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Begich
Begich (Бегич), also rendered Begichka, was an emir of the Golden Horde sent by Mamai against Moscow in 1378 and killed at the battle of the Vozha River.
Begich Towers
Begich Towers, built as the Army's Hodge Building in 1948, is a 14-story condominium in Whittier, Alaska, housing most of the town's residents and services under one roof.
BEGIN
BEGIN (ビギン) is a Japanese pop rock trio from Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, formed by three childhood friends, whose sanshin-based songs include 'Shimanchu nu Takara' and 'Nada Sōsō'.
Begin Again (film)
Begin Again (originally Can a Song Save Your Life?) is John Carney's 2013 New York musical comedy-drama starring Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, and Adam Levine; wide release July 2, 2014, $16.2M gross, Oscar-nominated song Lost Stars, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, staged as a 2026 musical at the Old Globe.
Begin Again (从结婚开始恋爱)
Begin Again (从结婚开始恋爱) is a 2020 Mango TV Chinese urban romance drama, 35 episodes, directed by Xu Chi, starring Zhou Yutong and Gong Jun, adapted from Thai author Pitchaya Turdkwanchai's novel, about a contract marriage between a female CEO and a surgeon; distinct from a 2024 short drama of the same title.
Begin the Beguine
Begin the Beguine (Volver a empezar) is José Luis Garci's 1982 Spanish drama about a Nobel laureate returning to Gijón after 40 years of exile; in 1983 it became the first Spanish film to win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Beginners
Beginners is Mike Mills's 2010 comedy-drama, released by Focus Features in 2011, starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, and Mélanie Laurent. Semi-autobiographical about Mills's father coming out at 75, it won Plummer the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
Beginning of cloistered rule
The beginning of cloistered rule (院政の開始) was Emperor Shirakawa's 1086 abdication in favor of his 8-year-old son Horikawa, after which Shirakawa governed as retired emperor, bypassing the Fujiwara regents.
Beginning of the End (film)
Beginning of the End (1957) is a Bert I. Gordon American sci-fi film, also called a big bug movie, in which irradiated grasshoppers from an Illinois experimental farm attack Chicago, starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle.
Beginning of the Great Revival
Beginning of the Great Revival (建党伟业, 2011), a Han Sanping and Huang Jianxin tribute drama for the CCP's 90th anniversary, covering 1911–1921 with an all-star cast and over 200 million yuan early box office.
Begins ≠ Youth
Begins ≠ Youth (비긴즈유스, also YOUTH) is a 2024 South Korean web drama based on the BTS Universe, airing 12 episodes on Xclusive from April 30 to May 14, 2024, produced by HYBE and Chorokbaem Media about seven boys in Songju-si.
Begomovirus
Begomovirus: largest genus of Geminiviridae, whitefly-transmitted plant viruses with monopartite or bipartite circular ssDNA genomes infecting dicots; species demarcated at 91% DNA-A identity.
Begoña Gómez
Begoña Gómez Fernández, Spanish consultant, IE Africa Center director, and wife of PM Pedro Sánchez; investigated since April 2024 by judge Peinado for influence peddling and malversion, facing jury trial while prosecutors seek acquittal.
Begoña Vía Dufresne
Begoña Vía Dufresne (Begoña Vía Dufresne Pereña), Spanish sailor born 1971 in Barcelona, won 470 gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics with Theresa Zabell after three straight world titles; sister of medalist Natalia Vía Dufresne.
Begonia
Begonia is a mega-diverse genus of Begoniaceae with roughly 1,400–2,167 species of succulent herbs across tropical Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania, known for asymmetric leaves, monoecious flowers, three-winged capsules, and thousands of ornamental hybrids.
Begonia Leaf Map
The Begonia Leaf Map (秋海棠地圖) is the popular name for the map of China, including Outer Mongolia, whose outline was said to resemble a begonia leaf.
Begoniaceae
Begoniaceae (begonia family), C.Agardh 1824, a Cucurbitales family with two genera, Begonia (1,400-2,200+ species, pantropical) and monotypic Hawaiian Hillebrandia; asymmetric leaves, inferior ovary, three-winged capsules, sister to Datiscaceae.
Begotten (film)
Begotten is E. Elias Merhige's 1989 non-dialogue black-and-white experimental horror film, a wordless creation myth of God Killing Himself, Mother Earth, and Son of Earth, shot on rephotographed 16mm, championed by Susan Sontag, and restored in 4K by Kino Lorber in 2026.
Bégoua
Bégoua, also spelled Begoua, is a commune and city about 10 km north of Bangui in the Central African Republic, Ombella-M'Poko Prefecture; 264,067 residents at the 2021 RGPH-4 census, PK12 transport terminus, part of Grand Bangui Region 7.
Begram hoard
The Begram hoard is a collection of Roman, Chinese, and Indian luxury objects found sealed in two rooms at Begram, ancient Kapisa, Afghanistan, excavated in 1937 and 1939.
Begrawiya South cemetery
Begrawiya South, also called the Southern Royal Cemetery, is a royal burial ground near Meroe in Sudan, where King Arkamani was buried around 270–260 BCE.
Begrawiya West cemetery
The Begrawiya West cemetery, usually called the Meroe West Cemetery, is a large non-royal elite burial ground at Meroë, Sudan, used from the late first century BC.
Begriffsschrift
Begriffsschrift (German for "concept-script") is a formal logical system and two-dimensional notation introduced by Gottlob Frege in his 1879 booklet, containing the first quantifier in formal logic and the first logical system with relations.
Begteginids
The Begteginids (بكتكينيون), also called the Erbil Atabegate, were a Turkic atabeg dynasty ruling Erbil for about ninety years until the Abbasid caliphate annexed it after Kokbori's death in 1232.
Begtuzun
Begtuzun (بکتوزون), titled Sinan al-Dawla, was a Samanid military commander and chamberlain of Khurasan who helped depose amir Mansur II in 999 and was detained when the Qarakhanids took Bukhara.
Begum Akhtar (اختری بائی فیض آبادی)
Begum Akhtar (Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, 1914–1974), Indian ghazal, thumri and dadra singer titled Malika-e-Ghazal; born Faizabad, famous for "Deewana banana hai toh deewana bana de", Padma Shri 1968, Padma Bhushan 1975.
Begum Barve
Begum Barve (बेगम बर्वे) is a two-act Marathi play written and directed by Satish Alekar in 1979, following an aging female impersonator who lives on fantasies of performing heroine roles again.
Begum Hazrat Mahal (بیگم حضرت محل)
Begum Hazrat Mahal (بیگم حضرت محل), wife of exiled Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, was regent of Awadh for her son Birjis Qadr and led the 1857 revolt's Lucknow resistance, later exiled to Nepal.
Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan
Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan (1924–2015) was a Pakistani businesswoman who chaired the Saif Group from 1964 to 1990 and is recognized as Pakistan's first woman federal minister.
Begum Para (بیگم پارا)
Begum Para (بیگم پارا), 1926–2008, Hindi film actress of Jhelum origin; debut Chand (1944), India's first pin-up girl after Life magazine 1951; wife of Nasir Khan, Dilip Kumar's brother; comeback in Saawariya (2007).