All articles starting with B

Belvédère Hotel, Furka Pass

Hotel Belvédère, Furka Pass: Belle Époque mountain hotel built 1882 by Josef Seiler beside the Rhone Glacier, expanded 1904, seen in Goldfinger (1964), closed since 2015 and owned by the Carlen family.

Belvedere Torso

The Belvedere Torso (Torso del Belvedere) is a fragmentary marble male torso in the Vatican Museums, signed by Apollonios and long admired as a model of the heroic male nude.

Sep 19, 2026

Belvedere Trading

Belvedere Trading is a privately held proprietary trading and market-making firm founded in 2002 and headquartered in Chicago, making markets in options, commodities, and interest rates.

Belvedere, London

Belvedere is a district in the London Borough of Bexley, southeast London, on Thames flood plain land. Once country-house country with an 1762 James Stuart house, it became a railway suburb and industrial area, now a growth zone for up to 8,000 homes.

Belvedere, Vienna

Belvedere, Vienna: Baroque palace complex built 1712–1723 by Hildebrandt for Prince Eugene of Savoy; since 1777 a public museum holding the world's largest Klimt collection, including The Kiss, across Upper Belvedere, Lower Belvedere, and Belvedere 21.

Belvisia

Belvisia is a small genus of tropical Polypodiaceae ferns with a narrow, tail-like fertile spike at the frond apex, ranging from tropical Africa to Polynesia and Australia.

Belvoir (theatre company)

Belvoir, also known as Company B, is a Sydney theater company founded in 1984 when 600 theater-lovers bought the Belvoir Street building, known for Cloudstreet, The Sapphires, and Counting and Cracking.

Belvoir Castle

Belvoir Castle is a Grade I listed Gothic-style country house in Leicestershire, England, the hilltop seat of the Dukes of Rutland, rebuilt between 1801 and 1830.

Bely Island

Bely Island (Ostrov Belyy), uninhabited Arctic island in the Kara Sea, Yamalo-Nenets Okrug, Russia, north of Yamal across the Malygin Strait; about 1,797 km², flat permafrost tundra with the M.V. Popov station since 1933 and rapid coastal erosion.

Sep 19, 2026

Bely y Beto

Bely y Beto are a Mexican children's entertainment duo from Monterrey, built by Belinda Treviño around Beto, a plush-like character she created and originally voiced.

Belz (בעלז) (Hasidic dynasty)

Belz (בעלז) is a Hasidic dynasty founded in Galicia around 1817 by Rabbi Shalom Rokeaḥ, now one of the largest Hasidic communities, centered in Jerusalem.

Belz Voivodeship

Belz Voivodeship (Polish: województwo bełskie, Ukrainian: Белзьке воєводство) was a unit of the Kingdom of Poland from 1462 to 1772, seated at Belz near the Bug River.

Belzec extermination camp

Belzec (Bełżec) was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland, the first of three Operation Reinhard killing centers, where roughly 434,500 Jews were murdered between March and December 1942.

Belzupacap sarotalocan

Belzupacap sarotalocan (bel-sar, AU-011) is Aura Biosciences' investigational virus-like drug conjugate of HPV-derived VLPs conjugated to IR700 dye, activated by 689 nm near-infrared light to kill HSPG-expressing tumor cells; in phase 3 for choroidal melanoma.

Belzutifan

Belzutifan (Welireg, MK-6482) is Merck's first-in-class oral HIF-2α inhibitor approved for VHL disease-associated tumors (2021), advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (2023), pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma (2025), and RCC combinations (2026).

Sep 29, 2026

Bem Sex-Role Inventory

The Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) is a 60-item self-report questionnaire measuring masculinity, femininity, and androgyny as independent traits, introduced by Sandra Bem in 1974 and widely used in gender-role research.

Bema pamięci żałobny rapsod

"Bema pamięci żałobny rapsod" (A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem) is an 1851 poem by Cyprian Kamil Norwid, written a year after General Józef Bem's death.

Sep 19, 2026

Bemani

Bemani (ビーマニ) is the unified brand name for Konami Arcade Games' music games, derived from beatmania, the 1997 DJ rhythm game, and covering DanceDanceRevolution, beatmania IIDX, and SOUND VOLTEX.

Bemarituzumab

Bemarituzumab (FPA144, AMG 552) is a first-in-class afucosylated humanized IgG1 antibody against FGFR2b, developed for FGFR2b-overexpressing gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma; tested in the FIGHT phase 2 and FORTITUDE-101 phase 3 trials.

Sep 24, 2026

Bemba Kingdom

The Bemba Kingdom (UluBemba) was a state in north-eastern Zambia, founded by Luba migrants before 1700 and ruled by the paramount chief Chitimukulu until British conquest in the 1890s.

Bembicinae

Bembicinae (sand wasps) is a subfamily of Crabronidae apoid wasps with about 1,697 species in 81 genera, four tribes including Heliocausini, ground-nesting predators of flies and orthopterans, and cleptoparasitic Nyssonini.

Bembina

Bembina (Βέμβινα), also Bembinon, an unlocated ancient village (kome) of Nemea in Corinthia between Cleonae and Phlius, named by Strabo, Hellanikos, and Panyassis, linked to the Nemean Lion; distinct from Belbina in Arcadia.

Bembix rostrata

Bembix rostrata (Harkwesp, läppstekel) is a Linnaean 1758 crabronid sand wasp of European, North Asian, and African dunes, gregariously nesting, progressively provisioning larvae with paralyzed flies, and threatened by grazing.

Bembridge

Bembridge is a village on the easternmost tip of the Isle of Wight, England, home to about 3,500 people and known for its beaches and RNLI lifeboat station.

Bemidji State University

Bemidji State University (BSU), a public Minnesota State university on Lake Bemidji founded in 1919 as Bemidji Normal School, enrolls about 5,000 students in 70 undergraduate areas and eight graduate degrees, with noted online, forestry, and indigenous studies programs.

Bemidji, Minnesota

Bemidji, Minnesota: Beltrami County seat on Lake Bemidji, 220 miles north of the Twin Cities; population about 15,770 (2025). Known for the 1937 Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues, Bemidji State University, and its role as a regional retail, health care, and education hub.

Bemin system

The bemin system (部民制, beminsei) organized people serving the Yamato court, imperial family, and powerful clans into be groups owing labor and tribute, abolished after the Taika Reform of 645.

Bemiparin sodium

Bemiparin sodium (Hibor, Ivor, Zibor, Badyket) is a second-generation low-molecular-weight heparin from ROVI, mean MW 3,600 Da, anti-Xa/IIa ratio 8, once-daily subcutaneous prophylaxis and treatment of venous thromboembolism and hemodialysis anticoagulation.