by its French name, Transport sur Voie Réservée) (TVR) is a public transport system manufactured by Bombardier Transportation and used in the French cities of Nancy and Caen. Though both these cities refer to their networks as ‘tramways on tyres’ (or ru..
Bombardier Recreational Products
Bombardier Recreational Products or BRP is a Canadian company, which was founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942 at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec. As of April 30 2003 it had 7,600 employees working in several countries, including the United St..
Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Bombardier group. Bombardier Transportation is the world’s largest company in the rail equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Electrostar EMU TRAXX electric locomotive Talent DMU Flexity Swift LRV Th..
Bombardier Voyager family
The Bombardier Transportation "Voyager" family, classes 220, 221 and 222 are high speed diesel multiple units. The class 220 and 221 are known as Voyagers (Trademark of Virgin Trains), and the Class 222s as Meridians (Midland Mainline) or Pioneers (Hull Trains). ..
Bombardment
''This article is about the military attack form. For information about the Dodgeball-like game see Pin Guard. A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire directed against fortifications, troops or towns and buildings. In its strict sense the term is only applied to the bombardment of defenceless ..
Bombardment of Algiers
This article or section is incomplete and may require expansion and/or [Cleanupcleanup]. Please improve the article, or discuss the issue on the [[:|talk page]]. Bombardment of Algiers. Photogravure of a painting by T. Whitcombe, after a plan by Captain Sir James Brisbane RN The B..
Bombardment of Kagoshima
The Bombardment of Kagoshima, Illustrated London News, 7 November 1863. The Bombardment of Kagoshima, also known as the , took place in August 1863. The British Royal Navy bombarded the town of Kagoshima in retribution after the Namamugi Incident of 1862 in which a British merchant was murdere..
Bombardment of Shimonoseki
Captured battery at Shimonoseki, 1864. The Bombardment of Shimonoseki (下関戦争, Shimonoseki sensō) occurred at Shimonoseki during the late shogunate period (Bakumatsu, 1853-67) in early September 1864. In reprisal for attacks by the Choshu clan on foreign ships passing through the Kanm..
Bombard (music)
The name bombard, in various forms, was also given to a medieval musical instrument (bumhart, pumhart, pommer), the forerunner of the bass oboe or schalmey. At the present day, Breton peasants use a small primitive oboe called the bombarde, with eight holes but no keys. Original text from the..
Bombard (weapon)
A bombard is a type of medieval cannon or mortar, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls. The modern term bombardment derives from this. A notable example of a bombard is the large Mons Meg weapon, built around 1449 and used by King James II of Scotland. Mons Meg was capable o..
Bombard Cannon
Bombard Cannons were very large caliber heavy artillery pieces used in the industrial age. They hurled large, explosive shells designed to devastate buildings and other structures. They were used in the 15th century ..
Bombard Tower
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Bombarral
Bombarral (pron. IPA /bõ.βɐ.'ʁaɫ/) is a Portuguese village in Leiria's district, Centre Region and West subregion. Its average population is around 5,500 inhabitants. It is the headquarters of Bombarral County (concelho), with 90.44 km² of area and 13,325 inhabitants (2001 values), subdivide..
Bombastes Furioso
Bombastes Furioso, subtitled A Burlesque Tragic Opera, was written in 1810 by William Barnes Rhodes (sometimes credited as Thomas Barnes Rhodes). The first authorized printed edition was published in 1822. It is a drama with comic songs, that satirizes the bombastic style of other tragedies tha..
Bombastium
Gyro Gearloose holding a stick of bombastium. Bombastium is a fictional element which is not in the periodic table. Atomic number and atomic symbol are unknown. Bombastium, mentioned the first time by Carl Barks in 1957 (Uncle Scrooge No. 17), is claimed to be the rarest element in the world. ..
Bombax
Bombax is a genus of three to eight species of trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Indian Subcontinent, tropical Southeast Asia, northern Australia, and tropical Africa. Common names include silk cotton trees, semul, simul, simal, red cotton trees, or Indian kapok trees. Bomb..
Bombax ceiba
Bombax ceiba, like other tree from genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree or tree cotton. The tropical tree is with straight tall truck and its leaves are deciduous in winter. Red flowers with 5 petals were born in the spring before green leaves. Small husks raped contain fibres like co..
Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway
The Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway (BB&CI) was a company incorporated in 1855 to undertake the task of constructing a railway line between Bombay and Surat in India. BB&CI completed the work in 1864. The first suburban railway in India was started by BB&CI started between Virar and a stat..
Bombay, New York
Bombay is a town in Franklin County, New York, USA. The population was 1,192 at the 2000 census. The town was named after Bombay in India by an early settler. The Town of Bombay is in the northwest part of the county, south of United States and Canada border. Contents 1 History2 Ge..
Bombay (cat)
Bombay Bombay cat. Country of origin United States Breed standards (external links) [AACE], [CFA], [ACFA], [CCA], [ACF] Contents 1 Origins2 Characteristics3 Personality4 External links Origins Bombay is used to r..
Bombay (disambiguation)
Bombay, India is the former name of the city Mumbai.Bombay State is the name of a former state in India, partitioned in 1960 into Gujarat and Maharashtra. It was previously a province known as Bombay Presidency in British India.Isle of Bombay is the name of one the Seven islands of Bombay that was ..
Bombay (film)
See Bombay (disambiguation) for other uses. Bombay (1995) is a Tamil film by Mani Ratnam, starring Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala, with music composed by A. R. Rahman. The film met with a strong reception upon release. It was subsequently dubbed in Hindi and Telugu. The film is centred aroun..
Bombay and Moira Railroad
Initially incorporated as the Saratoga & St. Lawrence RR. Began operations on December 27 1888, from Moira to Bombay, New York. Reincorporated on March 31 1898, as the Bombay & Moira Railroad. Abandoned in 1900, purchased by Grand Trunk Railway and torn up for scrap. There has been zero developm..
Bombay Beach, California
Bombay Beach sign along Highway 111 Bombay Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California, United States. The population was 366 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Demographics2 Geography3 General Info4 External links Demographics As of the census&#..
Bombay Blasts
Bombay has had multiple explosions that could be referred to as the Bombay Blasts: For the 1944 accident involving the Freighter SS Fort Stikine see Bombay Explosion (1944)For the 1993 terrorist attack see Bombay bombings (1993)This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of arti..
Bombay Boys
Bombay Boys (1998) is an unorthodox comedy film written and directed by the Indian director Kaizad Gustad. It follows the adventures of three young men in modern-day Mumbai (or Bombay). The boys are of Indian origin, but were all raised in the West. Krishna Sahni (played by Naveen Andrews) is an asp..
Bombay Castle
Bombay Castle is one of the oldest defensive structures built in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The current castle is a structure built by the British on the site of a manor built by a Portuguese nobleman Garcia de Orta. Orta had leased the island of Bombay from the King of Portugal between 1..
Bombay City Improvement Trust
The Bombay City Improvement Trust (CIT) was created on December 9, 1898, in response to the Mumbai plague epidemic of 1896. It was created through an Act of the Parliament. The Municipal Corporation and the government handed over all vacant lands to this body. The CIT undertook a host of measures to..
