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Benetton Group
Benetton Group, also known as United Colors of Benetton, is an Italian apparel company based near Treviso, founded by the four Benetton siblings in 1965.
Beneunder (蕉下)
Beneunder (蕉下) is a Shenzhen-based Chinese brand founded in 2013 by Ma Long and Lin Ze, China's largest sun-protection apparel brand by 2021 retail sales.
Benevento
Benevento (ancient Beneventum, once Malventum) is a city in inland Campania, Italy: Roman colony from 268 BC, capital of the Lombard duchy from 571, home of the Arch of Trajan and UNESCO-listed Santa Sofia.
Benevento Calcio
Benevento Calcio, also known as the Streghe, is an Italian football club from Benevento, Campania, founded in 1929. First promoted to Serie A in 2017, it won the 2019/20 Serie B with 86 points and returned to Serie B in 2026.
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE): American fraternal order founded February 16, 1868 in New York from the Jolly Corks club by English entertainer Charles Vivian; nearly 2,000 lodges, over $80 million annual charity, veterans and youth programs.
Benevolent dictatorship
Benevolent dictatorship: absolute rule exercised for the people's benefit, from Plato's philosopher king and enlightened despotism to Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, with the Lee thesis, growth evidence, and commitment problems distinguishing it from ordinary dictatorship.
BenevolentAI
BenevolentAI is a London-based company, founded in 2013, that uses artificial intelligence to discover and develop new medicines with partners such as AstraZeneca and Merck KGaA.
Benfica, Luanda
Benfica, Luanda: coastal urban district of Luanda, Angola (also Cabolombo), about 21.48 km2 with 191,828 residents; home of Praia Por do Sol, the Benfica market, and football club Benfica de Luanda (founded 1922).
Benfluorex
Benfluorex (Mediator), a fenfluramine-derivative appetite suppressant and antidiabetic add-on drug marketed by Servier from 1976, withdrawn in France in 2009 and the EU in 2010 for causing 5-HT2B-mediated valvular heart disease.
Benfluralin
Benfluralin (benefin) is a dinitroaniline pre-emergence herbicide, N-butyl-N-ethyl-α,α,α-trifluoro-2,6-dinitro-p-toluidine, used on lettuce and chicory; EU approval was not renewed in 2023 over toxicity, aquatic risk, and PBT concerns.
Benford's law
Benford's law, also called the first-digit phenomenon or Newcomb–Benford law, holds that leading digits follow log10(1 + 1/d); noted by Newcomb in 1881 and rediscovered by Benford in 1938, it is widely used in fraud detection.
Benfotiamine
Benfotiamine (S-benzoylthiamine O-monophosphate), a lipid-soluble synthetic thiamine (vitamin B1) derivative with higher bioavailability, activating transketolase; used for diabetic peripheral neuropathy in some countries and in trials for early Alzheimer's disease.
Benfuracarb
Benfuracarb (CAS 82560-54-1) is a systemic carbamate insecticide and nematicide, a proinsecticide of the more toxic carbofuran; withdrawn from EU use in 2007 but registered in Japan and India with set ADI and residue limits.
Benfuresate
Benfuresate (CAS 68505-69-1) is a benzofuranyl alkylsulfonate herbicide, C12H16O4S, related to ethofumesate, controlling sedges and grasses in rice and cotton via fatty-acid synthesis inhibition; not EU-approved, still used in Japan.
Beng ü Bade
Beng ü Bade (Bəngü-Badə) is an allegorical mathnawi of 444 couplets by the poet Fuzuli, written in Azerbaijani between 1510 and 1524, in which hashish and wine debate their superiority.
Benga
Benga is a British dubstep producer and DJ from Croydon, South London, a founding figure of the genre whose 2007 single 'Night' with Coki was dubstep's biggest seller.
Bengal
Bengal: region of northeastern South Asia on the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, divided between West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh; Bengali-speaking, historically partitioned in 1905 and 1947, home to the Sundarbans mangrove forest.
Bengal Army
The Bengal Army (बंगाल सेना) was the East India Company's native army in Bengal, raised in 1757 and the largest presidency army until its 1857 mutiny.
Bengal cat
Bengal cat: domestic cat breed from Asian leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) crosses, founded by Jean Mill in 1963, TICA-recognized 1986; rosetted coat, glitter gene, about 3.48% leopard cat DNA, high-energy temperament.
Bengal cricket team
The Bengal cricket team is an Indian first-class team representing West Bengal under the Cricket Association of Bengal, playing at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, and competing in the Ranji Trophy.
Bengal famine of 1943
The Bengal famine of 1943 (পঞ্চাশের মন্বন্তর) was a famine in British India's Bengal province during World War II, killing an estimated 1.5 to 3 million people.
Bengal fox
Bengal fox (Vulpes bengalensis), also Indian fox, a small gray canid endemic to the Indian subcontinent, black-tipped bushy tail, Least Concern globally but Vulnerable in Bangladesh, declining trend.
Bengal Gas Company Limited
Bengal Gas Company Limited (BGCL) is an Indian city gas distribution company authorized to supply natural gas in Kolkata and parts of five adjoining West Bengal districts.
Bengal monitor
Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis), or Indian monitor, a large terrestrial monitor lizard from Iran and Afghanistan to Java; CITES Appendix I, IUCN Least Concern 2009, Near Threatened 2018.
Bengal Opium Monopoly
The Bengal Opium Monopoly (अफीम का एकाधिकार) was a state monopoly over opium cultivation and sale in Bengal, assumed by the East India Company under Warren Hastings in 1773.
Bengal Patachitra
Bengal Patachitra (পটচিত্র) is a traditional scroll painting from West Bengal in which artists called Patuas unfurl painted scrolls while singing the stories shown on them.
Bengal Presidency
The Bengal Presidency, administered from Calcutta, was the largest of the three East India Company presidencies in British India, established in 1765 and divided in 1947.
Bengal Renaissance (বাংলার নবজাগরণ)
Bengal Renaissance (বাংলার নবজাগরণ): nineteenth-century Bengali cultural and social reform movement led by the bhadralok, from Rammohan Roy's Brahmo Samaj (1828) to Young Bengal, women's reform, and contested historiography.
Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829
The Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 (सती प्रथा निषेध) was a British Indian law passed on 4 December 1829 declaring sati, the burning or burying alive of Hindu widows, illegal.
Bengal School of Art
The Bengal School of Art was an early twentieth-century Indian movement founded in Calcutta by E. B. Havell and Abanindranath Tagore that rejected Western academic realism for a nationalist style.