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Bethel Heights, Arkansas
Bethel Heights, Arkansas: former city in southern Benton County on Business Highway 71 near Springdale; incorporated 1967, population 3,015 in 2020, annexed by Springdale in 2020 after sewer failures.
Bethel Music
Bethel Music is a worship music collective, record label, and publisher based at Bethel Church in Redding, California, founded by Brian and Jenn Johnson in 2001.
Bethel School District v. Fraser
Bethel School District v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986): Supreme Court case holding 7–2 that public schools may discipline students for lewd, indecent assembly speech, distinguishing Tinker v. Des Moines.
Bethel, Alaska
Bethel (Mamterillermiut) is Alaska's largest rural city, a roadless Kuskokwim River hub of about 6,600 people serving 50-plus Yup'ik villages, with Alaska's third-busiest airport, the YK Delta Regional Hospital, and costs about 20% above the US average.
Bethel, New York
Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, 90 miles northwest of New York City, incorporated in 1809 from Lumberland. It hosted the 1969 Woodstock festival on Max Yasgur's farm and is now home to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.
Bethenny Frankel
Bethenny Frankel, American reality TV personality and entrepreneur, original RHONY cast member (2008), runner-up on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, founder of the Skinnygirl brand sold for a reported $100 million, and B Strong philanthropist.
Bethesda assay
The Bethesda assay is a hematology laboratory mixing test that quantifies neutralizing antibodies against coagulation factor VIII, the reference method for measuring inhibitors in hemophilia A and acquired hemophilia.
Bethesda Game Studios
Bethesda Game Studios (BGS), Rockville, Maryland-based RPG developer behind The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Starfield; four straight Game of the Year winners, Creation Engine, Microsoft-owned since 2021.
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks, American video game publisher founded 1986 by Christopher Weaver in Rockville, Maryland; publisher of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, DOOM, Wolfenstein; ZeniMax Media subsidiary owned by Microsoft since 2021.
Bethesda system
The Bethesda system is a standardized category-based terminology for reporting cytology results, created for cervical (Pap) tests in 1988 and extended to thyroid fine-needle aspiration in 2009.
Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland: unincorporated Montgomery County CDP northwest of Washington, D.C., also called Darcy's Store until 1871. Home to NIH headquarters and Walter Reed; 68,056 residents (2020); Purple Line terminus expected 2027.
Bethharan
Bethharan, also known as Beth-aram or Betharan, was a fortified town in the Jordan Valley north of the Dead Sea, allotted by Moses to the tribe of Gad and later rebuilt by Herod Antipas as Livias.
Bethlehem (بيت لحم)
Bethlehem (بيت لحم), Palestinian city in the West Bank 10 km south of Jerusalem, birthplace of Jesus and site of the Church of the Nativity (UNESCO 2012); economy built on pilgrimage tourism, crafts, and olive-wood carving.
Bethlehem Kudumba Unit
Bethlehem Kudumba Unit (ബെത്ലഹേം കുടുംബ യൂണിറ്റ്) is a 2026 Malayalam romantic comedy-drama directed by Girish A. D., starring Nivin Pauly and Mamitha Baiju, produced by Bhavana Studios, released 21 August 2026 for Onam, grossing about Rs 117.75 crore in India and streaming on JioHotstar from 2 October 2026.
Bethlehem of Galilee
Bethlehem of Galilee (Hebrew: Bet-Lehem Ha-Gelilit) is an ancient village site in the Lower Galilee, Israel, listed in Joshua 19:15 as a town of Zebulun.
Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem Steel was an American steelmaking and shipbuilding corporation in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that grew into the world's second-largest steel producer before filing for bankruptcy in 2001.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a Lehigh Valley city of about 75,000 founded by Moravians on Christmas Eve 1741, home of Bethlehem Steel (closed 1995) and a 2024 UNESCO World Heritage Moravian settlement.
Bethlem muscular dystrophy
Bethlem muscular dystrophy, historically called Bethlem myopathy, is a mild, slowly progressive inherited muscle disorder caused by collagen VI gene variants, leaving most people walking into late adulthood.
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as Bedlam, founded 1247 in Bishopsgate, London, is the world's oldest psychiatric institution, now an NHS hospital in Beckenham run by South London and Maudsley Trust.
Bethlemite Order
The Bethlemite Order, or Betlemitas, is a Catholic hospital order founded in Antigua Guatemala in 1658 by Pedro de San José Betancourt, the first religious order of the Spanish Indies.
Bethmaus
Bethmaus, also known as Bet Ma'on or Beth-Maon, was a Jewish village about half a mile west of Tiberias in Galilee, where Josephus conferred with local leaders in 66 CE.
Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is a district in East London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, historically a rural retreat and once one of the metropolis's most deprived areas.
Bethnal Green trio
The Bethnal Green trio: Amira Abase, Shamima Begum, and Kadiza Sultana, three London schoolgirls who flew to Istanbul on 17 February 2015, crossed into Syria, and married Islamic State fighters; only Begum is thought to survive.
Bethnal Green tube station
Bethnal Green tube station is a London Underground Central line station in Bethnal Green, East London, site of a 1943 shelter crush that killed 173 people.
Bethoron
Bethoron, also known as Beth-Horon, is the collective name of two ancient towns, Upper and Lower Bethoron, on the ascent from the Palestinian coastal plain toward Jerusalem.
Bethpage Black Course
Bethpage Black Course, Bethpage State Park, Long Island: public Tillinghast/Burbeck course opened 1936; 7,465 yards, slope 155; first public course to host the U.S. Open (2002) and the 2025 Ryder Cup, won by Europe.
Bethsaida (בית צידה)
Bethsaida (בית צידה), the Galilee fishing village of Peter, Andrew, and Philip, renamed Julias by Philip the tetrarch; its location is disputed between et-Tell, 1.5 km inland, and lakeside el-Araj.
Bethune Patera
Bethune Patera is a patera, a shallow irregular volcanic depression on Venus, measuring 94 km across in the northern mid-latitudes and named in 1991 for the American educator Mary McLeod Bethune.
Bethune–Cookman University
Bethune–Cookman University (B-CU), a private United Methodist-affiliated HBCU in Daytona Beach, Florida, founded by Mary McLeod Bethune in 1904; SACSCOC-accredited, NCAA Division I SWAC member since 2021, led by 8th president Albert Mosley since July 2025.
Bethylidae
Bethylidae, flat wasps or bethylid wasps, a cosmopolitan hymenopteran family (Chrysidoidea) of idiobiont ectoparasitoid wasps attacking beetle and moth larvae; about 2,920 species, 96 genera, eight subfamilies; several species used against stored-product pests.