Bombay Company
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Bombay Dreams
Bombay Dreams on Broadway, New York City Bombay Dreams is a Bollywood-themed musical. The music for Bombay Dreams was created by A. R. Rahman, lyrics by Don Black. The plot was written by Meera Syal and it was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The London production opened in 2002. The music..
Bombay duck
The Bombay duck or bummalo (Harpadon nehereus, Bengali: bamaloh, Gujarati: bumla, Marathi: bombil) is, despite its name, a lizardfish. It is native to the waters between Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and Kutch in the Arabian Sea, and a small number are also found in the Bay of Bengal. The fish is often ..
Bombay Dyeing
Bombay Dyeing (full name: The Bombay Dyeing & Mfg. Co. Ltd., established 1879) is the flagship company of the Wadia Group, engaged mainly into the business of Textiles. Its current chairman is Nusli Wadia. Bombay Dyeing has been in news, apart from other things, for various controversies surroundi..
Bombay Explosion (1944)
The Bombay Explosion (or Bombay Docks Explosion) occurred on April 14, 1944, in the Victoria Dock of Bombay (now Mumbai) when SS Fort Stikine carrying a mixed cargo of cotton bales, gold, ammunition including around 1,400 tons of explosive caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts, scatteri..
Bombay Flying Club
The Bombay Flying Club is the oldest flying club in India. It was founded by JRD Tata, the father of Indian civil aviation in 1929. It is located in the Juhu aerodrome, Bombay (Mumbai). It has two Cessnas and one Piper Super Cub plane. Despite the city's change of name, the club retains the old ..
Bombay furniture
The term "Bombay" or "blackwood" is applied to a rather extensive class of furniture pieces originally manufactured in the city of Bombay and in the towns of Surat and Ahmedabad in India. The wood used is Shisham or blackwood (Dalbergia), a hard-grained dark-colored timber which with proper treatme..
Bombay Gymkhana
Picture of the Bombay Gymn. Bombay Gymkhana is one of the premiere sports gymkhanas in the city of Mumbai, India. It is located in the South Bombay area and was originally built as a British-only club. The gymkhana grounds lie in the southern end of the Azad Maidan. The ground itself is on l..
Bombay High
Bombay High is an offshore oilfield 160 km off the coast of Mumbai (Bombay). As of 2004, it supplies 14% of India's oil requirement and accounts for about 38% of all domestic production. Note: Despite the name of Bombay being changed to Mumbai, the name of the rigs remains Bombay High. The oil..
Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court The Bombay High Court was inaugurated on August 14, 1862. The work on the present building of the High Court was commenced in April 1871 and completed in November 1878. It was designed by British engineer Col. J.A. Fuller. The first sitting in this building was on January..
Bombay Hills, New Zealand
The Bombay Hills are a spur of the Hunua Ranges to the south of Auckland in New Zealand's North Island. They are located 40 kilometres southeast of Auckland, close to the town of Pukekohe. State Highway 1 here reaches its highest point between Auckland and Tirau in the eastern Waikato Region, 134 ki..
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge ..
Bombay Hospital
Bombay Hospital is a hospital in Mumbai, India. It was founded in 1950 by R. D. Birla.[link] It has 830 beds, 110 of which are in the critical care and recovery area. It has 22 operating theatres, 3200 full time employees, 240 eminent consultants and 200 resident doctors. In the R D Birla ..
Bombay Kamayan
In Hinduism, Bombay Kamayan is a goddess of disease and pestilence, worshipped only in Gaya, India. ..
Bombay Light Horse
The Bombay Light Horse was raised in 1885 and formed part of the Cavalry Reserve in the British Indian Army. The regiment was disbanded following India's independence in 1947. A light horse regiment was roughly equivalent to a battalion in strength (~ 400 men) and its troops typically fought as mou..
Bombay mix
Bombay mix is the name used in the UK for a traditional Indian snack known as chiwda or chevda (चिवडा) in India, or chanachur in Bangladesh. The English name is from the city of Bombay, now called Mumbai. It consists of a variable mixture of spicy dried ingredients, which may include frie..
Bombay Mutiny
The Bombay Mutiny was the mutiny of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay (Mumbai) harbour on 21 February 1946. The crews of several Royal Indian Navy ships mutinied as part of the demands for early independence from the British Empire. After the Second World War, three officers of the Indian National Ar..
Bombay Natural History Society
The Bombay Natural History Society is one of India's oldest organisations engaged in the study of biodiversity and was originally founded by a group of naturalists for the purpose of sharing notes and encouraging each other. On September 15, 1883 eight residents of Bombay met in the then Victoria ..
Bombay Presidency
The Bombay Presidency was a former province of British India. At its greatest extent, Bombay Presidency comprised the present-day state of Gujarat, the western two-thirds of Maharashtra state, including the regions of Konkan, Desh, and Kandesh, and northwestern Karnataka state of India; It also incl..
Bombay Quadrangular
The Bombay Quadrangular was an influential cricket tournament held in Bombay (now known as Mumbai) from 1912 to 1936. At other times it was known variously as the Presidency Match, Bombay Triangular, and Bombay Pentangular. Contents 1 Presidency Match2 Bombay Triangular3 Bombay Qua..
Bombay Ravi
Bombay Ravi or Ravi Bombay is one of the under-recognized melody makers of Indian cinema. Before he ventured into the malayalam language, he had a successful stint in Hindi film music. Though he never attained as much fame as his luminous contemporaries did, his songs like "Chaudvin ka chand ho" a..
Bombay Riots
Although numerous riots have occurred in the City of Mumbai, India (Bombay) since Independence, the Bombay Riots usually refers to the riots in Mumbai in 1992 and 1993. History The riots started as a result of communal tension prevailing in the city after the Babri Masjid demolition on 6 December ..
Bombay Samachar
The Bombay Samachar is the oldest continuously published newspaper in India. It is published in Gujarati and is one of the most trusted newspapers of Mumbai (earlier Bombay) History In 1822, the Mumbai Samachar (also known as Bombay Samachar) began publishing in Gujarati and English. It continues t..
Bombay Sapphire
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Bombay Scottish School
The Bombay Scottish School is a secondary, co-education school located in Mumbai, India. Contents 1 History2 School Campus3 Curriculum and extra-curricular activities4 Culture5 Hierarchy5.1 Dr. D. P. N Prasad5.2 Ms. Bose6 Student Office-bearers7 Scho..
Bombay State
Bombay Presidency in 1909, northern portion Bombay Presidency in 1909, southern portion The State of Bombay is a former state of India. During British rule, portions of the western coast of India under direct British rule were part of the Bombay Presidency. In 1937, the Bombay Preside..
Bombay Stock Exchange
The Bombay Stock Exchange The Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (formerly, The Stock Exchange, Mumbai; popularly called The Bombay Stock Exchange, or BSE) is the oldest stock exchange in Asia. It is located at Dalal Street, Mumbai, India. Bombay Stock Exchange was established in 1875. There are ..
Bombay Talkie
Bombay Talkie (1970) is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Plot synopsis Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal) is a British author who is researching the Bollywood ..
