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Bentresh Stela
The Bentresh Stela, also called the Bakhtan Stela, is a sandstone stela in the Louvre telling how the god Khonsu healed the princess Bentresh of Bakhtan.
Bentumersiel
Bentumersiel is an archaeological settlement site on the lower Ems river near Jemgum, Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its exceptionally many Roman finds within a Germanic marsh settlement.
Bentwood furniture
Bentwood furniture, German Bugholzmöbel, is furniture of solid beechwood rods bent into shape with pressurized steam, pioneered by Michael Thonet in Vienna in the 1840s.
Benty Grange helmet
Benty Grange helmet: seventh-century Anglo-Saxon boar-crested spangenhelm, first Anglo-Saxon helmet found, excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1848 at Monyash, Derbyshire; iron frame with horn plates, silver cross, boar crest; Weston Park Museum, Sheffield.
Benu Gopal Bangur
Benu Gopal Bangur is an Indian businessman and patriarch of the family that controls Shree Cement, built from Beawar, Rajasthan into India's third largest cement group; he stepped down as chairman in 2022.
Benudhar Rajkhowa
Benudhar Rajkhowa was an Assamese poet, playwright, and lexicographer (1872–1955) whose 1917 dictionary of Assamese idioms remains unique in the language; his poetry is called the dawn of Assamese romanticism.
Benue
Benue River, major West African river rising in Cameroon, flowing southwest to join the Niger at Lokoja, Nigeria; namesake of Benue State, the 'Food Basket of the Nation'; supports fishing, irrigation, and transport but suffers flooding from Cameroon's Lagdo dam.
Benue State
Benue State, Nigeria, is a state in the North-Central region, created in 1976, with its capital at Makurdi and the nickname "Food Basket of the Nation".
Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), Florentine Mannerist goldsmith, sculptor, and writer; creator of the Saliera and the bronze Perseus, and author of the famous Vita autobiography.
Benxi
Benxi (本溪) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Liaoning, China, named after Benxi Lake. An old steel-industrial base (Bengang, merged with Ansteel 2021), it is also the 'Maple Leaf Capital' with 76.31% forest coverage and 10.812 billion tonnes of iron ore reserves.
Benxihu Colliery disaster
The Benxihu Colliery disaster (本溪湖煤矿爆炸) was a gas and coal-dust explosion at the Honkeiko coal mine in Benxi, Liaoning, in 1942 that killed 1,549 people, the deadliest coal mining disaster on record.
Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, near Reviers, Normandy, is a CWGC cemetery holding about 2,048 burials, mostly 3rd Canadian Division soldiers killed on D-Day at Juno Beach and in the advance toward Caen.
Benyapa Jeenprasom
Benyapa Jeenprasom (เบญญาภา จีนประสม), nicknamed View, Thai actress born 2002, GMMTV artist since Miss Teen Thailand 2017; known for 55:15 Never Too Late, Home School, 23.5, and Girl Rules.
Benyvirus necrobetae
Benyvirus necrothe is a plant virus in the genus Benyvirus, formerly known as beet necrotic yellow virus (BNYVV). It is a multipartite virus causing rhizomania in sugar beet.
Benz Patent-Motorwagen
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen, or Benz Motorwagen, is the three-wheeled gasoline vehicle Carl Benz built in Mannheim in 1885, patented in 1886 and regarded as the first practical automobile.
Benz Velo
The Benz Velo, officially the Motor-Velocipede, was an early four-wheeled automobile built by Benz & Cie. of Mannheim from 1894 to 1902, with some 1,200 examples made.
Benz[a]anthracene
Benz[a]anthracene, also written benzo[a]anthracene, is a four-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (C18H12) found in cigarette smoke and classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans (IARC Group 2B).
Benzaiten
Benzaiten (弁才天, also 弁財天, Benten), a Japanese Buddhist goddess derived from the Vedic river goddess Sarasvatī, deity of music, eloquence, learning, and wealth; only female of the Seven Lucky Gods, worshipped at Chikubushima, Enoshima, and Itsukushima.
Benzaldehyde
Benzaldehyde, also known as benzoic aldehyde, is the simplest aromatic aldehyde, a colorless liquid with a bitter almond odor used in flavorings, perfumes, dyes, and pharmaceuticals.
Benzalkonium chloride
Benzalkonium chloride (BAC), also known as Zephiran or ADBAC, is a quaternary ammonium compound used as an antiseptic, disinfectant, and preservative in drugs and cosmetics.
Benzamide
Benzamide is the simplest aromatic amide, in which a primary amide group is attached directly to a benzene ring; it is a colorless crystalline solid melting near 130 °C.
Benzamidine
Benzamidine, also called benzenecarboximidamide, is the simplest aryl amidine, a competitive inhibitor of the protease trypsin whose binding mode made it the prototype for protease inhibitors and affinity purification.
Benzarone
Benzarone, a benzofuran-derivative drug (C17H14O3) formerly used orally and topically for peripheral vascular disorders, withdrawn after severe idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity; structurally related to amiodarone and benzbromarone.
Benzatropine
Benzatropine (benztropine, Cogentin) is a synthetic anticholinergic and antihistaminic mesylate drug, an adjunct for all forms of parkinsonism and neuroleptic-induced extrapyramidal disorders except tardive dyskinesia, dosed 0.5 to 6 mg daily.
Benzbromarone
Benzbromarone (Desuric, Urinorm) is a benzofuran uricosuric drug first marketed in the 1970s to treat gout; it was withdrawn in Europe in 2003 over hepatotoxicity concerns.
Benzene
Benzene (C6H6) is the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon, a colorless, highly flammable liquid with a hexagonal ring of six carbon atoms, isolated by Michael Faraday in 1825.
Benzene oxidation
Benzene oxidation is the family of chemical reactions in which benzene reacts with an oxidant, either selectively to phenol or completely to carbon dioxide and water.
Benzenesulfonamide
Benzenesulfonamide is the simplest aromatic sulfonamide, a white crystalline solid (melting point 154 °C) that is the parent compound of the sulfonamide carbonic anhydrase inhibitor drugs.
Benzethonium chloride
Benzethonium chloride is a synthetic quaternary ammonium salt and cationic surfactant with broad-spectrum activity against bacteria, fungi, and enveloped viruses, used in antiseptic washes, cosmetics, and disinfection.
Benzhydrocodone
Benzhydrocodone is a prodrug of hydrocodone, developed as KP201 and sold in the United States with acetaminophen as Apadaz, approved in February 2018 for acute pain.