Blaise Compaoré: Jean-Baptiste Lingani and Capt. Henri Zongo—helped organize the coup and the resulting regime, and all held positions of leadership in the country. Compaoré served as minister of state at the presidency (1983–87), essentially making him second in command in the regime, and also as minister…

Houari Boumedienne was an army officer who became president of Algeria in July 1965 following a coup d’etat. Boukharouba’s service to Algeria began in the 1950s, during his country’s struggle for independence from France, when, after studying at al-Azhar University in Cairo, he joined the rebel

1996 Mount Everest disaster: Background and overcrowding: …Madness expedition, with guides Fischer, Anatoli Boukreev, and Neal Beidleman along with a Sherpa team and eight clients, including journalist Sandy Hill Pittman. Two other expeditions from Taiwan and South Africa, led by “Makalu” Gau Ming-ho and Ian Woodall, respectively, were also scheduled to summit on May 10 from the…

boule, deliberative council in ancient Greece. It probably derived from an advisory body of nobles, as reflected in the Homeric poems. A boule existed in virtually every constitutional city-state and is recorded from the end of the 6th century bce at Corinth, Argos, Athens, Chios, and Cyrene. It

Blida, town, northern Algeria. It lies on the southern edge of the Mitidja plain at the base of the Tell Atlas Mountains and is about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Algiers. French in character, the town is surrounded by orchards, trades in oranges and flour, and has light manufacturing. The Wadi

Henri de Boulainvilliers, count de Saint-Saire was a French historian and political writer who set forth a broad cultural conception of philosophical history that influenced intellectual developments in the 18th century. He was among the first modern historians to claim that historical studies can

restaurant: …believed to have been one A. Boulanger, a soup vendor, who opened his business in Paris in 1765. The sign above his door advertised restoratives, or restaurants, referring to the soups and broths available within. The institution took its name from that sign, and restaurant now denotes a public eating…

Georges Boulanger was a French general, minister of war, and political figure who led a brief but influential authoritarian movement that threatened to topple the Third Republic in the 1880s. A graduate of the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, he entered the army in 1856 and saw service in Italy,

Georges Boulanger was a French general, minister of war, and political figure who led a brief but influential authoritarian movement that threatened to topple the Third Republic in the 1880s. A graduate of the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, he entered the army in 1856 and saw service in Italy,

Nadia Boulanger was a conductor, organist, and one of the most influential teachers of musical composition of the 20th century. Boulanger’s family had been associated for two generations with the Paris Conservatory, where her father and first instructor, Ernest Boulanger, was a teacher of voice.

harbours and sea works: Breakwater design: …an outer covering of larger boulders, or armouring, to protect it from removal by the sea. The design of this outer armouring has fostered considerable ingenuity. The larger the blocks, the less likely they are to be disturbed, but the greater the cost of placing them in position and of…

Kalgoorlie-Boulder: …of the neighbouring towns of Boulder and Kalgoorlie in 1989, it is the principal settlement of the East Coolgardie goldfield, on the western fringe of the Nullarbor Plain and the Great Victoria Desert.

Boulder, city, seat (1861) of Boulder county, north-central Colorado, U.S., on Boulder Creek, at the base of the Flatiron Range of the Rocky Mountains, at an elevation of 5,354 feet (1,632 metres), 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Denver. Settled by miners in 1858, it was organized in 1859 and named

Colorado River: Economic development: …1928, when Congress passed the Boulder Canyon Project Act. The act authorized the construction of Boulder (now Hoover) Dam, a multipurpose water-storage project that was a major engineering feat of its time; since its completion in 1936, the dam and Lake Mead, which it created with its impounded waters, have…

Boulder City, city, Clark county, southeastern Nevada, U.S., overlooking Lake Mead, which is impounded by the Hoover Dam. Lying above the deep, narrow Black and Boulder canyons of the Colorado River on the Nevada-Arizona border, it was established in 1931 by the federal government as a residential

till, in geology, unsorted material deposited directly by glacial ice and showing no stratification. Till is sometimes called boulder clay because it is composed of clay, boulders of intermediate sizes, or a mixture of these. The rock fragments are usually angular and sharp rather than rounded,

