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Before the Dawn (Kate Bush concert residency)

Before the Dawn: Kate Bush's 22-night 2014 concert residency at London's Hammersmith Apollo, her first live shows since 1979, built around The Ninth Wave and A Sky of Honey; live album released November 2016.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) is Sidney Lumet's final film, a heist-gone-wrong crime drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Marisa Tomei, shot digitally with a fractured timeline.

Before the Flood (2005 film)

Before the Flood (淹没, Yan Mo) is a 2005 Chinese documentary by Li Yifan and Yan Yu recording the 2002 demolition and relocation of Fengjie before Three Gorges Dam flooding; it won the Berlin Wolfgang Staudte Prize and Yamagata Grand Prize.

Before the Flood (album)

Before the Flood is Bob Dylan and the Band's 1974 double live album on Asylum/Island, documenting their 40-show reunion tour; mostly LA Forum recordings, Billboard No. 3, later expanded by the 2024 box set.

Before the Flood (Doctor Who)

Before the Flood is Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 4 (10 October 2015), written by Toby Whithouse, second part of Under the Lake; the Twelfth Doctor explains the bootstrap paradox via Beethoven and faces the Fisher King.

Before the Flood (film)

Before the Flood is a 2016 American climate change documentary directed by Fisher Stevens and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, released by National Geographic in 171 countries.

Before the Rain

Before the Rain (Pred doždot, Пред дождот) is Milcho Manchevski's 1994 Macedonian debut feature, a three-part circular war drama that shared the 1994 Venice Golden Lion and earned Macedonia's first Oscar nomination.

Before the Revolution

Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione) is Bernardo Bertolucci's 1964 Italian drama, his second feature, about a young Parma bourgeois torn between Marxism and an affair with his aunt Gina, ending in resigned marriage to Clelia.

Before the Throne

Before the Throne (أمام العرش, Amam al-'Arsh) is a 1983 book by Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz in which Egypt's rulers, from pharaohs to Anwar Sadat, are tried before a divine court.

Before the World Blows

Before the World Blows (The Abi and Alan Experiment) is a 2026 collaborative album by Erykah Badu and producer The Alchemist, Badu's first studio album since 2010, 16 tracks, released August 28, 2026 on Control Freaq/Young.

Before the World Turns to Dust

Before the World Turns to Dust is The Calling's third album, released September 25, 2026 via TLG/Virgin, its first in 22 years since Two (2004). Alex Band's comeback after a Parkinson's diagnosis, self-funding, 15 tracks produced by John Fields.

Before These Crowded Streets

Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by the Dave Matthews Band, released in 1998, produced by Steve Lillywhite, and considered the band's most experimental album.

Before trilogy

Before trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (2013), Richard Linklater's romance series with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as Jesse and Céline, filmed nine years apart in Vienna, Paris, and Greece.

Before We Go

Before We Go is a 2014 American romantic drama, the directorial debut of Chris Evans, who stars with Alice Eve as two strangers stranded overnight in Manhattan; premiered at TIFF 2014, released by Radius in 2015.

Before We Vanish (散歩する侵略者)

Before We Vanish (散歩する侵略者, Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2017 Japanese sci-fi drama adapted from Tomohiro Maekawa's Ikiume stage play, starring Masami Nagasawa, Ryuhei Matsuda, and Hiroki Hasegawa; aliens steal human concepts before invading, and it screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2017.

Beforeigners

Beforeigners (Fremvandrerne), a 2019-2022 Norwegian HBO sci-fi crime series by Anne Bjørnstad and Eilif Skodvin, directed by Jens Lien: Stone Age, Viking, and 19th-century people appear in Oslo; two seasons, starring Krista Kosonen and Nicolai Cleve Broch.

Befotertinib mesylate

Befotertinib mesylate (赛美纳, D-0316/BPI-D0316) is a third-generation EGFR-TKI by Betta Pharmaceuticals for EGFR-mutated NSCLC; NMPA approved it second-line (May 2023, T790M) and first-line (October 2023), with phase 3 PFS 22.1 vs 13.8 months versus icotinib.

Begazy-Dandybai culture

The Begazy-Dandybai culture was a Late Bronze Age archaeological culture of Central Kazakhstan, named after burial sites at Begazy and Dandybai and known for large stone mausoleums and bronze metallurgy.

Begbalel (crater on Ceres)

Begbalel is an impact crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, about 102 km wide, named by the IAU in 2016 for a Yap Islands guardian of taro fields.

Begelomab

Begelomab (Begedina, BT 5/9, SAND-26) is a murine IgG2b monoclonal antibody against CD26/DPP4 developed by ADIENNE for steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease; its EU marketing application was withdrawn in 2016 and its phase 3 trial terminated.

Beggar my neighbour

Beggar my neighbour, also Strip Jack Naked or Beat Your Neighbour Out Of Doors, is a no-skill British children's card game; aces and court cards force forfeits, and a 2024 paper proved a non-terminating game exists.

Beggars Banquet

Beggars Banquet, the Rolling Stones' December 1968 Decca album, produced by Jimmy Miller at Olympic Studios, marking a return to blues and roots rock after Their Satanic Majesties Request, with Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man.

Beggars Group

Beggars Group, founded by Martin Mills from the Beggars Banquet record shops (1973) and label (1977), is a London-based British independent music company owning 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, XL Recordings and Young, with 2025 revenue of £134.48 million.

Begged (song)

begged (Olivia Rodrigo song, 2026): acoustic ballad, track 9 on you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, written with Dan Nigro; peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Beggiatoa

Beggiatoa (type species B. alba) is a genus of colorless, filamentous, gliding sulfur bacteria forming white mats at oxic-anoxic interfaces, storing intracellular sulfur granules; Winogradsky discovered chemolithotrophy in it.

Beggin'

Beggin' is a 1967 Four Seasons song by Bob Gaudio and Peggy Farina (US No. 16), revived by Pilooski (2007), Madcon (2008, European No. 1s), and Måneskin's 2017 cover, a 2021 global hit (Hot 100 No. 13).

Beggin' (Måneskin recording)

Måneskin recording of "Beggin'", a 2017 Metropolis Studios cover of the Four Seasons song, released on the Chosen EP, which went viral via TikTok in 2021 and topped the Spotify global chart.

Begging

Begging is soliciting alms in public, historically regulated from medieval England's Statutes of Labourers through the 1824 Vagrancy Act to the ECHR's Lăcătuș v. Switzerland ruling and the UK's 2026 repeal.

Begging the question

Begging the question (petitio principii) is the informal fallacy of assuming one's conclusion in the premises; Aristotelian origin, related to circular reasoning, now also colloquially means raising a question.

Begho

Begho was a cosmopolitan trading town of the 10th to early 19th century near modern Hani in Ghana's Bono Region, trading in gold, kola, salt, and ivory.