Bowman’s capsule, double-walled cuplike structure that makes up part of the nephron, the filtration structure in the mammalian kidney that generates urine in the process of removing waste and excess substances from the blood. Bowman’s capsule encloses a cluster of microscopic blood

human eye: The outermost coat: …the epithelium, or outer covering; Bowman’s membrane; the stroma, or supporting structure; Descemet’s membrane; and the endothelium, or inner lining. Up to 90 percent of the thickness of the cornea is made up of the stroma. The epithelium, which is a continuation of the epithelium of the conjunctiva, is itself…

In 1989 Thea Bowman was a keynote speaker at a semiannual conference of U.S. Roman Catholic bishops. The topic of her address, on what it means to be Black and Catholic, drew upon her experience as a convert to Roman Catholicism and as the only Black American member of her religious congregation,

Isaiah Bowman was a geographer and educator who helped establish the American Geographical Society’s international standing during his 20 years as its director. A graduate of Harvard University (1905), Bowman received his Ph.D. from Yale University (1909), where he taught from 1905 to 1915. His

J.D. Vance is the 50th vice president of the United States (2025– ) in the Republican administration of Pres. Donald Trump. Vance became widely known as the author of Hillbilly Elegy (2016), a best-selling memoir of his experiences growing up as a member of the white working class that was

Scotty Bowman is a Canadian ice hockey coach and administrator who won a record nine Stanley Cups (1973, 1976–79, 1992, 1997–98, 2002) as a head coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). Bowman dreamed of skating in the NHL, but a severe head injury sustained in junior hockey ended his playing

Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet was an English surgeon and histologist who discovered that urine is a by-product of the blood filtration that is carried on in the kidney. He also made important discoveries concerning the structure and function of the eye and of striated muscle. Upon his appointment

In 1989 Thea Bowman was a keynote speaker at a semiannual conference of U.S. Roman Catholic bishops. The topic of her address, on what it means to be Black and Catholic, drew upon her experience as a convert to Roman Catholicism and as the only Black American member of her religious congregation,

In 1989 Thea Bowman was a keynote speaker at a semiannual conference of U.S. Roman Catholic bishops. The topic of her address, on what it means to be Black and Catholic, drew upon her experience as a convert to Roman Catholicism and as the only Black American member of her religious congregation,

Valerie Jarrett is an American lawyer, businesswoman, and politician who was a senior adviser (2009–17) to U.S. Pres. Barack Obama. Bowman was born in Iran and spent much of her childhood traveling abroad, as her father was a physician who assisted developing countries in establishing health care

Scotty Bowman is a Canadian ice hockey coach and administrator who won a record nine Stanley Cups (1973, 1976–79, 1992, 1997–98, 2002) as a head coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). Bowman dreamed of skating in the NHL, but a severe head injury sustained in junior hockey ended his playing

personalism: Borden Parker Bowne, who made Boston University the citadel of personalism, was explicitly theistic, holding that men are creatures of God with many dimensions—moral, religious, emotional, logical—each worthy of consideration in its own right and each reflecting the rationality of the creator. Nature, too, for…

Bowning orogeny, mountain-building event in eastern Australia in Late Silurian time (the Silurian Period began 443.7 million years ago and ended 416 million years ago). Of the several orogenic episodes to affect the Tasman Geosyncline, the Bowning orogeny was one of the severest. Plutonic

Bowral, town, eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is situated at the eastern edge of the Southern Highlands. Bowral, settled in 1825, bears an Aboriginal name meaning “large,” or “high.” It was proclaimed a town in 1863 and had become a fashionable resort for wealthy families of Sydney (60 miles

Bowring Treaty, (1855), agreement between Siam (Thailand) and Britain that achieved commercial and political aims that earlier British missions had failed to gain and opened up Siam to Western influence and trade. The treaty lifted many restrictions imposed by Thai kings on foreign trade. It set a

Sir John Bowring was an English author and diplomat who was prominent in many spheres of mid-Victorian public life. Bowring early became accomplished in many different languages while traveling abroad for commercial purposes. When the philosopher and economist Jeremy Bentham started the Westminster

Cariboo Mountains: Wells Gray and Bowron Lake provincial parks occupy the western slopes, where there is some lumbering and ranching in addition to mining.