Hoover Dam, dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, at the Arizona-Nevada border, U.S. Constructed between 1930 and 1936, it is the highest concrete arch-gravity dam in the United States. It impounds Lake Mead, which extends for 115 miles (185 km) upstream and is one of the largest artificial

Natalia Grossman: …of the leading competitors in bouldering. A standout from an early age, Grossman won her first world championship in 2021 at age 20. She also has excelled in lead climbing and competes in combined and speed events.

boule, deliberative council in ancient Greece. It probably derived from an advisory body of nobles, as reflected in the Homeric poems. A boule existed in virtually every constitutional city-state and is recorded from the end of the 6th century bce at Corinth, Argos, Athens, Chios, and Cyrene. It

boule, deliberative council in ancient Greece. It probably derived from an advisory body of nobles, as reflected in the Homeric poems. A boule existed in virtually every constitutional city-state and is recorded from the end of the 6th century bce at Corinth, Argos, Athens, Chios, and Cyrene. It

Today in History—March 28: The Labor Law That Shaped the Baguette: …the classic loaf was the boule: large, round, slow. It took time to prove, fold, stretch, knead, and—crucially—cool. A two-kilo boule baked at 4 AM would need hours to cool and set before it could be sliced.

sperm: …possess a gene known as Boule (BOULE), which functions solely in sperm production. The presence of this gene in sea anemones—very primitive life-forms—suggests that the ability to produce sperm evolved only once, roughly 600 million years ago. Although the gene’s function is highly conserved among animals, it has diverged to…

Verneuil process: …Verneuil, the process produces a boule (a mass of alumina with the same physical and chemical characteristics as corundum) from finely ground alumina (Al2O3) by means of an inverted oxyhydrogen torch that opens into a ceramic muffle. With slight modifications, this method is used to produce spinel, rutile, and strontium…

Boule de Suif, short story by Guy de Maupassant, originally published in Les Soirées de Médan (1880), an anthology of stories of the Franco-Prussian War. The popularity of “Boule de Suif” led to the author’s retirement from the civil service to devote himself to writing. It is one of his best

André-Charles Boulle was one of France’s leading cabinetmakers, whose fashion of inlaying, called boulle, or buhl, work, swept Europe and was heavily imitated during the 18th and 19th centuries. Multitalented, Boulle practiced as an architect, worked in bronze and mosaic, and designed elaborate

Marcellin Boule was a French geologist, paleontologist, and physical anthropologist who made extensive studies of human fossils from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East and reconstructed the first complete Neanderthal skeleton (1908) from La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France. His best-known work is

Marcellin Boule was a French geologist, paleontologist, and physical anthropologist who made extensive studies of human fossils from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East and reconstructed the first complete Neanderthal skeleton (1908) from La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France. His best-known work is

Boulemane, town, north-central Morocco. The town, located at an elevation of about 5,500 feet (1,700 metres) above sea level in the Middle Atlas (Moyen Atlas) mountains, is a market centre serving Amazigh (Berber) seminomads and is connected by road with Fès city (northwest) and al-Rachidia town

boules, French ball game, similar to bowls and boccie. It is thought to have originated about 1910, but it is based on the very old French game of jeu Provençal. Boules is played between two players or teams. Players take turns throwing or rolling a ball (boule) as close as possible to the target

deme: The bouletai (members of the Athenian Boule, or Council of Five Hundred) were selected from each deme in proportion to its size. Because the demes were natural districts in origin, their size varied considerably. There were about 150 demes in the 5th century bce and more…

Olympia: The remains of Olympia: The Bouleuterion, or council house, was the seat of the Olympic Senate. Lying just outside the Altis to the south, it was composed of two Doric buildings of different date but of identical oblong form with apsidal ends toward the west. In the rectangular court between…

Robin Williams: Boulevard (2014), in which he played a closeted gay man who befriends a male prostitute, was released after his death.

boulevard, broad landscaped avenue typically permitting several lanes of vehicular traffic as well as pedestrian walkways. The earliest boulevards were built in the ancient Middle East, especially at Antioch. Commonly a major axis in a city, the boulevard permits long picturesque views, the foliage

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, one of fourteen oil-on-canvas paintings by French artist Camille Pissarro of Boulevard Montmartre, one of Paris’s grandest thoroughfares. He painted this series of Parisian views between the winter and spring of 1897 from his rented room in the Grand

Tristan Bernard: …lawyer who wrote for the théâtre de boulevard, a genre meant to entertain middle-class Parisian audiences on Sunday afternoons.

