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Belgian Revolution
Belgian Revolution (Révolution belge), 1830–1831: uprising of the Southern Netherlands against King William I, producing Belgian independence on 4 October 1830, the 1831 constitution, Leopold I, and the 1839 separation treaty.
Belgians
Belgians are the inhabitants and nationals of Belgium, a Western European federal state created in 1830 whose population of 11.9 million is divided among three language communities.
Belgium in World War I
Belgium in World War I: the 1914 German invasion of neutral Belgium, the 1914-1918 occupation, forced labor deportations, Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium, and the Yser front.
Belgium in World War II
Belgium in World War II: German invasion 10 May 1940, 18-day campaign, Leopold III's surrender versus the Pierlot government in exile in London, occupation, ~100,000 collaborators, ~150,000 resistance members, liberation September 1944, and the Royal Question that made Belgium's WWII memory 'divided'.
Belgorod Line
The Belgorod Line (Белгородская черта) was a fortified defensive line built by Russia from 1635 to 1658 to block Crimean and Nogai Tatar raids on its southern frontier.
Belgorod razriad
The Belgorod razriad (Белгородский разряд) was a Russian military-administrative district created in 1658 in the southwest, uniting southern towns under a voivode who commanded the Belgorod field regiment until Peter I's reforms.
Belgrade Declaration
The Belgrade Declaration was a joint Soviet–Yugoslav statement signed on 2 June 1955 that normalized relations after the 1948 split, recognizing sovereignty, equality, and non-interference.
Belgrade Offensive
The Belgrade Offensive (Београдска операција) was a joint operation of Yugoslav Partisans and the Red Army that liberated Belgrade from German occupation in October 1944.
Belgrade school shooting
Belgrade school shooting, 3 May 2023 at Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School, Serbia's first mass school shooting; 13-year-old Kosta Kecmanovic killed nine and wounded six, prompting a two-year gun-permit moratorium, weapons handover, and trials of his parents.
BelHealth Investment Partners
BelHealth Investment Partners is a Fort Lauderdale, Florida healthcare private equity firm founded by Harold Blue in 2011, acquiring majority stakes in lower middle market healthcare companies.
Belial (בְלִיַּעַל)
Belial (בְלִיַּעַל, also Beliar) is a Hebrew word meaning worthlessness, later the name of a powerful demon in Jewish and Christian texts and Western demonology.
Belief
Belief, also called dispositional belief, is the mental attitude of taking something to be true, a propositional attitude central to epistemology, where knowledge is traditionally analyzed as justified true belief.
Believe in Magic
Believe in Magic was a UK charity founded by Megan Bhari and Jean O'Brien in 2012. It was dissolved in 2020 following a Charity Commission inquiry into financial mismanagement.
Belinda Stronach
Belinda Stronach is a Canadian businesswoman who served as CEO of Magna International. She now leads The Stronach Group, which grew its racing and gaming revenues to $1.1 billion.
Belisario Betancur
Belisario Betancur Cuartas was a Colombian lawyer, journalist, and Conservative politician who served as president from 1982 to 1986, pursuing peace negotiations with the FARC and other guerrillas.
Belisarius (Βελισάριος)
Belisarius (Βελισάριος, c. 505-565) was Justinian I's general, victor over the Vandals and Goths and last recipient of a Roman triumph; known chiefly through Procopius, whose Wars, Buildings, and Secret History give contrasting portraits; the blind-beggar legend first appears in Tzetzes.
Belitung shipwreck
The Belitung shipwreck is a ninth-century Middle East–built merchant vessel that sank off Belitung Island, Indonesia, carrying roughly 60,000 objects, mostly Chinese Tang dynasty ceramics.
Belize dollar
The Belize dollar (BZ$) is the national currency of Belize, issued by the Central Bank of Belize and fixed at 2 per US dollar since 1976.
Belize Zoo
Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center, "The Best Little Zoo in the World," founded 1983 by Sharon Matola from documentary film animals; native-only rescue collection of 170 animals, 45 species at Mile 29 George Price Highway, with jaguar rescue and Maya Forest Corridor land conservation.
Belizean independence
Belizean independence was the transfer of sovereignty from the United Kingdom to Belize, achieved on September 21, 1981, after a campaign delayed by Guatemala's territorial claim.
Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute
Unresolved Guatemala claim over part of Belize, roughly 11,000 km2 of Belize's south plus islands and waters, rooted in the 1859 Aycinena-Wyke treaty's unfulfilled Article 7 road clause, now before the ICJ under the 2008 Special Agreement after 2018-2019 referenda.
Bell Beaker culture
Bell Beaker culture: a third-millennium BCE European phenomenon named for its inverted bell-shaped pottery, spread from Ireland to Morocco. Ancient DNA shows migration drove its spread in Britain (about 90% gene-pool replacement) but not between Iberia and central Europe.
Bell hooks
bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952–2021) was an American feminist theorist and cultural critic, author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love, known for interlocking critiques of racism, sexism, and class and for engaged pedagogy at Berea College.
Bell Media
Bell Media Inc. is the media and entertainment subsidiary of Bell Canada/BCE, created April 1, 2011 in BCE's $3.2-billion CTV acquisition. Brands: CTV, TSN, RDS, Crave, Noovo, iHeartRadio Canada, Astral; 2025 revenue $3,154 million; Crave 4.6 million subscribers.
Bell Witch
The Bell Witch is a Tennessee legend about an invisible, talking spirit said to torment John Bell's family near Adams, Robertson County, 1817–1821; the haunting rests on M. V. Ingram's contested 1894 book, with no contemporary evidence.
Bella Abzug
Bella Abzug (Bella Savitzky, 1920–1998), "Battling Bella," American labor and civil rights lawyer, antiwar activist, and three-term Democratic congresswoman from New York, 1971–1977; first federal gay rights bill, Child Development Act, NWPC cofounder, 1977 National Women's Conference presiding officer.
Bellaire High School (Texas)
Bellaire High School, a Houston ISD public high school in Bellaire, Texas, opened in 1955, became Texas's first IB Diploma Programme school in 1979, and earned a 2026 TEA rating of A (score 94).
Bellamy salute
Bellamy salute: the straight-arm gesture accompanying the US Pledge of Allegiance, 1892–1942, named for pledge author Francis Bellamy; replaced by hand-over-heart by Congress on December 22, 1942, due to its resemblance to the Nazi salute.
Bellarmine College Preparatory
Bellarmine College Preparatory (San Jose, California) is an all-boys Jesuit high school founded in 1851 as Santa Clara College, renamed in 1928, with about 1,650 students, $33,575 tuition, and strong robotics and speech and debate programs. Distinct from Bellarmine University and Tacoma's Bellarmine Prep.
Belle da Costa Greene
Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950), born Belle Marion Greener, was J. Pierpont Morgan's personal librarian from 1905 and the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (1924–1948); an African American who passed as white.