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Berkeley Pit
The Berkeley Pit is a former open-pit copper mine in Butte, Montana, worked from 1955 to 1983 and since filled with acidic, metal-laden water as part of a Superfund site.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Berkeley Rep) is a nonprofit LORT B regional theatre in Berkeley, California, founded in 1968 by Michael Leibert; Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre 1997, two downtown stages, Ground Floor new-work center.
Berkeley sockets
Berkeley sockets, also known as BSD sockets, is an API for network communication in which programs read from and write to endpoints called sockets, introduced with 4.2BSD Unix in the early 1980s.
Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley Software Distribution, known as BSD Unix, is a family of Unix operating system derivatives developed at the University of California, Berkeley, beginning in 1976, and was the ancestor of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
Berkeley Springs (hot spring)
Berkeley Springs (Warm Springs, Bath) is a group of warm mineral springs, about 74°F, in Berkeley Springs State Park, Morgan County, West Virginia, famed since colonial times, visited by George Washington, with free public water and 1815 Roman Bath House.
Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California: Alameda County city east of San Francisco, home of UC Berkeley (founded 1868), incorporated 1878, population about 122,000; known for the Free Speech Movement, Chez Panisse, BART service, and an active biennial-budget city government.
Berkelium
Berkelium (Element 97, symbol Bk) is a synthetic radioactive actinide first made in December 1949 at the University of California, Berkeley, by bombarding americium-241 with helium nuclei.
Berkelocene
Berkelocene is an organometallic sandwich compound of the synthetic element berkelium, reported in 2025 as the first such molecule isolated and structurally characterized, with berkelium between two 8-membered carbon rings.
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, founded 1945 in Boston as Schillinger House by Lawrence Berk and renamed Berklee in 1954, is a private contemporary music college, the first U.S. school founded on jazz study, now part of a 2016 merger with Boston Conservatory.
Berkley Books
Berkley Books is a Penguin Random House imprint under the Penguin Publishing Group, publishing commercial romance, women's fiction, mystery, and science fiction/fantasy by authors such as Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood; acquired by Putnam in 1965, merged with NAL in 2015, and parent of Ace Books and the new Berkley XO imprint.
Berkner (lunar crater)
Berkner is an 87.62-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's far side at 25.13°N, 105.24°W, named for American geophysicist Lloyd Viel Berkner and IAU-approved in 1970, with satellite craters Berkner A, B, and Y.
Berkner Island
Berkner Island (Berkner Ice Rise, formerly Hubley Island) is the largest Antarctic island, an uninhabited ice rise about 320 km long between the Ronne and Filchner Ice Shelves, rising to 975 m with two domes, and the site of a 948 m deep ice core spanning over 150,000 years.
Berkovich space
A Berkovich space is an analytic space over a non-archimedean valued field such as the p-adic numbers, introduced by Vladimir Berkovich in 1990, whose points are multiplicative seminorms.
Berks County, Pennsylvania
Berks County, Pennsylvania: county created March 11, 1752 from Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia counties; seat Reading, named for Berkshire, England. 864 square miles, 428,849 people (2020), part of Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
Berkshire
Berkshire is a historic Royal County in southern England west of London, covering the Thames and Kennet valleys and Berkshire Downs. Its county council was abolished in 1998, leaving six unitary authorities; West Berkshire joins the 2028 Oxfordshire reorganisation.
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway is an American holding company built by Warren Buffett, who took control in 1965 and handed the CEO role to Greg Abel in January 2026.
Berkshire Hathaway Energy
Berkshire Hathaway Energy is an Iowa-based holding company, wholly owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 2024, whose subsidiaries run regulated electric and gas utilities and pipelines.
Berkshire Partners
Berkshire Partners is a Boston-based, employee-owned private equity firm founded in 1986, focused on middle-market companies; it closed its largest fund, at $7.8 billion, in 2024.
Berkshire Transformer Consultants
Berkshire Transformer Consultants was the worldwide transformer-consulting practice of William J. McNutt, a General Electric engineer and IEEE Life Fellow elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Berkut space suit
The Berkut (Беркут, "Golden Eagle") was the first Soviet spacesuit designed for spacewalks, worn by Aleksei Leonov during the first spacewalk outside Voskhod 2 on 18 March 1965.
Berl R. Oakley
Berl R. Oakley is an American geneticist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas since 2008, known for discovering γ-tubulin in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans.
Berlage (lunar crater)
Berlage is a 93.75-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's southern hemisphere at 63.04 S, 163.61 W, IAU-approved in 1970 and named for Dutch geophysicist Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1896-1968).
Berlekamp–Massey algorithm
The Berlekamp–Massey algorithm finds the shortest linear feedback shift register that generates a given sequence over a field, developed by Berlekamp in 1968 and Massey in 1969.
Berliet
Berliet (Automobiles M. Berliet) was a French vehicle manufacturer founded by Marius Berliet in Lyon, France's leading truck maker until its 1978 merger into Renault.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, a city-state located on the Spree. With 3.7 million residents, it has served as a royal, imperial, and divided capital.
Berlin (2023 film)
Berlin (बर्लिन) is a 2023 Hindi spy thriller by Atul Sabharwal, set in 1993 New Delhi, where sign-language interpreter Pushkin Verma (Aparshakti Khurana) interrogates deaf-mute suspect Ashok (Ishwak Singh); premiered at IFFLA 2023, released on ZEE5 on 13 September 2024.
Berlin (band)
Berlin (band): American synth-pop group from Los Angeles founded by Terri Nunn, John Crawford, and David Diamond; hits 'Sex (I'm A...)' and the Oscar-winning 'Take My Breath Away' (Top Gun, 1986). Not to be confused with Berlin School electronic music, Lou Reed's album Berlin, or other acts named Berlin.
Berlin (Lou Reed album)
Berlin (1973) is Lou Reed's third album, a Bob Ezrin-produced rock opera about Caroline and Jim's doomed relationship, a commercial and critical flop that later became acclaimed.
Berlin (Money Heist)
Berlin (Andrés de Fonollosa) is the Money Heist character played by Pedro Alonso, mastermind of the Royal Mint heist who dies in part 2; subject of the Netflix prequel Berlín (2023) and Berlin and the Lady with an Ermine (2026).
Berlin (Spanish TV series)
Berlin (Berlín) is a Spanish Netflix crime drama, a prequel spin-off of La casa de papel created by Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato, starring Pedro Alonso as Berlín; season 1 premiered December 29, 2023 in Paris, season 2 (Berlín y la dama del armiño) on May 15, 2026 in Seville.