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Betty Thomas
Betty Thomas (Betty Thomas Nienhauser), American actress and director; Emmy winner as Officer Lucy Bates on Hill Street Blues; directed The Brady Bunch Movie, Private Parts, and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
Betty Turpin
Betty Turpin, later Betty Williams, is a fictional Coronation Street barmaid played by Betty Driver from 1969 to 2011, famous for Betty's hotpot at the Rovers Return and over 2,800 episodes.
Betty Villegas
Betty Villegas is an American Democratic politician serving in the Arizona House of Representatives from District 20, appointed in July 2023 after serving on the Pima County Board of Supervisors.
Betty White
Betty White (1922–2021), American actress, comedian, and TV pioneer, first woman to produce a sitcom; starred in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, and Hot in Cleveland, won eight Emmys, and held the record for the longest TV career.
Betty Who
Betty Who, stage name of Jessica Anne Newham, Australian-born synth-pop singer-songwriter. Berklee-trained cellist whose 2013 viral Home Depot proposal video for "Somebody Loves You" led to an RCA deal, four albums, and a Pride-festival career.
Betty Williams
Betty Williams, born Elizabeth Smyth, was a Northern Irish peace activist who co-founded the Peace People in 1976 and shared the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize with Mairead Corrigan.
Betty Wright
Betty Wright (Bessie Regina Norris, 1953-2020), American Miami soul and R&B singer of "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight Is the Night," Grammy winner for "Where Is the Love," gold on her own Ms. B label, producer and mentor to Joss Stone and rappers.
Betty, la fea: la historia continúa
Betty, la fea: la historia continúa is a Colombian Prime Video series by Estudios RCN, a 2024 sequel to Yo soy Betty, la fea, set 20 years later, with Ana María Orozco and Jorge Enrique Abello returning; three seasons have aired and a final fourth arrives in 2027.
Betül Kaçar
Betül Kaçar is a Turkish-American astrobiologist and professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies early life by resurrecting ancient proteins in modern bacteria, and directs NASA's MUSE consortium.
Betula alleghaniensis
Betula alleghaniensis, yellow birch (bouleau jaune), a large eastern North American birch with bronze peeling bark and wintergreen twigs; IUCN Least Concern, major timber and veneer species.
Betula nigra
Betula nigra, river birch (also red, water, or black birch), a fast-growing deciduous Betulaceae tree of eastern US streambanks and floodplains, with exfoliating bark, spring-fruiting catkins, and bronze birch borer resistance.
Betula papyrifera
Betula papyrifera, paper birch or canoe birch, a North American birch with white peeling bark, native from subarctic America to Virginia, used for revegetation, traditional bark crafts, and hybridizing with yellow birch.
Betula pendula
Betula pendula (垂枝桦), silver birch or European white birch, is a pioneer broadleaved tree of Europe and western Asia with white papery bark, pendulous resin-glanded twigs, IUCN Least Concern status, and the Finnish national tree designation.
Betula pubescens
Betula pubescens (downy birch, moor birch) is a tetraploid (2n=56) Eurasian birch tree, native from Newfoundland to the Russian Far East, distinguished from silver birch by downy shoots and wet-site habitat, and prone to widespread introgression.
Betula utilis
Betula utilis, Himalayan birch or bhojpatra, is a white- to copper-barked Himalayan tree to 35 m with four subspecies including the white-barked jacquemontii; its bark served as paper for yantras, and it dominates Western Himalayan timberlines.
Betulaceae
Betulaceae, the birch family of Fagales, has six genera (Alnus, Betula, Carpinus, Corylus, Ostrya, Ostryopsis) and about 160 northern-temperate tree and shrub species in two subfamilies.
Betulinic acid
Betulinic acid is a naturally occurring pentacyclic triterpenoid found in more than 200 plant species, primarily birch, studied for anti-HIV, anti-inflammatory, and antitumor effects, and known as the starting point for the HIV drug candidate bevirimat.
Betung Kerihun Danau Sentarum Kapuas Hulu Biosphere Reserve
Betung Kerihun Danau Sentarum Kapuas Hulu Biosphere Reserve (Cagar Biosfer BKDSKH), a UNESCO MAB reserve designated 2018 in West Kalimantan, Borneo, covering all of Kapuas Hulu Regency (3,115,200 ha) with Betung Kerihun and Danau Sentarum National Parks as core zones.
Betuweroute
The Betuweroute, also called the Betuwelijn, is a dedicated double-track freight railway running 160 km from Rotterdam's port to the German border at Zevenaar, opened in June 2007.
Betwa
Betwa (Vetravati), right-bank tributary of the Yamuna in central India, rising in Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh, and joining the Yamuna near Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh; about 590 km long, dammed at Matatila, Rajghat, Dhukwan, and Parichha, and target of the Ken-Betwa Link Project.
Betway
Betway is an online sports betting and casino brand founded in 2006, owned by NYSE-listed Super Group (SGHC), headquartered in Gzira, Malta, licensed in Europe, the Americas, and Africa, known for West Ham sponsorship and a 2020 £11.6m UK settlement.
Between (TV series)
Between is a Canadian sci-fi drama series (2015-2016) created by Michael McGowan for City and Netflix, starring Jennette McCurdy as Wiley Day in Pretty Lake, where a virus kills everyone over 21 and teens survive under quarantine.
Between Lands
Entre tierras (Between Lands) is a Spanish Boomerang TV period melodrama for Antena 3/Atresplayer set in 1960s rural Spain, starring Megan Montaner and Unax Ugalde, about María's proxy marriage to landowner Ramón's nephew Manuel.
Between Scylla and Charybdis
Between Scylla and Charybdis: idiom from Odyssey Book 12, where Odysseus sails a strait flanked by the six-headed monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, later localized at the Strait of Messina; means choosing between two equally bad options.
Between the Buried and Me
Between the Buried and Me (BTBAM) is an American progressive metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina, formed around 2000, known for genre-shifting albums like Colors (2007) and The Blue Nowhere (2025).
Between the Buttons
Between the Buttons is the Rolling Stones' fifth studio album, released January 1967 on Decca, their last produced by Andrew Loog Oldham; a pop-oriented, music-hall-tinged record peaking at UK No. 3, distinct from the US edition carrying the "Ruby Tuesday"/"Let's Spend the Night Together" singles.
Between the Lines
Between the Lines (1977) is Joan Micklin Silver's ensemble comedy-drama about the staff of a fictional Boston alt-weekly, the Back Bay Mainline, facing a corporate buyout; starring John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, and Jeff Goldblum, Golden Bear-nominated at Berlin.
Between the Lions
Between the Lions: PBS children's literacy series (premiered April 3, 2000) for ages 4-7, starring the library-running lion family Theo, Cleo, Lionel, and Leona; produced by WGBH and Sirius Thinking, combined phonics and whole language, won ten Emmys, and drew about 5 million weekly viewers.
Between the Temples
Between the Temples is a 2024 Nathan Silver comedy-drama starring Jason Schwartzman as a grieving cantor and Carol Kane as his adult bat mitzvah student; Sundance premiere, Sony Pictures Classics, 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me (2015) is Ta-Nehisi Coates's nonfiction letter to his teenage son Samori about race and the Black body in America; Spiegel & Grau, 176 pages, National Book Award and Kirkus Prize winner, Pulitzer finalist, adapted for HBO in 2020.