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Bedford Hours

The Bedford Hours is a French book of hours illuminated in Paris around 1410 to 1430, owned by John, Duke of Bedford, who gave it to Henry VI in 1430.

Bedford Park (film)

Bedford Park is a 2026 American drama-romance, the debut feature of writer-director Stephanie Ahn, starring Moon Choi and Son Suk-ku as two Korean Americans brought together by a car accident; it won Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature and sold to Sony Pictures Classics.

Bedil school

The Bedil school (maktab-e Bedil) is the tradition of Persian poetry founded by Mirza Abd-al-Qader Bedil of Delhi (1644–1720), the most difficult poet of the Indian style.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 Disney live-action/animated musical directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Angela Lansbury as apprentice witch Eglantine Price, adapted from Mary Norton's books, with Sherman songs and four Oscar nominations.

Bedlam (1946 film)

Bedlam (1946 film), RKO drama-horror directed by Mark Robson and produced by Val Lewton, his last RKO production, starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee, set in 1761 London's Bethlem asylum, inspired by Hogarth's A Rake's Progress.

Bedlam (comics)

Bedlam (comics) covers several uses of the name: Marvel mutant Jesse Aaronson of X-Force (Deadpool 2), DC's Matthew Stuart, Baron Bedlam, Doctor Bedlam, Eddie Brock's symbiote offshoot, and Nick Spencer and Riley Rossmo's Image Comics series.

Bedouine

Bedouine is the folk project of Syrian-born, Armenian-descent songwriter Azniv Korkejian of Los Angeles; her self-titled 2017 Spacebomb debut scored 85 on Metacritic, followed by Bird Songs of a Killjoy, Waysides, and Neon Summer Skin.

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu (1911–1975) was a Turkish painter, muralist, mosaicist, and poet who brought Anatolian folk motifs and kilim patterns into modern Turkish painting and large public mosaics.

Bedřich Smetana

Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), Czech composer regarded as founder of Czech national music; creator of The Bartered Bride and the Má vlast cycle, composed while deaf; first conductor of the Provisional Theatre.

Bedrock (electronic music duo)

Bedrock is a British electronic music duo formed in London in 1992, made up of DJ John Digweed and producer Nick Muir, known for 'Heaven Scent'.

Bedroom in Arles

Bedroom in Arles (La Chambre de Van Gogh à Arles): three oil versions by Vincent van Gogh of his Yellow House bedroom, 1888–1889, at the Van Gogh Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and Musée d'Orsay.

Bedroom producer

A bedroom producer is a musician who produces music, especially electronic music, at home on affordable software and equipment rather than in a professional studio.

Beds Are Burning

Beds Are Burning, also known as Beds are Burning, is Midnight Oil's 1987 protest song from Diesel and Dust demanding land rights and reparations for Australia's Pintupi people; it won two 1988 ARIA Awards and hit No. 17 in the US.

Bedtime Stories (film)

Bedtime Stories is a 2008 American family fantasy-comedy from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Adam Shankman and starring Adam Sandler as a handyman whose invented bedtime stories come true.

Bedtime Stories (Madonna album)

Bedtime Stories is Madonna's sixth studio album, released October 25, 1994 on Sire. Produced with Babyface, Dallas Austin, Dave Hall, and Nellee Hooper, with Björk co-writing the title track, it yielded the US chart-topper Take a Bow and was followed by the 2025 Untold Chapter anniversary EP.

Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter

Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter is Madonna's eight-track, 27-minute EP released November 28, 2025 on Maverick, Warner, and Rhino for the 30th anniversary of Bedtime Stories (1994), with demos and alternate versions mixed by Stuart Price.

Bee and PuppyCat

Bee and PuppyCat (also Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space) is a Natasha Allegri animated series about unemployed Bee and alien PuppyCat doing space temp jobs; Kickstarter-funded web series 2014–2016, Netflix season 2022.

Bee Gees

The Bee Gees were the Gibb brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice, a harmony pop and disco group known for Barry's falsetto, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, six straight US number ones, and over 200 million records sold.

Bee Vang

Bee Vang is a Hmong American actor born in 1991 in Fresno, California, best known as Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino (2008); later a Brown University graduate, journalist, activist, and returning actor in Comisery and Voice of Shadows.

Beecham House

Beecham House is a 2019 ITV historical drama, co-created and directed by Gurinder Chadha, set in Delhi in 1795. Its fictional Beecham family story stars Tom Bateman, with real figures Begum Samru and Shah Alam II; canceled after one season.

Beedi (बीड़ी)

Beedi (बीड़ी), also spelled bidi or biri: a thin hand-rolled South Asian cigarette of tobacco flakes wrapped in a tendu (Diospyros melanoxylon) leaf, tied with thread; low-cost, labor-intensive, and more hazardous per puff than cigarettes.

Beef

Beef is meat from full-grown cattle about 2 years old, from Bos taurus and Bos indicus descended from the aurochs. Produced in extensive grazing and grain-fed feedlot systems; the U.S. is the largest producer and consumer, and beef has the highest carbon footprint per unit of protein.

Beef (The Bear)

Beef (The Bear) is the season 2 premiere of FX's The Bear, in which renovation of the Original Beef of Chicagoland sandwich shop begins; the team cuts a six-month plan to three months, launching the Beef-to-Bear transformation.

Beef (TV series)

Beef is a Netflix and A24 comedy-drama anthology series created by Lee Sung Jin. Season 1 (2023) starred Steven Yeun and Ali Wong in a road rage feud; Season 2 (2026) recast the anthology with Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan. It won eight Emmys including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.

Beef bourguignon

Beef bourguignon (bœuf bourguignon, boeuf à la bourguignonne, beef Burgundy) is a French stew of beef braised in red Burgundy wine with lardons, pearl onions, and mushrooms; first recorded in 1867, codified by Escoffier in 1903, and popularized in America by Julia Child in 1961.

Beef cheek

Beef cheek (ox cheek, cheek meat) is the masseter jaw muscle of the cow, a dark, collagen-rich secondary cut, roughly twice the collagen of chuck roast, made tender by long braising, sous-vide, or pressure cooking into gelatinous barbacoa or carbonnade.

Beef on weck

Beef on weck, also known as Kimmelweck, is a Western New York sandwich of thinly sliced roast beef with horseradish on a kummelweck roll, dipped in au jus.

Beef protein

Beef protein: protein from bovine muscle, also an FDA-notified food ingredient (GRN 313, Proteus Industries, 2010, no-questions letter) used as a water binding coating at up to 0.89%; PDCAAS 92.

Beef Stroganoff (Бефстроганов)

Beef Stroganoff (бефстроганов) is a Russian dish of beef in a sour cream sauce, named for the Stroganov family, first printed in Molokhovets's cookbook (1871 or 1861), modernized in 1912 with mushrooms, and spread worldwide after 1917.

Beef tongue

Beef tongue, also called cow tongue, is the tongue of a cow used as a cut of beef, featured in dishes like Mexican tacos de lengua and Japanese gyūtan.