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Bead embroidery

Bead embroidery (珠绣) is needlework attaching beads singly or in groups to a ground fabric. Includes tambour beading and Luneville work; documented in Tang China, Métis floral beadwork, and Peranakan Nyonya traditions.

Beadle

A beadle, historically also spelled bedellus, is a minor parish, court, or university officer who summons people, keeps order, and carries a staff or mace of office.

Beadlet anemone

Beadlet anemone, Actinia equina (basionym Priapus equinus), a common red intertidal sea anemone of north-east Atlantic rocky shores; a cryptic species complex with genetically distinct colour morphotypes, brooded young, and a debated mode of sexual reproduction.

Beady Eye

Beady Eye: English rock band (2009-2014) formed by Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell, and Chris Sharrock after Oasis split; albums Different Gear, Still Speeding (2011) and BE (2013).

Beagle

Beagle: small British scent hound (FCI Group 6) bred to hunt hare and rabbit in packs; AKC-recognized 1885, two size varieties under 13 and 13-15 inches, over 225 million scent receptors, used in USDA Beagle Brigade detection work and as a popular family companion.

Beagle 2

Beagle 2 was a British Mars lander conceived by Colin Pillinger that lost contact after its 2003 landing and was found intact in 2015 images.

Beagle Channel

The Beagle Channel (Canal Beagle) is a strait at the southern tip of South America, linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and separating Tierra del Fuego from islands to the south.

Beagle conflict

Beagle conflict: Argentina-Chile dispute over Picton, Lennox, and Nueva islands in the Beagle Channel; 1977 arbitration favored Chile, Argentina rejected it, 1978 war crisis, papal mediation, settled by 1984 Treaty of Peace and Friendship.

Beagle family

Beagle family: young C-type asteroid sub-family of Themis in the outer main belt at 3.157 AU, FIN 620, ~14 Myr old, contains main-belt comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro, proposed source of the i≈1.4° zodiacal dust band.

Beagle Rupes

Beagle Rupes is a bow-shaped lobate thrust-fault scarp on Mercury near 2°S, 101°E, over 600 km long, revealed by MESSENGER's first 2008 flyby, crosscutting Sveinsdóttir crater and interpreted as a thrust sheet with a basal decollement.

BeagleBone

BeagleBone is a family of open-hardware single-board computers from the BeagleBoard.org Foundation, intended as bare-bones embedded Linux development platforms, best known for the BeagleBone Black.

Beagling

Beagling: chiefly British sport of hunting hares on foot with packs of beagle hounds, about 16 inches tall. Practised since classical times, declined to ten UK packs by 1875, revived, and restricted by the Hunting Act 2004.

Beah Richards

Beah Richards (Beulah Elizabeth Richardson, 1920-2000), American stage, film, and television actress, poet, and civil rights activist; Oscar-nominated for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, two-time Emmy winner, author of A Black Woman Speaks.

Beak

Beak: birds' toothless mouth structure, a bony core of premaxilla, prenasal cartilage, and mandible covered by a keratinous rhamphotheca; evolved from dinosaur jaws via developmental tooth-loss truncation, shaped by BMP4, ALX1, and ecology.

Beak Island

Beak Island: Antarctic island at 63°37′S 57°18′W in Prince Gustav Channel, Trinity Peninsula; a partially submerged inactive volcanic caldera rim of Miocene basalt, named in 1949 with Eagle, Tail and Egg islands; site of a 2024 H5N1 skua die-off.

Beaked whale

Beaked whales (Ziphiidae), 24 species of medium-sized deep-diving toothed whales 3 to 13 m long with reduced teeth, throat grooves, and suction feeding on deep squid; second most diverse cetacean family, vulnerable to naval sonar.

Beaker (Muppet)

Beaker is a Muppet character, the test-tube-shaped lab assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew at Muppet Labs, known for "meep" speech and suffering his boss's inventions; co-winner of a 2004 BBC favorite-scientist poll.

Beakman's World

Beakman's World is an American children's science TV series (1992–1998) starring Paul Zaloom as Beakman, based on Jok Church's comic strip You Can with Beakman and Jax, airing on TLC, syndication, and CBS, winning three Emmys.

Beal conjecture

The Beal conjecture is an unsolved number theory problem, posed by Andrew Beal in 1993, stating that A^x + B^y = C^z with exponents above 2 forces a common prime factor.

Beale Air Force Base

Beale Air Force Base, formerly Camp Beale, is a US Air Force base in Yuba County, California, home to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and the nation's only U-2 fleet.

Beale ciphers

Beale ciphers: three number ciphertexts in the 1885 Ward pamphlet, said to locate a Bedford County, Virginia treasure. B2 decodes via the Declaration of Independence; B1 and B3 remain unread and are widely judged hoaxes.

Beale Street

Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, home of the blues; its two-block historic district (NRIS 66000731) was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966, devastated by urban renewal, and revived as a tourist entertainment district.

Beall's List

Beall's List was a blacklist of potential predatory open-access journals and publishers, maintained by librarian Jeffrey Beall from 2010 until its removal in January 2017.

Beals Wright

Beals Coleman Wright (1879-1961), American left-handed tennis player; first American Olympic tennis champion with 1904 singles and doubles golds, 1905 U.S. champion, Wimbledon All-Comers finalist 1910, Hall of Fame 1956.

Beam (nautical)

The beam, also known as ship beam, is the width of a ship measured from one side of the hull to the other, one of a vessel's principal dimensions.

Beam (structure)

A beam, or structural beam, is a structural member that carries loads applied transverse to its long axis, resisting them primarily by bending, or flexure.

Beam (telepresence robot)

Beam is a mobile telepresence robot, a wheeled screen-topped device driven over the internet by a remote pilot, created by Suitable Technologies and unveiled in 2012.

Beam cell

Beam cell: trabecular meshwork cell covering the uveal and corneoscleral beams of the eye's aqueous outflow pathway; phagocytic, myocilin-inducing, distinct from juxtacanalicular cells.

Beam collimation

Beam collimation is the set of collimator jaws in a particle accelerator that intercepts unavoidable beam losses, protecting superconducting magnets and other sensitive components from stray particles.