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Be Cool Be Cool is a 2005 movie which was adapted from a 1999 novel. The book was the sequel to the 1990 novel Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard (itself adapted into an acclaimed hit 1995 film) about mobster Chili Palmer's entrance into the music industry.
Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending is the eighth album by the Incredible String Band, featuring Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie and Rose Simpson. It is the soundtrack for a film of the same name, and was released on Island Records 1970.
Be Human be Human is a mini-album consisting of selected soundtracks from the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime series, as composed by Yoko Kanno. More importantly, it features songs relating to Tachikomas, the famous think tanks from Ghost in the Shell, and thus, a lot of the song are from the mini series, タチコマな日々, or Tachikoma Days.
Be Inc. Be Incorporated was a California-based computer company founded in 1990, best known for the BeOS operating system and BeBox personal computer. Be was founded by former Apple Computer executive Jean-Louis Gassée with capital from Seymour Cray.
Be Mine "Be Mine" was the first single from Wild Orchid's second album, Oxygen. After scoring modest pop success with singles like "Talk to Me" and "At Night I Pray", "Be Mine" became the bands first single to miss the pop chart, peaking at number 103.
Be Prepared (The Lion King song) "Be Prepared" is a song from the 1994 Disney film and 1997 Broadway musical The Lion King. The song was composed by Tim Rice and Elton John and originally performed by Jeremy Irons, Cheech Marin, Jim Cummings, and Whoopi Goldberg in the film and by John Vickery, Kevin Cahoon, Stanley Wayne Mathis and Tracy Nicole in the original Broadway cast for the musical.
Be Quick or Be Dead "Be Quick or Be Dead" is the first single from the Iron Maiden album Fear of the Dark, released in 1992. The song is about several political scandals taking place at the time of its release, including the Robert Maxwell banking scandal, European stock market crashes, and the BCCI case.
Be star A Be star is a main sequence B-type star with prominent emission lines of hydrogen in its spectrum. The designation is combined by the spectral class, B, and the lowercase e denoting emission in the spectral classficiation system.
Be Somebody Be Somebody is the third single from Dre, off his upcoming album The Trunk. Although it has not garnered much mainstreem attention, it is one of the deepest and most thought provoking rap songs of 2006, touching on everything from the evolution of rap, their hip-hop heroes, and Cool & Dre's careers to growing up in Miami, struggles of the street, and Hurricane Wilma.
Be Strong "Be Strong" (2005) is the fifth song released by Delta Goodrem from her second album Mistaken Identity. In the DVD for her album Mistaken Identity, Delta reveals she wrote the song in support of her good friend and fellow cancer sufferer, Belinda Emmett.
Be Unlimited Be Unlimited is a growing UK Internet service provider. Although its services were initially only available in parts of London, Manchester and Birmingham, Be Unlimited is undergoing rapid expansion across the UK.
Be with You "Be With You" is a dance/pop song performed by singer Enrique Iglesias. It was co-written by Iglesias and, produced by Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling, the team responsible for Cher's hit song "Believe".
Be Yourself and 5 Other Cliches "Be Yourself and 5 Other Cliches" is the second single off Rock Star Supernova's debut album. It is track 3 on the album, and one of the four songs off the album that were performed on the reality show, Rock Star: Supernova.
Be'ezrat Ha'Jam Be'ezrat Ha'Jam (בעזרת הג'אם) is Hadag Nahash's (הדג נחש) fourth album. The name of the album literally means "With the help of the jam", but it is a pun on the Jewish phrase "Be'ezrat Ha'Shem"(בעזרת השם), meaning literally "With the help of Ha'Shem", or translated into modern speech, "God willing".
Be'lakor Be'lakor is a daemon in the Warhammer Fantasy tabletop game. He is known by several names in the Warhammer world: The Harbinger, One Who Heralds the Conquerors, the Foretoken and the Bearer are a number of examples.
Be-Bop-A-Lula "Be-Bop-A-Lula" is a song released in 1956 by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps. The song peaked at number seven on the US music chart, but its popularity steadily grew over the years, becoming something of a standard covered by artists such as The Beatles, David Cassidy, The Everly Brothers, Foghat, and Carl Perkins.
Be-Ro Thomas Bell, the son of William Bell, found the a grocery and tea company in Newcastle upon Tyne. Thomas had experimented with rising agents on flour in baking and from that produced the worlds first self-raising flour.
Be@rbrick Be@rbrick is a collectible figural toy designed and produced by MediCom Toy Inorporated. The name is derived from the fact that the figure is a cartoon-style representation of a bear, and that it follows a particular toy design: the term brick is collector’s jargon, originally used to describe Lego’s Minifigures, and now used to describe other similarly designed figures with a flat, brick-like body, including MediCom’s Kubricks and Art Asylum’s Minimates figures.
