All articles starting with B

Berwyndale South Gas Field

Berwyndale South Gas Field is a coal seam gas field in the Surat Basin, Queensland, operated by QGC near Chinchilla, with commercial production from May 2006.

Beryl

Beryl is a hexagonal beryllium aluminum silicate mineral, Be3Al2Si6O18, best known as the parent of the gemstones emerald and aquamarine and as one of the two ore minerals of beryllium.

Sep 27, 2026

Beryl A. Howell

Beryl A. Howell, born Beryl Alaine Howell, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Columbia, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010.

Beryl Bainbridge

Dame Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010) was an English novelist known for short, darkly comic fiction; she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, more than anyone without winning.

Oct 21, 2026

Beryl Gastaldello (Béryl Gastaldello), born 1995 in Miramas, is a French sprint swimmer, three-time Olympian, captain of the French women's team, holder of the mixed 4x50 m freestyle relay world record and multiple French short-course records.

Beryl Markham

Beryl Markham was an English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer, and memoirist who in 1936 became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo east to west.

Beryl Oil and Gas Field

The Beryl oil and gas field is a petroleum field in UK block 9/13 in the northern North Sea, discovered in 1972 and producing since 1976 under operator Apache.

Sep 27, 2026

Beryl Piccolantonio

Beryl Brown Piccolantonio is an American Democratic politician representing Ohio's 4th House district as Minority Whip, appointed after Mary Lightbody's resignation and formerly a Gahanna-Jefferson School Board member.

Beryllium

Beryllium (Be) is a chemical element with atomic number 4, a lightweight, stiff, silvery-white metal used in aerospace, nuclear, X-ray, and electronics applications but highly toxic when inhaled.

Beryllium oxide

Beryllium oxide, also called beryllia, is a white crystalline compound of beryllium and oxygen, notable for high thermal conductivity, strong electrical insulation, and use as a neutron moderator in nuclear reactors.

Beryllium-10

Beryllium-10 is a rare, long-lived radioactive isotope of beryllium, with a half-life of 1.387 million years, produced when cosmic rays break apart nuclei in the atmosphere and surface minerals.

Beryllium-11

Beryllium-11 is a radioactive isotope of beryllium with four protons and seven neutrons, the standard example of a one-neutron halo nucleus studied for its inverted ground state.

Beryllium-7

Beryllium-7 (⁷Be) is a radioactive isotope of beryllium with a half-life of 53.22 days, produced in the atmosphere by cosmic rays and used as an environmental tracer.

Berzanji

Berzanji (برزنجي), also spelled Barzanji, is a Southeast Asian devotional recitation praising the Prophet Muhammad in rhythmic song, based on an Arabic text by Ja'far al-Barzanji, who died in 1766.

Berzelius (supercomputer)

Berzelius is Sweden's national supercomputer for artificial intelligence, an NVIDIA DGX system at Linköping University inaugurated in 2021, where the Swedish language model GPT-SW3 was trained.

Bes

Bes, ancient Egyptian protective dwarf deity (also Bes-image, related to Aha and Beset), guardian of pregnant women, children, and households, with lion mane, plumed crown, and frontal depiction, worshipped from the Middle Kingdom to the Roman Period.

Beş Hececiler

Beş Hececiler, or Hecenin Beş Şairi, names five Turkish poets, including Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, who turned from aruz to syllabic meter around 1917 under Ziya Gökalp's influence.

Bésame Mucho

Bésame Mucho, the Mexican bolero by Consuelo Velázquez (written 1938–1940, first performed 1941 by Emilio Tuero), the most covered Spanish-language song per Guinness 1996, translated into over 20 languages and recorded by The Beatles, Sinatra, and Dua Lipa.

Besançon

Besançon, prefecture of the Doubs in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France, is a Roman-founded city in a loop of the Doubs, known for Vauban's 17th-century citadel, fort Griffon, and walls inscribed by UNESCO in 2008, and for its watchmaking industry founded in 1793.

Besart Berisha

Besart Berisha (born 1985), Kosovar-Albanian striker; A-League all-time top scorer with 142 goals in 236 games for Brisbane Roar, Melbourne Victory, and Western United; four Championships, two Golden Boots; now Melbourne Victory Youth coach.

Sep 19, 2026

Besenmut (Fourth Prophet of Amun)

Besenmut, also written Bes-en-Mut or Besmut, is the name of a family of priests of Montu who served at Thebes during Egypt's 26th Dynasty, c. 664–525 BC.

Sep 19, 2026

Besenmut (priest of Montu)

Besenmut was a priest of the god Montu at Thebes who also held the civil offices of Mayor of Thebes and judge of the city, known from the block statue Cairo JE 36957.