Moscow: The inner city: …the Garden Ring and the Boulevard Ring (the latter forming a rough horseshoe north of the Moscow River around the Kremlin and Kitay-gorod) and in Zamoskvoreche, a largely residential district south of the river. Notable examples are the old university and the former meeting place of the assembly of nobles…

Tristan Bernard: …lawyer who wrote for the théâtre de boulevard, a genre meant to entertain middle-class Parisian audiences on Sunday afternoons.

Patrick Modiano: …Les Boulevards de ceinture (Ring Roads), won the French Academy’s Grand Prix du Roman. His novel Rue des boutiques obscures (1978; Missing Person)—a thriller in which a man searches for his own identity—won the Prix Goncourt.

Pierre Boulez was the most significant French composer of his generation, as well as a noted conductor and music theorist who championed the work of 20th-century composers. Boulez, the son of a steel manufacturer, majored in mathematics at the Collège de Saint-Étienne, where he also took music

Ben Slimane, town, north-central Morocco. The town, a local market centre, is situated 12 miles (20 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean between the cities of Rabat and Casablanca. It lies at an elevation of roughly 1,000 feet (300 metres) above sea level, at the edge of the Ziada cork oak forest.

veneer: …being decorated; and marquetry, or boulle work, which is a more elaborate kind of complex veneering.

André-Charles Boulle was one of France’s leading cabinetmakers, whose fashion of inlaying, called boulle, or buhl, work, swept Europe and was heavily imitated during the 18th and 19th centuries. Multitalented, Boulle practiced as an architect, worked in bronze and mosaic, and designed elaborate

Pierre Boulle was a French novelist who successfully combined adventure and psychology in works dealing largely with his experiences in Southeast Asia, especially in Malaya. Boulle studied to become an electrical engineer but instead went to Asia, where he spent eight years as a planter and

Pierre Boulle was a French novelist who successfully combined adventure and psychology in works dealing largely with his experiences in Southeast Asia, especially in Malaya. Boulle studied to become an electrical engineer but instead went to Asia, where he spent eight years as a planter and

Étienne-Louis Boullée was a French visionary architect, theorist, and teacher. Boullée wanted originally to be a painter, but, following the wishes of his father, he turned to architecture. He studied with J.-F. Blondel and Germain Boffrand and with J.-L. Legeay and had opened his own studio by the

Boulemane, town, north-central Morocco. The town, located at an elevation of about 5,500 feet (1,700 metres) above sea level in the Middle Atlas (Moyen Atlas) mountains, is a market centre serving Amazigh (Berber) seminomads and is connected by road with Fès city (northwest) and al-Rachidia town

Hassiba Boulmerka: Testing Her Faith: The pioneering accomplishments of track star Hassiba Boulmerka made her a controversial figure in her native country, Algeria. She was the first woman from an Arab or African nation to win a world track-and-field championship and the first Algerian to win an Olympic gold medal.…

Boulogne, city and port, Pas-de-Calais département, Hauts-de-France région, on the coast of northern France, southwest of Calais at the mouth of the Liane River and 28 miles (45 km) across the English Channel from Folkestone, England. Boulogne was the Roman harbor of Gesoriacum, later called

Bois de Boulogne, Park, west of Paris, France. In a loop of the Seine River, it was once a forest and a royal hunting preserve. It was acquired by the city of Paris in 1852 and transformed into a recreational area. It occupies 2,155 acres (873 hectares) and contains the famous racetracks of

