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Bearing capacity
Bearing capacity is the maximum average contact pressure the ground beneath a foundation can sustain without shear failure of the supporting soil, a core limit in geotechnical foundation design.
Bearing current
A bearing current is an electric current that flows through an electric motor's bearing, damaging raceways and lubricant; it causes about 9% of bearing failures.
Bearing steel
Bearing steel is the family of steels used for the rolling elements and raceways of rolling bearings, engineered for hardness, cleanliness, and rolling contact fatigue resistance.
Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre
Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre, also a 2025 feature film October 7: Bearing Witness to the Massacre, covers an Israeli 47-minute restricted documentary compiling Hamas bodycam, security-camera, and first-responder footage of the October 7, 2023 attacks, shown in private screenings in over 30 countries, distinct from the 2025 Jesse Schluntz feature.
Béarn
Béarn (Biarn/Bearn) is a former Pyrenean province of south-west France, now most of Pyrénées-Atlantiques with capital Pau. A sovereign viscounty united to Navarre in 1481, annexed by France in 1620; home of Béarnais Gascon and Henri IV.
Béarnaise sauce
Sauce béarnaise (béarnaise sauce), also called la béarnaise: a warm French emulsified sauce of clarified butter, egg yolks, shallot-vinegar reduction and tarragon, derived from hollandaise, served with grilled meats and fish, attributed to Collinet in 1830s Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Bears (The Bear)
"Bears" is the seventh episode of season 4 of The Bear, airing on Hulu on June 25, 2025, and centered on the wedding of Sugar and Frank.
Bears Ears National Monument
Bears Ears National Monument, a sacred southeastern Utah protected area created in 2016 at the request of five tribes and managed with the Bears Ears Commission, was cut 85% by Trump in 2017, restored to about 1.36 million acres by Biden in 2021, and cut again in 2026.
Bears–Packers rivalry
Bears–Packers rivalry: the NFL's oldest and most-played series, begun Nov. 27, 1921 (Staleys 20-0). 213 meetings through Jan 2026; Packers lead 109-98-6, with three playoff games.
Bearsden Roman bath house
Bearsden Roman bath house: remains of a Roman bath house and latrine in the annexe of the Antonine Wall fort at Bearsden, Glasgow; excavated 1973-1982 under David Breeze, with sandstone construction, a diet-yielding latrine, and finds including a goddess head.
Bearskin
Bearskin: tall fur ceremonial hat of the British Foot Guards, adopted after Waterloo 1815; about 1 kg of Canadian bear fur, £2,460 per cap, no approved synthetic alternative yet.
Bearskin Airlines
Bearskin Airlines, formally Bearskin Lake Air Service LP, is a regional airline based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, founded in 1963 at Bearskin Lake First Nation as a float-plane operation.
Beartooth (band)
Beartooth is an American metalcore band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2012 by Caleb Shomo of Attack Attack!. Six albums on Red Bull and Fearless Records, including Disgusting, Below, The Surface, and Pure Ecstasy; known for aggressive live shows and Shomo's one-man-studio songwriting.
Beartooth Highway
Beartooth Highway, also known as Beartooth Scenic Byway, is the section of U.S. Highway 212 connecting Red Lodge and Cooke City, Montana, near Yellowstone's northeast entrance.
Beartown (TV series)
Beartown (Björnstad) is a five-episode Swedish-language HBO Europe limited drama from Filmlance, adapted from Fredrik Backman's novel, about a hockey town shattered by sexual assault; directed by Peter Grönlund, starring Ulf Stenberg.
Beas Conservation Reserve
The Beas Conservation Reserve is a 185 km stretch of the Beas River in Punjab, India, a Ramsar site since 2019 and home to India's only Indus river dolphins.
Beas River
Beas River (Sanskrit Vipasa, Greek Hyphasis), Himalayan tributary of the Indus in India rising at Rohtang Pass; site of Alexander the Great's 326 BC army mutiny and home of India's last Indus River dolphins.
BEAS-2B
BEAS-2B (Bronchial Epithelium transformed with Ad12-SV40 2B; ATCC CRL-3588/CRL-9609) is a non-tumorigenic immortalized human bronchial epithelial cell line used widely in pulmonary toxicology and carcinogenesis research.
Beast (2017 film)
Beast (2017) is Michael Pearce's British psychological thriller debut, set on Jersey and starring Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn, inspired by the Beast of Jersey and winner of the 2019 BAFTA for Outstanding Debut.
Beast (2022 American film)
Beast is a 2022 American survival horror film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Idris Elba as a widowed doctor hunted by a rogue lion in South Africa.
Beast (2022 Indian film)
Beast (பீஸ்ட்), 2022 Tamil action comedy by Nelson Dilipkumar for Sun Pictures, starring Vijay as ex-RAW agent Veeraraghavan in a mall hijack with Pooja Hegde and Selvaraghavan; released 13 April 2022, ₹216.58 crore worldwide, mixed-negative reviews, distinct from the 2022 Idris Elba film of the same name.
Beast (2026 film)
Beast (2026) is an Australian MMA sports drama directed by Tyler Atkins, written by David Frigerio and Russell Crowe, starring Daniel MacPherson and Crowe; released April 2026, 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, $1.8M worldwide.
Beast Boy
Beast Boy (Garfield Logan, briefly Changeling) is a DC Comics shapeshifting superhero created by Arnold Drake and Bob Brown, debuting in Doom Patrol #99 (1965); green-skinned, able to become any animal, and a core Teen Titans member.
Beast Cops (野兽刑警)
Beast Cops (野獸刑警, Yeshou Xingjing) is a 1998 Hong Kong crime film co-directed by Gordon Chan and Dante Lam, starring Anthony Wong as corrupt cop Tung; it won five 1999 Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
Beast epic
The beast epic is a medieval narrative genre in which talking animals satirize human institutions such as the court, law, and church, beginning with the Latin Ysengrimus.
Beast fable
A beast fable is a short fable in which animals speak and act like humans, told for a moral, from Aesop through Chaucer to Orwell's Animal Farm.
Beast Games
Beast Games is a Prime Video reality competition series created and hosted by MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson), premiering December 19, 2024, with 1,000 contestants competing for a $5 million prize that grew to $10 million; it became Prime Video's most-watched unscripted series and drew a 2024 contestant lawsuit.
Beast Games lawsuit
Beast Games lawsuit: proposed class action filed September 16, 2024 in Los Angeles Superior Court (No. 24STCV24042) by five anonymous contestants of MrBeast's Amazon Prime Video show, alleging worker misclassification, unpaid wages, unsafe conditions, and sexual harassment; still unresolved as of 2026.
Beast Games season 1
Beast Games season 1, MrBeast's (Jimmy Donaldson) Prime Video reality competition, premiered December 19, 2024: 1,000 contestants, a $5 million prize that grew to $10 million, a $100 million budget, 1,107 cameras, and winner Jeffrey Allen.
Beast Games season 2
Beast Games season 2 (Prime Video, premiered January 7, 2026) is MrBeast's Strong vs. Smart reality competition: 200 players, $5 million grand prize, filmed in Toronto, Las Vegas, and Panama.