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Bellum Punicum
Bellum Punicum, also spelled Bellum Poenicum, was an epic poem in Latin by Gnaeus Naevius on the First Punic War of 264 to 241 BC, surviving in about 60 fragments.
BELLUS Health
BELLUS Health, formerly Neurochem Inc., was a Laval, Quebec-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that developed camlipixant for refractory chronic cough and was acquired by GSK for $2.0 billion in 2023.
Bellwether
Bellwether: a state, county, or candidate whose results indicate a larger election's likely outcome. Famous examples include Missouri (1904–2016), Ohio, Nevada, and Clallam County, though research shows bellwethers predict poorly.
Belly (band)
Belly is an American alternative rock band formed in 1991 by ex-Throwing Muses and Breeders member Tanya Donelly with Tom and Chris Gorman; the 1993 gold album Star, hit "Feed the Tree", and 1995's King distinguished it from other 1990s alternative acts.
Belly (film)
Belly is a 1998 American crime drama directed by Hype Williams, his feature debut, starring Nas and DMX as criminal partners from Queens who grow apart.
Belly (rapper)
Belly (rapper): Ahmad Balshe, born 1984 in Jenin, West Bank; Palestinian-Canadian rapper from Ottawa behind The Revolution, Might Not, and Weeknd songwriting including Earned It. Not the Atlanta rapper Belly Gang Kushington.
Belly dance
Belly dance, known in Arabic as raqs sharqi, is a Western term for largely improvised solo dances of the Middle East and North Africa, defined by hip isolations.
Belly Gang Kushington
Belly Gang Kushington is the stage name of Victor Thomas, an Atlanta trap rapper from the Adamsville neighborhood who released his debut album The Streets Is Yours in 2025.
Belly of the Beast (2003 film)
Belly of the Beast (2003) is a direct-to-video action film directed by Ching Siu-Tung, starring Steven Seagal as ex-CIA agent Jake Hopper rescuing his kidnapped daughter in Thailand; not the 2020 Erika Cohn documentary.
Belmond Britannic Explorer
The Belmond Britannic Explorer is a luxury sleeper train operated by Belmond in Great Britain, announced in 2024 and billed as the first luxury sleeper train in England and Wales.
Belmont Cameli
Belmont Cameli (Philip Belmont Cameli, born 1998, Naperville, Illinois) is an American actor known for Jamie Spano in Saved by the Bell, Eli in Along for the Ride, and Garrett Graham in Off Campus.
Belmont Chasma
Belmont Chasma is a 258 km long graben-like canyon (chasma) on Titania, moon of Uranus, centered at 8.5S 32.6E, IAU-named in 1988 for Belmont in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
Belmont Park
Belmont Park, Elmont, New York: NYRA thoroughbred racetrack and traditional home of the Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown's final leg. Rebuilt with a $455 million state loan; new 275,000-sq-ft grandstand opened September 18, 2026; hosts 2027 Breeders' Cup.
Belmont Report
The Belmont Report (April 18, 1979) is the U.S. National Commission's statement of research ethics principles, respect for persons, beneficence, and justice, which underlies 45 CFR 46 and the Common Rule.
Belmont Stakes
The Belmont Stakes, known as the Test of the Champion, is a Grade 1 American Thoroughbred race for three-year-olds, run each June since 1867 as the Triple Crown's final leg.
Belmont University
Belmont University: private Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee, founded 1890 as a women's college; 12 colleges, about 9,000 students, known for music business and nursing; newest Tennessee medical school, on LCME preliminary accreditation probation in 2026.
Belmopan
Belmopan is the inland capital of Belize in Cayo District, built after Hurricane Hattie wrecked Belize City in 1961, inaugurated 1970, incorporated as a city in 2000, known as the garden city.
Belmullet
Belmullet (Béal an Mhuirthead), the main town of Erris in northwest County Mayo, Ireland, stands on the isthmus between Blacksod Bay and Broadhaven Bay; developed from the 1820s by William Henry Carter, a Gaeltacht market town linked to the 1944 D-Day weather forecast.
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is a planned city inaugurated 12 December 1897 on the former arraial of Curral Del Rei; about 2.4 million residents, 331 km², mayor Álvaro Damião, expanding metro Lines 1 and 2.
Belo Monte Dam
The Belo Monte Dam (Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte) is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric plant on the Xingu River in Pará, Brazil, with an installed capacity of 11,233.1 MW.
Belo-sur-Mer - Kirindy-Mite Biosphere Reserve
Belo-sur-Mer-Kirindy-Mite Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 2016 on Madagascar's west coast, covering 625,050 ha of dry forest, mangroves, and reefs around Kirindy Mitea National Park, with 62,235 residents.
Beloe
Beloe (Beloye Ozero, White Lake) is the Russian name of many lakes; the largest, in Vologda Oblast, Russia, is a 1,284 km2 shallow lake on the Volga-Baltic Waterway, distinct from smaller namesakes in Belarus, Moscow, and Siberia.
Beloit College
Beloit College, founded 1846-1847 in Beloit, Wisconsin, is the state's oldest college, a private liberal arts institution known for the 1960s Beloit Plan, museums, international education, and high financial aid, with 192 fall 2026 deposits.
Belokorets Ecological Trail
Экалагічная сцежка Белакорац (Belokorets ecological trail, Экологическая тропа Белокорец): a 1.3 km accessible figure-eight loop created in 2018 in Naliboki Forest, Valozhyn district, Minsk Region, Belarus, near the Islach river.
Belomorkanal
Belomorkanal (Беломорканал), the White Sea–Baltic Canal, is a 227-kilometer waterway in northwestern Russia connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega, built by Gulag prisoners between 1931 and 1933.
Belone belone
Belone belone, the garfish or garpike, a slender needlefish (Belonidae) of the eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea, with beak-like jaws, green biliverdin bones, 75-84 vertebrae, up to 104 cm, IUCN Least Concern.
BELONG-EGPA study
BELONG-EGPA (NCT07815886) is a European EGPA Study Group multicenter retro-prospective observational study of benralizumab 30 mg every 4 weeks in adults with EGPA, tracking 24-month real-world effectiveness, relapse, and safety.
Belongingness
Belongingness, the need to belong, sense of belonging: the universal human need to form and maintain enduring interpersonal attachments, defined by Baumeister and Leary (1995), traced to Maslow (1943), and linked to wellbeing, education, suicide risk, and social connection policy.
Beloranib
Beloranib (CKD-732, ZGN-440, ZGN-433): fumagillin-analogue MetAP2 inhibitor obesity drug by Zafgen and Chong Kun Dang; effective in trials but halted in 2015 after fatal pulmonary embolisms.
Belorusneft
Belorusneft (Белоруснефть) is the state oil production association of Belarus, established in 1966, which handles the country's crude oil extraction and produced a 29-year record 1.9 million tons in 2024.