Bombay Talkies
Logo of Bombay Talkies The Bombay Talkies Limited (commonly known as Bombay Talkies), founded in 1934 in Malad, Bombay (now Mumbai), India by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani, was a high-tech movie studio of its time, with sound and echo-proof stages, laboratories and editing rooms, and preview t..
Bombay Times
The Bombay Times is a free supplement of The Times of India, in the Bombay region. It covers celebrity news, news features, international and national music news, international and national fashion news, lifestyle and feature articles pegged on news events both national and international that have..
Bombay to Goa
Bombay to Goa - An adventure / comedy Hindi movie made in 1972 starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Aruna Irani and Mehmood. The movie is known particularly for its catchy tunes. Storyline [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. The lives of Atmaram (..
Bombay Vikings
The Bombay Vikings were formed in 1994 in Stockholm, Sweden. The Bombay Vikings consist of musicians Mats Nordenborg, Neeraj Shridhar and Oscar Soderberg . The band was born out of a common interest – a love for Indian melodies - be they in Hindi films or Classical Music. In India Bombay Vikings ..
Bombazine
Bombazine, or bombasine, is a fabric originally made of silk or silk and wool, and now also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone. Good bombazine is made with a silk warp and a worsted weft. It is twilled or corded and used for dress-material. Black bombazine was once used largely for mourning we..
Bomba (band)
Bomba are an Australian funk and reggae band from Melbourne. Led by Nicky Bomba, they are renowned internationally for their "energetic live shows and passionate performances", although they are more popular at home. They have released 3 albums, the latest of which is Learn to Breathe. Contents 1..
Bomba (CH)
Bomba is a commune and town in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy Abruzzo · Communes of the province of Chieti Altino | Archi | Ari | Arielli | Atessa | Bomba | Borrello | Bucchianico | Canosa Sannita | Carpineto Sinello | Carunchio | Casacanditella | Casalanguida |..
Bomba (cryptography)
The Enigma cipher machine Enigma machine*Enigma rotor detailsCryptanalysis of the Enigma*Cyclometer*Perforated sheets*Bomba*BombeUltra The Bomba, or Bomba kryptologiczna (Polish for "Bomb" or "Cryptologic bomb") was a special-purpose machine designed about October 1938 by Polish Cipher Bureau c..
Bomba (disambiguation)
Bomba may refer to one of the following: Bomba, a musical style of Puerto Rico.Bomba, a musical style of Ecuador.Bomba, the Polish device for breaking the Enigma (1938).Bombe, the British version of the Polish device for breaking Enigma ciphers.Bomba, an Australian band.Tsar Bomba, the most powerf..
Bomba (Ecuador)
Bomba is an African derived musical form from the Chota Rivera area of Ecuador. Its origins can be traced back to Africa via the middle passage and the use of African slave labor during the country's colonial period. Africans brought to labor as slaves in Ecuador brought with them this music form h..
Bomba a Mano
Bomba a Mano (Italian meaning bomb by hand), is the Italian name for Hand grenade. The grenades typically take their name from their year of design, for example Mod 35 being from 1935. Second World War grenades Mod.35Impact fuzed offensive hand grenades produced by Breda, OTO Melara and SRCM, typic..
Bombe
The Bombe replicated the action of several Enigma machines wired together. Each of the rapidly rotating drums, pictured above in a Bletchley Park museum mockup, simulated the action of an Enigma rotor. The Bombe. The Enigma cipher machine Enigma machine*Enigma rotor detailsCryptanalys..
Bombelli (crater)
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Bomber
A bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground targets, primarily by dropping bombs. Strategic bombers are primarily designed for long-range strike missions against strategic targets such as supply bases, bridges, factories, and shipyards in order to damage an enemy's war effort. Examp..
Bomberger's Distillery
Bomberger's Distillery, later known as Michter's Distillery, was the oldest distillery in the United States. The complex, located near Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania represents the transformation of whiskey distilling from an agricultural enterprise into a large-scale industry. The still house, ware..
Bomberman
Bomberman A bomb explodes in the Bomberman arcade game. Bomberman is a strategic, maze-based computer and video game franchise originally developed by Hudson Soft. Contents 1 Gameplay2 Legacy3 Powerups3.1 Player powerups3.2 Life powerups3.3 Infection pow..
Bomberman: Act Zero
Bomberman: Act Zero is the next game in the Bomberman video game series for the Xbox 360. Based on initial images released in Famitsu Magazine, the game features a complete and highly controversial redesign of the Bomberman character. Instead of being a cute little robot (i. e. Shirobon,) the..
Bomberman (1983 game)
Bomberman is an arcade-style maze-based video game developed by Hudson Soft. It was first released in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum/MSX in Japan and ZX Spectrum in Europe (under the English language title Eric and the Floaters, Spanish Don Pepe Y Los Globos). In the game, a character named Bomberman wan..
Bomberman 64
Bomberman 64 is a video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. The game was released in Europe on November 27, 1997 and released in North America on December 1 of the same year. The game is rated E by the ESRB. Bomberman 64 is the first 3-D game within the Bom..
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack is a video game sequel to Bomberman 64 released in 2000. Game play In many aspects, the game plays identical to Bomberman 64. There is no jumping, there are pump-able bombs, bomb kicking is possible and the player has the ability to remotely detonate bombs. However..
Bomberman DS
Bomberman DS is a video game for the Nintendo DS handheld console in which the player takes the role of a Bomberman, featuring wireless multiplayer for up to eight with a single cartridge. Contents 1 Gameplay2 Items3 Multi-player stages4 References5 Criticism6 Exte..
Bomberman Generation
Bomberman Generation is a video game released for the Nintendo GameCube on June 4, 2002. It was followed up by Bomberman Jetters. Contents 1 Story2 Gameplay3 Trivia4 External links Story The evil Hige Hige Bandits scattered six elements throughout six worlds. It is Bomberma..
Bomberman Hardball
A screenshot of Baseball mode. Bomberman Hardball is a Video Game for the PlayStation 2 which takes a departure from the previous games in the Bomberman series, and throws in sports games along with the traditional Battle mode. Contents 1 Gameplay1.1 Battle1.2 Baseball1.3&nb..
Bomberman Hero
Bomberman Hero is an action video game sequel to Bomberman 64 for the Nintendo 64. Bomberman Hero is more advanced in terms of gameplay, as well as having more levels, bosses, weapons, and character moves. However, it lacks multiplayer and therefore focuses on the single player action. Story The ..
Bomberman II
Bomberman II is a video game developed and published by Hudson Soft. It was initially released in Japan for the Famicom on June 28, 1991 and subsequently in the United States on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1992. After being framed by Black Bomberman, accused of robbing a bank and th..
Bomberman Jetters
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Bomberman Jetters (game)
Bomberman Jetters is a video game for the GameCube system. It is an adaptation of the anime series Bomberman Jetters. Plot Mujoe and The Hige Hige Bandits, frustrated with Bomberman repeatedly stopping their plans at galactic conquest, enact a plan to do away with him and his kind forever; Dark S..
Bomberman Land
Bomberman Land (also referred to as Bombermanland) is a game that features a collection of various, Wii remote-based minigames. The game is developed and published by Hudson Soft and is scheduled to be released for the Nintendo Wii on December 1, 2006 [link]. Game demo shown at E3 ..
