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Bedrock Capital
Bedrock Capital is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm founded by Geoff Lewis and Eric Stromberg, launched in 2018 with its first fund reported at $122 million.
Bedrock Manufacturing Company, LLC
Bedrock Manufacturing Company, LLC is a Texas holding company founded by Tom Kartsotis in 2014 and based in Plano, parent of the brands Shinola, Filson, and Bedrock Watch Co.
Bedroom
Bedroom: a dwelling room for sleeping and private retreat. Covers its history from communal to private space, minimum size standards (England NDSS 7.5/11.5 m²), HMO rules, ventilation and sleep research, and US bedroom-count market shares.
Bedroom in Arles
Bedroom in Arles (La Chambre de Van Gogh à Arles): three oil versions by Vincent van Gogh of his Yellow House bedroom, 1888–1889, at the Van Gogh Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and Musée d'Orsay.
Bedroom producer
A bedroom producer is a musician who produces music, especially electronic music, at home on affordable software and equipment rather than in a professional studio.
Beds Are Burning
Beds Are Burning, also known as Beds are Burning, is Midnight Oil's 1987 protest song from Diesel and Dust demanding land rights and reparations for Australia's Pintupi people; it won two 1988 ARIA Awards and hit No. 17 in the US.
Bedside echocardiography
Bedside echocardiography is a focused cardiac ultrasound performed by the treating clinician at the point of care to quickly assess pericardial effusion, heart function, and volume status.
Bedsit
A bedsit (bedsitter, bed-sitting room) is a single rented British room combining living and sleeping space, usually with basic cooking facilities and shared bathroom or kitchen; legally a non self-contained unit within an HMO under the Housing Act 2004.
Bedtime Stories (film)
Bedtime Stories is a 2008 American family fantasy-comedy from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Adam Shankman and starring Adam Sandler as a handyman whose invented bedtime stories come true.
Bedtime Stories (Madonna album)
Bedtime Stories is Madonna's sixth studio album, released October 25, 1994 on Sire. Produced with Babyface, Dallas Austin, Dave Hall, and Nellee Hooper, with Björk co-writing the title track, it yielded the US chart-topper Take a Bow and was followed by the 2025 Untold Chapter anniversary EP.
Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter
Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter is Madonna's eight-track, 27-minute EP released November 28, 2025 on Maverick, Warner, and Rhino for the 30th anniversary of Bedtime Stories (1994), with demos and alternate versions mixed by Stuart Price.
Bedwyn
Bedwyn, or Great Bedwyn, a historic parish and former Saxon borough with a mint in Wiltshire, England; charter of 778, Domesday borough, Castle Copse Roman villa, Seymour family, and Reform Act 1832 disenfranchisement.
Bee
Bee: flower-feeding pollinating insect of Apoidea, over 20,000 species, most wild; originated in Western Gondwana ca. 120 Ma; includes managed honey bee Apis mellifera; central to crop pollination and wild bee conservation debates.
Bee (social gathering)
A bee was a meeting of neighbors who combined their labor for one of their number, such as a quilting or husking bee, common in rural North America.
Bee (surname)
Bee is an English surname from Old English beo, a nickname for an industrious person or occupational name for a beekeeper, recorded since the 1190s; variants Bees, Beese; also a short form of McBee and Americanized Norwegian Bye.
Bee and PuppyCat
Bee and PuppyCat (also Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space) is a Natasha Allegri animated series about unemployed Bee and alien PuppyCat doing space temp jobs; Kickstarter-funded web series 2014–2016, Netflix season 2022.
Bee Branch (waterway)
Bee Branch is the name of several small streams in the United States, found across the South and Midwest, from Arkansas and Texas to Florida and Iowa.
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees were the Gibb brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice, a harmony pop and disco group known for Barry's falsetto, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, six straight US number ones, and over 200 million records sold.
Bee hummingbird
Bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae, zunzuncito), a Cuban endemic hummingbird; the male is the world's smallest bird at about 5.5 cm and 1.95 g; Near Threatened from habitat loss; sister to Bahama and Inagua hummingbirds, not the Vervain Hummingbird.
Bee Movie
Bee Movie is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy from DreamWorks, written and co-produced by Jerry Seinfeld, who voices Barry B. Benson, a bee suing humanity for stealing honey.
Bee Partners
Bee Partners is a San Francisco pre-seed venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Michael Berolzheimer that invests in deep tech, including AI, robotics, and synthetic biology.
Bee pollen
Bee pollen: flower pollen collected by honey bees, mixed with nectar and secretions, harvested via pollen traps and sold as a supplement; clinical efficacy unproven, allergy and contaminant risks documented.
Bee smoker
Bee smoker: handheld bellows-and-firebox device that puffs smoke into hives to calm honey bees by blocking alarm pheromone sensing; invented practically by Moses Quinby in 1873, refined by Bingham patents; fuels include burlap and pine needles.
Bee sting
Bee sting: defensive venom injection via a female bee's barbed, modified ovipositor. Honey bee stinger and venom sac detach and keep pumping (140–150 µg venom); bee dies after one sting, unlike wasps. Covers venom components, allergy, VIT, first aid, Africanized bees.
Bee taxonomic resources and nomenclature
Bee taxonomic resources and nomenclature covers the catalogs, databases, identification keys, and rules researchers use to name and identify the world's roughly 20,934 bee species.
Bee Vang
Bee Vang is a Hmong American actor born in 1991 in Fresno, California, best known as Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino (2008); later a Brown University graduate, journalist, activist, and returning actor in Comisery and Voice of Shadows.
Bee-Bot
Bee-Bot is a small screen-free programmable floor robot shaped like a bee, made by TTS Group since 2004 to teach programming to children ages 3 to 11.
Bee-eater
Bee-eaters, the family Meropidae, are brightly colored Old World birds related to kingfishers, with about 25 species mostly in Africa, that catch bees and wasps in flight.
Bee, wasp and hornet place and personal names
An overview of place names and personal names derived from bee, wasp, and hornet words across languages, from English Beeby and the surname Bee to Slavic bee-tree toponyms.
Beech
Beech (Fagus), genus of ~15 Northern Hemisphere deciduous trees in Fagaceae; smooth grey bark, three-angled nuts in spiny cupules, masting every 5–8 years, hard 710 kg/m3 timber, threatened by bark and leaf disease and warming.