Los Angeles: The 1920s and ’30s: …the election of reform mayor Fletcher Bowron in 1938.

bow and arrow: Bowstrings have exhibited an enormous range of variation in materials. The English longbow of the Middle Ages usually had a string of linen or hemp, but Turkish and Arab bows were strung with silk and mohair. Rattan, bamboo, vegetable fibre, and animal sinew or hide…

Dracaena: Major species: Iguanatail, or bowstring hemp (D. hyacinthoides, formerly S. hyacinthoides), has mottled leaves with light green bands and yellow edges; the greenish white fragrant flowers are borne in a tall cluster.

molding: Single curved: (6) A roll, or bowtell, molding is convex, approximating three-quarters of a circle. (7) An astragal is a small torus. (8) An apophyge molding is a small, exaggerated cavetto.

Osage orange, (Maclura pomifera), thorny tree or shrub native to the south-central United States, the only species of its genus in the family Moraceae. The Osage orange is often trained as a hedge; when planted in rows along a boundary, it forms an effective spiny barrier. The tree also serves as a

box, In botany, an evergreen shrub or small tree (genus Buxus) of the box family (Buxaceae), best known for the ornamental and useful boxwoods. The family comprises seven genera of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, native to North America, Europe, North Africa, and Asia. The plants bear male

caisson: A box caisson, open at the top and closed at the bottom, is usually constructed on land, then launched, floated to position, and sunk onto a previously prepared foundation, leaving its upper edge above water level. It serves as a suitable shell for a pier, seawall,…

solar oven: Types of solar ovens: …designs are as follows:

coal mining: Area strip mining: …with a trench or “box cut” made through the overburden to expose a portion of the coal seam. This trench is extended to the limits of the property in the strike direction. After coal removal, a second cut is made parallel to the first one, and the overburden material…

box elder, (Acer negundo), hardy and fast-growing tree, of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), native to the central and eastern United States. Introduced to Europe, it is widely cultivated there as an ornamental. The tree grows to 9–15 m (30–50 feet) tall. The compound leaves (rare among maples)

boxwood, (family Buxaceae), any of the plants in the family Buxaceae (order Buxales), best known for the ornamental and useful boxwoods. The boxwood family comprises five genera of trees, shrubs, and herbs and is native to North America, Europe, North Africa, and Asia. Flowers are small, unisexual,

box frame construction, method of building with concrete in which individual cells, or rooms, are set horizontally and vertically together to create an overall structural frame. Because the main weight of the building is carried through the cross walls, they must be sufficiently thick to carry

Carol Shields: …novels, Small Ceremonies (1976) and The Box Garden (1977), are interconnected, concerning the choices made by two sisters. In Happenstance (1980) and A Fairly Conventional Woman (1982), Shields used overlapping narratives to escape the strictures of straightforward narrative told from a single perspective. Marketed in Canada as a crime drama,…

harbours and sea works: Entrances: …the sliding caisson and the flap gate, or box gate, are perhaps the most popular. The sliding caisson is usually housed in a recess, or camber, at the side of the entrance and can be drawn aside or hauled across with winch and wire rope gear to open and close…

bridge: Beam bridges: …in the form of plate girders. A plate girder is an I beam consisting of separate top and bottom flanges welded or bolted to a vertical web. While beams for short spans are usually of a constant depth, beams for longer spans are often haunched—that is, deeper at the supports…

huckleberry: Major species: Box huckleberry (G. brachycera), native to the eastern and central United States, can form huge clones, some of which are thousands of years old, by vegetative reproduction.

box jellyfish, (class Cubozoa), any cnidarian (or coelenterate) belonging to the class Cubozoa. The class is made up of approximately 50 species, which are known for their semitransparent box-shaped bell and the toxic venom produced by some species. Box jellyfish live in warm coastal marine waters

