Bed A bed is a piece of furniture or location primarily used or intended for sleeping upon, but which can serve other functions as well. Beds come in a wide array of shapes and sizes. Early beds were little more than piles of straw or some other natural materials. An important change was raising them off the ground, to avoid drafts, dirt, and pests.
	Bed and breakfast A bed and breakfast, often referred to as a B&B, is a type of boarding house typically operated out of a large single family residence where guests can be accommodated at night in private bedrooms and where breakfast, sometimes Continental breakfast and sometimes the full Full English breakfast variety, is served in the morning.
	Bed sheet A bed sheet is a type of bedding a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth bed cover. It is this sheet that one typically lies on. They were traditionally white, but now often various colors and patterns are used. They are larger than the bed, so they can be tucked under the mattress in order to be kept in place.
	Bedbug Bedbugs are small Nocturnal animal insects of the family Cimicidae that live by hematophagy, feeding on the blood of humans and other homeothermic Hosts.
	Bede Bede , also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or Beda , , was a monasticism at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth, today part of Sunderland, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow, Great Britain .
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	Bedouin Bedouin, derived from the Arabic language ' , a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic pastoralism groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai Peninsula, and Negev to of the Arabia desert.
	Bedrich Smetana Bedrich Smetana is considered one of the greatest Czech people composers of the 19th century. He is best known for his symphonic poem Vltava, the second in a cycle of six which he entitled M vlast.
	Bedroom A bedroom is a room used primarily for sleep, rest or sexual activities. It may or may not contain a bed. In some cultures, dedicated bedrooms form an important part of a home. In others, spaces used primarily for other activities by day become bedrooms at night.
	Bedroom community A bedroom community, dormitory town, commuter town or dormitory village is a community that is primarily residential in character, with most of its workers commuting to a nearby town or city to earn their livelihood. The distinction between a suburb and a bedroom community is not always clear.
	Bee Bees are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. There are approximately 20,000 species of bees, and they may be found on every continent except Antarctica. Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source, and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients.
	Bee Orchid The Bee Orchid is a perennial, temperate climate species of orchid generally found growing on semi-dry turf, on limestone, calcareous dunes or in open areas in woodland. The Bee Orchid is a common plant around the Mediterranean eastwards to the Black Sea but is less common in its northern range being uncommon or local in Germany and Ireland.
	Bee sting A bee sting in the vernacular means a sting of a bee, wasp, hornet, yellowjacket or sawfly. Some people may even call the bite of a horsefly a bee sting. It is important to differentiate a bee sting from an insect bite. It is also important to recognize that the Venom or toxin of stinging insects is quite different.
	Beech Beech is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaf are entire or sparsely toothed, from 5-15 cm long and 4-10 cm broad. The flowers are small single-sex, wind-pollinated catkins, produced in spring shortly after the new leaves appear.
	Beef Beef is meat obtained from bovines, especially domestic cattle. Beef is one of the principal meats used in European cuisine and cuisine of the Americas, and is important in Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia as well. In the Middle East, lamb is the usual meat preferred over beef.
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	Beef tenderloin Beef tenderloin is cut from the middle of a cow. As with all quadrupeds, the tenderloin refers to the areas along the central spine portion, which more or less hangs between the shoulder blade and hip socket. This muscle tissue does very little work, so it is the most tender part of the cow.
	Beefcake Beefcake is a slang word for eroticism images or realistic, usually barechested photos of any well-muscled, well-built man, in a word play on 'Pin-up girl', used since 1934 of images of sexy young women. Beefcake is often used to denote male sexual attraction stemming from physical build, but is also used by women and men interested in bodybuilding and weight training, while others consider unnaturally overdevelopped musculature unattractive.
	Beefsteak fungus Note: Beefsteak fungus is not to be mistaken with the false morel, which is similar in name but very different in appearance. The beefsteak fungus is an unusual polypore bracket fungus that is most commonly seen in United Kingdom, but can be found in North America, Australia, and the rest of Europe.