Bomberman Land 2
Bomberman Land 2 is a video game of the action genre released in 2003 by Racjin. The game was only released in Japan. ..
Bomberman Max
Bomberman Max is a video game released for the Game Boy Color on May 14 2000. The game was followed by Bomberman Max 2 which was released for the Game Boy Advance on June 4, 2002. There are two versions of Bomberman Max: Red Challenger and Blue Champion. In Red Challenger the playable character is ..
Bomberman Max 2
Bomberman Max 2 is a video game released for the Game Boy Advance on June 4 2002. The game was preceded by Bomberman Max which was released for the Game Boy Color on May 14, 2000. As with Bomberman Max, there are two versions of Bomberman Max 2: Blue Advance and Red Advance. As in the first, in Blu..
Bomberman Online
Bomberman Online (not to be confused with Online Bomberman) is a multiplayer game for the Sega Dreamcast. It adds new ideas to the original formula with online play, new playing fields, and other extras. Multiplayer Game Modes Survival Rule:This is the original Bomberman battle mode. The winner i..
Bomberman Story
Bomberman Story is a puzzle video game for the Nintendo DS. It was announced at the Nintendo Conference 2005. It will possibly be able to connect to the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection service, because Hudson announced that the next DS Bomberman would feature online play. External links [Mag..
Bomberman Tournament
Bomberman Tournament was a game in the long standing Bomberman series for the GBA. The game contains a fully realized multiplayer battle mode between linked Game Boy Advances. The player and up to three friends can compete in any of the game's eight multiplayer battle arenas, each of which has it..
BomberNanimon
BomberNanimon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Champion Level Invader Digimon. He resembles Nanimon, but is grey, does not have the same goatee, and has fiery red hair. Contents 1 Abilities1.1 Attacks2 Appearances2.1 Digimon Savers Abilities BomberNanim..
Bomberos
Bomberos (music group)Bomberos (Chilean firefighters) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..
Bomberos (Chilean firefighters)
In Chile, firefighters are called "Bomberos". They are volunteers. They finance the acquisition, maintenance and operation of their buildings and equipment (including firetrucks) rather than rely upon government allocations. Bomberos the name given for the Fire Fighters in most of the Spanish spea..
Bomberos (music group)
Bomberos, a Norwegian based group, playing what they like to call "obscene, disgusting punk", was formed in 2002. Current members consist of Sven-Erik ‘Maniac’ Kristiansen and Bård ‘Faust’ Eithun, both known for their involvement in the black metal bands Mayhem and Emperor respectively. C..
Bombers (David Bowie song)
Bombers is a song written by David Bowie. It was recorded in 1970 and intended for the album Hunky Dory, but was replaced by "Fill Your Heart". The song was recorded at the same sessions as "Conversation Piece". It was also released on an ultra rare promo single by RCA in the US in November 1971, b..
Bomber (album)
Bomber is Motörhead's third released (fourth recorded) album. It was recorded in 1979, the same year as Overkill. The album reached number 12 on the UK charts and brought some of Motörhead's most popular songs, like "Bomber", "Dead Men Tell No Tales" and "Stone Dead Forever". It also featured ..
Bomber (computer virus)
Bomber (also known as CommanderBomber) is a DOS polymorphic computer virus known for its technique of "patchy infection". Contrary to the usual method of infecting executables (which is to append virus body to the executable and to change the entry point), it inserts several fragments ("patches") of..
Bomber (disambiguation)
The word bomber has several uses: A bomber is a person or machine who delivers bombs: A bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground targets.A suicide bomber is a bomb-carrying person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death.In the British Army during the First World War, ..
Bomber (novel)
The novel Bomber is a roman à clef written by Len Deighton and published in the UK in 1970. It is the fictionalised account of the events of June (sic), 1943 in which an RAF bombing raid on the Ruhr area of western Germany goes wrong. In each chapter, the plot is advanced by seeing the progress of ..
Bomber (song)
"Bomber" is a song by the heavy metal band Motörhead. Released in 1979, in 7" vinyl pressings, the first 20,000 copies in blue, thereafter in black. It is covered with (B-side's) "Over The Top", a previously unreleased version. The title song is taken from the Bomber album, the song also makes an..
Bomber B
Bomber B was a German project dating to just before the start of World War II to develop a second-generation high-speed bomber that would replace all medium and heavy bombers then in service with the Luftwaffe. The RLM was so hopeful about the outcome that more modest projects were generally cancell..
Bomber Bowl
Bomber Bowl is a football field in Frederick, Oklahoma where the Bombers play football. ..
Bomber Brigade
The Bomber Brigade (Polish: ) was a Polish World War II unit of the Polish Air Force. It took part in the Polish Defensive War of 1939 as the main aerial reserve of the commander in chief and was used for bombing enemy units in central Poland. It was similar in shape to the Pursuit Brigade. It was c..
Bomber Command
Bomber Command is an organizational military unit, generally subordinate to the air force of a country. Many countries have a "Bomber Command", although the most famous ones were in the United States and Britain. A bomber command is generally composed of bombers (i.e. planes used to bomb targets). ..
Bomber destroyer
Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a bomber destroyer. A bomber destroyer is a former type of fighter aircraft dedicated to destroying enemy bomber aircraft. It is similar in purpose to the interceptor, but differs primarily in form – while interceptors tend to be small, fast-climbing planes, bomb..
Bomber squadron
A bomber squadron is a group of bomber aircraft that deploy bombs of numerous types upon their designated targets. ..
Bomber stream
The bomber stream was a tactic developed by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command to overwhelm the German aerial defences of the Kammhuber Line during World War II. The Kammhuber Line consisted of three layers of zones about 32 km long (north-south) and 20 km wide (east-west).[[Ci..
Bomber zee
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Bombesin
Bombesin is a 14 amino acid peptide originally isolated from the skin of a frog. It has two known homologues in mammals called neuromedin B and gastrin releasing peptide. It works on the gastrointestinal tract neuroendocrine hormone and it stimulates gastrin release from G cells. It activates three..
Bombetoka Bay
Bombetoka Bay is a bay on the northwestern coast of Madagascar near the city of Mahajanga, where the Betsiboka River flows into the Mozambique Channel. Numerous islands and sandbars have formed in the estuary from the large amount of sediment carried in by the Betsiboka River and have been shaped ..
Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem
In mathematics, Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem (sometimes simply called Bombieri's theorem) is a major result of analytic number theory, obtained in the mid-1960s. It is named for Enrico Bombieri and A. I. VinogradovA.I. Vinogradov. The density hypothesis for Dirichlet L-series. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR ..
Bombie the Zombie
Bombie the Zombie is a fictional character created by Carl Barks for the Walt Disney Company's Donald Duck comic books. He first appeared in the story "Voodoo Hoodoo" in Donald Duck Four Color #238. In that story, he gave a voodoo doll to Donald Duck, thinking that Donald was Scrooge McDuck. Appa..
Bombinatoridae
Bombinatoridae are often referred to as Fire-bellied toads because of their brightly colored ventral sides which show that they are highly toxic. This family includes two genera, Barbourula and Bombina, both of which have flattened bodies. Bombina are warty, semiaquatic toads most noted for the b..