Duchenne de Boulogne was a French neurologist, who was first to describe several nervous and muscular disorders and, in developing medical treatment for them, created electrodiagnosis and electrotherapy. During his lifelong private practice in Boulogne (1831–42) and Paris (1842–75), he explored the

Giambologna was the preeminent Mannerist sculptor in Italy during the last quarter of the 16th century. First trained under Jacques Dubroeucq, a Flemish sculptor who worked in an Italianate style, Giambologna went to Rome about 1550, where his style was influenced by Hellenistic sculpture and the

Philip I: His mother, Joan of Boulogne, who subsequently married the king of France, John II, ruled Philip’s lands during his minority, but after her death in 1360 he was declared of age. Though he married at the age of 12, he died without heirs, and his domains were…

Boulogne, city and port, Pas-de-Calais département, Hauts-de-France région, on the coast of northern France, southwest of Calais at the mouth of the Liane River and 28 miles (45 km) across the English Channel from Folkestone, England. Boulogne was the Roman harbor of Gesoriacum, later called

Bulu, one of a number of related peoples inhabiting the hilly, forested, south-central area of Cameroon as well as mainland Equatorial Guinea and northern Gabon. These peoples are collectively called the Fang (q.v.). “Bulu” is a loosely defined term that designates one of the three major

Thomas Boulsover was an English inventor of fused plating, or “old Sheffield plate.” After an apprenticeship in Sheffield, Boulsover became a member of the Cutlers Company, i.e., a full-fledged craftsman, in 1727. In 1743, while repairing a copper and silver knife handle, he discovered that the two

Sir Adrian Cedric Boult was an English conductor who led the BBC Symphony and other major orchestras during a career that spanned six decades. He received his first musical training at Christ Church, Oxford, and continued his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he was influenced by the fluid

Hugh Boulter was an English archbishop of Armagh and virtual ruler of Ireland at the height of the 18th-century Protestant Ascendancy, when Ireland was dominated by members of the established Anglican Church of Ireland. Boulter was ordained priest in the Anglican Church and in 1719 became chaplain

Edmund Bolton was an English historian, antiquarian, and poet whose lyrics are among the best in the miscellany Englands Helicon (1600), a widely known anthology of late 16th-century lyric and pastoral poetry. Bolton was educated at Cambridge and the Inner Temple, London. He obtained a minor

Mabel St. Clair Stobart was an English medical relief worker, feminist, and author. Stobart founded the Women’s Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps in 1907 and the Women’s National Service League in 1914. The purpose of both these organizations was to provide emergency medical services during times of

Matthew Boulton was an English manufacturer and engineer who financed and introduced James Watt’s steam engine. After managing his father’s hardware business, in 1762 Boulton built the Soho manufactory near Birmingham. The factory produced small metal articles such as gilt and silver buttons and

Taveuni Island: Bouma National Heritage Park, on the eastern side, contains pristine rainforest and three waterfalls, each some 65 feet (20 metres) high. Copra is the chief product. The island has become a popular tourist destination, and a number of resorts were built beginning in the late…

Boumbé II River, stream that rises in the Central African Republic and flows south and southeast to form part of the boundary with Cameroon. After a course of about 100 miles (160 km) it joins the Kadeï River near Gamboula,

Boumediene v. Bush, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on June 12, 2008, held that the Military Commissions Act (MCA) of 2006, which barred foreign nationals held by the United States as “enemy combatants” from challenging their detentions in U.S. federal courts, was an unconstitutional

Houari Boumedienne was an army officer who became president of Algeria in July 1965 following a coup d’etat. Boukharouba’s service to Algeria began in the 1950s, during his country’s struggle for independence from France, when, after studying at al-Azhar University in Cairo, he joined the rebel

Prince Boun Oum was a Laotian politician who renounced his rights as heir to the throne of Champasak (though he retained his traditional title) and became known for his rightist, pro-Western positions. Boun Oum was the oldest son of Chao Rasadani, king of Champasak, and was educated in Saigon (now

Prince Boun Oum was a Laotian politician who renounced his rights as heir to the throne of Champasak (though he retained his traditional title) and became known for his rightist, pro-Western positions. Boun Oum was the oldest son of Chao Rasadani, king of Champasak, and was educated in Saigon (now

