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Beau Willimon
Beau Willimon (Pack Beauregard Willimon, born 1977) is an American playwright and screenwriter, creator of Netflix's House of Cards, Oscar-nominated for The Ides of March, writer on Andor and Severance.
Beau's lines
Beau's lines, also called transverse nail grooves, are horizontal dents in fingernails or toenails caused by temporary arrest of the nail matrix after illness, chemotherapy, trauma, or infection; they grow out in about six months.
Beauceron
Beauceron (Berger de Beauce, Bas Rouge), an old French herding and guarding breed with a short black-and-tan or harlequin coat, double hind dewclaws, males 65–70 cm, AKC-recognized in 2007.
Beaucoup Fish
Beaucoup Fish is Underworld's fifth album, released 1 March 1999 by the trio Rick Smith, Karl Hyde, and Darren Emerson. It peaked at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart and became the band's best-selling album.
Beauden Barrett
Beauden Barrett, New Zealand rugby union first five-eighth/fullback, All Black #1115 since 2012, 150 Tests and 833 points, two-time World Rugby Player of the Year (2016, 2017), 2015 World Cup winner, Hurricanes then Blues, brother of Scott and Jordie.
Beaudesert, Queensland
Beaudesert is a rural town in the Scenic Rim region of south-east Queensland, about an hour south-west of Brisbane, with 8,127 people at the 2021 Census.
Beauford Delaney
Beauford Delaney (1901–1979) was an American modernist painter from Knoxville, Tennessee, known for pastel portraits of prominent African Americans, Greenwich Village street scenes, and luminous yellow abstractions.
Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States
Beaufort County, South Carolina: Lowcountry coastal county founded 1769, county seat Beaufort; 187,117 residents in 2020, growing 9.3 percent by 2025; economy built on tourism, three military installations, and retirement; low-lying, flood-prone Sea Islands geography.
Beaufort Gyre
The Beaufort Gyre is a wind-driven anticyclonic circulation in the Arctic Ocean's Canada Basin and its largest freshwater reservoir, storing about 25% of Arctic freshwater; it gained over 6,400 km3 from 2003 to 2018 and is regulated by the ice-ocean governor.
Beaufort High
The Beaufort High, also called the Beaufort Sea High, is a quasi-stationary high-pressure system over the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska whose winds drive the Beaufort Gyre.
Beaufort scale
The Beaufort scale, or Beaufort wind force scale, is an empirical measure of wind intensity based on sea conditions, running from force 0 (calm) to force 12 (hurricane).
Beaufort Sea
Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean marginal sea off northern Alaska and Canada, east of Point Barrow; home of the Beaufort Gyre, declining summer sea ice, a Canada–US boundary dispute, and contested oil and gas resources.
Beaufort, South Carolina
Beaufort, South Carolina: second oldest city in the state, founded 1711 on Port Royal Island; home to a 304-acre National Historic Landmark District, Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, and the Port Royal Experiment; population 13,607 (2020).
Beaufort's Dyke
Beaufort's Dyke: deep submarine trench (312 m max depth) in the North Channel of the Irish Sea between Scotland and Northern Ireland, a glacial tunnel valley used as the UK's main munitions sea dump, holding over 1 million tonnes of ordnance dumped 1945-1976.
Beauharnois hydroelectric plant
The Beauharnois hydroelectric plant (centrale de Beauharnois) is a run-of-river station on the St. Lawrence River southwest of Montreal, operated by Hydro-Québec with a capacity of 1,864 MW.
Beaujolais
Beaujolais, also known as Beaujolais wine, is a French wine region and appellation north of Lyon, producing wines almost entirely from the gamay grape, including the young Beaujolais Nouveau.
Beaujolais nouveau
Beaujolais nouveau, a French vin primeur from Gamay under the Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages appellations, released worldwide the third Thursday of November since a 1985 decree; made by semi-carbonic maceration and promoted globally by Georges Duboeuf.
Beaujolais UNESCO Global Geopark
Beaujolais UNESCO Global Geopark (Géoparc du Beaujolais): a UNESCO Global Geopark in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, designated 2018, covering 158,600 ha and 123 communes, renewed in 2026, known for 500-million-year geology, Gamay wine, and Mont Brouilly.
Beaulieu
Beaulieu, Hampshire village on the Beaulieu River in the New Forest; name from bellus locus regis; site of Beaulieu Abbey founded by King John in 1204, dissolved 1538, and the Montagu family's Palace House and National Motor Museum.
Beaumajour
Beaumajour (Baou Majour), Grans, Bouches-du-Rhône, France: prehistoric cave and hilltop site, Neolithic to Iron Age, with a Gallo-Roman villa establishment at its foot; Barrington Atlas 15 E2.
Beaumont and Fletcher
Beaumont and Fletcher is the conventional name for English playwrights Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, whose collaborations from 1606 to 1613 established English tragicomedy as the dominant dramatic form.
Beaumont Independent School District
Beaumont Independent School District (Beaumont ISD) is a Southeast Texas public district in Jefferson County with 25 campuses and about 16,300 students, placed under a TEA-appointed Board of Managers and Superintendent Sandi Massey in April 2026 after consecutive failing campus ratings.
Beaumont-du-Ventoux
Beaumont-du-Ventoux, Vaucluse commune of nine hamlets on Mont Ventoux's northwest flank, known for Roman molasse quarries at Combe du Maupas that supplied Vaison-la-Romaine, and the Saint-Sépulcre chapel with a rare Arabic shahada inscription.
Beaumont-sur-Oise amphitheater
Beaumont-sur-Oise amphitheater (amphithéâtre gallo-romain): a 1st-century Gallo-Roman theater converted to an amphitheater in the 2nd century, one of Gaul's smallest (23.6 m arena, ~1,500 seats), excavated 1989-1990 and preserved in the Lycée Evariste-Galois courtyard.
Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont, Texas: seat of Jefferson County in Southeast Texas, incorporated 1838, population 115,282 (2020). Transformed by the 1901 Spindletop oil gusher; now a Golden Triangle petrochemical and port city home to Lamar University.
Beauport Park Archaeological Site
Beauport Park, East Sussex: major Romano-British ironworking site near Battle, probably the third-largest in the Roman Empire, with a 100,000-ton slag heap and an excavated Classis Britannica bathhouse.
Beaurieux
Beaurieux: name of two French communes, one in Aisne (Hauts-de-France, ~830 residents, Aisne valley) and one in Nord (59740, 165 residents); the Aisne one holds major Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Gallo-Roman villa sites.
Beautiful (Christina Aguilera song)
"Beautiful" is a 2002 pop ballad by Christina Aguilera from Stripped, written and produced by Linda Perry, released November 16, 2002, a GLAAD-honored LGBTQ+ anthem and 2004 Grammy winner for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Beautiful Boy (2018 film)
Beautiful Boy (2018) is Felix van Groeningen's English-language debut drama, adapted from David Sheff's memoir Beautiful Boy and Nic Sheff's Tweak, starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet as a father and son facing meth addiction, released by Amazon Studios.
Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) is John Lennon's lullaby for son Sean, from the 1980 album Double Fantasy; recorded August-September 1980 at the Hit Factory, famous for the line about life happening while making other plans.