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Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), successor to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, is a learned society founded 1700 by Leibniz and reconstituted 1992 by a Berlin-Brandenburg state treaty.
Berlin, I Love You
Berlin, I Love You (Berlin ick liebe dir) is a 2019 German-British anthology film, the fourth Cities of Love entry after Paris, New York, and Rio, with ten Berlin love stories by directors including Peter Chelsom, Til Schweiger, and Fernando Eimbcke.
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin. Die Sinfonie der Großstadt) is Walther Ruttmann's 1927 German silent city-symphony documentary, premiered 23 September 1927, scored by Edmund Meisel, portraying one day in Berlin.
Berlinda Tolbert
Berlinda Tolbert (born 1949, Charlotte, NC) is an American actress who played Jenny Willis Jefferson on The Jeffersons (1975-1985, 65 episodes) and appeared in Harlem Nights, GoodFellas, and Patriot Games; married journalist Bob Reid since 1979.
Berliner (format)
Berliner (format): a newspaper page size of about 315 x 470 mm, between tabloid and broadsheet, also called the midi format; used by Le Monde, La Stampa, La Vanguardia, and formerly the Guardian.
Berliner Ensemble
Berliner Ensemble (BE), also Theater am Schiffbauerdamm: German theatre company founded 1949 in East Berlin by Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel for epic theatre; based since 1954 at the Schiffbauerdamm, led since 2017 by Oliver Reese.
Berliner FC Dynamo
Berliner FC Dynamo, BFC Dynamo or FC Berlin, the former Stasi-backed East German record champion: ten consecutive DDR-Oberliga titles 1979-1988 under Erich Mielke's patronage, now a Regionalliga Nordost club at Sportforum Hohenschönhausen.
Berliner Gramophone
Berliner Gramophone, also sold as Berliner Records, is the flat-disc record system Emile Berliner patented in 1887, which introduced mass-produced records and founded the modern record industry.
Berliner Literaturpreis
The Berliner Literaturpreis is a literary prize awarded annually by the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung in Berlin since 1989, honoring writers for contributions to contemporary German-language literature.
Berliner Philharmonie
The Berliner Philharmonie, also known as the Philharmonie Berlin, is the concert hall at Berlin's Kulturforum, home of the Berliner Philharmoniker since it opened in 1963.
Berliner Roman
The Berliner Roman, or Berlin novel, is a German novel tradition in which Berlin shapes the plot and acts as a character, central work Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) is the public transport operator of Berlin, Germany, running the U-Bahn, trams, buses, and ferries and carrying over one billion passengers a year.
Berliner Wasserbetriebe
Berliner Wasserbetriebe (BWB) is the integrated drinking water and wastewater utility of Berlin, Germany, wholly owned by the Land Berlin and Germany's largest water provider since reunification.
Berliner Weisse
Berliner Weisse is a pale, low-alcohol sour wheat beer from Berlin, fermented with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lactobacillus brevis, and Brettanomyces bruxellensis; once brewed by 700 Berlin breweries, now revived by craft brewers and served with raspberry or woodruff syrup.
Berlioz (musician)
Berlioz is the alias of British jazz-house producer Jasper Attlee, formerly Ted Jasper, born in Cape Town and raised in Cornwall. Known for "if Matisse made house music", the EP Jazz Is for Ordinary People (2023) and album Open This Wall (2024).
Berm
A berm is a nearly horizontal step or ledge in the sloping profile of an embankment, cut slope, or beach, or a soil prism placed against a levee.
Bermane Stiverne
Bermane Stiverne (born 1978), Haitian-Canadian heavyweight boxer, WBC heavyweight champion 2014-2015; won vacant title by TKO6 over Chris Arreola, first Haitian-born world heavyweight champion, lost belt to Deontay Wilder.
Bermejo
Bermejo River (Río Bermejo), Andes-rising Argentina-Bolivia tributary of the Paraguay River in the La Plata basin; ~1,300-1,600 km long, 123,162 km² basin, and one of the world's most sediment-laden rivers.
Bermekimab
Bermekimab (MABp1, Xilonix, JNJ-77474462) is a human IgG1 monoclonal antibody neutralizing interleukin-1 alpha, trialed in hidradenitis suppurativa, atopic dermatitis, colorectal cancer, and systemic sclerosis; not approved.
Bermondsey
Bermondsey is an inner-London neighbourhood in Southwark, on the Thames between London Bridge and Rotherhithe. Known for Bermondsey Abbey (founded 1082), the Bermondsey Beer Mile, The Blue market, and ongoing regeneration and council homebuilding.
Bermoothes Insula
Bermoothes Insula, a 124-km island in Kraken Mare on Titan, named for the enchanted Bermudas of Shakespeare's Tempest; IAU-approved 2015, imaged by Cassini radar.
Bermuda
Bermuda, a self-governing British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic, is a limestone-capped volcanic seamount settled by the English in 1612, with an economy led by international business and tourism and a recent return to fiscal surplus.
Bermuda Agreement
The Bermuda Agreement (Bermuda I), signed by the UK and US at Bermuda on 11 February 1946, was the bilateral air services agreement establishing the Bermuda Principles: capacity by ex post facto review and IATA-administered, doubly approved tariffs. It became the model for most later bilateral air transport agreements and was replaced by Bermuda II in 1977.
Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study
The Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) is an oceanographic program sampling the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda monthly since October 1988 to track ocean chemistry and climate change.
Bermuda Bowl
Bermuda Bowl: the World Bridge Federation's biennial open teams world championship, first held in Bermuda in 1950. USA holds a record 17 titles; USA1 won the 2025 edition in Herning, Denmark, ahead of Denmark and Sweden.
Bermuda II Agreement
Bermuda II Agreement: 1977 US-UK bilateral air transport agreement, also called the 1977 Air Services Agreement, replacing Bermuda I; restricted Heathrow access to four designated carriers and fares, until superseded by the 2007 EU-US Open Skies agreement.
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) is an oceanographic research and education institute in Bermuda, founded in 1903 and affiliated with Arizona State University since 2021.
Bermuda Monetary Authority
The Bermuda Monetary Authority is the sole regulator of Bermuda's financial services sector, established in 1969, which supervises insurers and banks and issues the national currency.
Bermuda Rise
Bermuda Rise: broad midplate bathymetric swell (~10^6 km², ~500 m relief) in the western North Atlantic surrounding Bermuda; uplifted 47–40 Ma, no hotspot track, supported by a ~20 km underplated layer.
Bermuda Stock Exchange
The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) is a fully electronic offshore securities exchange in Bermuda, established in 1971 and home to over 90% of the world's insurance-linked securities.