Prince Boun Oum was a Laotian politician who renounced his rights as heir to the throne of Champasak (though he retained his traditional title) and became known for his rightist, pro-Western positions. Boun Oum was the oldest son of Chao Rasadani, king of Champasak, and was educated in Saigon (now

Côte d’Ivoire: Precolonial kingdoms: The Bouna kingdom was created in the late 17th century by Bounkani, an immigrant from Dagomba (now Ghana). It, along with Kong, became a major centre of Islamic learning.

soapwort: Major species: Common soapwort, or bouncing Bet (S. officinalis), reaching a height of 1 metre (3 feet), is widely naturalized in eastern North America. Its roots have been used medicinally, and its sap is a substitute for soap.

Sir Barnes Wallis: …who invented the innovative “dambuster” bombs used in World War II.

Emil Zátopek was a Czech athlete who is considered one of the greatest long-distance runners in the history of the sport. He won the gold medal in the 10,000-metre race at the 1948 Olympics in London and three gold medals at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, in the 5,000- and

neo-noir: Meanwhile, in Bound (1996), Lana and Lilly Wachowski offer a woman-centered noir thriller with a queer romantic triangle, while The Matrix (1999) launched a series of spectacular science-fiction films that contain not only elements from film noir but also an allegorical transgender narrative.

formal logic: Logical manipulations in LPC: …β are said to be bound alphabetical variants of each other, and bound alphabetical variants are always equivalent. The reason for restricting the replacement variable to one not occurring elsewhere in the scope of the quantifier can be seen from an example: If ϕxy is taken as before to mean…

Bound Brook, borough, Somerset county, north-central New Jersey, U.S., on the Raritan River, 31 miles (50 km) southwest of New York City. The area was settled in 1681 soon after it was deeded by the Delaware Indians to Philip Carteret (colonial governor) and other men. The Staats Homestead in South

Eugene O’Neill: Entry into theatre: …produced his one-act sea play Bound East for Cardiff. The talent inherent in the play was immediately evident to the group, which that fall formed the Playwrights’ Theater in Greenwich Village. Their first bill, on November 3, 1916, included Bound East for Cardiff—O’Neill’s New York debut. Although he was only…

Hal Ashby: The 1970s: Ashby’s next film was Bound for Glory (1976), a biopic about the activist folk singer Woody Guthrie (David Carradine). Although it did not do well at the box office, the film was well received by critics; among its many Academy Award nominations was one for best picture.

Woody Guthrie: Childhood in Oklahoma: …life in his autobiographical novel Bound for Glory [1943].)

Yambo Ouologuem: …Le Devoir de violence (1968; Bound to Violence), which received the Prix Renaudot. With this work, Ouologuem became the first African writer to receive a major French literary award.

basketry: Wattle construction: (1) The bound, or wrapped, type, which is not very elaborate, has a widespread distribution, being used for burden baskets in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, for poultry cages in different parts of Africa and the Near East, and for small crude baskets in Tierra del…

cosmology: Einstein’s model: …and isotropic universe had a closed spatial geometry. As described above, the total volume of a three-dimensional space with uniform positive curvature would be finite but possess no edges or boundaries (to be consistent with the first assumption).

formal logic: The lower predicate calculus: If a is any individual variable and α is any wff, every occurrence of a in α is said to be bound (by the quantifiers) when occurring in the wffs (∀a)α and (∃a)α. Any occurrence of a variable that is not bound is said to be free. Thus, in (∀x)(ϕx…

clay mineral: Clay-water relations: …be divided into zeolitic and bound waters. The latter is bound to exchangeable cations or directly to the clay mineral surfaces. Both forms of water may be removed by heating to temperatures on the order of 100°–200° C and in most cases, except for hydrated halloysite, are regained readily at…

Christopher Plummer: …movie credits from 2018 included Boundaries, in which he played an aging pot dealer on a road trip with his daughter and grandson. He later starred as a mystery writer who is murdered in Knives Out (2019), a comedic take on the whodunit.

