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Bergen County, New Jersey

Bergen County, New Jersey: the state's most populous county (955,732 in 2020; 977,026 estimated 2025), county seat Hackensack, 70 municipalities, founded 1683, Moody's Aaa rating, part of the New York metropolitan area.

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Bergen Davis

Bergen Davis (1869–1958) was an American experimental physicist, professor of physics at Columbia University from 1919 to 1939, known for his work on X-rays, ionization, and gas discharges.

Bergen generating station

Bergen generating station is a combined cycle natural gas power plant in Ridgefield, New Jersey, with two units totaling 1,245 MW, sold by PSEG to Parkway Generation in 2021.

Bergen Line

The Bergen Line (Bergensbanen) is the 471 km electrified mainline railway between Oslo and Bergen, opened by King Haakon VII in 1909 and running across the Hardangervidda mountain plateau.

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, Germany, originally an SS 'exchange camp' from 1943. Around 120,000 prisoners passed through it; about 52,000 died before or shortly after the British liberation of 15 April 1945.

Bergenia

Bergenia (elephant's ears, pigsqueak) is a Saxifragaceae genus of evergreen rhizomatous perennials native to temperate Asia, with 10 accepted species per Kew, red winter foliage, spring pink flowers, and rhizomes used in Ayurveda as Pashanabheda.

Berger Paints

Berger Paints India Limited is an Indian paint manufacturer headquartered in Kolkata and the second-largest paint company in India, tracing to 1923 and employing about 14,480 people.

Bergerac (2025 TV series)

Bergerac (2025 TV series), the Bergerac reboot, is a six-part UKTV crime drama on U and U&DRAMA starring Damien Molony as Jim Bergerac, reimagining the 1981-91 John Nettles BBC series set in Jersey with one case per series and £1.2m of Jersey government funding.

Bergerac (TV series)

Bergerac is a British crime drama set on Jersey: the original BBC One series (1981–1991) starred John Nettles as DS Jim Bergerac, and a UKTV reboot with Damien Molony launched in 2025.

Bergeron process

The Bergeron process, also called the Wegener–Bergeron–Findeisen process, is the mechanism by which ice crystals in cold clouds grow at the expense of supercooled water droplets.

Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology

Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: comprehensive reference on bacterial and archaeal systematics, descended from the 1923 Determinative manual; first edition 4 volumes 1984–1989, second edition 5 volumes 2001–2012, continued online as BMSAB since 2015.

Berggruen Philosophy Prize

The Berggruen Philosophy Prize, formally the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, is an annual $1 million award established in 2016 by the Berggruen Institute for a living thinker's lifetime work.

Berghain

Berghain is a Berlin techno club opened December 2004 in a former Friedrichshain power plant by Snax founders Thormann and Teufele, successor to Ostgut, famous for its selective door, photo ban, and 20th-anniversary status in Berlin's intangible cultural heritage techno scene.

Berghain (song)

"Berghain" is a 2025 song by Rosalía featuring Björk and Yves Tumor, the operatic, orchestral lead single of her album Lux, sung in German, Spanish, and English and named after the Berlin techno club.

Bergheim-Quadrath

Bergheim-Quadrath is the Barrington Atlas designation for a Roman road station at Quadrath, a district of Bergheim, Germany, on the Köln–Bavai road (Via Belgica), catalogued as Pleiades place 108805 with no recorded ancient name.

Berghia coerulescens

Berghia coerulescens (Laurillard, 1832), also called berghia azzurra, is a Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic aeolid nudibranch, type species of genus Berghia, that eats Aiptasia and Sagartia anemones and has blue cerata with yellow rings.

Berghof (residence)

The Berghof, also known as Haus Wachenfeld, was Adolf Hitler's residence at Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden; its ruins were blown up in 1952.

Bergisch Gladbach

Bergisch Gladbach, Kreisstadt of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia near Cologne; about 111,000-114,000 residents, merged with Bensberg in 1975, former papermaking center (Zanders), home to Miltenyi Biotec and Saint-Gobain ISOVER.

Bergisel Ski Jump

The Bergisel Ski Jump (Bergiselschanze) is a ski jumping hill above Innsbruck, Austria, hosting Olympic ski jumping in 1964 and 1976 and the Four Hills Tournament since 1953.

Bergius process

The Bergius process is a direct coal liquefaction method, patented by Friedrich Bergius in 1913, that converts finely ground coal into liquid fuels under high hydrogen pressure.

Bergland

Bergland, German for mountain land, denotes rugged upland terrain. Coverage spans mountain definitions (UNEP-WCMC, GMBA, USGS), global extent of 12-30% of land, 1.1 billion inhabitants, water supply, and mountain development policy.

Bergman cyclization

The Bergman cyclization is a thermal cycloaromatization in which an enediyne rearranges to a p-benzyne diradical, reported by Robert Bergman in 1972 and central to enediyne antibiotic DNA cleavage.

Bergman space

The Bergman space is the Hilbert space of holomorphic functions on a domain that are square-integrable with respect to area measure, with a reproducing kernel called the Bergman kernel.

Bergmann's rule

Bergmann's rule (Bergmann 1847): body size increases with latitude and decreases with temperature in closely related taxa, best supported in endotherms; exceptions include small mammals, ectotherms, and Mesozoic dinosaurs.

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a hillside landscape park in Kassel, Germany, begun in 1689 and known for its gravity-driven water displays beneath a giant Hercules statue.

Berguinho

Berguinho (Rosembergne da Silva, born 1997, Natal) is a Brazilian attacking midfielder and winger at Persib Bandung, number 97, formerly of Borneo FC Samarinda, ABC, and Volta Redonda; distinct from the younger Vasco da Gama namesake.