Bea Benaderet Bea Benaderet (April 4, 1906—October 13, 1968) was an American actress, born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. She is best remembered for starring in the hit 1960s television series Petticoat Junction.
Beacon Beacons are fires lit on hills or high places, used either as lighthouses for navigation at sea, or for signalling over land that enemy troops are approaching, and alerting the defence. In the latter form, beacons are an ancient form of optical telegraph and always used in relay leagues.
Beacon Communications Beacon Communications, LLC is the name of an American production company, which produces motion pictures for major Hollywood studios. Armyan Bernstein is the chairman of this company, and produces the movies for the Beacon Pictures label, working with such studios as Touchstone Pictures (The Walt Disney Company), Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures (Columbia).
Beacon Falls (Metro-North station) The Beacon Falls Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of Beacon Falls, Connecticut via the Waterbury Branch of the New Haven Line. All service on the Waterbury Branch is shuttle service to Bridgeport running on very light frequencies (six trains daily weekdays, four weekends); travel time to Bridgeport is 37 minutes.
Beacon Fellowship Beacon Fellowship is the first and only Fellowship within the United Kingdom whose scheme is geared toward supporting and encouraging an improved culture of giving. Founded in 2002 by Emily Stonor and David Charters, Beacon was the outgrowth Stonor's involvement in a project which sought to investigate the causes of the observed decline in charitable giving and participation within the UK, as well as the low profile associated with such activities.
Beacon Hill Friends House Beacon Hill Friends House is a cooperative community of about twenty residents located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The house was acquired by the Religious Society of Friends in 1957, and focuses on community living in the context of Quaker values.
Beacon Hill Park Beacon Hill Park is a 75 ha (200 acre) park located along the shore of Juan de Fuca Strait in Victoria, British Columbia. The park is popular both with tourists and locals, and contains a number of amenities including woodland and shoreline trails, a playground, playing fields, a petting zoo, and landscaped gardens.
Beacon Hill School (England) Beacon Hill School is the name of the school founded and run by Bertrand Russell and his second wife Dora Russell. It was run from a succession of different locations (including its original premises at the Russell's residence (Telegraph House) all based in England and is considered to have been one of the most important pioneering schools in the field of Libertarian Education together with Summerhill School.
Beacon Hill Tunnel Beacon Hill Tunnel (Traditional Chinese: 畢架山隧道) is a tunnel in Hong Kong, China on the original KCR route from Kowloon to Canton; linking Kowloon Tong to its south and Sha Tin to its north. It is also Tunnel No.
Beacon Hill, Colkirk, Norfolk Beacon Hill, Colkirk, Norfolk is a high point, once the site of a beacon forming part of a chain from the North Norfolk Coast to London. The approximate location of the Beacon is two kilometres to the west of the village of Colkirk, N52:48:15 E0:49:29.
Beacon Hill, Seattle, Washington Beacon Hill is a hill and neighborhood in southeast Seattle, Washington. The municipal government subdivides it into North Beacon Hill, Mid-Beacon Hill, Holly Park, and South Beacon Hill, though most people who live there simply call it "Beacon Hill.
Beacon Institute Headquartered on the Hudson River in the City of Beacon, in Dutchess County, New York, The Beacon Institute serves as one of the nations largest environmental research centers. With a focus on research as well as education, the center has many faculties to accommodate many advance and state-of-the-art projects.
Beacon Press Beacon Press, founded in 1854 and a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association, operates as a book publisher in the United States of America. It publishes both fiction and non-fiction, with emphasis on social justice issues, including anti-racism, anti-oppression, and gay/lesbian/gender studies.
Beacon schools programme Beacon schools programme was established in England in 1998. Its aim was to identify high performing schools, in order to help them form partnerships with each other and to provide examples of effective practice for other schools.
Beacon Status Beacon Status is a learning and skills recognition of the excellence and innovation which exists within the Learning and Skills sector for the United Kingdom. The award congratulates learning providers that deliver outstanding teaching and learning and are well led and managed.
Beacon Street Beacon Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts and several of its western suburbs. From its start near Boston's circumferential highway, Route 128, Beacon Street winds its way through the city of Newton, passes Boston College, before it meets Cleveland Circle in the Boston neighborhood of Brighton, and then, running on either side of MBTA Green Line trolley tracks, follows a northeasterly slant through Brookline up to Kenmore Square, skirting the area around Fenway Park.
Beacon Street Girls The Beacon Street Girls is a series of children's books based in Brookline, Massachusetts. The stories focus around five girls who all live around Beacon Street in Brookline and are in the same middle school class.
