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Bevin Boys

Bevin Boys: some 48,000 young British men conscripted into coal mines from December 1943 to 1948 under Ernest Bevin's ballot of national service numbers, denied medals, pensions, and recognition until 1995.

Bewakoof

Bewakoof is an Indian direct-to-consumer casual fashion brand selling economy-priced apparel and footwear, founded in Mumbai in 2012 by IIT Bombay graduates Prabhkiran Singh and Siddharth Munot.

Bewakoof.com

Bewakoof.com is an Indian direct-to-consumer fashion brand based in Mumbai, founded by IIT Bombay batchmates Prabhkiran Singh and Siddharth Munot, launched in 2012 and majority-owned by Aditya Birla's TMRW since 2023.

Bey

Bey (beg, beğ): Turkic title for a lord, chieftain, or governor, first attested in the Orkhon inscriptions; an Ottoman rank for provincial governors and colonels, the hereditary sovereign title in Tunis until 1957, and a modern Turkish courtesy address.

Beylerbeyi

Beylerbeyi, meaning "lord of lords" and rendered as Mir-i Miran in Persian, was the Ottoman title for the governor-general of an eyalet, first held by Lala Shahin Pasha in Rumeli under Murad I.

Beylik of Aydın

The Beylik of Aydın, or Aydınoğulları, was a Turkoman emirate in western Anatolia, founded by Mehmed Bey in 1308 and absorbed by the Ottomans in 1425.

Beylik of Constantine

The Beylik of Constantine was the eastern province of Ottoman Regency of Algiers, ruled by a bey from Constantine until the French took the city in 1837.

Beylik of Germiyan

The Beylik of Germiyan (Germiyanoğulları) was a Turkmen principality centered at Kutahya in western Anatolia, founded by Yakub Bey I around 1300 and absorbed by the Ottomans in 1429.

Beylik of Karasi

The Beylik of Karasi (Karesioğulları) was an independent Turkish principality of western Anatolia centered on Balikesir, Bergama, and Chanakkale, absorbed by Orhan Bey of the Ottomans.

Beylik of Menteshe

The Beylik of Menteshe (Mentesheoghullari) was a Turkish principality in southwest Anatolia, founded by Menteshe Bey around 1261 and finally annexed by the Ottomans in 1424.

Beylik of Oran

The Beylik of Oran, or Beylik of the West (بايلك الغرب), was the westernmost of the three provinces of Ottoman Algeria, governed by a bey under the Regency of Algiers until 1830.

Beylik of Sahib Ata

The Beylik of Sahib Ata (Sahib Ataoghullari) was an Anatolian Turkish principality centered on Afyonkarahisar, founded in 1275 by descendants of the Seljuk vizier Sahib Ata Fahreddin Ali.

Beylik of Titteri

The Beylik of Titteri was the central province of Ottoman-era Algiers, governed from Médéa. It was founded in 1548 by Hassan Pacha and fell in 1830.

Beyond budgeting

Beyond budgeting is a management model replacing the fixed annual budget with rolling forecasts, relative targets, and decentralized decisions, introduced by Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser in the late 1990s.

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil (Jenseits von Gut und Böse) is Friedrich Nietzsche's 1886 book, subtitled Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, critiquing morality through slave versus master morality, the free spirit, and the will to power.

Beyond left and right (political thesis)

"Beyond left and right" is the political thesis, most associated with Anthony Giddens's 1994 book, that globalization has made traditional Left–Right debates obsolete, a claim later taken up by Blair's New Labour.

Bezalel Smotrich (בצלאל יואל סמוטריץ')

Bezalel Smotrich (בצלאל סמוטריץ', born 1980) is Israel's Finance Minister and head of the far-right Religious Zionist Party, a West Bank settler from Kedumim who controls settlement policy and seeks annexation.

Bezanozano

The Bezanozano are an ethnic group of Madagascar living in the Mangoro valley around Moramanga, on the main trade route between Imerina and the eastern coast.

Bezdna peasant unrest (1861)

The Bezdna peasant unrest (Бездненское восстание) was the April 1861 suppression of a peasant movement in Bezdna, Kazan province, where troops fired on unarmed peasants led by Anton Petrov.

BeZero Carbon

BeZero Carbon is a London-based carbon credit ratings agency, co-founded in 2020 by Sebastien Cross and Tommy Ricketts, which assigns letter ratings from AAA to D to carbon projects.

Bga Horizon

BGA Horizon Fund, also known as BGA Horizon Fund, LLC, is a Boston, Massachusetts manager of separately filed pooled private-fund series, filing with the SEC since 2017.

BGI Genomics

BGI Genomics (华大基因) is a Chinese genomics and precision-medicine company based in Shenzhen, founded in 1999 to join the Human Genome Project and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2017.

BGP Bravo Holdings, LLC

BGP Bravo Holdings, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company formed in 2017 and registered with the SEC as a private equity fund based in New York.

BGRE

BGRE, formerly Brookfield Properties, is the real-estate development and operating platform of Brookfield Corporation, renamed in July 2026 in title only, with no new ticker or legal entity.

BH Entertainment

BH Entertainment (BH엔터테인먼트) is a Seoul-based actor-management agency founded on June 2, 2006, by actor Lee Byung-hun, named after his initials and led by CEO Son Seok-woo.

Bhabani Shankar Bhoi

Bhabani Shankar Bhoi is an Indian politician from Odisha, a BJP member elected twice from Talsara who serves as Deputy Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly.

Bhaddā Kāpilānī

Bhaddā Kāpilānī (भद्दा कापिलानी) was an early Buddhist nun and former wife of Mahā-Kassapa, whom the Buddha declared foremost among nuns in recollecting past lives.

Bhadda Kundalakesi

Bhadda Kundalakesa, also known as Bhadda Kundalakesi, was an early Buddhist elder nun and former Jain, converted after a debate with Sariputta and remembered in five Therigatha verses.

Bhaddaji

Bhaddaji (भद्दजि) was an early Buddhist monk and disciple of the Buddha, remembered for answering Ānanda's five 'best' questions in Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.170 and for a legend of raising a golden palace from the Ganges.

Bhaddāli

Bhaddāli (भद्दालि), nicknamed Mahāchātaka, was a Buddhist monk of the Buddha's time who refused a training rule, avoided the Buddha for a Rains retreat, and was forgiven.