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Belleville, Ontario
Belleville, Ontario: city of 55,071 (2021) at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte, renamed from Meyers' Creek in 1816, amalgamated with Thurlow Township in 1998, and an early adopter of on-demand transit.
Bellevue Beard Spa
Bellevue Beard Spa Inc is a Washington stock corporation based in Tacoma, incorporated in 2022, describing itself as a network-marketing and crowdsourcing platform built around a Beard Spa mobile app.
Bellevue Gold
Bellevue Gold is an Australian gold mining company operating a high-grade underground mine near Leinster in Western Australia, which poured first gold in October 2023.
Bellevue Hospital
Bellevue Hospital (NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue), founded 1736 as a six-bed Almshouse infirmary, is America's oldest public hospital, a Manhattan Level I trauma center affiliated with NYU, serving about 520,000 outpatients yearly.
Bellevue Palace, Germany
Schloss Bellevue (Bellevue Palace) is the white neoclassical official residence of the German Federal President in Berlin-Tiergarten, built 1785–1787 for Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia and the Federal President's principal seat since 1994.
Bellevue, Washington
Bellevue, Washington: fifth-largest city in Washington on the east side of Lake Washington, incorporated 1953, population about 154,000-158,000, a high-tech Eastside hub with median household income $165,576 and light rail to Seattle since 2026.
Bellicum Pharmaceuticals
Bellicum Pharmaceuticals was a clinical-stage biotech that used its Chemical Induction of Dimerization platform to develop controllable cellular immunotherapies for blood cancers, solid tumors, and inherited blood disorders.
Belligerent
Belligerent: in international humanitarian law, a party to an armed conflict or a person directly participating in fighting; combatant status exists only in international armed conflicts; belligerency recognition once triggered full laws of war.
Bellingcat
Bellingcat is an independent open source investigative collective founded by Eliot Higgins in 2014, known for the MH17, Skripal, and Navalny investigations, foundation-grant funding, and open source training resources.
Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham, Washington: county seat of Whatcom County on Bellingham Bay, formed by the 1903 merger of Whatcom and Fairhaven. Population about 96,000; home of Western Washington University; high housing costs.
Bellingshausen Sea (landform)
The Bellingshausen Sea is a Southern Ocean embayment west of the Antarctic Peninsula between Alexander and Thurston Islands, discovered in 1821 and named for Admiral Bellingshausen; its shelf is flooded by warm Circumpolar Deep Water driving rapid ice shelf melt and sea ice decline.
Bellini (cocktail)
Bellini: Venetian sparkling cocktail of white peach purée and Prosecco, invented by Giuseppe Cipriani at Harry's Bar, Venice, in 1948 (Oxford Companion says around 1945), named for painter Giovanni Bellini; IBA Contemporary Classic.
Bellintum
Bellintum, a Roman mutatio (road station) in Gallia Narbonensis, attested in the Bordeaux Itinerary (553) on the Arelate–Arausio road, 5 miles from Avignon; identified with Barbentane by D'Anville.
Bellinzona
Bellinzona, capital of Ticino, Switzerland since 1878, is a city of about 47,000 residents on the Gotthard axis, formed of 13 merged quartieri, and home to the UNESCO-listed Three Castles fortress (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sasso Corbaro).
Bellis
Bellis (daisies) is an accepted Asteraceae genus published by Linnaeus in 1753, native from Macaronesia, North Africa, and Europe to Central Asia and Iran, with 15 accepted species including the common daisy Bellis perennis.
Bellis perennis
Bellis perennis (English daisy, lawn daisy, common daisy), Linnaeus 1753, a perennial Asteraceae herb native from Madeira and Europe to Central Asia, a rosette lawn weed with white-rayed, yellow-centered flower heads, 2n=18, and medicinal and food uses.
Bellium minutum
Bellium minutum (little-Mary, Zwergmaßliebchen) is a small annual daisy in Asteraceae, tribe Astereae, native to Sicily, the East Aegean Islands, NW Türkiye, and Cyprus, first published in 1771 and grown as an ornamental mat-forming groundcover.
Bellman and True
Bellman and True is a 1987 British heist crime drama directed by Richard Loncraine, starring Bernard Hill as coerced computer expert Hiller; Euston Films production, US gross $226,944, distinct from Bellman & Symfon or Bellman MCP server.
Bellman equation
The Bellman equation, or dynamic programming equation, relates the value of a sequential decision problem to the values of reachable states, named for Richard Bellman.
Bellman–Ford algorithm
The Bellman–Ford algorithm, also called Bellman–Ford–Moore, computes shortest paths from a source in directed graphs whose edge weights may be negative, detects negative cycles, and runs in O(V·E) time.
Bello
Bello, Antioquia, Colombia: municipality in the north of the Aburrá Valley, conurbated with Medellín, called the City of Artists, second most populous in the valley, municipality since 1913, site of the 2025 Granizal landslide.
Bello Matawalle
Bello Mohammed Matawalle, Nigerian politician, Minister of State for Defence since 2023 and Governor of Zamfara State 2019-2023; known for his bandit amnesty peace dialogue and ongoing security-related controversies.
Bellona (goddess)
Bellona, also known as Duellona, was the ancient Roman goddess of war, embodying battle frenzy, whose first temple was vowed by Appius Claudius Caecus in 296 BCE.
Bellona Fossae
Bellona Fossae: system of narrow tectonic troughs on Venus, 855 km across, centered at 38.0N 222.1E; IAU-named 1985 for the Roman war goddess, wife of Mars; namesake of the V-15 quadrangle between Kawelu and Ganiki Planitia.
Bellosguardo Foundation
The Bellosguardo Foundation is a nonprofit that owns Bellosguardo, a 24-acre oceanfront estate in Santa Barbara built in 1937 by Anna Clark and bequeathed by her daughter Huguette Clark.
Bellows
A bellows is a thin-walled, corrugated flexible element, usually metallic, that flexes to absorb piping movement, convert pressure into displacement, and seal pumps and valves hermetically.
Bellows seal
A bellows seal is a dynamic seal in which a welded metal bellows flexes with a moving valve stem or pump shaft, forming a zero-leak hermetic barrier.
Bellring Shoujo Heart
Bellring Shoujo Heart (BELLRING少女ハート) is a Japanese alternative idol group formed in Tokyo, known for psychedelic, rock-based songs performed in black sailor uniforms with wings.
Bells Are Ringing
Bells Are Ringing is a 1956 Broadway musical comedy by Comden, Green, and Styne about answering-service operator Ella Peterson, running 924 performances, and a 1960 MGM film directed by Vincente Minnelli starring Judy Holliday and Dean Martin, Holliday's final film.
BellSouth
BellSouth Corporation was an Atlanta-based regional telecommunications company created in the 1984 breakup of the Bell System, serving nine southeastern states until AT&T absorbed it in 2006.