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Bejam
Bejam was a British chain of frozen food shops, the first dedicated freezer center retailer, founded by John Apthorp in 1968 and taken over by rival Iceland in 1988–89.
Bejan number
The Bejan number (Be) is a dimensionless number in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics named for Adrian Bejan of Duke University; it measures either the heat-transfer share of entropy generation or a dimensionless pressure drop.
Beji Caid Essebsi (الباجي قائد السبسي)
Beji Caid Essebsi (الباجي قائد السبسي), 1926–2019, Tunisian statesman; Bourguiba-era interior and foreign minister, 2011 interim prime minister, Nidaa Tounes founder, and Tunisia's first freely elected president (2014–2019).
Bejul Somaia
Bejul Somaia is an Indian venture capital investor who joined Lightspeed Venture Partners in 2008 and built its India practice, backing OYO, Udaan, and MagicPin.
Bek (chief sculptor)
Bek, also spelled Bak, was the chief royal sculptor of Pharaoh Akhenaten, active c. 1353–1336 BC during the Amarna period, and son of the sculptor Men.
Bek Ventures
Bek Ventures, formerly Earlybird Digital East until 2024, is a venture capital firm investing in Central and Eastern European and Turkish founders, known for UiPath and Payhawk.
Bekanamycin
Bekanamycin (kanamycin B, kanendomycin) is an aminoglycoside antibiotic from Streptomyces kanamyceticus, marketed in Japan in 1969, ATC J01GB13, WHO AWaRe Watch group, roughly twice as active in vitro as kanamycin A.
Bekasi
Bekasi: city in West Java, Indonesia, east of Jakarta in Jabodetabek; distinct from surrounding Kabupaten Bekasi. About 210.49 km², 12 districts, 2.65 million residents (2026), major industrial center and Jakarta commuter buffer, flood-prone lowlands.
BEKB-BCBE
BEKB-BCBE, the Banque cantonale bernoise, is the cantonal bank of Bern, Switzerland. Founded in 1834 as the first Swiss cantonal bank, it is majority-owned by the canton.
Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is the entropy assigned to a black hole, proportional to its event-horizon area; Bekenstein proposed it in 1972 and Hawking fixed the coefficient in 1974.
Bekes County
Bekes County (Békés vármegye) is a Hungarian county in the southeast on the Great Hungarian Plain, seat Békéscsaba, bordering Romania; 5,630 km², Körös rivers, chernozem farmland, Gyula's Gothic brick castle, and a GDP per capita near 57% of the national average.
Beketamun
Beketamun, meaning "servant of Amun", was a king's daughter of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, known from two objects, one dated to the reign of Thutmose III.
Bekhruz Karimov
Bekhruz Karimov (Беҳруз Каримов), born 2007, Uzbek right-back; played for Surkhon Termez, joined FC Lugano in 2026 for €450k, and appeared for Uzbekistan at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Bekhudi (बेख़ुदी)
Bekhudi (बेख़ुदी) is a 1992 Hindi film directed by Rahul Rawail, released 31 July 1992, marking Kajol's debut opposite Kamal Sadanah; Saif Ali Khan was replaced on day one.
Beko
Beko, also known as Beko Elektronik, is a Turkish home appliance brand owned by Arçelik; since April 2024 it has been the group's worldwide corporate brand.
Bektashi order
The Bektashi order (الطريقة البكتاشية) is a Sufi order that took organized form in Anatolia in the early sixteenth century under Balim Sultan and spread through the Balkans under Ottoman rule.
Bekzat Almakhan (Бекзат Алмахан)
Bekzat Almakhan (Бекзат Алмахан), "The Turan Warrior", Kazakh bantamweight MMA fighter born 1997; 12-4 record with 10 knockouts, karate black belt, Zhekpe Zhek world champion; UFC 1-3, beat Brad Katona at UFC 315, lost to Nurmagomedov, Topuria, Matsumoto.
Bekzat Sattarkhanov
Bekzat Sattarkhanov (Бекзат·Seyilkhanov Sattarkhanov) was a Kazakh amateur boxer who won gold in the men's featherweight at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, dying in a car accident just three months later.
Bel Air, Los Angeles
Bel Air (Bel-Air) is an affluent hillside neighborhood in Westside Los Angeles, founded in 1922 by oil tycoon Alphonzo Bell on the Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres; known for the Platinum Triangle, ZIP 90077, the 1961 Bel Air fire, and multimillion-dollar estates.
Bel Ami (2012 film)
Bel Ami is a 2012 period drama directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, adapted from Guy de Maupassant's 1885 novel, with Robert Pattinson as a seductive social climber in 1890s Paris.
Bel and the Dragon (Βὴλ καὶ Δράκων)
Bel and the Dragon (Βὴλ καὶ Δράκων), also known as Daniel 14, is a Greek apocryphal addition to the Book of Daniel in which Daniel exposes the gods of Babylon.
Bel canto
Bel canto ("beautiful singing") is the Italian vocal technique and early Romantic opera style of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, defined by legato, even registers, agility, and ornamentation.
Bel Canto (novel)
Bel Canto (2001) is Ann Patchett's fourth novel, a loose fictionalization of the 1996 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, following soprano Roxane Coss and captors and captives; winner of the PEN/Faulkner and Orange prizes.
Bel Powley
Bel Powley (Isobel Dorothy Powley, born 1992, London) is an English actress known for M.I. High, The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Gotham Best Actress), A Small Light, The Morning Show, and HBO's Harry Potter series.
Bel-Air (TV series)
Bel-Air is a Peacock drama (2022-2025) reimagining The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, created by Morgan Stevenson Cooper from a viral 2019 trailer, starring Jabari Banks, produced with Will Smith's Westbrook Studios, four seasons.
Bel-Ami
Bel-Ami ("Dear Friend") is Guy de Maupassant's second realist novel, serialized in Gil-Blas in 1885, tracing Georges Duroy's opportunistic rise from penniless ex-soldier to Parisian newspaper director via seduction and marriage.
Bēl-dān
Bēl-dān, also written Bel-dan, was an Assyrian palace herald who served twice as eponym, the official who named the year, in 820 BC under Shamshi-Adad V and 807 BC under Adad-nirari III.
Bel-Harran-beli-usur
Bel-Harran-beli-usur (Bēl-Ḫarrān-bēli-uṣur) was a Neo-Assyrian palace herald and governor of Guzana in the 8th century BC, known from a stele found at Tell Abta, west of Mosul.
Bel-ibni
Bel-ibni (Bēl-ibni) was a native Babylonian raised in Assyria whom Sennacherib set on the throne of Babylon; he ruled three years until deported in 700 BC.
Bel-ushezib
Bel-ushezib, also written Bēl-ušēzib, was a Babylonian scholar-astrologer who served the Neo-Assyrian kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon, and is known from letters and astrological reports found at Nineveh.