	Beefy Beefy can refer to: *"Beefy" is the nickname of Ian Botham, an English cricket player *Beef#Beef in the English Language is an American slang term used to describe a man who is muscular or a person who is overweight *Beefy is a flavor of Seabrook Potato Crisps
	Beekeeping Beekeeping is the practice of intentional maintenance of honeybee hives by humans. A beekeeper may keep bees in order to collect honey and beeswax, or for the purpose of pollination agriculture, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers.
	Beelzebub Beelzebub , Baal Zebb or Baal Z?vv, appears as the name of a deity worshipped in the Philistine city of Ekron. In ancient contexts, there appears to have been little, if any, meaningful distinction between Beelzebub and the polytheism Semitic god named Baal.
	Beer Beer is one of the world's oldest alcoholic beverages, possibly brewed for the first time over 10,000 years ago, according to renowned beer writer Michael Jackson . It is a fermentation beverage made from malted barley, hops, yeast and water, and is carbonated in almost all cases.
	Beer bottle A beer bottle is a glass container holding beer. Bottled beer has been around since the 1500s or earlier. Bottled beers were commonplace by the 1600s for wealthy people who didn't wish to drink in Public house, or who wanted to take a beer with them when fishing. Alexander Nowell, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, left his bottled beer by the river bank in 1568, and when he returned a few days later discovered the bottle opened with a bang and that the beer was very tasty.
	Beer garden A beer garden is an open-air area where alcohol is legally served. The beer garden is attached to a drinking establishment such as a public house or a German beer hall, which in places like Munich may serve large numbers of customers.
	Beeswax Beeswax is a product from a Beehive . Beeswax is secreted by honeybees of a certain age in the form of thin scales. The scales are produced by glands of 12 to 17 days old worker bees on the ventral surface of the abdomen. Worker bees have eight wax-producing glands on the inner sides of the sternites .
	Beet The beet is a flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to the coasts of western and southern Europe, from southern Sweden and the British Isles south to the Mediterranean Sea. It is important because of its cultivated varieties, fodder beet, beetroot and the sugar-producing sugar beet.
	Beetle Beetles are the most diverse group of insects. Their order , Coleoptera , has more described species in it than in any other order in the animal. Forty percent of all described insect species are beetles , and new species are regularly discovered. Estimates put the total number of species, described and undescribed, at between 5 and 8 million.
	Begging Begging includes the various methods used by persons to obtain money, food, shelter, recreational drug use, alcohol, or other things from people they encounter. It is also referred to as sponging, spanging or panhandling. In larger cities, it is common to see beggars asking for money, food, or other items.
	Begonia Begonia is a genus in the flowering plant family Begoniaceae. The only other member of the family Begoniaceae is Hillebrandia, a genus with a single species in the Hawaiian Islands. The genus Symbegonia is now included in Begonia. "Begonia" is the common name as well as the generic name for all members of the genus.
	Begoniaceae Begoniaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 1400 species occurring in the subtropics and tropics of both the New World and Old World. All but one of the species are in the genus Begonia. The only other genus in the family, Hillebrandia, is Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and has a single species.
	Begotten Begotten is a 1991 Experimental/horror film, directed and written by E. Elias Merhige. The film heavily deals with religion and the biblical story of earth creation. But as Merhige revealed during Q&A sessions, its primary inspiration was a near death experience he had when he was 19, after a car crash.
	Behemoth Behemoth is the name of a creature mentioned in the Book of Job, 40:15-24. In Hebrew language it can be rendered as ?????, B?hemth, Behemot, B'hemot; in Arabic language ?????? or ????? . The word is most likely a plural form of ????. It may be an example of pluralis excellentiae, a Hebrew method of expressing greatness by pluralizing a noun; it thus indicates that Behemoth is the largest and most powerful animal.
