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Bestiality with a donkey
Sexual contact between humans and donkeys, a documented form of bestiality; recorded from ancient Egypt and Saharan cave art to rural Crete, Anatolia, Morocco, and Mexico, and criminalized in most jurisdictions today.
Bestiary
Bestiary: medieval illuminated book of real and legendary animals with Christian moral allegories, derived from the Greek Physiologus, popular 1100-1300, ancestor of natural history.
Bestic
Bestic is a Swedish robotic eating aid, a small four-motor robot arm with a spoon that lets people with limited arm function feed themselves under their own control.
Bestinver Cameroun
Bestinver Cameroun, also known as Bestcam SA, is a Cameroonian holding company promoted by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo that held 30% of Nexttel operator Viettel Cameroun.
Bestseller
Bestseller: a product, usually a book, ranking among the top sellers of its period on a published list. Covers list methodologies (NYT surveys, BookScan unit data), thresholds, sales effects, and manipulation controversies.
Bestseller (2022 TV series)
Bestseller (2022) is a Hindi-language Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series, 8 episodes, directed by Mukul Abhyankar, adapted from Ravi Subramanian's novel The Bestseller She Wrote, starring Shruti Haasan, Mithun Chakraborty, Arjan Bajwa, and Gauahar Khan.
Bestseller (company)
Bestseller A/S is a Danish, family-owned fashion company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Brande, Denmark. It sells clothing through more than 20 brands, including JACK & JONES, VERO MODA, ONLY, and NAME IT.
BET
BET (Black Entertainment Television), American cable network founded by Robert L. Johnson in 1980, sold to Viacom for $3 billion in 2000; BET+ streaming service folds into Paramount+ in June 2026.
Bet (TV series)
Bet is a 2025 Netflix live-action teen thriller series created by Simon Barry, adapted from the manga Kakegurui by Homura Kawamoto and Toru Naomura. Miku Martineau stars as gambler Yumeko at St. Dominic's boarding school; renewed for a second season filmed in Toronto in 2026.
BET Awards
The BET Awards, branded Culture's Biggest Night, are BET's annual ceremony honoring Black achievement in music, film, television, and sports, first held June 19, 2001 in Las Vegas, with the 25th edition on June 28, 2026 hosted by Druski.
BET Awards 2026
BET Awards 2026, 25th annual ceremony, also called Culture's Biggest Night, held June 28, 2026 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, hosted by Druski; Teyana Taylor won four awards, Clipse took Album of the Year, Lauryn Hill received the inaugural Living Legend Icon Award.
Bet Dwarka
Bet Dwarka, also called Shankhoddhar Beyt, is an island at the mouth of the Gulf of Kachchh, Gujarat, a Krishna pilgrimage center with a Late Harappan settlement.
Bet Golgotha
Bet Golgotha, also called Biete Golgotha, is a 12th- to 13th-century rock-hewn church at Lalibela, Ethiopia, with rare human bas-reliefs and the traditional tomb of King Lalibela.
BET Her
BET Her is a Paramount-owned American pay TV channel for African American women, formerly BET on Jazz (1996), BET Jazz, BET J, and Centric (2009–2017), relaunched as BET Her on October 1, 2017.
Bet Meir or Amminadav Formation
The Bet Meir or Amminadav Formation is a disputed name for Early Cenomanian platey limestones at the 'Ein Yabrud quarries in the West Bank, Palestine.
BET protein
A BET protein, short for bromodomain and extra-terminal domain, is one of four chromatin readers (BRD2, BRD3, BRD4, BRDT) that bind acetylated histones and control gene transcription.
BET theory
BET theory, also called the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller theory, is a 1938 model of multilayer gas adsorption on solids that underlies the standard method for measuring surface area.
bet UMi
bet UMi (Kochab, Beta Ursae Minoris) is a K4 III barium giant 38.8 pc away hosting bet UMi b, a confirmed 6.1-Jupiter-mass gas giant in a 522.3-day, e=0.19 orbit found by radial velocity (Lee et al. 2014).
Bet v 1
Bet v 1 is the major allergen of birch (Betula verrucosa) pollen, a 17 kDa PR-10 protein, first cloned plant allergen (1989), causing oral allergy syndrome via cross-reactive food homologs like Mal d 1 and Gly m 4.
Bet v 2
Bet v 2 (birch profilin, t216) is a 13–14.4 kDa minor allergen of Betula verrucosa birch pollen, the first allergenic profilin described (1991), a pan-allergen marker of cross-reactivity with grass, weed, food, and latex profilins.
Bet24
Bet24 names several gambling businesses: the Danish betting brand founded in 2001 by Holger Kristiansen, later MTG-owned and acquired by Unibet; the offshore bet24.gg casino; Bets24 Casino (2024, disputed Curaçao licence); and a Dar es Salaam land-based casino.
Bet3 family
The Bet3 family is a family of conserved eukaryotic proteins, exemplified by yeast Bet3p and its human orthologue TRAPPC3, that act as core subunits of the TRAPP vesicle-tethering complexes.
Bet365
Bet365 (bet365) is a British online gambling company founded in 2000 by Denise Coates in Stoke-on-Trent, launched online March 2001 with a £15m RBS loan; family-owned, over 120 million customers, majority owner of Stoke City FC.
Bet365 Stadium
Bet365 Stadium (formerly Britannia Stadium, 1997-2016) is Stoke City FC's 30,089-seat all-seater home in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Opened 1997, cost £14.7m, replaced the Victoria Ground; renamed for bet365 in 2016.
Beta (finance)
Beta (β), also called the beta coefficient, is a measure of an asset's sensitivity to market movements; a beta of 1 carries the same systematic risk as the market.
Beta (The Walking Dead)
Beta is a Whisperer antagonist in The Walking Dead comics and TV series, Alpha's towering second-in-command who hides his face. Comic Beta was an NBA player, killed in issue #173; TV Beta, played by Ryan Hurst, was country singer Half Moon.
Beta (Βήτα)
Beta (Βήτα, Β/β) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet, from Phoenician beth "house"; pronounced ˈvita with a v sound in Modern Greek, and widely used as a symbol for angles, regression coefficients, and beta particles.
Beta (बेटा) (film)
Beta (बेटा) is a 1992 Hindi family drama directed by Indra Kumar, remaking Enga Chinna Rasa; Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, and Aruna Irani star, and it was 1992's highest-grossing Hindi film with four Filmfare wins.
Beta Andromedae
Beta Andromedae, known by its proper name Mirach, is a red giant star about 200 light-years away, the second-brightest star in the constellation Andromeda and a naked-eye guide to the Andromeda Galaxy.
Beta Aquarii
Beta Aquarii, also known as Sadalsuud, is a yellow supergiant star, the brightest in the constellation Aquarius at magnitude 2.9, about 540 light years away.