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Becoming Chinese
Becoming Chinese (also #BecomingChinese, Chinamaxxing) is a 2025-2026 TikTok trend of Western, mostly Gen Z users adopting Chinese lifestyle habits like warm water, indoor slippers, and baduanjin qigong, started by creator Sherry Zhu.
Becoming white thesis
Becoming white thesis: the whiteness-studies claim that Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants became white in America, advanced by Roediger, Ignatiev, and Brodkin and contested by Yang and Koshy's finding of no legal reclassification.
Becton Dickinson
Becton Dickinson, formally Becton, Dickinson and Company and commonly called BD, is an American medical technology company founded in 1897, selling syringes, needles, and diagnostic equipment worldwide.
Bed Bath & Beyond
Bed Bath & Beyond was an American specialty retailer of bed linens, bath goods, and housewares, founded in 1971, which liquidated in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023.
Beda Dudik
Beda Dudik, born František Dudík, was a Moravian Benedictine monk of Rajhrad who became the land's official historiographer in 1859 and wrote a twelve-volume history of Moravia.
Beda Mayr
Beda Mayr (1742–1794) was a Bavarian Benedictine moral theologian at Donauwörth and a leading figure of the German Catholic Enlightenment; two of his works were placed on the Index.
Bedahulu
Bedahulu, also written Bedulu, was an ancient kingdom in Gianyar Regency, Bali, Indonesia, that existed from roughly the 8th to the 14th century and was the last independent Balinese kingdom.
Bedales School
Bedales School, founded by John Haden Badley in 1893 in Steep, Hampshire, is a co-educational independent day and boarding school for ages 3-18, known for its Bedales Assessed Courses replacing part of GCSE study, Outdoor Work programme, first-name informality, and no uniform.
Bedchamber crisis
Bedchamber crisis: the May 1839 constitutional episode in which Queen Victoria refused Robert Peel's request to replace Whig ladies of the bedchamber, so Peel declined to form a ministry and Melbourne stayed Prime Minister.
Bedding ceremony
The bedding ceremony, or bedding ritual, was a European wedding custom in which family and friends put newlyweds to bed together, symbolizing and serving as proof of the marriage's consummation.
Bede
Bede, known as the Venerable Bede, was an Anglo-Saxon monk at Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northumbria whose Ecclesiastical History, completed in 731, remains a vital source on the Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity.
Bede Griffiths
Bede Griffiths, also known as Dom Bede Griffiths (1906–1993), was an English Catholic Benedictine monk who spent 38 years in India as a pioneer of Hindu–Christian dialogue.
Bedford Modern School
Bedford Modern School, shortened to Bedford Modern, is a co-educational independent day school in Bedford, England, founded in 1764 and part of the Harpur Trust.
Bedford School
Bedford School (Bedford, Bedfordshire): independent boys' day and boarding school aged 7–18, founded 1552 under Edward VI, endowed 1566 by William Harpur, governed by the Harpur Trust; ISI-inspected; co-educational from September 2027.
Bedil
Bedil (بیدل) was the pen name of Mirza Abd al-Qadir, a Persian-language poet and Sufi of Mughal India, born in 1644 in Patna and active in Delhi.
Bedir Khan Beg
Bedir Khan Beg (بدرخان بگ) was the last emir of the Kurdish Bohtan emirate, ruling from 1821 until his capture by the Ottomans in 1847.
Bedivere
Bedivere (Welsh Bedwyr), one of Arthur's oldest recorded knights, companion of Kay, cup-bearer in Geoffrey of Monmouth, and in Malory the sole knight to return Excalibur and outlive Arthur.
Bedlam Series
Bedlam Series: the Oklahoma State vs. Oklahoma all-sports rivalry, named for wrestling bedlam at Gallagher Hall; Oklahoma dominates football (89-20-7 through 2022) while OSU leads the all-sports series 14-11-1.
Bedouin
Bedouin (Arabic badawī, plural badw), Arabic-speaking nomadic desert peoples of the Middle East and North Africa; tribal pastoralist societies of camel, sheep, and goat herders, now largely settled, notably the Negev Bedouin.
Bedrock Capital
Bedrock Capital is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm founded by Geoff Lewis and Eric Stromberg, launched in 2018 with its first fund reported at $122 million.
Bedrock Manufacturing Company, LLC
Bedrock Manufacturing Company, LLC is a Texas holding company founded by Tom Kartsotis in 2014 and based in Plano, parent of the brands Shinola, Filson, and Bedrock Watch Co.
Bee (surname)
Bee is an English surname from Old English beo, a nickname for an industrious person or occupational name for a beekeeper, recorded since the 1190s; variants Bees, Beese; also a short form of McBee and Americanized Norwegian Bye.
Bee Partners
Bee Partners is a San Francisco pre-seed venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Michael Berolzheimer that invests in deep tech, including AI, robotics, and synthetic biology.
Bee, wasp and hornet place and personal names
An overview of place names and personal names derived from bee, wasp, and hornet words across languages, from English Beeby and the surname Bee to Slavic bee-tree toponyms.
Beeda Masthan Rao
Beeda Masthan Rao is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician from Andhra Pradesh who sits in the Rajya Sabha for 2024–2028, after serving as Kavali MLA from 2009 to 2014.
Beef Tribunal
The Beef Tribunal (Tribunal of Inquiry into the Beef Processing Industry) was an Irish public inquiry chaired by Liam Hamilton, 1991–1994, which found Goodman International engaged in systematic tax evasion and cost IR£18.5 million in legal fees.
Beef-A-Roo
Beef-A-Roo is a fast-food and fast-casual roast beef sandwich chain founded in Rockford, Illinois in 1967, known for slow-roasted beef sandwiches, cheddar fries, and hand-made milkshakes.
Beelzebub
Beelzebub (Beelzebul, Greek Beelzeboul), demon prince of Jewish and Christian tradition, derived from Baal-zebub, god of Ekron in 2 Kings 1; accused source of Jesus' exorcisms in the Synoptic Gospels.
Beep, beep (sound)
Beep, beep: a short, typically high-pitched single tone made by machines, standardized for consumer products in ISO 24500:2010; word coined by Arthur C. Clarke in The Sands of Mars (1951); used in alarms, telephony, and perception research.
Beer Hall Putsch
The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch, Hitlerputsch) was the failed Nazi coup of 8-9 November 1923 in Munich, led by Adolf Hitler from the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall; it collapsed at the Odeonsplatz, led to Hitler's imprisonment and the party's brief ban, and pushed the Nazis toward legal electoral politics.