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Bell UH-1N Twin Huey
The Bell UH-1N Twin Huey is a twin-engine military utility helicopter, the military Bell 212, flown by the United States Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy since 1970.
Bell UH-1Y Venom
The Bell UH-1Y Venom, which Marines call the Yankee, is a twin-engine, four-blade utility helicopter of the United States Marine Corps, built by Bell to replace the UH-1N Twin Huey.
Bell V-280 Valor
The Bell V-280 Valor is an American tiltrotor technology demonstrator built by Bell for the US Army, first flown in 2017 and chosen in 2022 for the FLRAA program.
Bell Witch
The Bell Witch is a Tennessee legend about an invisible, talking spirit said to torment John Bell's family near Adams, Robertson County, 1817–1821; the haunting rests on M. V. Ingram's contested 1894 book, with no contemporary evidence.
Bell X-1
The Bell X-1, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis, was a rocket-powered experimental aircraft that in 1947 became the first to fly faster than sound, with Chuck Yeager.
Bell XV-15
The Bell XV-15 (XV-15) was an American tiltrotor research aircraft built by Bell with NASA and Army funding, first flown in 1977 as the direct predecessor of the V-22 Osprey.
Bell XV-3
The Bell XV-3, originally designated XH-33, was an American experimental tiltrotor built by Bell Helicopter, first to convert fully in flight from helicopter to airplane mode in 1958.
Bell-bottoms
Bell-bottom trousers, also known as flare jeans, are trousers that flare wide below the knee. They were a popular fashion icon in the 1960s and 1970s.
Bell–Boeing V-22 Osprey
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American military tiltrotor that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like an airplane, entering Marine Corps service in 2007.
Bell–LaPadula model
The Bell–LaPadula model (BLP) is a 1973 formal model of computer security, by Bell and LaPadula of MITRE, defining mandatory access control through "no read up" and "no write down".
Bell, Book and Candle
Bell, Book, and Candle: 1958 Columbia romantic comedy-fantasy directed by Richard Quine, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak as a publisher bewitched by a Greenwich Village witch; adapted from John Van Druten's 1950 Broadway play, Oscar-nominated for art direction and costume design, and an inspiration for Bewitched.
Bell's palsy
Bell's palsy, or idiopathic facial nerve palsy, is sudden one-sided facial weakness, the most common cause of facial paralysis; steroids within 72 hours help, and most patients recover within 3 to 6 months.
Bell's spaceship paradox
Bell's spaceship paradox, also called the Dewan–Beran–Bell paradox, is a special-relativity thought experiment in which two identically accelerating ships connected by a string see it break.
Bell's theorem
Bell's theorem, also known as Bell's inequality, is a 1964 result in quantum mechanics showing that no local theory can reproduce all quantum predictions for entangled systems.
Bella Abzug
Bella Abzug (Bella Savitzky, 1920–1998), "Battling Bella," American labor and civil rights lawyer, antiwar activist, and three-term Democratic congresswoman from New York, 1971–1977; first federal gay rights bill, Child Development Act, NWPC cofounder, 1977 National Women's Conference presiding officer.
Bella Akhmadulina
Bella Akhmadulina, full name Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (1937–2010), was a Russian poet of the Thaw-generation shestidesyatniki who published her first verses in 1955 and 33 collections.
Bella and the Bulldogs
Bella and the Bulldogs is a Nickelodeon live-action comedy (2015-2016, two seasons) created by Gabriel Garza and Jonathan Butler, starring Brec Bassinger as cheerleader-turned-quarterback Bella Dawson of the Silverado Bulldogs.
Bella Andersson
Bella Andersson (Bella Astrid Christina Andersson) is a Swedish center-back, born in 2006, who plays for Real Madrid Femenino and Sweden after coming through Hammarby's academy.
Bella Bellow
Bella Bellow (Georgette Nafiatou Adjoavi Bellow) was a Togolese singer-songwriter, born in Tsévié in 1945, who became her country's defining female voice before dying in a road accident in 1973.
Bella ciao
Bella ciao ("Goodbye beautiful") is an Italian protest song, best known as the anti-fascist anthem of the Italian Resistance (1943–45). Origins are contested (mondine work song, Fior di tomba, klezmer Koilen); it became the Resistance hymn only in the 1960s and was revived by La casa de papel.
Bella Donna (album)
Bella Donna (album) is Stevie Nicks's 1981 debut solo album, produced by Jimmy Iovine on Modern Records, a Billboard 200 number 1 with "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around", "Edge of Seventeen", and "Leather and Lace", certified quadruple platinum. Distinct from the bugatti Fashion perfume and other artists named Bella Donna.
Bella Goth
Bella Goth (nee Bella Bachelor) is the iconic pre-made Sim of The Sims series, wife of Mortimer, mother of Cassandra and Alexander, famous for her red dress and her unexplained alien-abduction disappearance between The Sims and The Sims 2.
Bella Hadid
Bella Hadid (Isabella Khair Hadid, بيلا حديد), American fashion model born 1996 in Washington D.C. of Palestinian and Dutch heritage; IMG-signed 2014, Models.com Model of the Year 2016, Orebella fragrance founder, Palestinian advocate, Lyme disease diagnosed 2013.
Bella Heathcote
Bella Heathcote (Isabella Heathcote), Australian actress from Melbourne, Heath Ledger Scholarship 2010 winner; known for Dark Shadows, The Man in the High Castle, Relic, Pieces of Her, and Stan's Scrublands.
Bella Hull
Bella Hull is a British stand-up comedian, actor and writer based in London, a former Cambridge Footlights member and writer on Saturday Night Live UK. Her Fringe shows include Babycakes, Piggie, Doctors Hate Her and Mad Cow Disease.
Bella Kay
Bella Kay (Bella K. Williams, b. 2006) is an American indie/alternative pop singer-songwriter from Texas, based in Orlando, signed to Atlantic Records; viral 2025 single "The Sick," Hot 100 No. 17 hit "iloveitiloveitiloveit," debut album My Reckless Abandon (2026).
Bella Maclean
Bella Maclean, British-American actress and Guildhall School graduate, known for Taggie O'Hara in Disney+'s Rivals (2024), Jem in Sex Education season 4, and Bella Wilfer in the National Theatre's London Tide.
Bella Martha
Bella Martha (Mostly Martha, Ricetta d'amore) is a 2001 German-Austrian-Swiss-Italian romantic comedy-drama by Sandra Nettelbeck starring Martina Gedeck as a Hamburg head chef, Sergio Castellitto, and Maxime Foerste; Locarno premiere, 2002 European Film Award, remade as No Reservations (2007).
Bella Poarch
Bella Poarch (born 1997, Pangasinan, Philippines) is a Filipino-American singer and TikTok star, creator of the most-liked TikTok video (M to the B, 2020), Navy veteran, and debut album Picnic at the Cemetery (2026).
Bella Ramsey
Bella Ramsey (Isabella May Ramsey), English non-binary actor born 2003 in Nottingham, known for Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones and Ellie in HBO's The Last of Us; Emmy-nominated, BAFTA Children's Award winner, with 2026 projects including Sunny Dancer.