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Beacon Therapeutics
Beacon Therapeutics Holdings Limited is a London-based clinical-stage ophthalmic gene therapy company, launched in 2023 by Syncona and Oxford's Robert MacLaren to develop AAV therapies for retinal diseases causing blindness.
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.
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.
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.
Beam Therapeutics
Beam Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017 by David Liu, Feng Zhang, and Keith Joung to develop base editing medicines.
BeamReach Solar
BeamReach Solar, formerly Solexel, was a solar energy company in Milpitas, California, that developed lightweight silicon photovoltaic modules and the Sprint commercial rooftop system before filing for Chapter 7 liquidation in February 2017.
Beamter
Beamter (plural Beamte): German civil servant in a public-law service and loyalty relationship under the Beamtenstatusgesetz, with four status types (lifetime, fixed-term, probation, revocable), sovereign-task restriction, and unified status law since the Föderalismusreform.
Beaner
Beaner is an American ethnic slur for Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and sometimes other Latinos, derived from bean + -er; first printed 1965, descended from bean-eater and bean bandit, with unrelated Boston slang senses.
Beant Singh (assassin)
Beant Singh (1950–1984), Sikh bodyguard of Indira Gandhi who, with Satwant Singh, assassinated her on 31 October 1984 in retaliation for Operation Blue Star; he was killed at the scene.
Bear (gay culture)
Bear is a gay male subculture of larger, hairy, bearded men; the word was coined in The Advocate in 1979, organized in 1980s San Francisco via BEAR Magazine and the Lone Star Saloon, and went global in the 1990s.
Bear Brook murders
Bear Brook murders: four bodies, an adult woman and three girls, found in two barrels near Bear Brook State Park, Allenstown, New Hampshire, 1985 and 2000. Killer Terry Peder Rasmussen, alias Bob Evans and Curtis Kimball, identified by genetic genealogy; victims identified 2019 and 2025.
Bear Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.
Bear Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. (小熊电器) is a Chinese small-appliance maker founded in Foshan, Guangdong, in 2006 by Li Yifeng, known for creative kitchen appliances sold mainly online.
Bear River Massacre
The Bear River Massacre was the killing of Northwestern Shoshone men, women, and children by US Army troops under Colonel Patrick Connor on January 29, 1863, near Preston, Idaho.
Bear Robotics
Bear Robotics is a Silicon Valley service-robotics company founded in 2017 by former Google engineer John Ha, maker of the Servi serving robots and a majority-owned LG Electronics subsidiary since 2025.
Bear Stearns
Bear Stearns was an American investment bank and securities trading firm founded in 1923, with about 14,000 employees, that collapsed in March 2008 and was sold to JPMorgan Chase.
Beard (companion)
Beard is LGBT slang for an opposite-sex companion or spouse whose presence disguises someone's homosexuality, distinct from the bear subculture. The mid-1950s term covers escorts to cover marriages (lavender marriages), documented in Hollywood and still used where coming out is costly.
Bearer bond
A bearer bond is a fixed-income security owned by whoever physically holds it, with no owner named and interest collected by clipping attached coupons; the US stopped issuing them in 1982.
Bearskin
Bearskin: tall fur ceremonial hat of the British Foot Guards, adopted after Waterloo 1815; about 1 kg of Canadian bear fur, £2,460 per cap, no approved synthetic alternative yet.
Beast Games lawsuit
Beast Games lawsuit: proposed class action filed September 16, 2024 in Los Angeles Superior Court (No. 24STCV24042) by five anonymous contestants of MrBeast's Amazon Prime Video show, alleging worker misclassification, unpaid wages, unsafe conditions, and sexual harassment; still unresolved as of 2026.
Beast of Bray Road
Beast of Bray Road, also Bray Road Beast or Wisconsin Werewolf, a legendary upright wolf-like cryptid reported near Elkhorn, Walworth County, Wisconsin, since the late 1980s, with a 1936 precursor, publicized by Linda Godfrey's 1991 newspaper article, and lacking any physical evidence.
Beast of Gévaudan
The Beast of Gévaudan (la Bête du Gévaudan) was an unidentified animal or animals that killed about 100 people in south-central France, 1764–1767, prompting royal hunts by François Antoine and Jean Chastel; theories include wolf, hyena, lion, or human killer.
Beast of the Earth
The Beast of the Earth (Dābbat al-arḍ, دابة الأرض) is a creature in Islamic eschatology, foretold in Quran 27:82, that will speak to people near the Day of Judgment.
Beat Goha
Beat Goha (دوار جحا, Dawar Goha) is a venue on Al Geish Road 788 in Al Mandarah, Alexandria, Egypt, tagged as a casino in OpenStreetMap, open 24/7, near Mandara Beach; distinct from the Dawar Goha Cafe chain.
Beat Jans
Beat Jans (born 1964) is a Swiss Social Democratic politician who has been a Federal Councillor and head of the justice and police department since 2024.
Beata Klein
Beata Klein is a Swedish venture capitalist and former Partner at Creandum in Berlin, known for B2B SaaS investing and Creandum's €25 million Series A in Sereact.
Beata Szydło
Beata Szydło (née Kusińska), Polish PiS politician, prime minister 2015–2017, deputy prime minister 2017–2019, and since 2019 an ECR Member of the European Parliament from Poland, ITRE committee member and chair of the Polish ECR delegation.
Beatbot (Xingmai Chuangxin)
星迈创新 (Beatbot) is a Chinese robotics startup founded in Suzhou in July 2022 that makes high-end cordless, AI-driven robotic pool-cleaning robots, selling in 38 countries.
Beatbot (Xingmai Innovation)
Beatbot, known in Chinese press as Xingmai Innovation (星迈创新), is a Chinese consumer-robotics company founded in Suzhou in July 2022 that makes high-end cordless robotic pool cleaners.
Beate Meinl-Reisinger
Beate Meinl-Reisinger is an Austrian politician of NEOS who has been Federal Minister for European and International Affairs since March 2025, after leading the party's parliamentary group from 2018.
Beatification
Beatification is the act by which the pope permits public veneration of a deceased Christian as "Blessed," the middle stage between Servant of God and saint.