Bo
Encyclopedia
People
- Bo (given name)Bo (given name)Bo is a Swedish/Danish masculine given name, derived from an Old Norse nickname, bua, meaning "to live". A variant of Bo is the Swedish Bosse. Bo is uncommon as a surname...
, name origin, plus people with the name - Bo (surname), name origin, plus people with the surname
- Bo (Chinese name)Bo (Chinese name)Bo is the romanization of several Chinese family names including 薄 bó, 柏 Bó/Baí, 波 Bō, 伯 Bó, etc. Among these names, 薄 bó is relatively common...
, Chinese family names
- Bo (Chinese name)
- Bo people (China)Bo people (China)The Bo people are a small minority population in Southern China, famous for their hanging coffins.The Bo people dominated their area for some four centuries, but were massacred by the Ming army and were thought to be extinct...
, extinct minority population in Southern China famous for hanging coffins - Bo people of Laos, see List of ethnic groups in Laos
- Bo language, extinct language spoken by the Bo people in Laos
- Bo (tribe)Bo (tribe)The Bo were a Great Andamanese people. The last Bo was named Boa Senior, who died at age 85 in late January, 2010. She was the last person who knew the Aka-Bo language. The Bo were one of a dozen Andamanese peoples...
of the Andaman Islands- Their extinct Aka-Bo languageAka-Bo languageThe Bo language, Aka-Bo , is an extinct Great Andamanese language, of the Northern group. It was spoken on the west central coast of North Andaman and on North Reef Island of the Andaman Islands in India...
- Their extinct Aka-Bo language
- Robert Belinsky, Major League Baseball player
Medicine
- Bacterial overgrowth, medical disorder of malabsorption
- Bowel obstructionBowel obstructionBowel obstruction is a mechanical or functional obstruction of the intestines, preventing the normal transit of the products of digestion. It can occur at any level distal to the duodenum of the small intestine and is a medical emergency...
- Bronchiolitis obliteransBronchiolitis obliteransBronchiolitis obliterans , also called obliterative bronchiolitis and constrictive bronchiolitis , is a rare and life-threatening form of non-reversible obstructive lung disease in which the bronchioles are compressed and narrowed by fibrosis and/or inflammation...
Math and science
- BO, in mathematics, the classifying spaceClassifying spaceIn mathematics, specifically in homotopy theory, a classifying space BG of a topological group G is the quotient of a weakly contractible space EG by a free action of G...
of the orthogonal groupOrthogonal groupIn mathematics, the orthogonal group of degree n over a field F is the group of n × n orthogonal matrices with entries from F, with the group operation of matrix multiplication... - In chemistry and physics, the Born–Oppenheimer approximation
Transportation
- BO, the reporting marks for the Baltimore and Ohio RailroadBaltimore and Ohio RailroadThe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which...
- BO, IATA airline code for Bouraq Indonesia AirlinesBouraq Indonesia AirlinesBouraq Indonesia Airlines, often shortened to Bouraq Airlines or just Bouraq, was an airline headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, which operated mostly domestic passenger flights out of its bases at Jakarta Airport and Balikpapan Airport....
- BO, UIC classification for the railroad locomotive wheel arrangement 0-4-00-4-0Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-4-0 represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven...
in the Whyte notation, consisting of two independently powered axles and hence four wheels
Language and country codes
- bo, the language code for Standard TibetanStandard TibetanStandard Tibetan is the most widely used spoken form of the Tibetan languages. It is based on the speech of Lhasa, an Ü-Tsang dialect belonging to the Central Tibetan languages. For this reason, Standard Tibetan is often called Central Tibetan...
in ISO 639-1 - BelarusBelarusBelarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
(BO), FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram country code - BoliviaBoliviaBolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
(BO), WMO and ISO 2-letter country code- .bo.bo.bo is the Internet country code top-level domain for Bolivia. It is administered by ADSIB, As of February 2011, the NIC was offering a registration fee of about $40 USD per year or 280 $Bs for third-level domain and $140 USD per year or 980 $Bs for second level domain.Registration is at the...
, ccTLD for Bolivia
- .bo
Organizations
- Biarritz OlympiqueBiarritz OlympiqueBiarritz Olympique Pays Basque is a French professional rugby union team based in the Basque city of Biarritz, Aquitaine which competes in the Top 14 and the Heineken Cup...
