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Bear Family Records
Bear Family Records is a German independent reissue label founded in 1975 by Richard Weize near Bremen, known for scholarly LP/CD box sets with books covering country, rock'n'roll, blues, and historical music from 1896 onward.
Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls, born Edward Michael Grylls in 1974, is a British adventurer and TV presenter best known for Man vs. Wild and as the youngest ever Chief Scout of the United Kingdom.
Bear hunting
Bear hunting: regulated or subsistence killing of black, brown, and polar bears for recreation, management, or food. Sustainable mortality limits are low (5.7% grizzly, 14.2% black bear), with indirect demographic and evolutionary effects.
Bear in the Big Blue House
Bear in the Big Blue House is a Jim Henson Television preschool series on Disney Channel from October 20, 1997 (117 episodes, through 2006), hosted by a seven-foot full-body puppet Bear performed and voiced by Noel MacNeal; Disney bought the property from the Henson Company in 2004.
Bear Island
Bear Island (Bjørnøya) is Norway's isolated southernmost Svalbard island in the Barents Sea: 178 km², a 2002 nature reserve and 2010 Ramsar site, famed for huge guillemot and kittiwake seabird colonies and a year-round weather station.
Bear Lake (Idaho–Utah)
Bear Lake is a large turquoise freshwater lake on the Idaho-Utah border in a half graben valley of the Bear River, 32 km long, up to 63 m deep, with four endemic fish and a famous 1868 monster legend.
Bear McCreary
Bear McCreary (born 1979) is an American composer for TV, film, and games, known for Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Outlander, God of War, and The Rings of Power, with an Emmy, BAFTA Games Awards, and the rock project The Singularity.
Bear Mountain State Park
Bear Mountain State Park is a Hudson Highlands park in Rockland/Orange County, NY, on the Hudson River's west bank, managed by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, home of the Trailside Museums & Zoo, Bear Mountain Inn, Perkins Memorial Tower, and the first Appalachian Trail section (1923).
Bear park
BearPark (BärenPark), Bern's free-access brown bear enclosure on the Aare riverbank, opened 22 October 2009 as successor to the historic Bärengraben; 6,000 m², part of Tierpark Bern, home to bears Finn, Björk, and Ursina, open 24/7 with about 1.5 million visitors yearly.
Bear Peninsula
Bear Peninsula is a predominantly ice-covered promontory on the Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, at 74°36′S 110°50′W in the central Amundsen Sea Embayment, 140 km west of Thwaites Glacier; bedrock data show it is actually an island, and Hunt Bluff records its last glaciation.
Bear River (Great Salt Lake)
Bear River, largest tributary of Great Salt Lake, a 500-mile river rising in Utah's Uinta Mountains and crossing Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho five times; supplies about 64% of lake inflow, governed by the 1958/1980 Bear River Compact, site of the 1863 Bear River Massacre.
Bear River Massacre
The Bear River Massacre was the killing of Northwestern Shoshone men, women, and children by US Army troops under Colonel Patrick Connor on January 29, 1863, near Preston, Idaho.
Bear Robotics
Bear Robotics is a Silicon Valley service-robotics company founded in 2017 by former Google engineer John Ha, maker of the Servi serving robots and a majority-owned LG Electronics subsidiary since 2025.
Bear Sanctuary Prishtina
Bear Sanctuary Prishtina, a FOUR PAWS brown bear sanctuary near Mramor, 23 km from Prishtina, Kosovo, opened May 2013 on 16 hectares; it houses rescued former "restaurant bears" from Kosovo and Albania.
Bear Shelter Kuterevo
Bear Shelter Kuterevo is a sanctuary for orphaned brown bear cubs in the village of Kuterevo on Croatia's Velebit mountains, founded in 2002 and caring for non-releasable bears from zoos.
Bear spray
Bear spray, also called bear deterrent or bear repellent, is an EPA-registered capsaicin aerosol (1-2% capsaicinoids) sprayed as a cloud at charging bears; studies show over 90% effectiveness in Alaska and 18 of 19 polar bear incidents.
Bear Stearns
Bear Stearns was an American investment bank and securities trading firm founded in 1923, with about 14,000 employees, that collapsed in March 2008 and was sold to JPMorgan Chase.
Bear-baiting
Bear-baiting: blood sport setting dogs on a bear tethered to a stake, popular in England from the 11th century, centered on Bankside bear gardens, declined under Puritan and welfare criticism, outlawed in the 19th century, persists in Pakistan.
Bear's Heart's Fort Marion Drawings
Bear's Heart's Fort Marion Drawings are ledger drawings made by Cheyenne artist Bear's Heart, a prisoner of war at Fort Marion in Florida, between 1875 and 1878.
Bearbrick
Bearbrick (BE@RBRICK) is a bear-shaped collectible art toy launched in 2001 by Japan's Medicom Toy under Tatsuhiko Akashi, sold in 100%, 400%, and 1000% sizes and decorated through thousands of artist and brand collaborations.
Bearbrick (TV series)
BE@RBRICK (Bearbrick TV series) is a 13-episode Apple TV+ animated musical comedy premiering March 21, 2025, produced by Dentsu and DreamWorks Animation from MediCom Toy's collectible bear figures, following Jasmine Finch and her band the Brushstrokes in Vinylville.
Beard
Beard: androgen-driven terminal facial hair of men, grown from puberty. Covers biology, minoxidil beard trials, pseudofolliculitis barbae, bacterial colonization and shedding evidence in surgeons, and beard history.
Beard (companion)
Beard is LGBT slang for an opposite-sex companion or spouse whose presence disguises someone's homosexuality, distinct from the bear subculture. The mid-1950s term covers escorts to cover marriages (lavender marriages), documented in Hollywood and still used where coming out is costly.
Beard Meats Food
Beard Meats Food, aka Adam Moran, Leeds-based British competitive eater and YouTuber; UK's number one independent competitive eater, MLE world rank 17, records in Yorkshire puddings and Jaffa cakes.
Bearded Collie
Bearded Collie, or Beardie, a Scottish herding and droving dog with a long shaggy double coat, 20-22 inches tall, recognized by The Kennel Club in 1959, now a vulnerable native breed in the UK.
Bearded lady
Bearded lady: a woman with visible male-pattern facial hair, known from 1840-1914 sideshows and Julia Pastrana; medically hirsutism, caused by PCOS in 80-90% of cases, measured by the mFG score.
Bearded vulture
Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeier): the only vertebrate bone-eating specialist, a mountain vulture of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Near Threatened globally; extinct in the Alps by 1913, restored to 300+ birds by reintroduction.
Bearer bond
A bearer bond is a fixed-income security owned by whoever physically holds it, with no owner named and interest collected by clipping attached coupons; the US stopped issuing them in 1982.
Bearing (angle)
A bearing is the direction of one point from another expressed as an angle from a north-south reference line, used in land surveying, navigation, and orienteering.
Bearing (mechanical)
A bearing is a mechanical component that supports and guides a part in relative motion, as a plain sliding bearing or a rolling element bearing with balls or rollers.