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Beecham House
Beecham House is a 2019 ITV historical drama, co-created and directed by Gurinder Chadha, set in Delhi in 1795. Its fictional Beecham family story stars Tom Bateman, with real figures Begum Samru and Shah Alam II; canceled after one season.
Beechcraft
Beechcraft, founded in 1932 in Wichita, Kansas as Beech Aircraft Company, is an American aircraft brand known for the Staggerwing, Bonanza, King Air, and T-6 Texan II trainer.
Beechcraft 1900
The Beechcraft 1900, sold as the Beechliner and ExecLiner, is a 19-passenger pressurized twin-engine turboprop commuter airliner developed from the King Air B200 and certified in 1983.
Beechcraft Baron
The Beechcraft Baron is a six-seat, twin-engine piston light aircraft produced by Beechcraft from 1961 in 55, 56, and 58 series, with production ending after Textron Aviation's 2025 announcement.
Beechcraft Bonanza
The Beechcraft Bonanza, or Beech Bonanza, is a four-place, single-engine light aircraft with retractable landing gear that Beech introduced in 1947 with a V-shaped tail.
Beechcraft C-12 Huron
The Beechcraft C-12 Huron is a twin-engine turboprop utility transport aircraft, based on the Beechcraft Super King Air 200, flown by all US military branches since 1974.
Beechcraft Denali
The Beechcraft Denali, briefly branded the Cessna Denali, is a single-engine turboprop by Textron Aviation that first flew in 2021 and seats up to 11 occupants.
Beechcraft King Air
The Beechcraft King Air is a family of twin-engine, pressurized turboprop aircraft built by Beech Aircraft in Wichita, in production since 1964, with nearly 7,200 delivered by 2014.
Beechcraft Model 18
The Beechcraft Model 18, or Twin Beech, is a twin-engine, low-wing light transport built by Beech Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas; more than 9,000 were made between 1937 and 1969.
Beechcraft QU-22 Pave Eagle
The Beechcraft QU-22 Pave Eagle (QU-22, U-22 Bonanza) was a modified Beech Bonanza the US Air Force flew as a radio relay in the Vietnam War.
Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail
The Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail is a family of US Army signals intelligence aircraft converted from the Beechcraft King Air, which flew from 1971 until its retirement in 2025.
Beechcraft Starship
The Beechcraft Starship is a twin-engine canard business aircraft with a carbon fiber airframe, built from 1988 to 1995, of which only 53 were made.
Beechcraft Super King Air
The Beechcraft Super King Air is a family of pressurized twin-turboprop business and utility aircraft, first flown in 1972 and still in production as the King Air 360.
Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
The Beechcraft T-34 Mentor, also known as the Beechcraft Model 45, is an American two-seat military primary trainer derived from the Bonanza, serving US forces from the early 1950s.
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II
The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II, or T-6A, is a two-seat turboprop military trainer derived from the Pilatus PC-9, serving as the primary trainer for U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots.
Beechcraft Travel Air
The Beechcraft Travel Air is an American light twin-engine piston aircraft produced by Beech Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas, from 1958 to 1968 under the Model 95 designation.
Beechcraft Twin Bonanza
The Beechcraft Twin Bonanza, also known as the Beechcraft Model 50, is a six-seat twin-engine utility and business aircraft built by Beech Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas, from 1951 to 1963.
Beeching cuts
Beeching cuts: British railway closures following Richard Beeching's 1963 report The Reshaping of British Railways, which proposed closing 2,363 stations and 4,000 miles of track; about 5,000 miles and 2,300 stations closed in the 1960s.
Beechwood Cemetery
Beechwood Cemetery, also known as the National Cemetery of Canada, is a burial ground in Ottawa established in 1873 and recognized by Parliament in 2009.
Beed (बीड)
Beed (बीड), also historically Bhir, is a drought-prone Marathwada district in central Maharashtra with 2,585,049 people, 11 talukas, an agrarian soybean and cotton economy, and the Parli Vaijnath Jyotirlinga temple.
Beeda Masthan Rao
Beeda Masthan Rao is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician from Andhra Pradesh who sits in the Rajya Sabha for 2024–2028, after serving as Kavali MLA from 2009 to 2014.
Beedi (बीड़ी)
Beedi (बीड़ी), also spelled bidi or biri: a thin hand-rolled South Asian cigarette of tobacco flakes wrapped in a tendu (Diospyros melanoxylon) leaf, tied with thread; low-cost, labor-intensive, and more hazardous per puff than cigarettes.
Beef
Beef is meat from full-grown cattle about 2 years old, from Bos taurus and Bos indicus descended from the aurochs. Produced in extensive grazing and grain-fed feedlot systems; the U.S. is the largest producer and consumer, and beef has the highest carbon footprint per unit of protein.
Beef (The Bear)
Beef (The Bear) is the season 2 premiere of FX's The Bear, in which renovation of the Original Beef of Chicagoland sandwich shop begins; the team cuts a six-month plan to three months, launching the Beef-to-Bear transformation.
Beef (TV series)
Beef is a Netflix and A24 comedy-drama anthology series created by Lee Sung Jin. Season 1 (2023) starred Steven Yeun and Ali Wong in a road rage feud; Season 2 (2026) recast the anthology with Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan. It won eight Emmys including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.
Beef aging
Beef aging: refrigerated postmortem storage that tenderizes meat via calpain proteolysis and builds umami compounds. Wet aging uses vacuum packs; dry aging (0–4°C, 75–85% RH) concentrates flavor at 15–30% yield loss.
Beef bourguignon
Beef bourguignon (bœuf bourguignon, boeuf à la bourguignonne, beef Burgundy) is a French stew of beef braised in red Burgundy wine with lardons, pearl onions, and mushrooms; first recorded in 1867, codified by Escoffier in 1903, and popularized in America by Julia Child in 1961.
Beef cattle
Beef cattle, cattle raised primarily for meat, are produced in cow-calf, stocker, and feedlot systems worldwide. Key facts: U.S. herd 86.7 million head (2025), cattle cause 77% of ruminant methane, record steak prices, feedlots market 88% of fed cattle.
Beef cheek
Beef cheek (ox cheek, cheek meat) is the masseter jaw muscle of the cow, a dark, collagen-rich secondary cut, roughly twice the collagen of chuck roast, made tender by long braising, sous-vide, or pressure cooking into gelatinous barbacoa or carbonnade.
Beef on weck
Beef on weck, also known as Kimmelweck, is a Western New York sandwich of thinly sliced roast beef with horseradish on a kummelweck roll, dipped in au jus.