Bombinatrices
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Bombina orientalis
The Oriental Fire-bellied Toad, (Bombina orientalis) is a small (4 cm, 2") semi-aquatic toad species. Contents 1 Description2 Habitat3 Reproduction4 In captivity5 References Description Oriental fire-bellied toads are the most easily recognizable species of Bombina. Th..
Bombing of Augsburg in World War II
The Bavarian city of Augsburg, Germany, was bombed twice by the RAF during World War II. 1942 The Augsburg air raid on 17 April 1942 was one of the most daring of World War II. The first squadron to take delivery of the 4-engined Avro Lancaster was No. 44 Squadron based at RAF Waddington, followe..
Bombing of Belgrade in World War II
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details. The bombing of Belgrade happened twice during World War II, first by the Luftwaffe in 1941, and later by..
Bombing of Braunschweig in World War II
The Bombing of Braunschweig (or Brunswick) in World War II on the night of 14/15 of October 1944 by No. 5 Group Royal Air Force (RAF) marked the high point of the destruction of Henry the Lion's city in the Second World War. The air raid, part of Operation Hurricane, caused a massive firestorm becau..
Bombing of Chongqing
The Bombing of Chongqing (February 18 1938 - August 23 1943) was a Japanese terror bombing campaign against the Chinese provisional capital of Chongqing that lasted 5 1/2 years. A conservative estimate places the number of bombing runs at more than 5000, with more than 11500 bombs dropped, the majo..
Bombing of Cologne in World War II
The City of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids[#endnote_262] by the Allies during World War II. During the war the Royal Air Force ("RAF") bombed Cologne more than thirty one times. The most notable raid occurred on the night of 30/31 May 1942 when Cologne was the target of th..
Bombing of Dresden in World War II
The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) between February 13 and February 15, 1945 remains one of the more controversial events of World War II. Historian Frederick Taylor says: "The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic qualit..
Bombing of Frampol
The Bombing of Frampol happened during the Polish Defence War of 1939. On September 13, 1939, the town of Frampol (Poland), with a population of 3.000 and without any military or industrial targets, nor any Polish Army defenders, was practically annihiliated by German Luftwaffe bombing practice. ..
Bombing of Guernica
People in destroyed Guernica. Spanish Civil War Alcázar – Mérida – Badajoz – Sierra Guadalupe – Cape Espartel – Madrid – Corunna Road – Málaga – Jarama – Guadalajara – Guernica – Brunete – Belchite – El Mazuco – Cape Cherchell – Teruel – Cape Palos – E..
Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
The large port city of Hamburg was very heavily bombed many times by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. During one of the attacks in July 1943 a firestorm was created that caused many thousands of casualties. Contents 1 Battle of Hamb..
Bombing of Kassel in World War II
The city of Kassel in Germany was severely bombed during World War II. More than 10.000 civilians died during area attacks on the medieval city center. Kassel is in the northern part of the federal state of Hessen, between Frankfurt (190 km south), and Hannover (160 km north). In the early 1940s it..
Bombing of Kobe in World War II
On March 17th, 1945, three hundred and thirty-one American B-29 bombers launched a firebombing attack against the city of Kobe, Japan. Approximately 8,841 of the city's residents were killed in the resulting firestorms, which destroyed an area 3 square miles in size and included 21% of Kobe's urban..
Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II
During the latter stages of World War II Pforzheim, a town in south west Germany was bombed a number of times. The largest raid, and one of the most devastating area bombardments of the war was carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) on the evening of February 23 1945. About one fifth of the town'..
Bombing of Plaza de Mayo
The bombing of Plaza de Mayo is an event in Argentine history. On June 16, 1955, starting at 12:40 PM, a fleet of 34 Argentine Navy airplanes (22 North American, five Beechcraft, four Gloster Meteor, and three Anfibio Catalina), on a flight meant to repair a perceived offense to the national flag, ..
Bombing of Prague in World War II
The Bombing of Prague occurred during the end of World War II (February 14, 1945) when the US Air Force carried out an air raid over Prague. The city was the capital of Czechoslovakia and (since the Nazi occupation in 1939) the main city of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. According to Ameri..
Bombing of Rotterdam
The bombing of Rotterdam was a terror bombardment by German forces on 14 May 1940, in the initial phases of World War II, when they invaded the Netherlands. Contents 1 The situation on the ground2 The command situation3 The bombing4 At Ground Zero The situation on the ground ..
Bombing of Sofia in World War II
The Bulgarian capital of Sofia suffered a series of Allied bombing raids during World War II, from late 1943 to early 1944. Bulgaria declared a token war on the United Kingdom and the United States on 13 December 1941. The Southern Italy-based Allied air forces extended the range of their strateg..
Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple
In the early morning hours of October, 12, 1958, an explosion tore through the side wall of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, a Reform Jewish temple located on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, known simply as "the Temple." Fifty or so sticks of dynamite had been ignited. The synagogue was o..
Bombing of Tokyo in World War II
The U.S. bombing of Tokyo during World War II took place between 1942 and 1945. Early raids B-29 bombers were used to drop hundreds of thousands of tons of explosives onto Japanese cities during the war. The first raid on Tokyo was the Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942 when sixteen B-25 Mitch..
Bombing of Vietnam's dikes
Late in the Vietnam War, the United States of America considered a policy of systematically bombing a system of dikes in Vietnam's Red River Delta that protected several hundred thousand people from having their land overrun by water. The threat of the bombing was used as a leveraging tool agains..
Bombing of Warsaw in World War II
Survivor of the bombing of Warsaw (1939) The Bombing of Warsaw in World War II refers both to the terror bombing campaign of Warsaw by the Luftwaffe during the siege of Warsaw in the September Campaign in 1939 and to the German bombing raids during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. About 1150 bombi..
Bombing of Wieluń
The bombing of Wieluń refers to the terror bombing of the Polish town of Wieluń by the German Luftwaffe on September 1, 1939. This air raid started about five minutes before the shelling of Westerplatte, which has traditionally been considered the beginning of World War II. The bombing started a..
Bombing of Würzburg in World War II
During World War II, on March 16, 1945, 89% of the city was laid to ruins by a British Royal Air Force bombing raid. Most of the main artistic highlights survived, while the baroque city center was irrecoverably damaged. During the next 20 years, the buildings of historical importance would be pain..
Bombing of Zadar in World War II
The bombing of Zadar by the Allied Forces lasted from November 1943 to October 1944 during the Second World War. Although other large Croatian cities endured the same destruction in similar operations, Zadar's stands out because of the number of attacks (30 documented, while Italian accounts claim o..
Bombing range
A bombing range is an area used for testing explosive ordnance and practicing to accurately direct them to the target. Bombing ranges are used for munitions that either explode or produce too much destruction to use at a shooting range, such as kinetic energy penetrators or very large caliber bullet..
Bombing Run
Contents 1 Short Synopsis2 Overall3 Ball handling and point system:3.1 Bombing Run Playing Styles4 Bombing Run Maps4.1 Popular nwBR Maps4.2 iBR Maps Short Synopsis Bomging Run (abbreviated BR) can best be described as Unreal-style football where the player gets ..
