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Belém Palace
Belém Palace, also known as Palácio de Belém, is a former royal palace in Lisbon that has been the official residence of Portugal's president since 1910.
Belém Tower
Belém Tower (Torre de Belém) is a 16th-century fortification on the Tagus River in Lisbon, Portugal, built under King Manuel I between 1514 and 1519.
Belemnite Point
Belemnite Point (70°40′S 68°32′W) is a point on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, named by FIDS for belemnite fossils; Upper Jurassic, Oxfordian–Kimmeridgian belemnites occur there in the Fossil Bluff Group type area.
Belemnite rostrum and guard
The belemnite rostrum, often called the guard, is the bullet-shaped calcite part of the internal skeleton of belemnites, extinct squid-like cephalopods that lived from about 237 to 66 million years ago.
Belemnitella
Belemnitella (Belemnitella d'Orbigny, 1840) is a Late Cretaceous belemnitellid belemnite genus of the Campanian and Maastrichtian, used for belemnite zones; includes B. mucronata and B. americana, Delaware's state fossil.
Belemnites
Belemnitida (belemnites), extinct squid-like coleoid cephalopods of the Triassic to Cretaceous with bullet-shaped calcite rostra, ten hooked tentacles, and oxygen-isotope value as palaeotemperature archives.
Belemnitina
Belemnitina is a suborder of extinct belemnite cephalopods (Belemnitida) lacking alveolar grooves, with apical grooves instead. Dominant in Jurassic to Early Cretaceous boreal seas, it died out in the late Barremian to early Aptian.
Belemnoidea
Belemnoidea (belemnoids): extinct superorder of coleoid cephalopods comprising Belemnitida, Aulacoceratida, Belemnoteuthida, and Diplobelida; hook-armed, rostrum-bearing Mesozoic squid-like animals, now considered paraphyletic stem decabrachians.
Belemnopsis
Belemnopsis (Bayle, 1878) is an extinct Tethyan belemnite genus of Belemnopseina coleoids, Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, with over 100 species; type species B. apiciconus, dominant on Gondwanan shelves with Hibolithes.
Belén (film)
Belén is a 2025 Argentine courtroom drama directed by and starring Dolores Fonzi, based on Ana Correa's book Somos Belén and the real 2014 Tucumán case of a woman imprisoned after a miscarriage; Argentina's 2026 Oscar entry, San Sebastián Silver Shell winner.
Belén Rodríguez
Belén Rodríguez (María Belén Rodríguez Cozzani, born 1984, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine model, showgirl and TV host active in Italy since 2004; breakthrough as runner-up (44%) on L'Isola dei famosi 2008, Sanremo 2011 co-host, host of Le Iene and Tu sì que vales.
Belene labour camp
The Belene labor camp was communist Bulgaria's largest and longest-operating forced-labor camp, on Persin island in the Danube, holding over 15,000 regime opponents without trial from 1949 to 1987.
Belenggu
Belenggu (Shackles) is a 1940 novel by the Indonesian author Armijn Pane, telling of a love triangle between a doctor, his wife, and his childhood friend.
Belet-Ili Corona
Belet-Ili Corona (Belet Ili Corona), a 300-km-diameter corona on Venus at 6°N 20°E in central Eistla Regio, IAU-named 1994 for a Mesopotamian fertility goddess, with radiating and circumferential dyke swarms and lava flows.
Belevi Mausoleum
Belevi Mausoleum: early Hellenistic royal tomb near Ephesus, Ionia, built c. 310-280/70 BC, attributed to Antigonos I Monophthalmos; rock-cored podium with Corinthian peristasis, second only to Halicarnassus.
Belews Creek Steam Station
Belews Creek Steam Station is a Duke Energy coal-fired power station in Stokes County, North Carolina, near Walnut Cove, operating since 1974 with a capacity of about 2,160 MW.
Beleza Natural
Beleza Natural is a Brazilian chain of beauty institutes specializing in curly and coily hair, founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1993 by Zica Assis and three partners.
Belfast
Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, founded as a chartered town in 1613 at the River Farset–Lagan confluence. It became the world's leading linen producer and a major shipbuilding city, Ireland's largest by 1911, and today has 345,418 residents.
Belfast (film)
Belfast (2021) is Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical black-and-white drama about nine-year-old Buddy (Jude Hill) during the August 1969 outbreak of the Troubles, starring Balfe, Dornan, Dench, and Hinds; it won Branagh the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Belfast East (UK Parliament constituency)
Belfast East is a UK Parliament constituency in eastern Belfast, Northern Ireland, created 1885 and re-formed 1922. Held by Gavin Robinson (DUP) since 2015; Naomi Long of Alliance won it in 2010, and new 2023 boundaries took effect in 2024.
Belfast International Airport
Belfast International Airport, also known as Aldergrove Airport, is Northern Ireland's principal airport and the second largest gateway on the island of Ireland, near Aldergrove in County Antrim.
Belfast North (UK Parliament constituency)
Belfast North is a UK parliamentary constituency in northern Belfast and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. Held by Nigel Dodds (DUP) 2001-2019, it has been Sinn Féin's John Finucane's seat since 2019; in 2024 he won 43.7% with a 5,612 majority.
Belfast Project
Belfast Project, also called Boston College Oral History Project: a 2001 confidential oral history archive of Troubles paramilitaries at Boston College's Burns Library, seized via 2011 subpoenas in the Jean McConville murder investigation.
Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)
Belfast West is a Westminster borough constituency in west Belfast, Northern Ireland, held by Sinn Féin's abstentionist MP Paul Maskey since 2011; in 2024 he won 52.9% on new boundaries with a 15,961 majority over People Before Profit.
Belfast Wolves
The Belfast Wolves are a Belfast-based professional cricket franchise in the European T20 Premier League, captained and co-owned by Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell; its first season, 2026, was played entirely away from Belfast.
Belfie
Belfie (butt selfie) is slang for a self-taken photo of one's own buttocks, a blend of butt/bum and selfie. First Instagram example July 18, 2012; word debuted on Urban Dictionary in 2013, popularized by Jen Selter and Kim Kardashian.
Belfor
Belfor is a disaster recovery and property restoration company headquartered in Birmingham, Michigan, founded in 1946 and led by CEO Sheldon Yellen, operating in 34 countries.
Belford Roxo
Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro (Baixada Fluminense), a Brazilian municipality created 3 April 1990 from Nova Iguaçu by state law 1.640; 483,087 residents (2022 census) on 78.985 km², density 6,116.19 hab/km², named for engineer Raimundo Teixeira Belford Roxo.
Belfort & Lupin
Belfort & Lupin is a French animated series (26 x 22 min, 2025) about Louis XIV's favorite dog Belfort and the Versailles garden wolf Lupin, created by Teddy J. Stehly, directed by Philippe Vidal, produced by Ellipse Animation and Belvision.
Belfries of Belgium and France
Belfries of Belgium and France (Beffrois de Belgique et de France), UNESCO World Heritage Site of 56 civic towers, 33 in Belgium and 23 in northern France, inscribed 1999 and extended 2005 under criteria (ii) and (iv).