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Belostomatidae
Belostomatidae, the giant water bugs (electric light bugs, toe-biters), is a family of large aquatic predatory true bugs with 11 genera and about 160 species, three subfamilies, egg-caring behavior, and edible, threatened Lethocerus species.
Belote
Belote: classic French 32-card point-trick game for four players in two partnerships; jack and nine top trumps, 162 points per hand, belote-rebelote 20, main variant coinche.
Belote coinchee
Belote coinche (enchantée, or La Coinche) is the auction variant of the French card game Belote, where players bid a target score and the failing partnership scores 80 points.
Belotecan
Belotecan (CKD602, Camtobell), a semi-synthetic camptothecin analogue topoisomerase I inhibitor developed by Chong Keun Dang; approved for clinical use and studied in small-cell lung and ovarian cancer versus topotecan.
Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction
The Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction is a nonlinear chemical oscillation, discovered by Belousov around 1950, in which periodic color changes and chemical waves arise in bromate solutions.
Belousovo-Leningrad Gas Pipeline
The Belousovo-Leningrad Gas Pipeline is a Russian trunk gas pipeline running from Belousovo in Kaluga Region to Leningrad Oblast, supplying Saint Petersburg and northwest Russia.
Beloved (1998 film)
Beloved is a 1998 American supernatural drama directed by Jonathan Demme, adapted from Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandie Newton.
Beloved (Giveon album)
Beloved is the second studio album by GIVĒON, released in 2025. It is an orchestrated soul album drawing on the sound of the early 1970s, featuring 14 tracks.
Beloved (novel)
Beloved is Toni Morrison's 1987 novel, her fifth and first historical novel, about Sethe, a formerly enslaved Ohio woman haunted by the daughter she killed. Based on the 1856 Margaret Garner case, it won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Belovezha Accords (Беловежские соглашения)
Belovezha Accords (Беловежские соглашения), signed December 8, 1991 by Yeltsin, Kravchuk, and Shushkevich at Viskuli, Belarus, declared the USSR defunct and created the CIS.
Belovskaya power station
Belovskaya power station (Беловская ГРЭС, Belovskaya GRES) is a coal-fired thermal power station in Belovo, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, with six units and 1,260 MW capacity, owned by AO Kuzbassenergo and part of the Siberian Generating Company.
Below (film)
Below (2002) is David Twohy's WWII haunted-submarine horror film, co-written with Darren Aronofsky and Lucas Sussman, starring Bruce Greenwood and Olivia Williams aboard the USS Tiger Shark; released by Miramax/Dimension, it grossed $589,424 and is distinct from the 2026 Netflix series.
Below (miniseries)
Below is a 2026 six-episode Netflix limited series created by Jesse McKeown, starring Josh Hartnett as Newfoundland fisherman Calvin Penney facing a giant prehistoric squid; distinct from other shows titled Below.
Below Deck
Below Deck (Bravo, 2013– ) is an American reality series following young superyacht crews serving charter guests. Created by Mark Cronin; spinoffs include Mediterranean, Sailing Yacht, Down Under, and Adventure; Season 13 aired 2026.
Below Deck Mediterranean
Below Deck Mediterranean is Bravo's first Below Deck spin-off, an American reality series following superyacht crews during charter seasons in Greece, Croatia, Italy, France, Spain, and Malta; 11 seasons since May 3, 2016, under Captain Sandy Yawn since season 2.
Below Deck Sailing Yacht
Below Deck Sailing Yacht is a Bravo reality series, the third Below Deck spinoff, that premiered February 3, 2020, following Captain Glenn Shephard's crew of nine aboard the 180-foot sailing yacht Parsifal III through Mediterranean charter seasons, with five seasons to date streaming on Peacock.
Below Her Mouth
Below Her Mouth (アンダー・ハー・マウス) is a 2016 Canadian erotic drama by April Mullen starring Natalie Krill and Erika Linder, made with an entirely female crew; critically panned at 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Below Poverty Line
Below Poverty Line (BPL) is an Indian administrative classification identifying households eligible for subsidized food, housing, pensions, and welfare, identified through censuses in 1992, 1997, 2002, and SECC 2011.
Below the Clouds
Below the Clouds (Sotto le nuvole) is Gianfranco Rosi's 2025 black-and-white documentary on Naples under Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields; it won the Special Jury Prize at Venice 82 and completes his Italy trilogy after Sacro GRA and Fire at Sea.
Below-knee amputation
Below-knee amputation, also called transtibial amputation, is surgery that removes the foot, ankle, and lower leg bones while preserving the knee, typically for critical limb ischemia or diabetic foot infection.
Beloyarsk nuclear power plant
The Beloyarsk nuclear power plant is a Russian nuclear station near Zarechny in the Urals, opened in 1964 and known for its BN-600 and BN-800 fast reactors.
Belphegor
Belphegor, or Baal-Peor, began as a Moabite deity of Mount Peor and became a Christian demon: one of the seven princes of Hell, demon of sloth and of ingenious inventions, known from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire infernal and Machiavelli's novella.
Belphegor (2001 film)
Belphegor, le fantôme du Louvre (Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre) is Jean-Paul Salomé's 2001 French fantasy film starring Sophie Marceau, adapted from Arthur Bernède, about a mummy's ghost haunting the Louvre; about 2 million French admissions.
Belrestotug
Belrestotug (EOS-448, GSK4428859A) is a human IgG1 anti-TIGIT monoclonal antibody from iTeos Therapeutics and GSK for solid tumors; its Phase 3 GALAXIES Lung-301 NSCLC programme was halted in May 2025 after Phase 2 interim analyses missed efficacy criteria.
Belsat TV
Belsat TV (Белсат), independent Belarusian-language satellite channel of Polish public TV (TVP), launched 10 December 2007; MFA-funded, labeled extremist by Belarus in 2021, restructured into TVP's International Media Centre in 2024–2026.
Belsay Hall
Belsay Hall is an early nineteenth-century Greek Revival country house at Belsay in Northumberland, England, built to Sir Charles Monck's own design and now owned by English Heritage.
Belsazar
Belshazzar (Akkadian Bēl-šar-uṣur) was the eldest son of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, and served as regent there until he was probably killed at the Persian capture of Babylon in 539 BC.
Belshazzar's feast
Belshazzar's feast is the banquet in Daniel 5 of the Hebrew Bible, where Belshazzar uses the looted Jerusalem Temple vessels and a hand writes God's verdict on the wall.
Belsinum
Belsinum, also Balsione or Belsinon, names two ancient places: a Celtiberian town in Hispania Tarraconensis identified with Cerro del Convento near Mallén, Zaragoza, and a Roman road station in Gers, France.
Belsize Park
Belsize Park, a residential north west London neighbourhood in Camden's NW3 between Hampstead, Primrose Hill, and Swiss Cottage, known for Victorian stucco villas, the Belsize estate history, its 1907 Leslie Green tube station, and the Grade I Isokon Building.