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Bernward
Bernward (c. 960–1022) was bishop of Hildesheim from 993 until 1022, a former imperial chaplain and tutor to Otto III, and a canonized Catholic saint.
Bernward Column
The Bernward Column, or Christ Column, is a bronze triumphal column with a spiral relief of scenes from the life of Jesus, made around 1020 for Hildesheim.
Bernward Doors
The Bernward Doors are monumental bronze doors cast for Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany in 1015 at the order of Bishop Bernward, the oldest medieval bronze doors with figural scenes.
Berny Jacques
Berny Jacques is an American politician who has served as a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 59, covering Largo and Seminole, since 2022.
Bernzikial
Bernzikial is the stage name of Bernardo Lemos, an American dubstep and bass music producer from Orlando, Florida, who has released on Subsidia and played Lost Lands.
Berocca
Berocca is Bayer's brand of high-dose B-complex multivitamin effervescent supplements with vitamin C, magnesium and zinc, launched by Roche in 1972 and sold to Bayer in 2004, studied for mood, stress and cognitive effects.
Beroe
Beroe: name of several ancient Balkan settlements, chiefly the Thracian-Roman city Augusta Traiana-Beroe at Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, and a Roman-Byzantine Danube fort at Piatra Frecăței, Romania; distinct from Beroia (Veria) in Macedonia.
Beroe (ctenophore)
Beroe (O.F. Müller, 1776; ITIS: Gronov, 1760) is a genus of tentacle-less beroid ctenophores, about 25 described species, that preys almost exclusively on other ctenophores; B. ovata controls invasive Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Black Sea.
Beroidae
Beroidae, comb jelly family (order Beroida, class Nuda) with two genera, mainly Beroe; tentacle-less ctenophores that eat other ctenophores; Beroe ovata is an invasive biocontrol agent of Mnemiopsis leidyi.
Berossus
Berossus (Bēl-rē'ûšunu), Babylonian priest of Bel and historian, late 4th–early 3rd century BCE, wrote the Greek three-book Babyloniaca dedicated to Antiochus I; it survives only in fragments via Polyhistor, Josephus, and Eusebius.
Berosus (lunar crater)
Berosus is a 75.24-km-diameter lunar impact crater at 33.42°N, 69.93°E near Mare Crisium, IAU-approved in 1935 and named for Berosus the Chaldean, the Babylonian astronomer and historian.
Berotralstat
Berotralstat (BCX7353, Orladeyo) is an oral once-daily plasma kallikrein inhibitor for prophylaxis of hereditary angioedema attacks, first FDA-approved December 3, 2020, now indicated for ages 2 and older.
Berrechid Province
Berrechid Province (إقليم برشيد) is a province of Morocco's Casablanca-Settat region, created in 2009, capital Berrechid city; 640,657 inhabitants (2024), 2,544 km², agricultural-industrial economy, over-exploited Berrechid aquifer.
Berretta del Prete
Berretta del Prete, a Roman circular domed mausoleum of the late 3rd to early 4th century AD on the Via Appia Antica near Rome, 12.50 m in diameter, later a medieval church and 12th-century tower.
Berri oil field
Berri is an onshore and offshore oil field in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province near Jubail, operated by Saudi Aramco, with production begun in the late 1960s.
Berriasella
Berriasella is an extinct Neocomitidae ammonite genus (Uhlig, 1905) from the late Tithonian to Berriasian of the Tethys; its species B. jacobi long marked the base of the Berriasian before reassignment to Strambergella.
Berrien County, Michigan, United States
Berrien County, Michigan: southwestern Lake Michigan county established 1831, organized 1835, named for Attorney General John M. Berrien; seat St. Joseph since 1894; 154,316 residents (2020); fruit-growing and tourism region.
Berry
Berry: small edible fruits such as strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, and currant, defined in trade by the OECD/UNECE FFV-57 standard; covers domestication histories, breeding programs, cultivar trials, and grading rules.
Berry (botany)
Berry (botany): a simple fleshy fruit from a single flower's ovary with an entirely fleshy pericarp, e.g. grape, tomato, banana; includes hesperidium and pepo; excludes strawberries, raspberries, and drupes.
Berry Bay
Berry Bay: beach and surf spot on the west coast of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, near Corny Point; beginner-friendly left-hand beach break, Berry Bay North and South access points, home of the Berry Bay Surf Jam junior contest.
Berry Berenson
Berry Berenson (Berinthia Berenson Perkins, 1948–2001), American photographer, model, and actress, wife of Anthony Perkins, sister of Marisa Berenson, granddaughter of Elsa Schiaparelli; died on American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001.
Berry College
Berry College: private liberal arts college in Mount Berry, Georgia, founded by Martha Berry in 1902; 27,000-acre campus; LifeWorks paid student work program; ninth president Sandeep Mazumder since July 2025.
Berry connection and curvature
The Berry connection is a gauge potential giving the geometric phase of a quantum system carried around a closed loop; the Berry curvature, its curl, is a gauge-invariant field strength used to compute it.
Berry curvature dipole
The Berry curvature dipole is a measure of how unevenly Berry curvature is distributed in a crystal's momentum space, introduced by Sodemann and Fu in 2015.
Berry Genomics
Berry Genomics (贝瑞基因, formerly 贝瑞和康) is a Chinese genetic-testing company founded in 2010 that pioneered non-invasive prenatal testing in China and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2017.
Berry Global
Berry Global, formerly Berry Plastics, was an American packaging maker headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, which grew from $25 million in 1983 to over $7 billion in revenue before merging into Amcor in 2025.
Berry Goodman
Berry Goodman (ベリーグッドマン) is a three-member Japanese vocal group from Osaka, formed in 2013, known for cheering-style power songs and a 2016 major debut on Universal Music.
Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy Jr. is an American record producer and entrepreneur who founded Motown Records in Detroit in 1959 and built it into the largest Black-owned American company of the 1960s.
Berry Oakley
Berry Oakley (Raymond Berry Oakley III, 1948–1972) was the founding bassist of the Allman Brothers Band, played a modified Fender 'Tractor' bass, and died in a 1972 Macon motorcycle crash.
Berry phase
The Berry phase is a phase a quantum system acquires in cyclic evolution under slow parameter change, depending only on the path's geometry, formulated by Michael Berry in 1984.