(BO), French rugby union club - Business Objects (company)Business Objects (company)SAP Business Objects is a French enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence . Since 2007, it has been a part of SAP AG. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers worldwide in its final earnings release...
- Beneficial ownerBeneficial ownerBeneficial owner is a legal term where specific property rights in equity belong to a person even though legal title of the property belongs to another person. Black's Law Dictionary...
Culture
- Body odorBody odorBody odor or body odour, sometimes colloquially abbreviated as B.O., is the smell of bacteria growing on the body. The bacteria multiply rapidly in the presence of sweat, but sweat itself is almost completely odorless to humans....
- Box officeBox officeA box office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through an unblocked hole through a wall or window, or at a wicket....
- Böhse OnkelzBöhse OnkelzThe Böhse Onkelz were a German rock group that existed from 1980 to 2005. Although being ignored by the mass media for their controversial past, since Viva los tioz in 1998 almost every album reached number one on the German album charts. According to record certifications and additional sources...
, German rock band - Bo (film)Bo (film)Bo is a 2010 Belgian film directed by Hans Herbots based on the novel Het engelenhuis by the Belgian author Dirk Bracke. It tells the story of a sixteen-year-old girl, Deborah , who, in an attempt to escape from the triviality of her life in the suburbs of Antwerp, becomes involved in high-end...
, Belgian film, directed by Hans Herbots
Software
- Call of Duty: Black OpsCall of Duty: Black OpsCall of Duty: Black Ops is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch, published by Activision and released worldwide on November 9, for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii consoles, with a separate version for Nintendo DS developed by n-Space. Announced on April 30, 2010,...
, a first-person shooterFirst-person shooterFirst-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...
video game - Back OrificeBack OrificeBack Orifice is a controversial computer program designed for remote system administration. It enables a user to control a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system from a remote location. The name is a word play on Microsoft BackOffice Server software.Back Orifice was designed with...
, remote administration software
Places
- BőBo-People:*Bo , name origin, plus people with the name*Bo , name origin, plus people with the surname**Bo , Chinese family names*Bo people , extinct minority population in Southern China famous for hanging coffins...
, village in Hungary - Bø (disambiguation), various places in Norway
- Bo, Sierra LeoneBo, Sierra LeoneBo is the second largest city in Sierra Leone and the largest city in the Southern Province. It lies about 164 miles south-east of Freetown and had a population 149,957 in the 2004 census, with a current estimate is 231,494 . The city serve as the capital and administrative center of Bo District...
, a city - Bo-KaapBo-KaapThe Bo-Kaap is an area of Cape Town, South Africa formerly known as the Malay Quarter. It is quintessentially a Township, situated on the slopes of Signal Hill above the city centre and is an historical centre of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town...
, area of Cape Town, South Africa - Bo Rai, township and district in Trat Province, Eastern Thailand
- Le BôLe BôLe Bô is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
, commune in the Calvados département of France
Religion and culture
- Táin BóTáin BóThe Táin Bó, or cattle raid , is one of the genres of early Irish literature. The medieval Irish literati organised their work into genres such as the Cattle Raid , the Voyage , the Feast , the Wooing , the Conception and the Death , rather than the familiar but...
, genre of early Irish literature - BojagiBojagiBojagi or bo for short is a traditional Korean wrapping cloth. Bojagi are square and can be made from a variety of materials, though silk is common...
, or bo, Korean wrapping cloth - BōBo-People:*Bo , name origin, plus people with the name*Bo , name origin, plus people with the surname**Bo , Chinese family names*Bo people , extinct minority population in Southern China famous for hanging coffins...
, east Asian quarterstaff, staff weapon used in the martial art BōjutsuBojutsu, translated from Japanese as "staff technique", is the martial art of using a staff weapon called bō which simply means "staff". Staffs are perhaps one of the earliest weapons used by humankind. They have been in use for thousands of years in Eastern Asia. Some techniques involve slashing,... - Bo (parsha)Bo (parsha)Bo is the fifteenth weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the book of Exodus...
