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Beimeng suoyan

Beimeng suoyan (北梦琐言) is a collection of historical anecdotes about the late Tang and Five Dynasties periods, compiled by Sun Guangxian while serving the rulers of Jingnan.

BeIN Media Group (مجموعة بي إن الإعلامية)

beIN Media Group (مجموعة بي إن الإعلامية), also beIN, is a Doha-based Qatari sports and entertainment media group incorporated January 1, 2014 from Al Jazeera Sport. It runs beIN SPORTS, Digiturk, MIRAMAX and TOD, holds Premier League MENA rights to 2028, and led the WTO beoutQ piracy case.

BeIN Sports

BeIN Sports (بي إن سبورتس), also historically Al Jazeera Sport, is a Qatari pay-TV sports network owned by beIN Media Group, Doha-based, operating 60+ channels in 40+ countries with over 55 million subscribers and major MENA football rights.

Beinaglutide

Beinaglutide (贝那鲁肽, Yishengtai) is a short-acting GLP-1 receptor agonist, recombinant human GLP-1(7-36) with 100% human sequence, developed by Shanghai Benemae and approved in China in December 2016 for type 2 diabetes and weight management.

Beineu-Bozoy-Shymkent Gas Pipeline

The Beineu-Bozoy-Shymkent Gas Pipeline is a 1,450 km trunk natural gas pipeline in Kazakhstan that supplies the south and links to the Central Asia-China gas pipeline at Shymkent.

Being A Hero (冰雨火)

Being A Hero (冰雨火) is a 2022 Chinese anti-drug crime drama, 32 episodes on Youku, directed by Fu Dongyu, starring Chen Xiao as Wu Zhenfeng and Wang Yibo as police officer Chen Yu; Douban 7.3.

Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant, Gallimard 1943) is Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenological ontology distinguishing being-in-itself from being-for-itself, analyzing bad faith, the look, and radical freedom; translated by Hazel Barnes (1956) and Sarah Richmond (2018).

Being and Time

Being and Time (Sein und Zeit) is Martin Heidegger's 1927 work renewing the question of the meaning of Being through a temporal analysis of Dasein, being-in-the-world, care, and death; published incomplete, with translations by Macquarrie & Robinson, Stambaugh, and Welch.

Being as an Ocean

Being as an Ocean is an American melodic hardcore band formed in 2011 in Alpine, California, known for post-rock atmospheres and spoken word, fronted by Joel Quartuccio.

Being Charlie

Being Charlie is a 2016 American drama directed by Rob Reiner, co-written by his son Nick Reiner and Matt Elisofon, loosely based on Nick's teen addiction; starring Nick Robinson, Cary Elwes, and Common, released by Paladin May 6, 2016.

Being Cyrus (बींग साइरस)

Being Cyrus (बींग साइरस) is Homi Adajania's 2005 English-language Indian psychological thriller starring Saif Ali Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, and Dimple Kapadia as a conman infiltrating a dysfunctional Parsi family, the first English film about Parsis.

Being Eddie

Being Eddie is a 2025 Netflix documentary about comedian Eddie Murphy, directed by Angus Wall. It premiered November 12, 2025, runs about 103 minutes, features interviews with Chappelle, Rock, Seinfeld and others, and scored 74% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Being Erica

Being Erica: Canadian comedy-drama (2009–2011) created by Jana Sinyor for CBC, starring Erin Karpluk and Michael Riley; 49 episodes in four seasons about time-travel therapy for regrets, aired in 160 countries.

Being Heumann

Being Heumann is a 2026 Apple Original Films biographical drama directed by Siân Heder, starring Ruth Madeley as activist Judy Heumann and Mark Ruffalo as Joseph Califano; it adapts Heumann's 2020 memoir and dramatizes the 1977 Section 504 sit-in, premiering as TIFF's opening night film.

Being Human (1994 film)

Being Human is a 1994 drama written and directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Robin Williams as Hector in five historical eras; a Warner Bros. production that flopped, grossing $1.3 million.

