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Bezanozano
The Bezanozano are an ethnic group of Madagascar living in the Mangoro valley around Moramanga, on the main trade route between Imerina and the eastern coast.
Bezanson Oil and Gas Field
Bezanson Oil and Gas Field is a designated oil and gas field in northwestern Alberta, Canada, north of Grande Prairie, producing liquids-rich gas and oil from the Montney Formation.
Bezdna peasant unrest (1861)
The Bezdna peasant unrest (Бездненское восстание) was the April 1861 suppression of a peasant movement in Bezdna, Kazan province, where troops fired on unarmed peasants led by Anton Petrov.
Bezereos
Bezereos (Vezereos; Bir Rhezen) was a Roman frontier fort and vicus on the Limes Tripolitanus in southern Tunisia, garrisoned by Legio III Augusta vexillations from about 201 and abandoned in the early 5th century.
BeZero Carbon
BeZero Carbon is a London-based carbon credit ratings agency, co-founded in 2020 by Sebastien Cross and Tommy Ricketts, which assigns letter ratings from AAA to D to carbon projects.
Bezerra da Silva
Bezerra da Silva, stage name of José Bezerra da Silva (1927–2005), was a Brazilian singer and composer from Recife who became the leading figure of samba malandro.
Bezetha
Bezetha (בית זיתא) was a hill and new quarter of ancient Jerusalem north of the Temple Mount, joined to the city by Agrippa I's Third Wall.
Bézier curve
A Bézier curve, also called a Bernstein-Bézier curve, is a parametric curve shaped by control points, developed in the 1960s and widely used in computer-aided design, vector graphics, and font outlines.
Béziers
Béziers, second city of France's Hérault department, is a hill town above the Orb and Canal du Midi, known for wine, the August Feria, the 1209 massacre, Fonseranes locks, and Saint-Nazaire cathedral.
Bezique
Bezique (Bésigue) is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two, played with two 32-card packs; the namesake meld is Queen of Spades plus Jack of Diamonds, and it is the parent of Pinochle.
Bezisterim
Bezisterim (NE3107, HE3286, Triolex) is an oral, blood-brain barrier-permeable anti-inflammatory, insulin-sensitizing androstenetriol analogue developed by BioVie for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and long COVID neurological symptoms.
Bezlea Dorsa
Bezlea Dorsa is an 807-km-long ridge system (dorsum) on Venus at 30.40°N, 36.50°E, in quadrangle V-09, named in 1985 for Bezlea, a Lithuanian evening light goddess.
Bezlotoxumab
Bezlotoxumab (Zinplava, MK-6072), Merck's fully human monoclonal antibody against C. difficile toxin B, FDA-approved 2016; single 10 mg/kg IV dose, 19-day half-life, cuts CDI recurrence about 10 percentage points in MODIFY I/II.
Beznau nuclear power plant
The Beznau nuclear power plant is a Swiss plant with two pressurized water reactors in Döttingen, operated by Axpo, generating about 6,000 GWh per year.
Bezoar
Bezoar: an indigestible mass (phytobezoar, trichobezoar, diospyrobezoar) in the gastrointestinal tract, once prized as an antidote; now treated by Coca-Cola dissolution, endoscopy, or surgery.
Bezold–Jarisch reflex
Bezold–Jarisch reflex (BJR): cardioinhibitory reflex from left ventricular inferoposterior receptors via vagal C fibers causing bradycardia, vasodilation, hypotension; key in spinal anesthesia asystole, vasovagal syncope, inferior MI.
Bézout domain
A Bézout domain is an integral domain in which every finitely generated ideal is principal; examples include the ring of entire holomorphic functions and the ring of all algebraic integers.
Bézout's identity
Bézout's identity, also called Bézout's lemma, is a theorem of elementary number theory stating that the gcd of two integers is an integer linear combination of them.
Bézout's theorem
Bézout's theorem is a result in algebraic geometry stating that two projective plane curves of degrees m and n intersect in exactly mn points, counted with multiplicity.
Bezrukov Ridge
Bezrukov Ridge is a submarine ridge in the Indian Ocean north of the Southwest Indian Ridge near the Melville Fracture Zone; discovered 2012 by R/V Akademik Nikolay Strakhov, named after Soviet marine geologist P. L. Bezrukov.
Bezuclastinib
Bezuclastinib (CGT9486, PLX9486) is Cogent Biosciences' oral selective type 1 KIT D816V tyrosine kinase inhibitor for systemic mastocytosis and, with sunitinib, GIST; positive SUMMIT, APEX, and PEAK trials with FDA PDUFA dates in late 2026.
Bezymianny
Bezymianny (Безымянный), an andesitic stratovolcano (2,882 m) in Kamchatka's Klyuchevskoy group, Russia; considered extinct until its catastrophic 1956 directed-blast eruption, now continuously rebuilding its lava dome with frequent explosive eruptions.
BF theory
BF theory is a topological field theory whose action is an integral of a two-form field B against the curvature F of a gauge connection, with no local degrees of freedom.
BFG (weapon)
BFG (Big Fucking Gun) is the fictional plasma weapon of id Software's Doom (1993), known as the BFG 9000, the most powerful standard gun in classic Doom, based on a Toys'R'Us toy and widely referenced across games and film.
BFGoodrich
BFGoodrich is an American tire brand begun as the B.F. Goodrich Company in Akron, Ohio, in 1870, maker of the first US tubeless and radial tires and a dominant Baja racing brand, now owned by Michelin.
BFI London Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival (LFF): annual October public film festival run by the British Film Institute in London and across the UK; 70th edition 7 to 18 October 2026, 251 titles from 88 countries, Best Film Award since 2009.
BFI Top 100 British films
BFI Top 100 British films, or BFI 100: a 1999 British Film Institute ranking of the greatest 20th-century British films, voted by about 1,000 industry figures. The Third Man placed first; David Lean was the most represented director with seven films.
Bfloat16
Bfloat16 (Brain Floating Point, BF16) is a 16-bit floating-point format for machine learning, introduced by Google Brain on TPUs, with FP32's range but lower precision.
BFY trial
Baby's First Years (BFY) trial, NCT03593356, a US randomized controlled trial giving 1,000 low-income mothers $333 or $20 monthly unconditional cash gifts; found infant EEG changes at age 1 but null development outcomes at age 4.
BG (Boris Grebenshchikov)
Boris Grebenshchikov, known as BG, is a Russian rock singer-songwriter born in 1953 in Leningrad who co-founded the band Aquarium in 1972 and led Russian rock from underground tapes to official recognition.