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Bed bug infestations
Bed bug infestations are established colonies of the blood-sucking insects Cimex lectularius or Cimex hemipterus in places people sleep, resurgent worldwide since the late 1990s.
Bed Chem
Bed Chem is a 2024 song by Sabrina Carpenter from Short n' Sweet, shorthand for bedroom chemistry. Released October 8, 2024 as the album's fourth single, it peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 6 in the UK.
Bed Friend (เพื่อนต้องห้ามแม้แหน่เป็นแฟน)
Bed Friend (อย่าเล่นกับอนล) is a 2023 Thai BL office-romance series on One 31, produced by Mandeework/Domundi, starring NetJames as Uea and King in a friends-with-benefits plot; 100 million iQIYI views, KAZZ Series of the Year 2024.
Bed Rest
Bed rest (bedrest, MeSH D001510) is confinement to bed for therapeutic or experimental reasons. Once routinely prescribed, trials show it causes muscle and bone loss and is often ineffective or harmful; early mobilization is now favored.
Bed size
Bed size, also called mattress size, is the set of standard dimensions for mattresses and bedding. Sizes are regional: Europe sells by centimeters, while the UK and US use named sizes.
Bed-3 Oil and Gas Field
Bed-3, also called Badr El Din 3, is an operating onshore oil and gas field in Egypt's Western Desert, discovered by Shell in 1983 and operated by BAPETCO.
Beda
Beda is the ancient Roman settlement at modern Bitburg, Germany, a vicus of the Treveri on the Trier–Cologne road, with a Claudian-era start and a 493 m late Roman fortification of about 1.73 ha.
Beda Dudik
Beda Dudik, born František Dudík, was a Moravian Benedictine monk of Rajhrad who became the land's official historiographer in 1859 and wrote a twelve-volume history of Moravia.
Beda Mayr
Beda Mayr (1742–1794) was a Bavarian Benedictine moral theologian at Donauwörth and a leading figure of the German Catholic Enlightenment; two of his works were placed on the Index.
Bedahulu
Bedahulu, also written Bedulu, was an ancient kingdom in Gianyar Regency, Bali, Indonesia, that existed from roughly the 8th to the 14th century and was the last independent Balinese kingdom.
Bedales School
Bedales School, founded by John Haden Badley in 1893 in Steep, Hampshire, is a co-educational independent day and boarding school for ages 3-18, known for its Bedales Assessed Courses replacing part of GCSE study, Outdoor Work programme, first-name informality, and no uniform.
Bedaquiline
Bedaquiline, sold as Sirturo and formerly called TMC207 or R207910, is a diarylquinoline antibiotic for tuberculosis resistant to rifampicin and isoniazid, introduced by Johnson & Johnson in 2012.
Bedara Kannappa (ಬೇಡರ ಕಣ್ಣಪ್ಪ)
Bedara Kannappa (ಬೇಡರ ಕಣ್ಣಪ್ಪ) is a 1954 Kannada devotional drama directed by H.L.N. Simha, produced by Gubbi Veeranna, marking Rajkumar's screen debut; first Kannada film to run 365 days and win a National Film Award.
Bédarieux
Bédarieux, commune in Hérault (Occitanie), France, at the Orb–Vèbre confluence; historic textile, tanning, and bauxite-mining town with a 710 m, 37-arch railway viaduct built 1854–1856.
Bedazzled (1967 film)
Bedazzled (1967) is a British Faustian fantasy comedy directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Cook, starring Cook as the Devil (George Spiggott) and Dudley Moore as Stanley Moon, who trades his soul for seven wishes; remade by Harold Ramis in 2000.
Bedazzled (2000 film)
Bedazzled (2000) is a Harold Ramis fantasy comedy remake of the 1967 Peter Cook-Dudley Moore film, starring Brendan Fraser as Elliot, who sells his soul to Elizabeth Hurley's Devil for seven wishes; grossed $90.4 million worldwide.
Bedchamber crisis
Bedchamber crisis: the May 1839 constitutional episode in which Queen Victoria refused Robert Peel's request to replace Whig ladies of the bedchamber, so Peel declined to form a ministry and Melbourne stayed Prime Minister.
Bedding
Bedding, also called bed linen, is the collection of textiles placed on a bed for sleeping, including sheets, covers, blankets, comforters, pillows, pillowcases, quilts, and bedspreads.
Bedding and Linens
Bedding and linens are bed textiles, from flax sheets to hospital laundry. Distinguishing facts: US healthcare launders about 5 billion pounds yearly, hot-water washing at 71°C for 25 minutes disinfects, and many antibacterial bedding claims fail independent testing.
Bedding ceremony
The bedding ceremony, or bedding ritual, was a European wedding custom in which family and friends put newlyweds to bed together, symbolizing and serving as proof of the marriage's consummation.
Beddingham
Beddingham, a village in the Ouse valley of East Sussex near Lewes, is the site of a Roman villa discovered in 1986 by aerial reconnaissance, excavated from 1987, with Bronze Age origins, infant burials, and post-Roman Saxon occupation.
Beddington
Beddington is a district in the London Borough of Sutton, Greater London, known for the Beddington Roman villa, a scheduled monument occupied from the 1st to the 4th century AD.
BeddyByes
BeddyByes is an Irish 3D-animated preschool series by JAM Media (creators John Rice and Alan Shannon) in which MeMo and BaBa journey across Planet BeddyByes toward bedtime; 52 eleven-minute episodes air on CBeebies, RTÉ, Disney Jr, and Disney+, with a second series commissioned.
Bede
Bede, known as the Venerable Bede, was an Anglo-Saxon monk at Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northumbria whose Ecclesiastical History, completed in 731, remains a vital source on the Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity.
Bede BD-5
The Bede BD-5 Micro is a small single-seat kit aircraft designed by Jim Bede in the early 1970s; its jet BD-5J variant is the world's lightest jet.
Bede Griffiths
Bede Griffiths, also known as Dom Bede Griffiths (1906–1993), was an English Catholic Benedictine monk who spent 38 years in India as a pioneer of Hindu–Christian dialogue.
Bede Liu
Bede Liu (刘必治) was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and a founder of digital signal processing who spent 53 years at Princeton, developing methods for filtering and compressing digital signals.
Bede's Death Song
Bede's Death Song is a five-line Old English poem on death and judgment, reportedly recited by the Venerable Bede on his deathbed at Jarrow in 735.
Beder Meye
Beder Meye (বেদের মেয়ে, "The Bede's Daughter") is a Bengali gitinatya, a lyrical drama with songs, written by the poet Jasimuddin and first published in 1951; it portrays the itinerant Bede community of rural Bengal.
Bedevilled (김복남 살인사건의 전말) (2010 film)
Bedevilled (김복남 살인사건의 전말) is Jang Cheol-soo's 2010 South Korean debut horror-thriller: abused islander Kim Bok-nam takes sickle revenge on Mu-do island after her Seoul friend Hae-won fails to help; Cannes Critics' Week premiere.