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Belle du Seigneur
Belle du Seigneur is a 1968 French novel by Albert Cohen about the adulterous love between Solal and Ariane in Geneva, which won the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
Belle Époque
Belle Époque: retrospective name, coined after 1918–1919, for France and Europe's pre-1914 era (c. 1895–1914) of prosperity, the 1900 Paris Exposition, the Third Republic's consolidation, and postwar nostalgia.
Belle Époque (1992 film)
Belle Époque (1992) is a Spanish comedy directed by Fernando Trueba: a deserter in 1931 Spain shelters with retired painter Manolo and his four daughters; won the 1993 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and nine Goyas.
Belle et Sébastien
Belle et Sébastien is a 2013 French family adventure film directed by Nicolas Vanier, about a boy in the Second World War-era French Alps who tames a large white dog, Belle.
Belle et Sébastien 2: The Adventure Continues
Belle et Sébastien 2: The Adventure Continues (Belle et Sébastien : l'aventure continue) is a 2015 French family adventure film by Christian Duguay, sequel to the 2013 film, with Félix Bossuet and Tchéky Karyo, set in 1945 and shot in Savoie and Ain.
Belle experiment
Belle was a particle physics experiment at the KEKB collider in Tsukuba, Japan, that took data from 1999 to 2010 and observed large CP violation in B meson decays.
Belle Fourche Formation
Belle Fourche Formation (Belle Fourche Shale), Cenomanian marine shale of the Colorado Group named by Collier in 1922 on the Belle Fourche River, Wyoming; overlies Mowry Shale, underlies Greenhorn, thick in Black Hills.
Belle Gibson
Belle Gibson (Annabelle Natalie Gibson), Australian wellness influencer behind The Whole Pantry app and book, faked a terminal brain cancer cure through diet, admitted the lie in 2015, and was fined A$410,000 by the Federal Court in 2017; the fines remain unpaid.
Belle Gunness
Belle Gunness (Brynhild Paulsdatter Strseth, 1859–disappeared 1908), Norwegian-American serial killer and 'Lady Bluebeard' of La Porte, Indiana, who lured suitors via matrimonial ads; her death in the 1908 farmhouse fire was never confirmed.
Belle II detector
The Belle II detector is a particle spectrometer at the SuperKEKB collider in Tsukuba, Japan, built for precision measurements of B mesons, charm hadrons, and tau leptons.
Belle II experiment
Belle II is a particle physics experiment at the SuperKEKB collider in Tsukuba, Japan, studying B meson decays to search for physics beyond the Standard Model.
Belle Isle
Belle Isle is the name of several places, most notably a 982-acre island park in the Detroit River designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and state-managed since 2014.
Belle Knox
Belle Knox, stage name of Miriam Weeks (born 1995), American former adult film performer outed as a Duke University freshman in 2014, saying porn paid her tuition; later a law student.
Belle Mariano
Belle Mariano (Belinda Angelito Mariano, born 2002) is a Filipina actress and singer from ABS-CBN who starred in He's Into Her, won the 2022 Seoul International Drama Awards Outstanding Asian Star Prize, headlines the DonBelle films, and releases music on StarPop.
Belle Moore
Belle Moore (Isabella Mary Moore-Cameron, 1894-1975), Scottish swimmer with Premier SC Glasgow; won 1912 Stockholm 4x100 m freestyle relay gold in world-record 5:52.8, youngest British woman to win Summer Olympic gold at 17 years 226 days.
Belle Plaine ammonia plant
The Belle Plaine ammonia plant, built as Saskferco in 1992, is a nitrogen fertilizer complex at Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, owned by Norway's Yara International since 2008.
Belle River Power Plant
The Belle River Power Plant is a 1,270 MW power station in China Township, Michigan, owned by DTE Electric and converting from coal to natural gas peaking.
Belle Starr
Belle Starr (Myra Maybelle Shirley, 1848–1889), the "Bandit Queen" of the American West, an outlaw associate of the James-Younger circle, once convicted of horse theft, murdered unsolved in Indian Territory.
Belle Vue Aces
Belle Vue Aces, Manchester speedway club founded 1928, racing at the National Speedway Stadium in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership; multiple league champions including 2022 and 2024 Premiership titles.
Bellefield (energy storage)
Bellefield is a solar-plus-storage facility in Kern County, California, developed by Avantus and owned by AES, with 1 GW of solar and 1 GW of battery storage.
Bellefontaine Cemetery
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri: nonprofit rural cemetery and arboretum founded 1849, first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi, 314 acres, over 86,000 interments, Wainwright Tomb and Busch Mausoleum, Level III accredited arboretum.
Belleroche
Belleroche (Belle-Roche) names two Belgian archaeological sites: the Belle-Roche fossil cave at Sprimont, Liège, with ~500,000-year-old Cromerian fauna and the Benelux's oldest human-occupation trace, and Bellerochelaan at Oudenburg, a multi-period Roman settlement site.
Bellerophon (animal)
Bellerophon, an extinct Paleozoic gastropod genus named by de Montfort in 1808, type species B. vasulites; planispirally coiled bellerophont snail with selenizone, Ordovician to Permian range, distinct from the butterfly Caligo bellerophon and the bivalve Scintillona bellerophon.
Bellerophon (Βελλεροφόντης)
Bellerophon (Βελλεροφόντης), Corinthian Greek hero, slayer of the fire-breathing Chimera and rider of Pegasus in later accounts; Homer names no horse, Hesiod does, and his attempted flight to Olympus ends in a fall.
Bellerophontida
Bellerophontida, or bellerophonts, an extinct order of planispirally coiled, bilaterally symmetrical gastropod-like molluscs with a median apertural slit, Early Cambrian to Early Triassic, dominant Paleozoic lineage, subject of the monoplacophoran-versus-gastropod controversy.
Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry is an early 15th-century illuminated book of hours made in Paris by the Limbourg brothers.
Bellesa
Bellesa is a Montreal-based sexual-wellness and adult entertainment company for women, founded by CEO Michelle Shnaidman in February 2017, spanning free media, streaming, film studios, and sex toys.
Belleville nuclear power plant
The Belleville nuclear power plant is a French nuclear station on the Loire in Cher, operated by EDF, with two 1,300 MWe reactors commissioned in 1987 and 1988.
Belleville washer
A Belleville washer, also called a disc spring or cupped spring washer, is a conical washer supporting high loads with small deflection, commonly used to maintain bolt preload.
Belleville, Illinois
Belleville, Illinois: county seat of St. Clair County, founded 1814 by George Blair (French for 'beautiful city'), largest city in southern Illinois, 2020 population 42,404, MetroLink Red Line and Scott AFB nearby.