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Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle: loosely defined western North Atlantic region between Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, named by Vincent Gaddis in 1964; famous for alleged vanishings like Flight 19 and USS Cyclops, but NOAA finds no elevated disappearance rate.
Bermuda Triangle (music)
Bermuda Triangle (버뮤다 트라이앵글) is a 2016 Korean hip-hop and R&B digital single by Zico featuring Crush and Dean, the first release by the crew Fanxy Child.
Bermudian dollar
The Bermudian dollar (BMD) is the currency of Bermuda, divided into 100 cents, pegged at par to the US dollar, and issued by the Bermuda Monetary Authority since 1970.
Bern
Bern (Berne) is Switzerland's federal city and de facto capital, founded in 1191 by Berchtold V of Zähringen on the Aare, a confederation member since 1353, federal seat since 1848, with a UNESCO-listed Old City since 1983 and about 147,000 residents.
Bern Botanic Garden
Bern Botanic Garden (Botanischer Garten der Universität Bern, BOGA) is the University of Bern's botanical garden at Altenbergrain 21, Bern, founded 1789, at its current Aare-slope site since 1859-62, with over 6,000 plant species, seven greenhouses, a 500,000-specimen herbarium, and free daily admission.
Bern Kohler
Bern Kohler is an American physical chemist and Ohio Eminent Scholar at Ohio State University known for measuring the ultrafast excited-state lifetimes of DNA with femtosecond laser spectroscopy.
Bern Nadette Stanis
Bern Nadette Stanis (born Bernadette Stanislaus, 1953, Brooklyn) is an American actress and author famous as Thelma Evans on CBS's Good Times (1974–1979), later an Alzheimer's advocate and author of The Last Night.
Bern-Mittelland District
Bern-Mittelland District (Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland), Bern canton administrative district created 1 January 2010; 74 municipalities around Bern, about 421,677-430,771 residents, 942 km2, prefect Ladina Kirchen.
Bernabé Cobo
Bernabé Cobo (1580–1657) was a Spanish Jesuit, naturalist, and chronicler of the Viceroyalty of Peru, best known for his Historia del Nuevo Mundo, completed in 1653.
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, born Bernadette Devlin in 1947, is a Northern Irish civil rights activist who was the youngest woman elected to the House of Commons in 1969.
Bernadette Greene-Placentia
Bernadette Greene-Placentia is an American politician and retired small-fleet trucking company owner who won the Democratic primary in July 2026 for Arizona's 8th Congressional District, facing Republican Rep. Abraham Hamadeh.
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters, born Bernadette Lazzara in 1948, is an American actress, singer, and author, a Broadway star regarded as a foremost interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's songs, with 3 Tony Awards.
Bernadette Soubirous
Bernadette Soubirous, also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, was a poor French girl who reported eighteen apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 and was canonized in 1933.
Bernadette Wilson
Bernadette Wilson is an American politician and Republican candidate for Governor of Alaska in 2026, a business owner and former Alaska director of Americans for Prosperity.
Bernadine H. Bulkley
Bernadine H. Bulkley (Bernadine Healy, 1944–2011) was an American cardiologist who, as Bernadine P. Healy, became the first female director of the National Institutes of Health.
Bernadine Healy
Bernadine Healy (1944-2011), American cardiologist and first female NIH director (1991-1993), launched the Women's Health Initiative, led the American Red Cross 9/11 response, and later deaned Ohio State's medical school.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1495–1584) was a Spanish conquistador who fought under Hernán Cortés and wrote an eyewitness history of the conquest of Mexico.
Bernalillo County
Bernalillo County, New Mexico: most populous NM county, seat at Albuquerque (founded 1706). Established January 8, 1852 as one of seven Mexican-era Partidos; 676,444 residents (2020); FIPS 35001.
Bernard (footballer)
Bernard (Bernard Anício Caldeira Duarte, born 1992, Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian midfielder at Atlético Mineiro; 2013 Libertadores winner, ex-Shakhtar Donetsk (€25m), Everton, Sharjah, Panathinaikos; 14 Brazil caps, 2014 World Cup squad. Not Bernardo Silva.
Bernard (Martian crater)
Bernard crater, a 131 km IAU-approved impact crater in Terra Sirenum, Mars (23.35S, 205.70E), with collapse pits, floor channels, and igneous mounds; distinct from Barnard crater near Hellas.
Bernard A. Friedman
Bernard A. Friedman (born 1943) is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1988.
Bernard A. Vallerga
Bernard A. Vallerga, known as Barney Vallerga, was an American civil engineer specializing in asphalt and pavement technology, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
Bernard Amadei
Bernard Amadei, born 1954 in France, is a French-American civil engineer who founded Engineers Without Borders-USA and is a professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault, born in 1949 in Roubaix, France, is a French businessman who took control of LVMH in 1989 and built it into the world's largest luxury group.
Bernard B. Berger
Bernard B. Berger (1912–2000) was an American sanitary and water resources engineer who spent 25 years in the Public Health Service and directed the Water Resources Research Center at UMass Amherst.
Bernard Babior
Bernard M. Babior (1935–2004) was an American physician-biochemist who showed that phagocytic white blood cells kill bacteria with superoxide, and was professor and head of biochemistry at The Scripps Research Institute from 1986.
Bernard Barker
Bernard Leon Barker (1917-2009), Cuban-born CIA contract agent and Bay of Pigs organizer, led the five Watergate burglars arrested June 17, 1972; his Miami bank deposits and address book tied the break-in to Nixon's re-election campaign.
Bernard Baruch
Bernard Baruch, also known as Bernard Mannes Baruch, was an American stock-market speculator who built a fortune before World War I and advised presidents for four decades.
Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher)
Bernard Bosanquet (1848–1923) was an English philosopher of the British idealist school, known for The Philosophical Theory of the State (1899), his defense of traditional logic, and his social work in London.
Bernard Bourdon
Bernard Bourdon is a French geochemist and cosmochemist, a CNRS research director at ENS Lyon, who studies planetary formation and Earth's early crust with isotope methods.