Germany: Land of Germany: Germany shares its entire southern boundary with Switzerland and Austria. In the southeast the border with the Czech Republic corresponds to an earlier boundary of 1918, renewed by treaty in 1945. The easternmost frontier adjoins Poland along the northward course of the Neisse River and subsequently the Oder to the…

Edvard I. Moser: …as head direction cells and border cells, that were involved in spatial representation. Head direction cells were found to transmit signals when an animal positioned its head in a specific direction, and border cells were discovered to transmit signals about an environment’s edges and boundaries. Subsequent research uncovered interactions between…

Boundary Commission, consultative committee created in July 1947 to recommend how the Punjab and Bengal regions of the Indian subcontinent were to be divided between India and Pakistan shortly before each was to become independent from Britain. The commission—appointed by Lord Mountbatten, the

phase: Unary systems: …B is located on the boundary curve between the stability fields of low quartz and high quartz. At all points along this curve, these two phases coexist. Substituting values in the phase rule (2 + F = 1 + 2) will cause a variance of 1 to be obtained. This…

boundary ecosystem, complex of living organisms in areas where one body of water meets another, where one terrestrial ecosystem meets another, or where a body of water meets the land. See

boundary layer, in fluid mechanics, thin layer of a flowing gas or liquid in contact with a surface such as that of an airplane wing or of the inside of a pipe. The fluid in the boundary layer is subjected to shearing forces. A range of velocities exists across the boundary layer from maximum to

lubrication: Boundary lubrication.: A condition that lies between unlubricated sliding and fluid-film lubrication is referred to as boundary lubrication, also defined as that condition of lubrication in which the friction between surfaces is determined by the properties of the surfaces and properties of the lubricant other…

gongbi: A term related to gongbi, jiehua, or “boundary painting,” refers to the accurate depiction of architectural forms with the aid of a ruler. One of the masters of gongbi is the 16th-century painter Qiu Ying.

Boundary Peak, highest point (13,147 feet [4,007 metres]) in Nevada, U.S. The northernmost peak of the White Mountains, it lies in Esmeralda county within Inyo National Forest, 65 miles (105 km) west-southwest of Tonopah, Nevada. The peak is administered by the U.S. Forest Service. Its name derives

Alaskan mountains: …the mountains of the coastal Boundary Ranges, which, with the mountainous islands of the Alexander Archipelago, constitute the Alaskan panhandle.

sculpture: Symbolism: …is symbolic are the carved boundary stones of the ancient world; memorials sited on battlegrounds or at places where religious and political martyrs have been killed; the Statue of Liberty and similar civic symbols situated at harbours, town gates, bridges, and so on; and the scenes of the Last Judgment…

Cambrian Period: Boundaries and subdivisions of the Cambrian System: The lower boundary of the Cambrian System is defined at a formal global stratotype section and point (GSSP), which was ratified by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) in 1992. The stratotype section is located at Fortune Head on…

chemical bonding: Shapes of atomic orbitals: …therefore represented by a spherical boundary surface (Figure 2), which is a surface that captures a high proportion of the electron density. The electron is more likely to be found somewhere inside the spherical boundary surface than outside it.

boundary value, condition accompanying a differential equation in the solution of physical problems. In mathematical problems arising from physical situations, there are two considerations involved when finding a solution: (1) the solution and its derivatives must satisfy a differential equation,

Ely: …for trips into the vast Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which contains more than 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of water trails. Soudan Underground Mine State Park, about 20 miles (30 km) southwest of the city, offers tours of a former iron mine 2,400 feet (730 metres) below the surface. Bear…

Burnside problem: …exponent finite? Known as the bounded Burnside problem, the distinction has to do with the order, or exponent, for each element. For example, Golod’s group did not have a bounded exponent; that is, it did not have a single number n such that, for any element in the group, g…

bounded rationality, the notion that a behaviour can violate a rational precept or fail to conform to a norm of ideal rationality but nevertheless be consistent with the pursuit of an appropriate set of goals or objectives. This definition is, of course, not entirely satisfactory, in that it