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Belle Époque
Belle Époque: retrospective name, coined after 1918–1919, for France and Europe's pre-1914 era (c. 1895–1914) of prosperity, the 1900 Paris Exposition, the Third Republic's consolidation, and postwar nostalgia.
Belle Gunness
Belle Gunness (Brynhild Paulsdatter Strseth, 1859–disappeared 1908), Norwegian-American serial killer and 'Lady Bluebeard' of La Porte, Indiana, who lured suitors via matrimonial ads; her death in the 1908 farmhouse fire was never confirmed.
Bellerophon (Βελλεροφόντης)
Bellerophon (Βελλεροφόντης), Corinthian Greek hero, slayer of the fire-breathing Chimera and rider of Pegasus in later accounts; Homer names no horse, Hesiod does, and his attempted flight to Olympus ends in a fall.
Bellesa
Bellesa is a Montreal-based sexual-wellness and adult entertainment company for women, founded by CEO Michelle Shnaidman in February 2017, spanning free media, streaming, film studios, and sex toys.
Bellevue Beard Spa
Bellevue Beard Spa Inc is a Washington stock corporation based in Tacoma, incorporated in 2022, describing itself as a network-marketing and crowdsourcing platform built around a Beard Spa mobile app.
Bellicum Pharmaceuticals
Bellicum Pharmaceuticals was a clinical-stage biotech that used its Chemical Induction of Dimerization platform to develop controllable cellular immunotherapies for blood cancers, solid tumors, and inherited blood disorders.
Belligerent
Belligerent: in international humanitarian law, a party to an armed conflict or a person directly participating in fighting; combatant status exists only in international armed conflicts; belligerency recognition once triggered full laws of war.
Bellingcat
Bellingcat is an independent open source investigative collective founded by Eliot Higgins in 2014, known for the MH17, Skripal, and Navalny investigations, foundation-grant funding, and open source training resources.
Bello Matawalle
Bello Mohammed Matawalle, Nigerian politician, Minister of State for Defence since 2023 and Governor of Zamfara State 2019-2023; known for his bandit amnesty peace dialogue and ongoing security-related controversies.
Bellona (goddess)
Bellona, also known as Duellona, was the ancient Roman goddess of war, embodying battle frenzy, whose first temple was vowed by Appius Claudius Caecus in 296 BCE.
BELLUS Health
BELLUS Health, formerly Neurochem Inc., was a Laval, Quebec-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that developed camlipixant for refractory chronic cough and was acquired by GSK for $2.0 billion in 2023.
Bellwether
Bellwether: a state, county, or candidate whose results indicate a larger election's likely outcome. Famous examples include Missouri (1904–2016), Ohio, Nevada, and Clallam County, though research shows bellwethers predict poorly.
Belmont Report
The Belmont Report (April 18, 1979) is the U.S. National Commission's statement of research ethics principles, respect for persons, beneficence, and justice, which underlies 45 CFR 46 and the Common Rule.
Belmont University
Belmont University: private Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee, founded 1890 as a women's college; 12 colleges, about 9,000 students, known for music business and nursing; newest Tennessee medical school, on LCME preliminary accreditation probation in 2026.
Beloit College
Beloit College, founded 1846-1847 in Beloit, Wisconsin, is the state's oldest college, a private liberal arts institution known for the 1960s Beloit Plan, museums, international education, and high financial aid, with 192 fall 2026 deposits.
Belomorkanal
Belomorkanal (Беломорканал), the White Sea–Baltic Canal, is a 227-kilometer waterway in northwestern Russia connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega, built by Gulag prisoners between 1931 and 1933.
Belongingness
Belongingness, the need to belong, sense of belonging: the universal human need to form and maintain enduring interpersonal attachments, defined by Baumeister and Leary (1995), traced to Maslow (1943), and linked to wellbeing, education, suicide risk, and social connection policy.
Belovezha Accords (Беловежские соглашения)
Belovezha Accords (Беловежские соглашения), signed December 8, 1991 by Yeltsin, Kravchuk, and Shushkevich at Viskuli, Belarus, declared the USSR defunct and created the CIS.
Below Poverty Line
Below Poverty Line (BPL) is an Indian administrative classification identifying households eligible for subsidized food, housing, pensions, and welfare, identified through censuses in 1992, 1997, 2002, and SECC 2011.
Belphegor
Belphegor, or Baal-Peor, began as a Moabite deity of Mount Peor and became a Christian demon: one of the seven princes of Hell, demon of sloth and of ingenious inventions, known from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire infernal and Machiavelli's novella.
Belsat TV
Belsat TV (Белсат), independent Belarusian-language satellite channel of Polish public TV (TVP), launched 10 December 2007; MFA-funded, labeled extremist by Belarus in 2021, restructured into TVP's International Media Centre in 2024–2026.
Belsazar
Belshazzar (Akkadian Bēl-šar-uṣur) was the eldest son of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, and served as regent there until he was probably killed at the Persian capture of Babylon in 539 BC.
Belshazzar's feast
Belshazzar's feast is the banquet in Daniel 5 of the Hebrew Bible, where Belshazzar uses the looted Jerusalem Temple vessels and a hand writes God's verdict on the wall.
Belsnickel
Belsnickel (Pelznickel), a fur-clad masked Christmas gift-bringer from Palatinate German folklore, brought to Pennsylvania Dutch country in the 1700s; rewards good children with treats and switches naughty ones, related to Krampus and Knecht Ruprecht.
Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路)
The Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路), also known as One Belt One Road, is a Chinese-led infrastructure and overseas financing program launched in 2013, built on cooperation documents with over 150 countries.
Beltane
Beltane, also known as Bealtaine or Boaldyn, is the Gaelic May Day festival on 1 May, marked by bonfires and cattle driven between them for protection.
Belu-bani
Belu-bani, also known as Bel-bani or Bēlu-bāni, was a king of Assyria, recorded as the forty-eighth ruler in the Assyrian King List, son of Adasi, with a reign of ten years.
Belus (Egyptian)
Belus (Greek Βῆλος, Latin Belus), mythological king of Egypt in Greek legend, twin of Agenor, father of Danaus and Aegyptus by Anchinoe; his name renders the Semitic ba'al, title of Babylon's god Marduk.
Belus of Tyre
Belus of Tyre is the legendary king of Tyre named by Virgil as the father of Dido, and identified with the historical king Mattan I.
Belva Ann Lockwood
Belva Ann Lockwood (1830-1917), American lawyer and suffragist; first woman admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court bar (1879) and first to argue before it (Kaiser v. Stickney, 1880); Equal Rights Party presidential candidate 1884 and 1888.