, fifteenth weekly Torah reading - Sacred figSacred FigThe Sacred Fig, Ficus religiosa, or Bo-Tree , Peepal is a species of banyan fig native to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, southwest China and Indochina...
, aka Bo tree, the sacred fig under which Siddhartha Gautama was enlightened - Kol BoKol BoKol Bo is a collection of Jewish ritual and civil laws, the meaning of the title being "all is in it"; who its author was has not yet been ascertained...
, Jewish ritual and civil laws
Fictional characters
- Bo DukeBo DukeBeauregard "Bo" Duke is a fictional character in the American television series The Dukes of Hazzard, which ran from 1979 to 1985. He was played by John Schneider. The name of Beauregard may have been chosen after the famous Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard.Bo and his cousin Luke Duke live in...
, one of the main characters from The Dukes of Hazzard television series - Face of BoeFace of BoeThe Face of Boe is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Not portrayed on-screen by an actor, the Face of Boe is a wholly mechanical effect, resembling in appearance a gigantic, wrinkly human-like head with, in place of hair, numerous tendrils which...
, Doctor Who character - Bo' Rai Cho, character from Mortal Kombat
- Little Bo PeepLittle Bo Peep"Little Bo Peep" or "Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 6487.-Lyrics:As with most products of oral tradition, there are many variations to the rhyme...
, character from a nursery rhyme - Bo Peep, a character from the Toy StoryToy StoryToy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI. The film was directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen...
series. - Bo BradyBo BradyBeauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera, Days of our Lives, the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under head-writer Margaret DePreist, the role was originated by actor Peter Reckell on May 2, 1983. Robert Kelker-Kelly briefly stepped into the role...
, popular and long serving character from Days of Our Lives - Bo, what everyone calls an orphan named Boniface in Cornelia Funke's novel, The Thief LordThe Thief LordThe Thief Lord is a children's novel written by Cornelia Funke. It was published in Germany in 2000 and translated into English by Oliver Latsch in 2002 for The Chicken House, a division of Scholastic publishing company...
- Bo, a cartoon character in Muse magazine
- Bo Sinclair, a character in the movie, House of Wax (2005 film)House of Wax (2005 film)House of Wax is a 2005 horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. It shares the name of a 1953 horror film, which was a remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum. It was released in theaters on May 6, 2005 to negative reviews, but a financial success...
Other
- Bankon languageBankon languageBankon is a Bantu language spoken in the Moungo department of the Littoral Province of southwestern Cameroon. It has a lexical similarity of 86% with Rombi which is spoken in the nearby Meme department of Southwest Province....
, also known as Bo, Abo, Abaw, a language in Cameroon - Bo (dog)Bo (dog)Bo is the pet dog of the Obama family, the First Family of the United States. Bo is a neutered male Portuguese Water Dog. President Barack Obama and his family were given the dog as a gift after months of speculation about the breed and identity of their future pet...
, Portuguese Water Dog belonging to Barack Obama - Bo' Selecta!Bo' Selecta!Bo' Selecta! is a British sketch show written and performed by Leigh Francis, known for its often deeply surreal, abstract toilet humour, which lampoons popular culture. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and ran for three series between 2002 and 2004, spawning several spin-offs...
, British comedy - BABOBABOBA:BO is a 2008 South Korean film. Based on a popular webcomic, the film was directed by Kim Jeong-kwon, and stars Cha Tae-hyun and Ha Ji-won in the lead roles.- Plot :...
, also BA:BO, 2008 South Korean film - Blood Omen: Legacy of KainBlood Omen: Legacy of KainBlood Omen: Legacy of Kain is a cult top-down action-adventure game developed by Silicon Knights and published by Crystal Dynamics...
, first in the Legacy of Kain video game series - Bo (film)Bo (film)Bo is a 2010 Belgian film directed by Hans Herbots based on the novel Het engelenhuis by the Belgian author Dirk Bracke. It tells the story of a sixteen-year-old girl, Deborah , who, in an attempt to escape from the triviality of her life in the suburbs of Antwerp, becomes involved in high-end...
, a Belgium film starring Ella-June Henrard as an underage escort; directed by Hans Herbots.
See also
- Pages that begin with "Bo"
- BOH (disambiguation)
- B&O (disambiguation)