	Behold Behold Furniture Polish is produced by the Sara Lee Corporation. Behold furniture polish and endust dusting aid were previously produced by Drackett. When Drackett was sold to S. C. Johnson & Son in 1992, these two products were sold off to avoid anti-trust concerns. S.C.Johnson produces Pledge, a similar product to Behold, as well as other waxes.
	Beholder In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the beholder is a fictional monster, sometimes known as an "eye tyrant." The beholder was introduced to the game in its first supplement, Greyhawk, and is depicted on its cover. Second edition supplements to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, especially those of the Spelljammer campaign setting, added further details about these classic creatures' societies and culture.
	Beignet A beignet is a pastry made from deep-frying dough and sprinkled with Sugar. There are two varieties of beignets, depending on the type of pastry. The classic French beignet is simply a deep-fried choux pastry; this variety is very similar to Italy zeppole.
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	Beirut Beirut is the capital, largest city, and chief seaport of Lebanon. It is sometimes known by its French language name, Beyrouth. The city has a population of 1.5 million people in the city proper and 2.1 million people in the surrounding metropolitan areas.
	Bejeweled Bejeweled is a popular puzzle game first developed as a web application game by PopCap Games in 2001.
	Béla Bartók Bla Viktor Jnos Bartk was a Hungary composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Bartk is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. He was one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology, the anthropology or ethnography of music.
	Béla Lugosi Bla Lugosi was the stage name of actor Bla Ferenc Dezso Blask . He was born in Lugos, Hungary, at the time part of Austria-Hungary , the youngest of four children of a baker. The blue-eyed actor is best known for his portrayal of Dracula in the American Broadway theatre theatre production, and subsequent film, of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story.
	Belarus Belarus is a landlocked nation-state in Eastern Europe, which borders Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. Its capital city is Minsk, and other important cities include Brest, Belarus, Hrodna, Homyel, Mogilev and Vitebsk.
	Belarusians Belarusians or Belarusans are an East Slavs ethnic group who populate the majority of the Republic of Belarus and form minorities in neighboring Poland , Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Noticeable numbers have immigrated to the United States and Canada in the early 20th century.
	Belaying pin A belaying pin is a device used on traditional sailing vessels to secure lines. Their function on modern vessels has been replaced by cleats, but they are still used, particularly on square-rigged ships. A belaying pin - see A in the picture - is a solid metal bar with a curved top portion and cylindrical bottom part.
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	Belemnoidea Belemnites are an extinct group of marine cephalopod, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish. Like them, the belemnites possessed an ink sac and ten arms. Belemnites were numerous during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and their fossils are abundant in Mesozoic marine rocks, often accompanying their cousins the ammonites.
	Belfast Belfast is a City status in the United Kingdom in the United Kingdom and the capital of Northern Ireland. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland and the province of Ulster, and after Dublin, is the second-largest city on the island of Ireland. In the United Kingdom 2001 census the population within the city limits was 276,459, while 579,276 people lived in the Greater Belfast area .
	Belgian Congo The Belgian Congo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo between King Leopold II of Belgium formal relinquishment of personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November 1908, to the dawn of Congo Crisis on 30 June 1960.
	Belgian franc The Belgian franc was the currency of Belgium, before the adoption of the euro. The conquest of most of western Europe by revolutionary and Napoleonic France led to the French franc's wide circulation. In the Austrian Netherlands, the franc replaced the Belgian kronenthaler.
	Belgium The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in Western Europe bordered by Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France and is one of the founding and core members of the European Union. Belgium has a population of over ten million people, in an area of around 30,000 square kilometres .
	Belgrade Belgrade is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Serbia. It is one of the oldest cities in Europe, first emerging in form of prehistoric Vinca culture in 6000 BC, settled in the 3rd century BC by the Celts, before becoming the Roman Empire settlement of Singidunum.
	Believers is a seinen manga by Naoki Yamamoto and is his first weekly serial manga created entirely without the help of any assistants. Believers was first serialized in Weekly Big Comic Spirits between May and November of 1999 and is published in two tankobon by Shogakukan.