Bombing Run Rock Band
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Bombing the Bay
Released in 1995 on Sessions Records. Split 7" with Swingin' Utters. Track listing "Values Here [Dag Nasty cover]" - 02:17 ..
Bombmon
Bombmon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise. He is a Slime Digimon with a bomb-shaped body. His tail fuse is ignited the moment he hatches and gradually grows shorter but since he Digivolves before the fuse is gone, nobody knows what will happen if the fuse is spent. A quick-temper..
Bombogenesis
Bombogenesis is a meteorological event. It is rapid cyclogenesis. ..
Bombom, São Tomé and Príncipe
Bombom --> Statistics Province/Island: Príncipe District: Pagué Location: 1.6833/1°41" N lat.7.4/7°24" E long. Bombom is a village in the northern part of the island of Príncipe in São Tomé and Príncipe. Bombom is located north of the island and the provincial capital Santo..
Bombon
Two places are called Bombon : Bombon, Camarines SurBombon, Seine-et-Marne, a commune of Seine-et-Marne, in France. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point..
Bombon, Camarines Sur
Bombon is a 5th class municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 12,843 people in 2,335 households. Barangays Bombon is politically subdivided into 8 barangays. San AntonioSan FranciscoSan Isidro (Pob.)San Jose (Pob.)Pagao (Sa..
Bomboniere
Bomboniere (Italian) also known as "favors," are gifts given out on special occasions to the guests. They traditionally contain five sugared almonds which symbolise health, wealth, happiness, fertility and long life. ..
Bombooflat
Bombooflat is a census town in Andamans district in the state of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Bombooflat had a population of 6790. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Bombooflat has an ave..
Bombo legüero
Bombo legüero is an Argentine drum traditionally made of a hollowed tree trunk and covered with cured skins of animals such as goats, cows or sheep. It derives instead from the old European military drums, and uses a similar arrangement of hoops and leather thongs and loops to tighten the drumheads..
Bombo Radyo Philippines
Bombo Radyo Philippines is the largest radio network in the Philippines in terms of number of radio stations spanning across 20 major provinces. The network is owned and operated by the Iloilo based Florete Group of companies. Mr. Rogelio Florete Sr. as the President and CEO. Contents 1 ..
Bombo railway station, New South Wales
Bombo is a CityRail railway station on the South Coast railway line. The station serves the adjacent beach, Bombo Beach, not much else. The station has 1 side platform, but has a platformless crossing loop and an extra siding, both of which are often used for passing freight trains. There is a qua..
Bombs, Towns and Chords
redirect [[Template:music-importance]] Bombs, Towns and Chords is the debut EP by the punk band From Plan To Progress. Tracklisting Whitney Houston We Have A ProblemWe Have Too Much of EverythingSome People Think Long Song Titles Are Pretentious But I Quite Like ThemBombs, Towns and ChordsRunning..
Bombshell
This article is about the term bombshell. For the 1933 movie, see Bombshell. The term bombshell is a forerunner to the sex symbol and originally used to describe popular female sex icons. Bombshells are a special kind of sex symbol. Whereas nearly any notable entertainer can qualify as a sex symb..
Bombshell (film)
Bombshell is a 1933 film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone. Plot summary [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Movie star Lola Burns (Harlow) is angry with her stud..
Bombshell (song)
Bombshell is a hardcore song by the ska-core band Operation Ivy, written by lead vocalist Jesse Michaels for the LP Energy. Overview Meaning and Musical Style "Bombshell" is about a man who meets a girl at a bar and by the end, he dosen't remember her name. Similar to "Hoboken", "Bombshell" is qu..
Bombsight
A bombsight is a device used by bomber aircraft to assist in the task of accurately dropping bombs on a ground target. Although it could be as simple as a set of crosshairs, the term generally refers to more complicated devices that allow correction for various factors that affect the ballistic tra..
Bombsite
After World War II many European cities were severely damaged and in need of urban renewal. London and other British cities which had suffered the Blitz were pock-marked with bombsites, vacant lots covered in the rubble of destroyed buildings. Postwar children in urban areas share a common memory of..
Bombs & Butterflies
Bombs & Butterflies is the fourth studio album by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic. The band started recording the album in July of 1996 at John Keane's studion in Athens. The band held a CD release party one day prior to their Fox Theater New Years ever run on December 28, 1996 at Morton..
Bombs Away Dream Babies
Bombs Away Dream Babies is an album released by John Stewart on the RSO label in 1979. The album peaked at #10 on the Billboard pop chart. While Stewart had performed and recorded as a solo act and as the member of various groups for nearly 20 years, Bombs Away Dream Babies represented his first,..
Bombtrack
This article is about the type of rock song classified by its dramatic volume increase. For the 1994 Rage Against the Machine single, see Bombtrack (song). A bombtrack is a song most often found in rock music that begins with a low rumble or guitar riff then suddenly explodes into the first verse..
Bombtrack (song)
This article is about the Rage Against the Machine single. For the type of rock song, see Bombtrack. Bombtrack is the name of a song by Rage Against The Machine, from their self-titled debut album. Like many of Rage Against The Machine's songs, Bombtrack's lyrics discuss social inequality, proclai..
Bombus (software)
Bombus is a free software instant messaging client for the Jabber/XMPP protocol. It is written in Java, and runs on J2ME/MIDP capable cellular phones. Features Roster groupsRoster bookmarksMulti-user conferencesIgnore list and Privacy lists editorRegistration on servers and servicesList of alter..
Bombus terrestris
Bombus terrestris, the buff-tailed bumblebee or large earth bumblebee is a social bumblebee and one of the most numerous bumblebee species in Europe. The queen is 2–2.7 cm long, while the workers are 1½–2 cm. External links [Commercial bumblebee rearing information, lifecycle ..
Bombuzal
Bombuzal is a computer puzzle game produced by Tony Crowther (credited as Ratt in the game) for Imageworks. The game was released in 1988 for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64. It was also released in 1989 for MS-DOS and 1990 for the Super NES, with the American version renamed as Kablooey. Am..
Bombycoidea
Bombycoidea is the superfamily of moths described as Silkworms, emperors and relatives. Sources Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002 ..
Bombykol
Bombykol is a pheromone released by the female silkworm moth to attract mates. Discovered by Adolf Butenandt in 1959, it was the first pheromone to be characterized chemically. Butenandt named the substance after the moth's latin name Bombyx mori. [link] ..
Bombyliidae
Bombyliidae is a large family of flies with hundreds of genera, although their life cycles are not well known. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, thus are pollinators of flowers. They superficially resemble bees, thus are commonly called bee flies, and this may offer the adults some prote..
Bombylius
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Bombylius is a large genus of flies belonging to th..
Bombyx mori
For other senses of this word, see silkworm (disambiguation). The Silkworm (Bombyx mori, Latin: "silkworm of the mulberry tree") is the larva or caterpillar of a moth that is very important economically as the producer of silk. A silkworm's diet consists solely of mulberry leaves. It is native to ..
Bomb (band)
Bomb was a San Francisco-based rock band started in 1986 by singer/bassist Michael W. Dean, guitarist Jay Crawford, and drummer Tony Fag (Anthony Paul Short, A.K.A. Blind Tony Fag). Their first show was July 4, 1986, opening for Flipper . Bomb's sound was deep, hard rock with melodic guitars, rel..
