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Beer pong
Beer pong, also called Beirut in the US Northeast, is a team drinking game: throw ping pong balls into ten cups per side on an 8-foot table; hit cups force drinking. Dartmouth paddle origins, 1980s throw version, WSOBP Las Vegas tournaments.
Beer stein
Beer stein, from German Steinzeugkrug (stoneware tankard): a handled beer vessel, traditionally stoneware, with a hinged pewter lid added under early 1500s covered-container laws. Golden Age 1850-1910; Mettlach led production; Oktoberfest steins remain collectible.
Beer Street and Gin Lane
Beer Street and Gin Lane are paired 1751 etchings by William Hogarth contrasting healthy English beer drinkers with gin-ruined Londoners, published to support the Gin Act of 1751 against the gin craze.
Beer style
Beer style: named beer categories defined by appearance, flavor, strength, and origin; term popularized by Michael Jackson in the 1970s; cataloged by BJCP (2021 guidelines, 34 categories) and Brewers Association.
Beer–Lambert law
The Beer–Lambert law, also called Beer's law or the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law, states that absorbance is proportional to the concentration of an absorbing species and to the light's path length.
Beerbongs & Bentleys
Beerbongs & Bentleys is Post Malone's second studio album, released April 27, 2018 by Republic Records. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 461,000 units, broke streaming records, and earned a 2019 Grammy Album of the Year nomination.
Beerfest
Beerfest is a 2006 Broken Lizard comedy directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, in which American brothers discover a secret Oktoberfest beer-games contest and return with a trained team; grossed $19.2M, 41% Tomatometer.
Beerla Ilaiah
Beerla Ilaiah is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress who represents the Alair constituency in the Telangana Legislative Assembly and serves as a Government Whip.
Beeroth (biblical city)
Beeroth (Hebrew בְּאֵרוֹת, Beʾeroth, "wells") was a biblical city in the hill country of Benjamin, one of the four Gibeonite towns, traditionally identified with el-Bireh near Ramallah.
Beers criteria
The Beers criteria are an updated list of potentially inappropriate medications for older adults, created by geriatrician Mark H. Beers in 1991 and now maintained by the American Geriatrics Society.
Beersheba
Beersheba (Be'er Sheva', Bi'r al-Sab') is a desert city in southern Israel, founded by the Ottomans around 1900 as an administrative center for Negev Bedouin, captured by Britain in 1917, and now Israel's fourth metropolis with about 212,000 residents.
Beerus
Beerus (破壊神ビルス, Hakaishin Birusu) is the God of Destruction of Universe 7 in Dragon Ball, created by Akira Toriyama; debuted in Battle of Gods (2013), cat-like design modeled on his pet Debo, returns in the 2026 Dragon Ball Super: Beerus anime.
Bees & Bears
Bees & Bears is a Berlin-based climate fintech founded in 2023 by Jakob von Egidy and Marius Schondelmaier, offering embedded installment financing for residential climate technologies.
Bees IHC
Bees IHC refers to the Berkshire Bees Ice Hockey Club, formerly Bracknell Bees, founded 1987 by John Nike; Superleague champions, EPIHL 2006/07 double winners, now mothballed NIHL National side based in Slough.
Bees in mythology and religion
Bees in mythology and religion surveys bees as divine symbols and priestly titles across ancient cultures, from Egyptian kingship and Greek Melissae to Maya beekeeping deities.
Beeston Castle
Beeston Castle: ruined 13th-century enclosure castle in Cheshire, built from 1226 by Ranulf, Earl of Chester, on a prehistoric hillfort site; seized by Henry III in 1237, besieged and slighted in the Civil War, now an English Heritage scheduled monument.
Beeston, Leeds
Beeston, Leeds: a district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, formerly a township-chapelry with coal mines worked from Charles II's time; now a dense urban neighbourhood centred on Dewsbury Road, near Middleton Park and Railway.
Beeswax
Beeswax, the comb-building wax of honeybees (Apis mellifera), a lipid mix of alkanes, acids, and esters melting at 61–66 °C; used since the Neolithic seventh millennium BC in candles, cosmetics, food coatings, and medicine.
Beetaloo Sub-basin
The Beetaloo Sub-basin is a Mesoproterozoic sedimentary sub-basin in the Northern Territory of Australia, its most advanced shale gas play, covering about 28,000 square kilometers.
Beethoven (film)
Beethoven is a 1992 American family comedy directed by Brian Levant about a St. Bernard who adopts the Newton family while a veterinarian plots against him.
Beethoven (Mercurian crater)
Beethoven is a 643-km impact basin on Mercury at 20.8S, 123.6W, named in 1976 for the composer. It is unusually shallow (about 2.5 km deep), volcanic-filled, and about 4.0-3.8 billion years old.
Beethoven Monument
Beethoven Monument (Beethoven-Denkmal): bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven by Ernst Julius Hähnel on Bonn's Münsterplatz, unveiled 12 August 1845 after Liszt's funding, with the first Beethoven Festival; restored 2022.
Beethoven Peninsula
Beethoven Peninsula is the ice-covered south-west part of Alexander Island, Antarctica, also called Peninsula Carvajal by Chile; a ~10,000 km2 plateau with Quaternary volcanic outcrops named after Beethoven.
Beethoven with the Manuscript of the Missa Solemnis
Joseph Karl Stieler's 1820 oil portrait (72.0 x 58.5 cm) of Ludwig van Beethoven composing the Credo of his Missa solemnis, commissioned by the Brentanos; the best-known Beethoven image, held at Beethoven-Haus Bonn.
Beethoven's 2nd (film)
Beethoven's 2nd is a 1993 American family comedy film, the sequel to Beethoven, directed by Rod Daniel, in which the Newton family's St. Bernard fathers a litter of puppies.
Beethoven's 4th (film)
Beethoven's 4th (2001) is a direct-to-video family comedy, the fourth Beethoven film, directed by David Mickey Evans, in which the St. Bernard swaps places with the look-alike dog Michelangelo of the wealthy Sedgewick family; it holds 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Beetle
Beetle (order Coleoptera): largest insect order, over 400,000 described species, defined by hardened elytra meeting along the back; four suborders, sister to Strepsiptera, major pollinators, decomposers, and plant feeders.
Beetle Bailey
Beetle Bailey is Mort Walker's American newspaper comic strip, debuting September 4, 1950 via King Features. The lazy private of Camp Swampy, originally a college student, was banned by Stars and Stripes in 1954 and now runs under Walker's sons.
Beetle zoogeography
Beetle zoogeography is the study of where beetle species and lineages occur worldwide, how their distributions divide into biogeographic regions, and how regional catalogs document them.
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice is a 1988 American horror-comedy film directed by Tim Burton, in which deceased newlyweds hire Michael Keaton's Betelgeuse to haunt their home's new living owners.