Lawrence Hargrave: …of the cellular kite, or box kite, as it is now known.

box lacrosse, game, a variant of lacrosse played principally in Canada during the spring and autumn and occasionally during the summer. There are 6 players on a side instead of the usual 10 (men) or 12 (women). Maximum field dimensions are 200 by 90 feet (about 60 by 27 m), with a goal 4 12 feet

lyre: Box lyres are instruments having a boxlike wooden body with a wooden soundboard; in some instances the arms are hollow extensions of the body, as in the ancient Greek kithara. Bowl lyres have a rounded body with a curved back—often of tortoiseshell—and a skin belly;…

The Box Man, avant-garde satiric novel by Abe Kōbō, published in Japanese in 1973 as Hako otoko. A bizarre commentary on contemporary society, The Box Man concerns a man who relinquishes normal life to live in a “waterproof room,” a cardboard box that he wears on his back. Like a medieval Buddhist

nail: A box nail is similar to a common nail but has a slimmer shank and is used on lighter pieces of wood and on boxes. A casing nail is similar to a finishing nail but has a slightly thicker shaft and a cone-shaped head. Nails smaller…

Sam Rockwell: …an eccentric free spirit in Box of Moonlight (1996) that first gained him widespread attention. He later had starring roles in such independent films as Lawn Dogs (1997) and Safe Men (1998), and he appeared in a small part in a minor Woody Allen movie (Celebrity, 1998). Rockwell then landed…

IMDb: One was Box Office Mojo, a Web site founded in 1999 that parses Hollywood box-office grosses in great detail. The other was Withoutabox, founded in 2000 as an electronic interface between film festivals in search of films and filmmakers in search of audiences. Like many other Web…

box-and-whisker plot, graph that summarizes numerical data based on quartiles, which divide a data set into fourths. The box-and-whisker plot is useful for revealing the central tendency and variability of a data set, the distribution (particularly symmetry or skewness) of the data, and the

box set, in Western theatre, realistically detailed, three-walled, roofed setting that simulates a room with the fourth wall (the one closest to the audience) removed. Authentic details include doors with three-dimensional moldings, windows backed with outdoor scenery, stairways, and, at times,

blue-eyed soul: Louis, Missouri; the Box Tops, from Memphis, Tennessee; and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, from Detroit, Michigan. Other performers who were regarded as blue-eyed soul singers included Laura Nyro in the 1960s, Robert Palmer and the Average White Band in the 1970s, and in the 21st…

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: …notable railway works were the Box Tunnel and the Maidenhead Railway Bridge, and his last were the Chepstow and Saltash (Royal Albert) bridges, all in England. The Maidenhead Railway Bridge had the flattest brick arch in the world. Brunel’s use of a compressed-air caisson to sink the pier foundations for…

box turtle, any of two groups, Asian and North American, of terrestrial and semiaquatic turtles. Box turtles have a high, rounded upper shell (carapace), a flattened bottom shell (plastron) with a transverse hinge, and ligamentous connections (instead of the bony bridge typical of most turtles)

wrench: Box-end wrenches have ends that enclose the nut and have 6, 8, 12, or 16 points inside the head. A wrench with 12 points is used on either a hexagonal or a square nut; the 8- and 16-point wrenches are used on square members. Because…

stringed instrument: Zithers: The typical box zither is a rectangular or, more often, trapezoid-shaped hollow box, with strings that are either struck with light hammers or plucked. Examples of the former are the Persian sanṭūr and its Chinese derivative, the yangqin (“foreign zither”); the cimbalom of east-central Europe; and the…