Bomb (disambiguation)
A bomb is an explosive device. Bomb may also mean: Bomb! (expression)Lava bombWater bombBomb (symbol), used on Mac OS when a non-fatal error occursBomb kick, used in various codes of footballFailurediving method, a non-standard way of entering the water: in the fetal position bottom first, making ..
Bomb (symbol)
A Mac OS bomb screen. The Bomb icon is a symbol designed by Susan Kare that was displayed when a "classic" Macintosh operating system (pre-Mac OS X) program had an application crash. It was similar to a dialog box in Windows 9x that said "This program has performed an illegal operation and wil..
Bomb (Young Ones episode)
"Bomb" was the fourth episode of British sitcom The Young Ones. It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer, and directed by Paul Jackson. It was first aired on BBC2 on 30 November 1982. Characters As with all episodes of The Young Ones, the main four characters were student flatmates M..
Bomb bay
Some other uses of this term are correctly spelt Bombay. A bomb bay is an openable hatch in the floor of a bomber aircraft, that the bombs are dropped through. ..
Bomb Bee
Bomb Bee is an arcade game that was released by Namco in 1979. It is the sequel to Gee Bee, which was released in the previous year. Tips and Tricks Hitting the bottom paddle will restore any sets of bricks that have been completely cleared out. Occasionally the ball will get stuck in a very long..
Bomb disposal
US Soldiers removing landmines. Bomb disposal is the process by which hazardous devices are rendered safe. "Bomb disposal" is an all encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated, fields of military (Explosive Ordnance Disposal, EOD), public safety (Public Safety Bomb Disposal, ..
Bomb Factory
Bomb Factory is a recording studio and manufacturer of music plugins based in Los Angeles, California. Music studio Bomb Factory Studios features an extensive collection of vintage and historic equipment and musical instruments. Between 1996 and 1999, Bomb Factory was the host and benefactor invol..
Bomb Iraq
"Bomb Iraq" or "Bomb Iraq!" is a song which circulated on the Internet before the USA and the UK began to bomb Iraq in March 2003. The song was popularized by the Raging Grannies, an elderly and adamant anti-war contingent. The song is critical of war. The melody is the same as If You're Happy and Y..
Bomb It!
Bomb It is, put simply, a documentary on graffiti - an in-depth investigation of these controversial, subversive works of art which influence international youth culture in the 21st century. It features original interviews from around the globe, guerilla-style footage of graffiti vandals in actio..
Bomb Jack
Bomb Jack is a platforming arcade game that was released in 1984 by Tehkan. It spawned two sequels, Mighty Bomb Jack and Bomb Jack Twin. Contents 1 Plot and gameplay2 Ports3 Trivia4 External reference5 Clones Plot and gameplay The player controls Jack, a superhero who c..
Bomb Jack Twin
Bomb Jack Twin is a platforming arcade game that was released in 1993 by NMK. 2 players could play at the same time. It was the last in the Bomb Jack series. ..
Bomb kick
The Bomb kick also known as a Bomb, Garryowen or more commonly called the Up and Under, is the name given to a kick, much like the punt but which results in a small distance and a large height. The bomb is useful for both attacking and defensive tactics of games derived from rugby football: rugby le..
Bomb Shelter (Malcolm in the Middle episode)
Bomb Shelter is an episode from the TV series Malcolm in the Middle. Contents 1 Beginning2 Malcolm and Dance Classes3 Lois Trying to Win the Truck4 Hal and the Bomb Shelter5 Guest Cast Beginning In this episode, the family goes to the mall to buy Malcolm underwear. Whil..
Bomb the Bass
Bomb the Bass was the creation of the British musician Tim Simenon. His first single "Beat Dis" from the album Into the Dragon was a number two hit in the UK and was one of the first songs to introduce the mainstream to sampling culture (along with songs by M/A/R/R/S and S'Express). The song "Megab..
Bomb The Music Industry!
Bomb The Music Industry! is a musical collective from Baldwin, Nassau County, New York. They write, produce, record, and distribute all of their music under the leadership of lead songwriter and producer Jeff Rosenstock. Rosenstock and several other contributors are members of The Arrogant Sons Of..
Bomb The Rocks: Early Days Singles
Bomb The Rocks - Early Days Singles is an album by The 5,6,7,8's which was released in 2003. Tracklist "Bomb The Twist""Jane In The Jungle""Three Cool Chicks""Guitar Date""Woo Hoo""Dream Boy""Continental Hop""Jump, Jack, Jive""Smilly Willy""Mr. Lee""It's Rainy""Road Runner""My Boyfriend From Outer ..
Bomb the System
Bomb the System is a drama film written and directed by Adam Bhala Lough, which was released to film festivals in 2002 (see 2002 in film) and American theatres in 2005. It revolves around a group of graffiti artists living in New York City who decide to make a mark on the city (in graffiti, the p..
Bomb the Twist
Bomb The Twist is an album that was released January 11, 1996 by The 5,6,7,8's. Tracklist "Bomb The Twist""Jane In The Jungle""Three Cool Chicks""Guitar Date""Woo Hoo""Dream Boy" ..
Bomb threat
A bomb threat is generally defined as a verbal threat to detonate an explosive or incendiary device to cause property damage or injuries, whether or not such a device actually exists. Typically delivered by phone, or other telecommunication means, the great majority of such threats are the result of..
Bomb tower
The tower used in the Trinity test, 1945. A bomb tower is a lightly constructed tower, often 100 to 700 feet (30 to 210 meters) high, built to hold a nuclear weapon for an above ground nuclear test. The tower holds the bomb for the purpose of the investigation of its destructive effects (such ..
Bomb vessel
Bomb vessels attacking Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannon (long guns and carronades), but rather mortars mounted forward near the bow. Bomb vessels were ..
Bomb Voyage
Bomb Voyage is a villain in The Incredibles with a tiny cameo at the beginning of the movie. He is a recurring enemy of Mr. Incredible, as he is introduced, and by his language and design background (an accordion can be heard), it implies clearly that he is French. He was last seen in a tall buil..
Bomdila
Bomdila is the headquarters of West Kameng district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. Tourist attractions of Bomdila include Buddhist temples, craft centres, the district museum, and the sports complex. It is located at a height of 2430m to 2700m and has an alpine climate. It is largely in..
Bomen, New South Wales
Bomen is a northern suburb of Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales, Australia. The suburb is dominated by industrial enterprises including the city's abbatoir and livestock marketing centre (saleyards). The suburb is also home to Wagga Wagga's secondary (and original) railway station on the Great..
Bomere Heath
Bomere Heath is a village in Shropshire, England lying north of the county town of Shrewsbury and in between Baschurch and Harlescott. It is situated between the A528 and Berwick Road and is in the borough of Shrewsbury and Atcham. The village sports a newsagents, a post office, and a pair of pubs,..
Bomex
Bomex (US Grade) is a brand of borosilicate glassware, similar to Pyrex and Kimax in composition and in quality. It is generally regarded as tolerating thermal stress in the same manner as Pyrex & Kimax. Bomex (US Grade) is made in China for VEE GEE Scientific, Inc. and is sold into North Americ..
