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Benefit corporation
A benefit corporation, in Delaware called a public benefit corporation, is a statutory for-profit form requiring directors to balance profit, stakeholders, and a stated public benefit.
Benefitfocus
Benefitfocus was a Charleston, South Carolina-based software company selling cloud-based benefits administration and enrollment software; founded in 2000, it was acquired by Voya Financial in January 2023.
Beneish M-score
The Beneish M-score is a statistical model combining eight financial ratios to estimate the likelihood that a company is manipulating its earnings, introduced by Messod Beneish in 1999.
Benelux
Benelux is a regional union of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, created by the 1944 London Customs Convention and re-founded by a 2008 treaty as the Benelux Union, a forerunner of European integration.
Benerib
Benerib was a royal woman of the Egyptian First Dynasty, linked to King Aha by inscribed objects from tomb B14 at Abydos, though no title names her.
Benes Ayo
Benes Ayo (Бенес Христоферович Айо), "Black Lenin"; Latvian-born National Bolshevik and fighter. Interbrigades figure in the Donbas war; convicted in absentia by Latvia in 2021; Russian asylum 2020, citizenship 2022.
Benetton Group
Benetton Group, also known as United Colors of Benetton, is an Italian apparel company based near Treviso, founded by the four Benetton siblings in 1965.
Beneunder (蕉下)
Beneunder (蕉下) is a Shenzhen-based Chinese brand founded in 2013 by Ma Long and Lin Ze, China's largest sun-protection apparel brand by 2021 retail sales.
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE): American fraternal order founded February 16, 1868 in New York from the Jolly Corks club by English entertainer Charles Vivian; nearly 2,000 lodges, over $80 million annual charity, veterans and youth programs.
Benevolent dictatorship
Benevolent dictatorship: absolute rule exercised for the people's benefit, from Plato's philosopher king and enlightened despotism to Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, with the Lee thesis, growth evidence, and commitment problems distinguishing it from ordinary dictatorship.
BenevolentAI
BenevolentAI is a London-based company, founded in 2013, that uses artificial intelligence to discover and develop new medicines with partners such as AstraZeneca and Merck KGaA.
Bengal Army
The Bengal Army (बंगाल सेना) was the East India Company's native army in Bengal, raised in 1757 and the largest presidency army until its 1857 mutiny.
Bengal Opium Monopoly
The Bengal Opium Monopoly (अफीम का एकाधिकार) was a state monopoly over opium cultivation and sale in Bengal, assumed by the East India Company under Warren Hastings in 1773.
Bengal Presidency
The Bengal Presidency, administered from Calcutta, was the largest of the three East India Company presidencies in British India, established in 1765 and divided in 1947.
Bengal Renaissance (বাংলার নবজাগরণ)
Bengal Renaissance (বাংলার নবজাগরণ): nineteenth-century Bengali cultural and social reform movement led by the bhadralok, from Rammohan Roy's Brahmo Samaj (1828) to Young Bengal, women's reform, and contested historiography.
Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829
The Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 (सती प्रथा निषेध) was a British Indian law passed on 4 December 1829 declaring sati, the burning or burying alive of Hindu widows, illegal.
Bengal Subah (صوبه بنگاله)
Bengal Subah (صوبه بنگاله), the Mughal province of Bengal incorporated in 1576 after Rajmahal, governed by Nazim and Diwan, wealthy in textiles trade, and autonomous under nawabs from 1717 until the 1765 Diwani.
Bengal Sultanate
Bengal Sultanate: independent Muslim state in the Ganges delta, 1342-1576, founded by Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah; ruled by Ilyas Shahi, Ganesha, Habshi, and Husain Shahi dynasties until the Mughal conquest at Rajmahal.
Bengal tanka coinage
Bengal tanka coinage (بنگال ٹکہ) is the silver tanka currency struck by the independent Sultans of Bengal, first issued by Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah at Sonargaon in the 1330s.
Bengal War
Bengal War, or Anglo-Bengali Wars (1756–1765): East India Company conflict with the Nawabs of Bengal, decided at Plassey (1757) and Buxar (1764), ending with the 1765 Diwani grant over Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.
Bengali alphabet
Bengali alphabet (বাংলা বর্ণমালা), also called the Bengali script, is the Brahmic abugida used for Bengali and Assamese: 11 vowels and 39 consonants, descended from Brahmi via Kutila, standardized by Vidyasagar and encoded in Unicode.
Bengali Bible translation
The Bengali Bible translation is the rendering of the Christian Bible into Bengali, begun by John Thomas in 1791 and completed by William Carey at Serampore in 1809.
Bengali epic poetry
Bengali epic poetry is the Bengali tradition of long narrative poems, spanning the medieval maṅgal-kāvya genre and the modern epic founded by Michael Madhusudan Dutt's Meghnādbadh kābya of 1861.
Bengali folk tales
Bengali folk tales are the orally transmitted stories of the Bengali-speaking people, told for generations by village women and first collected in print in 1883.
Bengali Hindus
Bengali Hindus are the Hindu Bengali ethno-linguistic community of West Bengal and Bangladesh, marked by Shakta and Vaishnava traditions, Vedantic and Brahmo reform currents, caste-negotiating folk ritual, and 1947 partition migration.
Bengali Kayastha
Bengali Kayasthas (বঙ্গীয় কায়স্থ) are a Bengali-speaking Hindu community historically associated with administrative, clerical, and record-keeping occupations. They form a regional Kayastha tradition distinct from the Chitragupta Kayasthas of northern India and.
Bengali language
Bengali (Bangla, বাংলা) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-European family, descended via Magadhi Prakrit, spoken by roughly 230-265 million people in Bangladesh and eastern India, the 6th or 7th most spoken language worldwide, written in a Brahmi-derived script.
Bengali language movement
The Bengali language movement (ভাষা আন্দোলন, Bhasha Andolon) was the 1948–1952 East Pakistan movement for Bengali as a state language, climaxed by the 21 February 1952 police killings in Dhaka and resolved by the 1956 constitution recognizing both Bangla and Urdu.
Bengali Muslims (বাঙালি মুসলমান)
Bengali Muslims (বাঙালি মুসলমান) are Bengali-speaking Muslims of Bengal, centered in Bangladesh (91% Muslim per the 2022 census) and West Bengal, historically shaped by the 1947 partition, the 1952 language movement, and the 1971 creation of Bangladesh.
Bengalis (বাঙালি)
Bengalis (বাঙালি) are the Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic people of the Bengal region, spanning Bangladesh, West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam, defined by the Bengali language; Muslim-majority in Bangladesh, Hindu-majority in West Bengal since the 1947 partition.