Nick Park: …won for Park and codirector Steve Box the 2006 Academy Award for best animated feature film. In 2007 Shaun the Sheep, a series of animated shorts cowritten and coproduced by Park, debuted on the BBC. Park later directed the feature film Early Man (2018), about Neanderthals; he also voiced one…

box-and-whisker plot, graph that summarizes numerical data based on quartiles, which divide a data set into fourths. The box-and-whisker plot is useful for revealing the central tendency and variability of a data set, the distribution (particularly symmetry or skewness) of the data, and the

coreid bug: The box-elder bug (Boisea trivittatus) is dark brown with three longitudinal red lines on the thorax and red veins in the first pair of wings. These coreid bugs feed mostly on box-elder trees. They pass the winter in groups in some dry spot, such as under…

wrench: Box-end wrenches have ends that enclose the nut and have 6, 8, 12, or 16 points inside the head. A wrench with 12 points is used on either a hexagonal or a square nut; the 8- and 16-point wrenches are used on square members. Because…

statistics: Time series and forecasting: …methods of forecasting are the Box-Jenkins autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and econometric models.

freight car: Boxcars are enclosed cars with sliding doors on the sides; they serve to transport manufactured goods requiring protection from the weather and pilferage. Certain types of boxcars, known as refrigerator cars, are heavily insulated and specially cooled to convey fresh or frozen foods over long…

Martin Scorsese: Films of the 1970s: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and New York, New York: …Corman invited him to direct Boxcar Bertha (1972). Scorsese made the most of the opportunity with an exciting if ultimately empty yarn about train robbers (Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, and Bernie Casey) wreaking havoc in the Depression-era South.

savate, French sport of fighting by kicking, practiced from the early 19th century. It occurred mainly among the lower orders of Parisian society. When savate died out, its more skillful elements were combined with those of English bare-knuckle pugilism to produce la boxe française. The name savate

Boxer Rebellion: “Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”). The group practiced certain boxing and calisthenic rituals in the belief that this made them invulnerable. It was thought to be an offshoot of the…

Boxer, smooth-haired working dog named for its manner of “boxing” with its sturdy front paws when fighting. The Boxer, developed in Germany but with roots traceable to ancient Assyria, includes strains of Bulldog and Great Dane in its heritage. Historically, the dog was a big-game hunter. “In

unequal treaty: The Boxer Protocol, signed in 1901 following China’s unsuccessful attempt to expel all foreigners from the country during the Boxer Rebellion (1900), provided for the stationing of foreign troops at key points between Beijing and the sea.

Boxer Rebellion, officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. “Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”). The group practiced certain boxing and calisthenic rituals

Barbara Boxer is an American politician whose ardent support for myriad progressive causes, including environmentalism and reproductive rights, while representing California as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–93) and Senate (1993–2017) contributed to her reputation as one of

Mark Boxer was a British magazine and newspaper editor and cartoonist known for his political and social caricatures and single-frame “pocket cartoons” that often satirized the British upper-middle class. Boxer was briefly expelled from King’s College, Cambridge, when he published an irreverent

Mark Boxer was a British magazine and newspaper editor and cartoonist known for his political and social caricatures and single-frame “pocket cartoons” that often satirized the British upper-middle class. Boxer was briefly expelled from King’s College, Cambridge, when he published an irreverent

Apollonius The Athenian: …the Vatican, and the bronze “Boxer,” now in the Museo Nazionale Romano of Rome. At one time these sculptures were thought to be 1st-century originals. Now it is believed they are fine 1st-century copies of original 2nd-century works; although the inscriptions are datable to the 1st century, the style of…

Paul Simon: Simon and Garfunkel: …song from this period, “The Boxer” (1969), is the streamlined dramatic monologue of a down-and-out prizefighter.

boxfish, any of a small group of shallow-water marine fishes of the family Ostraciontidae (or Ostraciidae), distinguished by a hard, boxlike, protective carapace covering most of the body. The alternative name cowfish refers to the hornlike projections on the heads of some species. The members of

Boxhole Meteorite Crater, meteorite crater formed in alluvium near Boxhole Homestead, Northern Territory, central Australia. It is situated 155 miles (250 km) northeast of the Henbury meteorite craters. The bowl-shaped crater, discovered in 1937, is 583 feet (178 m) in diameter and 53 feet (16 m)

boxing, sport, both amateur and professional, involving attack and defense with the fists. Boxers usually wear padded gloves and generally observe the code set forth in the marquess of Queensberry rules. Matched in weight and ability, boxing contestants try to land blows hard and often with their