Bomfunk MC's
The Bomfunk MC's are a Finnish rap/electro act, formed in 1998. The group's front man is B.O. Dubb (formerly known as B.O.W., born Raymond Ebanks) and the main producer is Jaakko "JS16" Salovaara. The debut release was the 1999's album In Stereo (Sony Music) with the singles "Freestyler", "Uprockin..
Bomis
redirect [[Template:Sprotected]] Sylvia Saint in a Bomis T-Shirt Bomis is a dot-com company founded in 1996. Its primary business is the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and Tim Shell [[Citing sources citation needed]], a..
Bomi County
Bomi County County Flag Location Statistics Capital Tubmanburg Districts 3 [[ISO 3166-2:LR|ISO 3166-2]] LR-BM Bomi is one of Liberia's 15 counties. Tubmanburg is the county's capital. The county has a population of approximately 48570 and is divided into three districts: Clay, Swen ..
Bomi County, Tibet
Bomi County, Tibetan: ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་ Wylie kong po rgya mda' rdzong ) is a county of the Nyingtri Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, ..
Bomlitz
Bomlitz is a municipality in Soltau-Fallingbostel in Lower Saxony, Germany. ..
Bommanahalli
Bommanahalli is a town and a city municipal council in Bangalore district in the state of Karnataka, India. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Bommanahalli had a population of 201,220. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Bommana..
Bommasandra
Bommasandra is a census town in Bangalore district in the state of Karnataka, India. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Bommasandra had a population of 7570. Males constitute 58% of the population and females 42%. Bommasandra has an average literac..
Bommelerwaard
Part of the Dutch province of Gelderland, the Bommelerwaard is situated between three rivers: the Maas in the south(east), the Waal in the north and the Afgedamde Maas in the west. It is formed by the area of two municipalities: Zaltbommel and Maasdriel. ..
Bommersvik
Bommersvik is a school associated with the SSU located outside of Södertälje. Contents 1 Education2 History3 Managers4 culture5 symbolic value6 International conferences Education The school was formed because the SSU and the social democratic party wanted to..
Bomoh
Bomoh is the term for a witchdoctor in Malaysia. They are also known as pawang or dukun. Bomohs still operate today, often consulted for medical or personal reasons. Although the word is Malay, there are bomohs of all religions and races. Some bomohs use cemeteries to summon spirits to fulfill r..
Bomoseen Lake
Bomoseen Lake is a freshwater lake in the western part of the state of Vermont in the towns of Castleton and Hubbardton in Rutland County. It is the largest lake that lies entirely within the state's boundaries, with a surface area of approximately 9.6 km² (2,370 acres). The lake was formed by gla..
Bomp! Records
Bomp! Records is America's most dedicated indie label, featuring punk, pop, powerpop, garage, new wave, old school rock, and much more. Since 1974 Bomp! has introduced such artists as the Modern Lovers, Iggy & The Stooges, Stiv Bators & the Dead Boys, 20/20, Shoes, Devo, the Romantics, DMZ, the Zer..
Bompensiere
Bompensiere is a comune in the province of Caltanissetta in the south of Sicily, Italy. Sicily · Communes of the province of Caltanissetta Acquaviva Platani | Bompensiere | Butera | Caltanissetta | Campofranco | Delia | Gela | Marianopoli | Mazzarino | Milena | Montedoro | Mussomeli ..
Bomphiologia
Bomphiologia, also known as verborum bombus, is a rhetorical technique wherein the speaker brags excessively.Silva Rhetoricae (2006). [Bomphiologia] History The term verborum bombus is used by the sixteenth-century English rhetorician Richard Sherry in his 1550 book A treatise of Scheme..
Bompreço
Bompreço is a chain of supermarkets in Brazil. As of December 2005, Bompreço was owned by Wal-Mart. Bompreço operates mainly in northeastern Brazil, in special Bahia. Some of its shops are infamous for being slow, underfunded and unhigienic [[Citing sources citation needed] ..
Bom Despacho
Bom Despacho is a Brazilian city located in the state of Minas Gerais. It is located 156km from Belo Horizonte and has a population of around 50,000. ..
Bom Dia
Bom Dia (Portuguese for Good Morning) is the first album of the Portuguese band Pluto (band). It was released on 18 October 2004, entering straight to the 6th place of the Portuguese charts. Personnel Manel Cruz - vocals, guitarPeixe - lead guitarEduardo - bass guitarRuka - drums Track listing "E..
Bom Jardim de Goiás
Bom Jardim de Goiás is a small town and municipality in western Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 8,118 (2005 estimate) in a total area of 1,557 km². Bom Jardim is a large producer of cattle. Elevation: 386 metersBecame a city: 1953Postal code: 76245-000IBGE statistical microregion: Ara..
Bom Jardim de Minas
Bom Jardim de Minas is a city of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The name means Good Gardens of Minas. It is situated in the southern part of Minas Gerais and in the middle of the Mantiqueira Hills, at 1,200 meters high, which gives the city a mild climate. The only paved road that reaches Bom..
Bom Jesus Basilica
The Bom Jesus Basilica. The Bom Jesus Basilica (Portuguese: Basílica do Bom Jesus) is in Goa, India. The basilica holds the mortal remains of St Francis Xavier. The church is located in Old Goa, which was the capital of Goa in the early days of Portuguese rule, about 10km from the city of Pan..
Bom Jesus de Goiás
Bom Jesus de Goiás is a town and municipality in south Goiás state, Brazil. It is a large producer of soybeans. Population: 17,764 estimated in 2005Total area: 1,409 km²Elevation: 619 metersBecame a municipality: 1963Postal code: 75570-000IBGE statistical microregion: Meia Ponte Microregion ..
Bom Jesus dos Perdões
Bom Jesus dos Perdões is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The population is 15,088 (as of 2003). Geography The municipality is at an elevation of 770 m. Its latitude is 23.2/23°'08'06" S and the longitude is 46.46/46°'27'55" W. It covers an area of 108.83km². External lin..
Bom Jesus do Monte
Bom Jesus Bom Jesus do Monte is a Portuguese sanctuary in the city of Braga (North) dedicated to the "Good Jesus at the mountain." The church is notable for its long, baroque stair, designed in 1727 by the Archbishop of Braga. The sacred way to the church has fourteen stations of the cross, e..
Bom Jesus do Norte, Espírito Santo
Bom Jesus do Norte is a brazilian municipality in the state of Espírito Santo. Its estimated population in 2004 was of 9.874 inhabitants. ..
Bom language
The Bom language is an endangered language of Sierra Leone. It belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family and is particularly closely related to the Bullom So language. Most speakers are bilingual in Mende, and use of the Bom language is declining among members of the ethn..
Bom Sucesso de Itararé
Bom Sucesso de Itararé is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its coordinates are [24°19′04″S, 49°08′38″W]. The population in 2003 is 3,695 and the area is 133.53 km² The elevation is 950 m. ..
Bo McMillin
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Bo Mya
Bo Mya (born 1927) was a long-standing president of the Karen National Union (KNU), a political organisation of the Karen people of Myanmar, from 1976 to 2000, although even after he stepped down he remained a powerful figure in the Karen movement. He retired in 2004 from all public offices, due to ..

 

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