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Beacon House
Beacon House is a Grade I listed Georgian town house built in 1766 on New Street in Painswick, Gloucestershire, possibly by the architect John Wood the Younger.
Beacon Power
Beacon Power is an American energy storage company headquartered in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts that designs and operates grid-scale flywheel plants providing frequency regulation in New York and Pennsylvania.
Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc.
Beacon Roofing Supply, also known as Beacon Building Products, was an American roofing and building products distributor acquired by QXO for about $11 billion in 2025.
Beacon Theatre (New York City)
Beacon Theatre, New York City: 1929 Upper West Side movie palace at 2124 Broadway, designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager, now a ~2,800-seat MSG-operated landmark concert hall, home to the Allman Brothers Band's final show.
Beacon Therapeutics
Beacon Therapeutics Holdings Limited is a London-based clinical-stage ophthalmic gene therapy company, launched in 2023 by Syncona and Oxford's Robert MacLaren to develop AAV therapies for retinal diseases causing blindness.
Beacon, New York
Beacon, New York, is a city on the Hudson River in Dutchess County, consolidated from Fishkill Landing and Matteawan in 1913 and known today for Dia Beacon.
Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield (Beckenesfeld) is a Buckinghamshire market town about 23 miles west of London, named from Old English for beech. Old Town coaching stop, 1906 railway and New Town, Bekonscot model village (1929), twinned with Langres.
Bead
Bead: a small perforated object of glass, shell, stone, clay, bone, or metal, strung or sewn as adornment, currency, or trade good; also called trade beads. Known from 142,000-year-old shell beads, Venetian Murano production, and North American fur-trade assemblages.
Bead embroidery
Bead embroidery (珠绣) is needlework attaching beads singly or in groups to a ground fabric. Includes tambour beading and Luneville work; documented in Tang China, Métis floral beadwork, and Peranakan Nyonya traditions.
Beadle
A beadle, historically also spelled bedellus, is a minor parish, court, or university officer who summons people, keeps order, and carries a staff or mace of office.
Beadlet anemone
Beadlet anemone, Actinia equina (basionym Priapus equinus), a common red intertidal sea anemone of north-east Atlantic rocky shores; a cryptic species complex with genetically distinct colour morphotypes, brooded young, and a debated mode of sexual reproduction.
Beady Eye
Beady Eye: English rock band (2009-2014) formed by Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell, and Chris Sharrock after Oasis split; albums Different Gear, Still Speeding (2011) and BE (2013).
Beagle
Beagle: small British scent hound (FCI Group 6) bred to hunt hare and rabbit in packs; AKC-recognized 1885, two size varieties under 13 and 13-15 inches, over 225 million scent receptors, used in USDA Beagle Brigade detection work and as a popular family companion.
Beagle 2
Beagle 2 was a British Mars lander conceived by Colin Pillinger that lost contact after its 2003 landing and was found intact in 2015 images.
Beagle Channel
The Beagle Channel (Canal Beagle) is a strait at the southern tip of South America, linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and separating Tierra del Fuego from islands to the south.
Beagle conflict
Beagle conflict: Argentina-Chile dispute over Picton, Lennox, and Nueva islands in the Beagle Channel; 1977 arbitration favored Chile, Argentina rejected it, 1978 war crisis, papal mediation, settled by 1984 Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
Beagle family
Beagle family: young C-type asteroid sub-family of Themis in the outer main belt at 3.157 AU, FIN 620, ~14 Myr old, contains main-belt comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro, proposed source of the i≈1.4° zodiacal dust band.
Beagle Rupes
Beagle Rupes is a bow-shaped lobate thrust-fault scarp on Mercury near 2°S, 101°E, over 600 km long, revealed by MESSENGER's first 2008 flyby, crosscutting Sveinsdóttir crater and interpreted as a thrust sheet with a basal decollement.
BeagleBone
BeagleBone is a family of open-hardware single-board computers from the BeagleBoard.org Foundation, intended as bare-bones embedded Linux development platforms, best known for the BeagleBone Black.
Beagling
Beagling: chiefly British sport of hunting hares on foot with packs of beagle hounds, about 16 inches tall. Practised since classical times, declined to ten UK packs by 1875, revived, and restricted by the Hunting Act 2004.
Beah Richards
Beah Richards (Beulah Elizabeth Richardson, 1920-2000), American stage, film, and television actress, poet, and civil rights activist; Oscar-nominated for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, two-time Emmy winner, author of A Black Woman Speaks.
Beak
Beak: birds' toothless mouth structure, a bony core of premaxilla, prenasal cartilage, and mandible covered by a keratinous rhamphotheca; evolved from dinosaur jaws via developmental tooth-loss truncation, shaped by BMP4, ALX1, and ecology.
Beak Island
Beak Island: Antarctic island at 63°37′S 57°18′W in Prince Gustav Channel, Trinity Peninsula; a partially submerged inactive volcanic caldera rim of Miocene basalt, named in 1949 with Eagle, Tail and Egg islands; site of a 2024 H5N1 skua die-off.
Beaked whale
Beaked whales (Ziphiidae), 24 species of medium-sized deep-diving toothed whales 3 to 13 m long with reduced teeth, throat grooves, and suction feeding on deep squid; second most diverse cetacean family, vulnerable to naval sonar.
Beaker (Muppet)
Beaker is a Muppet character, the test-tube-shaped lab assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew at Muppet Labs, known for "meep" speech and suffering his boss's inventions; co-winner of a 2004 BBC favorite-scientist poll.
Beakman's World
Beakman's World is an American children's science TV series (1992–1998) starring Paul Zaloom as Beakman, based on Jok Church's comic strip You Can with Beakman and Jax, airing on TLC, syndication, and CBS, winning three Emmys.
Beal conjecture
The Beal conjecture is an unsolved number theory problem, posed by Andrew Beal in 1993, stating that A^x + B^y = C^z with exponents above 2 forces a common prime factor.
Beale Air Force Base
Beale Air Force Base, formerly Camp Beale, is a US Air Force base in Yuba County, California, home to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and the nation's only U-2 fleet.
Beale ciphers
Beale ciphers: three number ciphertexts in the 1885 Ward pamphlet, said to locate a Bedford County, Virginia treasure. B2 decodes via the Declaration of Independence; B1 and B3 remain unread and are widely judged hoaxes.
Beale Street
Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, home of the blues; its two-block historic district (NRIS 66000731) was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966, devastated by urban renewal, and revived as a tourist entertainment district.