Boxing Day, in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries, particularly Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, holiday (December 26) on which servants, tradespeople, and the poor traditionally were presented with gifts. By the 21st century it had become a day associated with shopping and sporting

St. Stephen’s Day, the name for either of two holidays that are observed in honor of two Christian saints, both of whom are named Stephen. In many countries December 26 commemorates the life of St. Stephen, a Christian deacon in Jerusalem who is believed to have been the first Christian martyr (he

boxing: Early years: …evidence of the use of gloves or hand coverings in boxing is a carved vase from Minoan Crete (c. 1500 bce) that shows helmeted boxers wearing a stiff plate strapped to the fist.

Alexander Archipenko: …means: in works such as Boxing Match (1913), he conveyed the raw, brutal energy of the sport in nonrepresentational, machinelike cubic and ovoid forms. About 1912, inspired by the Cubist collages of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, Archipenko introduced the concept of collage in sculpture in his famous Medrano series,…

boxing: Prizes and awards: …given out annually by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) are also among the most prestigious in boxing. Since 1938 the organization has designated a Fighter of the Year. Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Leonard, Evander Holyfield, and Manny Pacquiao have been so honoured three times. Other BWAA…

box lacrosse, game, a variant of lacrosse played principally in Canada during the spring and autumn and occasionally during the summer. There are 6 players on a side instead of the usual 10 (men) or 12 (women). Maximum field dimensions are 200 by 90 feet (about 60 by 27 m), with a goal 4 12 feet

Billy Bob Thornton: Music: …of the country rock band the Boxmasters, which released its eponymous debut album in 2008 and additional recordings thereafter.

box-and-whisker plot, graph that summarizes numerical data based on quartiles, which divide a data set into fourths. The box-and-whisker plot is useful for revealing the central tendency and variability of a data set, the distribution (particularly symmetry or skewness) of the data, and the

Toni Collette: …Happiness, and the animated romp The Boxtrolls. Colette then starred as the cancer-stricken best friend of Drew Barrymore’s character in the sentimental drama Miss You Already (2015) and as the mother of a family threatened by a demon during the holidays in the horror comedy Krampus (2015). She appeared in…

boxwood, (family Buxaceae), any of the plants in the family Buxaceae (order Buxales), best known for the ornamental and useful boxwoods. The boxwood family comprises five genera of trees, shrubs, and herbs and is native to North America, Europe, North Africa, and Asia. Flowers are small, unisexual,

boxwood, hard, heavy, fine-grained wood, usually white or light yellow, that is obtained from the common box (Buxus sempervirens) and other small trees of the genus Buxus. Boxwood also refers to many other woods with a similar density and grain, such as West Indian boxwood, a North American lumber

boxwood, (family Buxaceae), any of the plants in the family Buxaceae (order Buxales), best known for the ornamental and useful boxwoods. The boxwood family comprises five genera of trees, shrubs, and herbs and is native to North America, Europe, North Africa, and Asia. Flowers are small, unisexual,

Buxales, the boxwood order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, comprising Buxaceae (90–120 species in five genera) and the small taxonomically contentious family Haptanthaceae (one species in one genus). Buxales belongs to a group of plants known as peripheral eudicots, together with Proteales,

boxwork, in geology, honeycomb pattern of limonite (a mixture of hydrous iron and manganese oxide minerals) that remains in the cavity after a sulfide mineral grain has dissolved. The boxwork may be spongelike, triangular, pyramidal, diamondlike, or irregular in shape and may be coloured various

Taika Waititi: Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows: Waititi later wrote and directed Boy (2010). Set in a Māori town on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, it tells the story of an 11-year-old (James Rolleston) who is being raised by his grandmother and has heroic fantasies about his absent father (Waititi). When the father unexpectedly…

Polish literature: Literature in independent Poland: Tadeusz Żeleński (pseudonym Boy), witty, irreverent, and widely read, was a leading literary critic and one of Poland’s best interpreters of French literature. The essay form was represented by Jan Parandowski, whose main theme was the classical culture of Greece and Rome. A subversive attack…

