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Bedford
Bedford: county town of Bedfordshire and unitary authority (E06000055) in England's East of England; 185,225 residents (2021), River Great Ouse, large Italian community, directly elected mayor, and the planned Universal entertainment resort.
Bedford (town), New York
Bedford is a town in Westchester County, New York, founded in 1680, comprising three hamlets: Bedford Village, Bedford Hills (seat of government), and Katonah, a planned village relocated in the 1890s for New York City's reservoir system.
Bedford Hours
The Bedford Hours is a French book of hours illuminated in Paris around 1410 to 1430, owned by John, Duke of Bedford, who gave it to Henry VI in 1430.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
The Bedford Institute of Oceanography, established in 1962 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, is Canada's largest center for ocean research, hosting over 600 staff from several federal departments.
Bedford Level experiment
The Bedford Level experiment was a series of 19th-century observations along six miles of the Old Bedford River in England used to argue about the Earth's curvature.
Bedford Modern School
Bedford Modern School, shortened to Bedford Modern, is a co-educational independent day school in Bedford, England, founded in 1764 and part of the Harpur Trust.
Bedford Park (film)
Bedford Park is a 2026 American drama-romance, the debut feature of writer-director Stephanie Ahn, starring Moon Choi and Son Suk-ku as two Korean Americans brought together by a car accident; it won Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature and sold to Sony Pictures Classics.
Bedford School
Bedford School (Bedford, Bedfordshire): independent boys' day and boarding school aged 7–18, founded 1552 under Edward VI, endowed 1566 by William Harpur, governed by the Harpur Trust; ISI-inspected; co-educational from September 2027.
Bedford Vehicles
Bedford Vehicles, also known as Bedford trucks, was a British commercial vehicle brand of Vauxhall Motors produced from 1931 until 1986, with over 3.5 million built.
Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Bedford–Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy) is a central Brooklyn neighborhood formed in 1930, historically Black, known for brownstones, the first US community development corporation, and rapid gentrification: Black share fell from 74.9% (2000) to 38.3% (2024).
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire, England is a ceremonial and historic county in the East of England, administered since 2009 by three unitary councils: Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire, and Luton.
Bedil
Bedil (بیدل) was the pen name of Mirza Abd al-Qadir, a Persian-language poet and Sufi of Mughal India, born in 1644 in Patna and active in Delhi.
Bedil school
The Bedil school (maktab-e Bedil) is the tradition of Persian poetry founded by Mirza Abd-al-Qader Bedil of Delhi (1644–1720), the most difficult poet of the Indian style.
Bedir Khan Beg
Bedir Khan Beg (بدرخان بگ) was the last emir of the Kurdish Bohtan emirate, ruling from 1821 until his capture by the Ottomans in 1847.
Bedivere
Bedivere (Welsh Bedwyr), one of Arthur's oldest recorded knights, companion of Kay, cup-bearer in Geoffrey of Monmouth, and in Malory the sole knight to return Excalibur and outlive Arthur.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 Disney live-action/animated musical directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Angela Lansbury as apprentice witch Eglantine Price, adapted from Mary Norton's books, with Sherman songs and four Oscar nominations.
Bedlam (1946 film)
Bedlam (1946 film), RKO drama-horror directed by Mark Robson and produced by Val Lewton, his last RKO production, starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee, set in 1761 London's Bethlem asylum, inspired by Hogarth's A Rake's Progress.
Bedlam (comics)
Bedlam (comics) covers several uses of the name: Marvel mutant Jesse Aaronson of X-Force (Deadpool 2), DC's Matthew Stuart, Baron Bedlam, Doctor Bedlam, Eddie Brock's symbiote offshoot, and Nick Spencer and Riley Rossmo's Image Comics series.
Bedlam Series
Bedlam Series: the Oklahoma State vs. Oklahoma all-sports rivalry, named for wrestling bedlam at Gallagher Hall; Oklahoma dominates football (89-20-7 through 2022) while OSU leads the all-sports series 14-11-1.
Bedlington Terrier
Bedlington Terrier: British terrier from Northumberland, England, also called Rothbury Terrier; lamb-like curly coat, arched back, miner-developed vermin hunter; AKC-recognized 1886; prone to inherited copper toxicosis (COMMD1).
Bedload
Bedload is the part of a stream's sediment load that moves by sliding, rolling, or skipping on or very near the streambed, generally much less than the suspended load.
Bedok New Town
Bedok New Town, Singapore's fifth HDB new town in the east, developed from 1963 reclamation and completed early 1980s; also called Bedok, about 294,519 residents, Bedok Reservoir, Heartbeat@Bedok, Bayshore extension.
Bedouin
Bedouin (Arabic badawī, plural badw), Arabic-speaking nomadic desert peoples of the Middle East and North Africa; tribal pastoralist societies of camel, sheep, and goat herders, now largely settled, notably the Negev Bedouin.
Bedouine
Bedouine is the folk project of Syrian-born, Armenian-descent songwriter Azniv Korkejian of Los Angeles; her self-titled 2017 Spacebomb debut scored 85 on Metacritic, followed by Bird Songs of a Killjoy, Waysides, and Neon Summer Skin.
Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geosciences and Geoenergies
The Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geosciences and Geoenergies is an ETH Zurich underground research lab in the Bedretto Tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps, opened in 2018.
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu (1911–1975) was a Turkish painter, muralist, mosaicist, and poet who brought Anatolian folk motifs and kilim patterns into modern Turkish painting and large public mosaics.
Bedřich Smetana
Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), Czech composer regarded as founder of Czech national music; creator of The Bartered Bride and the Má vlast cycle, composed while deaf; first conductor of the Provisional Theatre.
Bedrich Supcik
Bedřich Šupčík (Bedrich Supcik, 1898–1957), Czech Sokol gymnast, won the first Czechoslovak Olympic gold in rope climbing at Paris 1924 (7.2 s, 8 m rope), plus all-around bronze and 1928 team silver.
Bedrock (electronic music duo)
Bedrock is a British electronic music duo formed in London in 1992, made up of DJ John Digweed and producer Nick Muir, known for 'Heaven Scent'.
Bedrock AgentCore
Bedrock AgentCore is a set of modular, managed AWS cloud services for building, deploying, and operating AI agents, announced in July 2025 and generally available that October.