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Berdi Beg
Berdi Beg, also known as Muhammad Berdi Beg, was khan of the Golden Horde from 1357 to 1359, son and successor of Jani Beg and the last Batuid ruler.
Berea College
Berea College, founded 1855 by John G. Fee in Berea, Kentucky, is the South's first interracial, coeducational college, tuition-free since 1892, a federally recognized Work College where all students work 10 hours weekly, serving low-income Appalachian students.
Bereavement in Judaism
Bereavement in Judaism, known as avelut, is the structured set of Jewish mourning laws and customs: prompt burial, then shiva for seven days, shloshim for thirty, and a year for a parent.
Berechiah
Berechiah is a name in the legendary opening segment of the exilarchal list in the medieval Jewish chronicle Seder 'Olam Zuṭa, where he appears as a Babylonian exilarch between Hananiah and Hasadiah.
Beren Therapeutics
Beren Therapeutics P.B.C. is a Thousand Oaks, California biotechnology company founded in 2020 by Jason Camm that develops adrabetadex for infantile-onset Niemann-Pick disease type C, under FDA priority review.
Berenberg Bank
Berenberg Bank, formally Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co., is a partner-owned German private and investment bank in Hamburg, founded in 1590 and second-oldest bank in continuous existence.
Berengar of Tours
Berengar of Tours (Bérenger de Tours, c. 999–1088) was a French theologian who denied transubstantiation, holding that bread and wine remain in substance after consecration.
Berengaria of Navarre
Berengaria of Navarre, daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre, was queen of England as the wife of Richard I, married in Cyprus in 1191 during the Third Crusade.
Berengarius of Tours
Berengarius of Tours (Bérenger de Tours, c. 999–1088) was a French theologian, schoolmaster at Saint-Martin in Tours, who taught a spiritual Eucharist and was condemned at councils from 1050 to 1080.
Berenice I of Egypt
Berenice I of Egypt, also Berenike I, was a Macedonian noblewoman who became queen of Egypt as the wife of Ptolemy I Soter and mother of Ptolemy II.
Berenice II
Berenice II, also known as Berenike II, was queen of Ptolemaic Egypt as the wife of Ptolemy III, regent during the Third Syrian War and murdered in 221 BC.
Berenice III
Berenice III, also known as Cleopatra Berenice, was a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy IX and the only Ptolemaic queen to rule alone, murdered in 80 BC.
Berenice IV
Berenice IV, also spelled Berenike IV, was queen of Ptolemaic Egypt from 58 to 55 BC, eldest daughter of Ptolemy XII and sister of Cleopatra VII.
Berenice Venus
The Berenice Venus is a statue of Venus (Aphrodite), named for the ancient city of Berenice at Benghazi in Cyrenaica, which replaced Euesperides around 247 BCE.
Berets of the United States Army
The Berets of the United States Army are colored wool headgear used by Army communities for identification. Green signifies Special Forces, maroon denotes airborne units, and tan identifies Rangers.
Berg Collegium
The Berg Collegium (Берг-коллегия) was the central Russian state institution for mining and metallurgy, established by Peter I in 1719, operating with interruptions until its abolition in 1806 or 1807.
Berg Privilege of 1719
The Berg Privilege of 1719 (Берг-привилегия) was a decree of Peter I, issued in December 1719, opening the search for and mining of ores to all subjects.
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, Germany, originally an SS 'exchange camp' from 1943. Around 120,000 prisoners passed through it; about 52,000 died before or shortly after the British liberation of 15 April 1945.
Berggruen Philosophy Prize
The Berggruen Philosophy Prize, formally the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, is an annual $1 million award established in 2016 by the Berggruen Institute for a living thinker's lifetime work.
Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel
Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, also known as Berhaneyesus Souraphiel, is an Ethiopian cardinal of the Vincentian order who led the Archdiocese of Addis Ababa from 1999 to 2026, made cardinal in 2015.
Berhtwald
Berhtwald, also spelled Brihtwald or Beorhtwald, was the eighth archbishop of Canterbury, in office from 693 until his death on 13 January 731, and before that abbot of Reculver in Kent.
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (History of Science and Humanities), German peer-reviewed history of science journal founded 1978, organ of the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte until 2018, published quarterly by Wiley-VCH, ISSNs 0170-6233 and 1522-2365.
Bering Air Flight 445
Bering Air Flight 445, a Cessna 208B Caravan (N321BA) charter, crashed onto pack ice near Nome, Alaska, on February 6, 2025, killing all 10 aboard; the NTSB cited icing, inadequate airspeed management, and an overweight airplane.
Bering Sea agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia
The Bering Sea agreements are two US–Soviet/Russian instruments defining the maritime boundary: the 1867 Alaska purchase convention and the 1990 Maritime Boundary Agreement, applied but never ratified by Russia.
Berke
Berke (died 1266), grandson of Genghis Khan and son of Jochi, ruled the Golden Horde 1257–1266, converted to Islam, allied with Mamluk sultan Baibars, and waged war against Hulagu's Ilkhanate over the Caucasus.
Berke–Hulagu war
The Berke–Hulagu war was an armed conflict between the Golden Horde under Berke Khan and the Ilkhanate under Hulagu Khan, fought mainly in the Caucasus from 1262 to 1266.
Berkeley Lights, Inc.
Berkeley Lights, Inc. was an Emeryville, California, life sciences company founded in 2011 that built optofluidic instruments for working with single living cells, merging into PhenomeX in 2023.
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, founded 1945 in Boston as Schillinger House by Lawrence Berk and renamed Berklee in 1954, is a private contemporary music college, the first U.S. school founded on jazz study, now part of a 2016 merger with Boston Conservatory.
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway is an American holding company built by Warren Buffett, who took control in 1965 and handed the CEO role to Greg Abel in January 2026.
Berkshire Partners
Berkshire Partners is a Boston-based, employee-owned private equity firm founded in 1986, focused on middle-market companies; it closed its largest fund, at $7.8 billion, in 2024.