Andrew Garfield: Television and film roles: …Garfield starred in the movie Boy A (2007) as a young man recently released from prison for committing murder when he was a juvenile. His performance garnered him a BAFTA Award for best actor. About the same time, Garfield broke into Hollywood feature films, appearing in the ensemble drama Lions…

Sir Sidney Nolan: …greatly simplified abstractions, such as Boy and the Moon (1940)—a splash of yellow against a raw blue background—incited controversy among visitors to his Melbourne studio. He designed sets and costumes for a Sydney production of Serge Lifar’s ballet Icarus in 1940.

John Boyne: …& Then Leave (2013), and The Boy at the Top of the Mountain (2015). His other works for adult audiences include The Congress of Rough Riders (2001), The House of Special Purpose (2009), A History of Loneliness (2014), and A Ladder to the Sky (2018).

boy bishop, boy chosen to act as bishop in connection with the Feast of the Holy Innocents on December 28, in a custom widespread in Europe during the Middle Ages. In England, where the practice was most popular, a boy bishop was elected on December 6—the feast of St. Nicholas, the patron of

Elisabeth Bergner: …wrote his last play (The Boy David; 1936) especially for Bergner, and she enjoyed a two-season run as Sally in Martin Vale’s The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1943). After the war she returned on tour to her homeland on numerous occasions, and there she became the first actress to win…

Russell Crowe: …gay conversion therapy program in Boy Erased (2018), which was based on a memoir of the same name (2016). In 2019 Crowe was cast as Roger Ailes, the founding president of the Fox News Channel, in the miniseries The Loudest Voice. He later appeared in the thriller Unhinged (2020), playing…

Ken Russell: Russell then made The Boy Friend (1971) and Savage Messiah (1972) before he again achieved a commercial success with Tommy (1975), a film based on a rock opera. His later films include Lisztomania (1975), Altered States (1980), Crimes of Passion (1984), Whore

Michael Curtiz: Last films of Michael Curtiz: …Brothers came in 1954 with The Boy from Oklahoma, which featured Will Rogers, Jr.

Hugh Jackman: Hollywood and Broadway stardom: …Allen in the biographical musical The Boy from Oz. For American filmgoers who were unfamiliar with his work in Oklahoma!, Jackman’s flamboyantly spot-on performance was a revelation, and it won him a Tony Award in 2004. His other Broadway credits include A Steady Rain (2009), The River (2014–15), and The…

Boy George is a British singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the British new wave band Culture Club, which rose to fame in the early 1980s. Boy George, known for his androgynous appearance, with often flamboyant makeup and clothing, was a trailblazing icon of 1980s music and fashion.

Boy in a Red Waistcoat, an oil-on-canvas painting by Paul Cézanne created between 1888 and 1890, one of four oil paintings and two watercolors of this red-vested model. The work reflects the French painter’s distinctive style—a mix of Impressionism with Classicism and an intense

David Walliams: …he published his first novel, The Boy in the Dress, in 2008. The tale of a 12-year-old soccer player who likes to cross-dress combined compassion and gross-out jokes, and it was compared to the works of Roald Dahl. The Boy in the Dress quickly became a number one best seller…

John Boyne: …known for his novels, particularly The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006), a story that takes place during the Holocaust and follows the friendship between a German boy and a Jewish boy who is a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The novel was adapted into a movie titled The…

John Boyne: …adapted into a movie titled The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008).

A Boy Named Charlie Brown, American animated musical film, released in 1969, that was the first of several features based on Charles M. Schulz’s popular comic strip Peanuts. The story follows the ups and downs in the life of schoolchild and hapless everyman Charlie Brown; his irascible pet beagle,

Jennifer Lopez: Marriage to Marc Anthony and American Idol: …the thrillers Parker (2013) and The Boy Next Door (2015), she played, respectively, a divorced businesswoman who takes part in a heist and a woman who is drawn into a romance with a teenager who then begins stalking her. Lopez also provided voices for the animated films Ice Age: Continental…