Being Human (British TV series)

Being Human is a BBC Three supernatural comedy-drama created by Toby Whithouse (2008-2013, five series) about a vampire, werewolf and ghost sharing a Bristol house; rescued by a fan petition, it became BBC Three's biggest hit and spawned a Syfy remake.

Being Human (North American TV series)

Being Human (North American TV series), Syfy's 2011-2014 remake of the BBC series by Toby Whithouse. A vampire (Aidan), werewolf (Josh), and ghost (Sally) share a Boston house in a four-season, 52-episode supernatural drama created by Jeremy Carver and Anna Fricke.

Being Human Foundation

Being Human Foundation: name shared by several unrelated charities, chiefly Being Human – The Salman Khan Foundation (Mumbai, est. 2007, healthcare and education, funded by the Being Human clothing brand license), plus US, UK, and Nigerian entities.

Being Inc. discography

Being Inc. (株式会社ビーイング) was a Japanese record label company active from 1978 to 2023, known for supplying over 130 Detective Conan theme songs before being succeeded by B ZONE.

Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich is a 1999 surreal comedy directed by Spike Jonze, written by Charlie Kaufman, starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and Malkovich as himself; a portal on office floor 7½ lets people enter the actor's mind for 15 minutes.

Being Maria

Being Maria (original title Maria) is Jessica Palud's 2024 French biographical drama starring Anamaria Vartolomei as actress Maria Schneider, Matt Dillon as Marlon Brando, and Giuseppe Maggio as Bertolucci, adapted from Vanessa Schneider's memoir about Last Tango in Paris.

Being Mary Jane

Being Mary Jane: BET drama series (2013–2019) created by Mara Brock Akil, starring Gabrielle Union as Atlanta news anchor Mary Jane Paul; BET's first one-hour scripted drama, 4-million-viewer pilot, five seasons ending in 2019.

Being the Ricardos

Being the Ricardos is a 2021 Aaron Sorkin biographical drama starring Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz, dramatizing one production week of I Love Lucy amid communist accusations, infidelity allegations, and Ball's pregnancy; released by Amazon Studios.

Being There

Being There is Hal Ashby's 1979 satirical comedy-drama, also known by its hero's alias Chauncey Gardiner, adapted from Jerzy Kosinski's 1971 novel. Peter Sellers plays Chance, a TV-educated gardener mistaken for a sage; Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn Douglas co-star; released December 20, 1979.

Beingmate

Beingmate Co., Ltd. (贝因美) is a Hangzhou-based Chinese infant formula company founded in 1992 by Xie Hong, listed in Shenzhen in 2011 as the first domestic formula stock.

Beinir Johannesen

Beinir Johannesen (born 1997) is the Faroese Prime Minister (løgmaður) and leader of Fólkaflokkurin since 2022, elected 13 April 2026 as the youngest ever, leading a three-party coalition and succeeding his uncle Aksel V. Johannesen.

Beintehaa

Beintehaa (बेइंतहा) is an Indian Colors TV romantic drama (30 December 2013 to 21 November 2014, 235 episodes) by Fortune Productions, starring Preetika Rao and Harshad Arora as rival cousins Aaliya and Zain in a Muslim family; distinct from the unrelated 2020 series of the same name.

BEIP trial

The BEIP trial, or Bucharest Early Intervention Project, is the only randomized trial comparing foster care with institutional care for abandoned children, begun in Bucharest, Romania, around 2000.

Beipiao

Beipiao (北票市) is a county-level city under Chaoyang, Liaoning, on the Daling River; a former coal-mining center with major gold and iron deposits and the Sihetun Jehol Biota fossil site of Sinosauropteryx and Confuciusornis.

BEIR

BEIR (Benchmarking-IR) is a benchmark for zero-shot evaluation of information retrieval models, covering 18 public datasets across nine tasks and multiple domains; it was created at TU Darmstadt and published at NeurIPS 2021.