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Besilesomab
Besilesomab (Scintimun, clone BW 250/183) is a murine IgG1 antibody against granulocyte antigen NCA-95/CD66b, radiolabelled with technetium-99m for scintigraphic imaging of peripheral bone osteomyelitis in adults; EU-approved 2010, not for diabetic foot, HAMA-limiting.
Besinum
Besinum (Besino), a Roman road station in Novempopulana, Aquitania, on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Elusa (Eauze) and Eliberre (Auch); uncertainly identified with Vic-Fézensac or Saint-Paul-de-Baïse.
Beskids (Бескиди)
The Beskids (Ukrainian: Бескиди, Beskidy) are mountain ranges forming the northern flank of the Carpathian arc, running about 600 km from the Czech Republic to Ukraine.
Beslan (Беслæн)
Beslan (Беслæн) is a town of about 35,000 in North Ossetia–Alania, Russia; founded 1847 as Tulatovo, a railway junction and industrial town, known for the 2004 School No. 1 hostage siege.
Beslan Mudranov
Beslan Mudranov (Беслан Мудранов), born 1986, is a retired Russian judoka who won the 60 kg gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Russia's first medal there.
Beslan school siege
Beslan school siege (1–3 September 2004): Shamil Basayev's militants seized School No. 1 in North Ossetia, took over 1,100 hostages, and demanded Russian withdrawal from Chechnya; 334 people, mostly children, died in the chaotic ending.
Besmaya power station
Besmaya power station, also spelled Basmaya or Bismayah, is a gas-fired power plant 25 km southeast of Baghdad and Iraq's largest, at about 5,000 MW.
Besov space
A Besov space is a space of functions or distributions whose smoothness is measured by a modulus of smoothness; it contains Hölder and Sobolev spaces as special cases.
Bespoke
Bespoke describes goods or services made to an individual customer's order rather than ready-made, a term first recorded in 1755 and famously tied to Savile Row tailoring.
Bespoke tailoring
Bespoke tailoring: garments made from a pattern drafted from scratch for one customer, with multiple fittings; distinct from made-to-measure, which adjusts an existing pattern; centered historically on Savile Row.
Bess Armstrong
Bess Armstrong, born Elizabeth Key Armstrong in 1953, is an American actress known for The Four Seasons, High Road to China, Jaws 3-D, and as Patty Chase on My So-Called Life, with recent roles in Bosch and The Good Doctor.
Bess B. Ward
Bess B. Ward is an American biological oceanographer who studies the marine and global nitrogen cycle, holding the William J. Sinclair professorship at Princeton University and chairing its Geosciences department from 2006 to 2022.
BESS Coya
BESS Coya is a battery energy storage system in María Elena, Chile, owned by ENGIE. At 139 MW and 638 MWh, it is the largest in Latin America.
Bess Dawson‐Hughes
Bess Dawson-Hughes is an American endocrinologist at Tufts University whose clinical trials established how much calcium and vitamin D older adults need to prevent bone loss and fractures.
Bess Houdini
Bess Houdini (Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner), stage assistant and wife of escape artist Harry Houdini, married him in 1894; after his 1926 death she held annual Halloween séances for ten years with a coded 'Rosabelle Believe' test message and $10,000 reward, ending in the 1936 Knickerbocker Hotel final séance.
Bess Meisler
Bess Meisler is an American actress best known as Yiayia, the deadpan Greek grandmother in My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016), after a career on Broadway and television.
Bess Myerson
Bess Myerson (1924–2014), Miss America 1945 and Miss New York City, was the first and only Jewish Miss America and first scholarship winner; later a game-show panelist and New York City consumer and cultural affairs commissioner.
Bess of Hardwick
Bess of Hardwick (Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, 1527–1608), Derbyshire noblewoman and builder who married four times, amassed a fortune, and built Hardwick Old Hall and Hardwick Hall, the Smythson-designed Elizabethan prodigy house.
Bess Truman
Bess Truman (Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, 1885-1982) was Harry S. Truman's wife and First Lady 1945-1953, a private Independence, Missouri hostess who ended weekly press conferences, helped preserve the White House, and was called "the Boss."
Bessarabia
Bessarabia (Basarabia), region between the Prut and Dniester rivers, mostly in Moldova. Annexed by Russia in 1812, Romanian 1918–1940, Soviet 1940–1991; multiethnic borderland contested by Russia and Romania.
Bessarabian question
Bessarabian question: the Romania–Soviet dispute over Bessarabia, from the 1918 Sfatul Țării union vote and the 1920 Treaty of Paris (never fully ratified; Japan withheld) to the 1940 Soviet ultimatum and annexation.
Bessarion
Bessarion (Βησσαρίων), baptized Basil, was a Byzantine ecclesiastic and humanist, metropolitan of Nicaea and later a Roman cardinal who championed the union of the Eastern and Western Churches.
Bessarion of Trebizond
Bessarion of Trebizond (Βησσαρίων ὁ Τραπεζούντιος), born Basil, was a Byzantine metropolitan of Nicaea who supported church union at Florence in 1439 and became a cardinal.
Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine (別冊少年マガジン)
Bessatsu Shonen Magazine is Kodansha's monthly shonen manga magazine, founded September 2009 as a companion to Weekly Shonen Magazine; home of Attack on Titan and Arslan Senki, B5 format, sold on the 9th each month.
Bessèges
Bessèges, a commune in Gard, Occitanie, France, a 19th-century coal-mining "mushroom town" on the Cèze; also a Barrington Atlas ancient mine site (Pleiades 167678). Peak population 11,404 in 1881; mines closed 1946.
Bessel beam
A Bessel beam is a beam of light with a bright central spot and concentric rings that propagates without diffraction, introduced by Jim Durnin in 1987.
Bessel beam plane illumination
Bessel beam plane illumination is a fluorescence microscopy technique in which a scanned, non-diffracting Bessel beam forms a thin light sheet, introduced for live-cell imaging by Eric Betzig's group in 2011.
Bessel function
The Bessel function, also called a cylinder function, is a solution of Bessel's differential equation, used across applied mathematics and physics for cylindrically symmetric problems such as vibrating drumheads and coaxial cables.
Bessel Kok
Bessel Kok (1918–1979) was a Dutch-born biophysicist who worked in the Netherlands and the United States, discovered P700, described the Kok effect, and proposed Kok's cycle of photosynthetic oxygen evolution.
Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel van der Kolk, Dutch-born American psychiatrist (born 1943), founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, and author of The Body Keeps the Score (2014); PTSD researcher known for SSRI, neuroimaging, and childhood-trauma studies, and a contested figure in trauma science.