	Belisarius Flavius Belisarius was one of the greatest generals of the Byzantine Empire and one of the most acclaimed generals in history. He was instrumental to Byzantine Emperor Justinian I's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Western Roman Empire, which had been lost just under a century previously.
	Belize Belize is a small nation on the eastern coast of Central America on the Caribbean Sea bordered by Mexico to the northwest and Guatemala to the west and south. The country is a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy which recognizes Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as Sovereign.
	Bell jar A bell jar is a piece of laboratory glassware in the shape of a bell.
	Bell pepper Bell pepper is a Cultivar Group of the species Capsicum annuum, as are the jalapeo and pimento. The bell pepper refers to the actual fruit of the capsicum plant. Outside of the United States bell peppers are commonly called paprika in areas such as Scandinavia, Hungary and Indonesia; Piman in Japan; capsicum in India, Malaysia and Australia; and mangoes in parts of the US around southern Ohio, Indiana, and northern Kentucky.
	Bell-bottoms Bell bottoms are trousers, worn by men and women, boys and girls that become wider from the knees downwards. If a person looks at a pair front or behind, they have the form of a Bell or trumpet. It is believed that they were introduced in 1817 to sailors working on deck.
	Bellerophon Bellerophon or Bellerophontes was a hero of Greek mythology, "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside of Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles"whose greatest feat was to have killed the Chimera , a monster that Homer depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail: "her breath came out in terrible blasts of burning flame"
	Bellis Bellis is a small genus of 10-15 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe and the Mediterranean region. ;Selected species *Bellis annua *Bellis azorica *Bellis bernardii *Bellis caerulescens *Bellis hybrida
	Bellis perennis Bellis perennis is a common European species of daisy, often considered the archetypal species of that name, though many other related plants share the name; to distinguish it from other daisies, it is sometimes qualified as Common Daisy, or occasionally English daisy.
	Bellows A bellows is a device for delivering pressured air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms, a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume, and has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air. A bellows differs from a fan in that it exerts much greater control in where it delivers the air.
	Belly dance Belly dance is a Western name for a style of dance developed in the Middle East and other Arabic-influenced areas, such as Pakistan, India, or Iran. In Europe, it is sometimes called an oriental dance. Similarly, In Turkish Language it is referred to as oryantal dansi.
	Bellyful Le Conte du ventre plein is a 2000 film written and directed by Melvin Van Peebles.
	Belmont Park Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in the hamlet of Elmont, New York, New York in Nassau County, New York on Long Island. Its mile-and-a-half main track is the largest dirt course in Thoroughbred racing. It first opened May 4, 1905.
	Belmont Stakes The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious Graded stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The race is the third leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, following five weeks after the Kentucky Derby, and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes.
	Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte is the third largest metropolitan area and fifth largest city in Brazil. It is the capital of Minas Gerais state, located in the southeastern region of the country. With a population of almost 2.4 million and over 5 million in the official metropolitan area, Belo Horizonte — or "Beag" as it is more familiarly known from the sound of its initials BH in Portuguese — is a place of intense economical and cultural activity.
	Below the Belt Below the Belt, is a 1985 gay pornographic film directed by Phillip St. John, staring Jim Steele. The film features Men who have sex with men in a karate dojo.
	Belt buckle A belt buckle is a clasp for fastening two ends, as of straps or a belt, in which a device attached to one of the ends is fitted or coupled to the other. It is said to have been invented during the Elizibethian era by Italian blacksmith Tomaso Kellioni. The word buckle is a clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
	Belted Kingfisher The Belted Kingfisher is a large, conspicuous and noisy kingfisher, the only member of that group commonly found in the northern United States and Canada. This bird's breeding habitat is areas near inland bodies of waters or coasts across most of Canada, Alaska and the United States.
	Belted sandfish The Belted sandfish is a member of the Serranidae family. It is hermaphroditic and inhabits primarily the Florida coast. References