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Beryl Piccolantonio
Beryl Brown Piccolantonio is an American Democratic politician representing Ohio's 4th House district as Minority Whip, appointed after Mary Lightbody's resignation and formerly a Gahanna-Jefferson School Board member.
Bes
Bes, ancient Egyptian protective dwarf deity (also Bes-image, related to Aha and Beset), guardian of pregnant women, children, and households, with lion mane, plumed crown, and frontal depiction, worshipped from the Middle Kingdom to the Roman Period.
Besenmut (Fourth Prophet of Amun)
Besenmut, also written Bes-en-Mut or Besmut, is the name of a family of priests of Montu who served at Thebes during Egypt's 26th Dynasty, c. 664–525 BC.
Besenmut (priest of Montu)
Besenmut was a priest of the god Montu at Thebes who also held the civil offices of Mayor of Thebes and judge of the city, known from the block statue Cairo JE 36957.
Besieging Wei to rescue Zhao
Besieging Wei to rescue Zhao (围魏救赵) was a Warring States stratagem in which Qi attacked Wei's homeland in 353 BC to lift Wei's siege of Zhao.
Beslan school siege
Beslan school siege (1–3 September 2004): Shamil Basayev's militants seized School No. 1 in North Ossetia, took over 1,100 hostages, and demanded Russian withdrawal from Chechnya; 334 people, mostly children, died in the chaotic ending.
Bespoke
Bespoke describes goods or services made to an individual customer's order rather than ready-made, a term first recorded in 1755 and famously tied to Savile Row tailoring.
Bess of Hardwick
Bess of Hardwick (Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, 1527–1608), Derbyshire noblewoman and builder who married four times, amassed a fortune, and built Hardwick Old Hall and Hardwick Hall, the Smythson-designed Elizabethan prodigy house.
Bess Truman
Bess Truman (Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, 1885-1982) was Harry S. Truman's wife and First Lady 1945-1953, a private Independence, Missouri hostess who ended weekly press conferences, helped preserve the White House, and was called "the Boss."
Bessarabian question
Bessarabian question: the Romania–Soviet dispute over Bessarabia, from the 1918 Sfatul Țării union vote and the 1920 Treaty of Paris (never fully ratified; Japan withheld) to the 1940 Soviet ultimatum and annexation.
Bessarion
Bessarion (Βησσαρίων), baptized Basil, was a Byzantine ecclesiastic and humanist, metropolitan of Nicaea and later a Roman cardinal who championed the union of the Eastern and Western Churches.
Bessarion of Trebizond
Bessarion of Trebizond (Βησσαρίων ὁ Τραπεζούντιος), born Basil, was a Byzantine metropolitan of Nicaea who supported church union at Florence in 1439 and became a cardinal.
Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine (別冊少年マガジン)
Bessatsu Shonen Magazine is Kodansha's monthly shonen manga magazine, founded September 2009 as a companion to Weekly Shonen Magazine; home of Attack on Titan and Arslan Senki, B5 format, sold on the 9th each month.
Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners is an American venture capital firm that grew out of steel magnate Henry Phipps's family office and became a venture firm in 1975.
Bessus
Bessus, also known as Bessos, was a Persian noble and satrap of Bactria who murdered Darius III in 330 BC, proclaimed himself king as Artaxerxes V, and was executed by Alexander the Great in 329 BC.
Best alternative to a negotiated agreement
BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement), coined by Fisher and Ury in Getting to Yes (1981), is a negotiator's best fallback if no deal is reached; it sets the walk-away standard, drives leverage, and defines the ZOPA.
Best Buy
Best Buy is an American consumer electronics retailer operating 1,068 stores across the United States and Canada with over 80,000 employees, generating $41.7 billion in revenue in fiscal 2026.
Best execution
Best execution is the duty of brokers and investment firms to obtain the most favorable terms reasonably available for client orders, considering price, costs, speed, and size.
Best friends forever
Best friends forever (BFF) is an informal English acronym for a lifelong best friendship, popular from the 1990s via IM and texting sign-offs; related to bestie, friendship bracelets, adolescent intimacy research, and Hall's 300-hour estimate.
Best interests
Best interests of the child is a legal standard requiring decisions about a child to rest on evaluating and balancing that child's particular situation, applied in custody and child-protection decisions.
Best Loser System
The Best Loser System is a mechanism in the Parliament of Mauritius under which up to eight unelected candidates are given seats to correct ethnic representation.
Best of all possible worlds
Best of all possible worlds: Leibniz's philosophical optimism doctrine, from the 1710 Theodicy (Essais de Théodicée), holding that God chose the best possible world; famously satirized in Voltaire's 1759 Candide via Pangloss.
Best practice
A best practice is a way of working presented as the most effective available for a given situation, though research shows copied practices often fail in new contexts.
Best Western
Best Western is a member-owned hotel brand organization founded by M.K. Guertin in 1946 and headquartered in Phoenix, with about 4,300 hotels in over 100 countries.
Best–worst method
The best–worst method (BWM) is a multi-criteria decision-making technique introduced by Jafar Rezaei in 2015 that derives criteria weights from 2n − 3 comparisons against the best and worst criteria.
Besta
Besta, formally Inventec Besta Co., Ltd., is a Taipei-based education-electronics company founded in 1989 under the Inventec Group, best known for its BESTA electronic dictionaries.
Bestiality
Bestiality, also called zoophilia or animal sexual abuse, is any sexual act between a human and an animal. Criminalized since the Code of Hammurabi; all but four U.S. states ban it, with recent reforms in Canada, the UK, and Australia.
Bestiality with a donkey
Sexual contact between humans and donkeys, a documented form of bestiality; recorded from ancient Egypt and Saharan cave art to rural Crete, Anatolia, Morocco, and Mexico, and criminalized in most jurisdictions today.
Bestiary
Bestiary: medieval illuminated book of real and legendary animals with Christian moral allegories, derived from the Greek Physiologus, popular 1100-1300, ancestor of natural history.
Bestinver Cameroun
Bestinver Cameroun, also known as Bestcam SA, is a Cameroonian holding company promoted by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo that held 30% of Nexttel operator Viettel Cameroun.