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Belsnickel
Belsnickel (Pelznickel), a fur-clad masked Christmas gift-bringer from Palatinate German folklore, brought to Pennsylvania Dutch country in the 1700s; rewards good children with treats and switches naughty ones, related to Krampus and Knecht Ruprecht.
Belstone F.C.
Belstone F.C., a Radlett, Hertfordshire football club founded in the early 1980s from Belmont Circle and Wealdstone players, plays at The Medburn Ground in Combined Counties League Division One at step 6, after three Herts Senior County League titles.
Belt (mechanical)
A belt, or belt drive, is a flexible loop of reinforced rubber or leather that runs over pulleys to transmit power between shafts, chosen for quiet, lubrication-free operation.
Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路)
The Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路), also known as One Belt One Road, is a Chinese-led infrastructure and overseas financing program launched in 2013, built on cooperation documents with over 150 countries.
Belt feed
Belt feed is a firearm ammunition-feeding system in which cartridges are joined into a flexible belt, the standard feed method for machine guns from the Maxim gun of 1884 to today.
Belt grinding
Belt grinding is a machining process in which abrasive grains on a flexible endless belt remove material from a workpiece, serving both heavy stock removal and precision finishing.
Belt Supergroup
The Belt Supergroup is a 15 to 20 km thick succession of Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks exposed in Montana, Idaho, Washington, and adjacent Canada, forming most of Glacier National Park.
Belt transect
A belt transect is an ecological sampling method in which an observer counts every organism within a fixed-width strip along a line, estimating abundance and density.
Beltane
Beltane, also known as Bealtaine or Boaldyn, is the Gaelic May Day festival on 1 May, marked by bonfires and cattle driven between them for protection.
Beltany
Beltany Stone Circle (Bealtaine) is a 45 m diameter prehistoric circle of 64 stones on Beltany Hill near Raphoe, County Donegal, Ireland; one of Ireland's largest, possibly a denuded passage tomb, named for the May fire festival.
Belted Galloway
Belted Galloway, or Beltie, a polled Scottish beef cattle breed from Galloway, southwest Scotland, marked by a dominant white belt over black, red, or dun; separate herd book 1928, US society 1951.
Belted kingfisher
Belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon), Martin-pêcheur d'Amérique, a large-headed crested North American kingfisher that dives for fish and nests in earthen-bank burrows; females have an extra rusty belly band, making them more colorful than males.
Belters Only
Belters Only are an Irish dance and house music duo from Dublin, made up of the DJs and producers Bissett and Robbie G, best known for "Make Me Feel Good".
Belting (music)
Belting is a loud, speech-like singing technique in contemporary commercial music and musical theatre, chest-register dominant with closed quotient above 50%, first formant tuned to the second harmonic, elevated larynx, and a bright forward sound distinct from classical singing.
Belton Regio
Belton Regio (formerly Cthulhu Macula) is a 3,255-km-wide dark, reddish equatorial region on Pluto, IAU-approved September 22, 2023, named for British astronomer Michael J. S. Belton, chair of the 2002 Planetary Science Decadal Survey.
Beltran
Beltran is the professional name of Juliano Beltran, a Brazilian tech house DJ and producer from Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, whose 2022 single 'Smack Yo' reached number one on Beatport.
Belu-bani
Belu-bani, also known as Bel-bani or Bēlu-bāni, was a king of Assyria, recorded as the forty-eighth ruler in the Assyrian King List, son of Adasi, with a reign of ten years.
Beluga (sturgeon)
Beluga (Huso huso), the largest sturgeon of the Caspian, Black, and Azov seas and source of beluga caviar; Critically Endangered, CITES Appendix II, generation length about 61 years.
Beluga caviar
Beluga caviar is salt-cured roe of the beluga sturgeon (Huso huso, Persian fil-mahi), the largest Caspian sturgeon; the priciest caviar variety, now critically endangered, farm-only, and banned from US import.
Beluga River Oil and Gas Field
The Beluga River Oil and Gas Field is a natural gas field in Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska, about 40 miles west of Anchorage, discovered in 1962.
Beluga whale
Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas), or white whale, an Arctic toothed whale of family Monodontidae, vocal "canary of the sea." White adults, no dorsal fin, up to 90 years; Cook Inlet population endangered.
Beluga whale optimization algorithm
The beluga whale optimization algorithm (BWO) is a swarm-based metaheuristic for numerical optimization, introduced in Knowledge-Based Systems in 2022, modeling beluga swimming, foraging, and whale fall.
Belum Caves
Belum Caves (Belum Guhalu) are a natural limestone cave system near Belum village in Nandyal district, Andhra Pradesh, India, with 3,229 meters of explored passage.
Belumosudil
Belumosudil (Rezurock) is an oral selective ROCK2 inhibitor approved in 2021 for chronic graft-versus-host disease after at least two failed systemic therapy lines, combining immunomodulatory and antifibrotic actions.
Belur Math (বেলুড় মঠ)
Belur Math (বেলুড় মঠ), also spelled Belur Mutt, is the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission on the Hooghly river in Howrah, West Bengal.
Belus (Egyptian)
Belus (Greek Βῆλος, Latin Belus), mythological king of Egypt in Greek legend, twin of Agenor, father of Danaus and Aegyptus by Anchinoe; his name renders the Semitic ba'al, title of Babylon's god Marduk.
Belus Linea
Belus Linea is a 2,437-km-long dark triple band on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered at 9.3°N, 231.4°W, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for Agenor's twin brother in Greek myth.
Belus of Tyre
Belus of Tyre is the legendary king of Tyre named by Virgil as the father of Dido, and identified with the historical king Mattan I.
Belva Ann Lockwood
Belva Ann Lockwood (1830-1917), American lawyer and suffragist; first woman admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court bar (1879) and first to argue before it (Kaiser v. Stickney, 1880); Equal Rights Party presidential candidate 1884 and 1888.
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle is a Victorian folly in Central Park, New York, atop Vista Rock at 79th Street, designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, completed 1872, a U.S. Weather Bureau station from 1919, restored 1983 and 2019.