Beacon Street Union The Beacon Street Union was a 1960s psychedelic era rock band, named for a street in their native Boston, whose original members were John Lincoln Wright (vocals, percussion), Paul Tartachny (guitar, vocals), Wayne Ulaky (bass, vocals), Robert Rhodes (keyboards, bass), and Richard Weisburg (drums). With the exception of a few rock standards, their diverse music was composed by group members, primarily Wright and Ulaky.
Beacons of Bealtaine Beacons of Bealtaine is a poem by Irish poet Seamus Heaney which was composed for the EU Enlargement on May 1 2004. "Bealtaine" is a Gaelic holiday celebrated on this day, marking the beginning of summer.
Beaconsfield Beaconsfield is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England lying almost 25 miles NW of London. The town sits in the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is part of the London commuter belt, thus the average cost of housing in the town is high.
Beaconsfield mine collapse The Beaconsfield mine collapse occurred on April 25 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia. Of the 17 people who were in the mine at the time, 14 escaped immediately following the collapse, one was killed, and the remaining two were found alive after five days nearly a kilometre below the surface.
Beaconsfield railway station Beaconsfield railway station is the railway station of the town of Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. The station is served by Chiltern Railways trains from Marylebone towards High Wycombe and Birmingham Snow Hill and is situated between Seer Green & Jordans and High Wycombe stations.
Beaconsfield, Quebec Beaconsfield is a municipality in Quebec, Canada, located on the North shore of Lake Saint-Louis, and bordered on the West by Baie-d'Urfé, on the North by Kirkland and on the East by Pointe-Claire. It was incorporated in 1910.
Bead A bead is a small, decorative object that is pierced for threading or stringing. As an alternative to piercing, plastic beads may be Moulded Onto a Thread during manufacturing; these MOT beads are often used for the throw necklaces worn at Mardi Gras.
Bead knitting Bead knitting is a type of knitting in which the stitches are decorated with ceramic or glass beads. Important advantages include (1) the surface and color effects available with beads (and not with yarn) and (2) the longer wear of the beads may lengthen the life of the knitted fabric significantly.
Bead theory The bead theory is a disproved hypothesis that genes are arranged on the chromosome like beads on a necklace. According to this theory, the existence of a gene as a unit of inheritance is recognized through its mutant alleles.
Beadle Beadle was originally a title given to a Saxon officer who summoned householders to council. Contemporarily it refers to a parish constable; in the Scottish church one who attends the minister during divine service.
Beadle's About Beadle's About was a British television programme hosted by Jeremy Beadle, where members of the public became victims of practical jokes behind hidden cameras. It was produced by LWT for ITV, and ran from 1987 to 1996.
Beadlow Priory Beadlow Priory is a monastic foundation established in the early 12th century for Benedictine monks in Beadlow, Bedfordshire, England about 10 km south of Bedford. Originally named Beaulieu Priory, it was a cell of the Abbey at St Albans.
Beadwork Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another or to cloth using a needle and thread. Most beadwork takes the form of jewelry or other personal adornment, but beads are also used in wall hangings and sculpture.
Beagle A Beagle is a medium-sized dog breed and a member of the hound group, similar in appearance to a Foxhound but smaller with shorter legs, and with longer, softer ears. Beagles are scent hounds used primarily for tracking deer, bear, and other game.
Beagle (beer) Beagle Beer is an Argentinean beer, brewed in Ushuaia by CervecerĂ­a Fueguina, the pioneering brewery in Tierra del Fuego, established in June, 2003. It is named after the famous ship HMS Beagle that passed through the area in 1831.
Beagle (software) Beagle is a search system for Linux and other modern, Unix-like systems, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists in a similar way to Spotlight in Mac OS X, or Google Desktop under Microsoft Windows.
Beagle Boys The Beagle Boys are a group of fictional characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe loosely based on the popular image of Ma Barker and the Barker-Karpis Gang. They are a gang of criminals who constantly try to rob Scrooge McDuck and were created by Carl Barks.
Beagle class destroyer The Beagle class (officially rated as the G class in 1913) was a class of sixteen destroyers of the Royal Navy completed between 1909 and 1910. The Beagles served during World War I, particularly during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915.
Beach 105th Street (IND Rockaway Line) Beach 105th Street, sometimes referred as Beach 105th Street–Seaside, is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Beach 105th Street on the Rockaway Freeway in Queens, it is served by the at all times.
Beach 25th Street (IND Rockaway Line) Beach 25th Street, also known as Beach 25th Street–Wavecrest, is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. Located in Queens on the Rockaway Freeway at Beach 25th Street, it is served by the train at all times.
Beach 36th Street (IND Rockaway Line) Beach 36th Street, sometimes referred as Beach 36th Street–Edgemere, is a station on the New York City Subway's IND Rockaway Line. The layout of the station is similar to Beach 44th Street, having no closed exits, and with the full time fare control in the middle of the platforms.
Beach 44th Street (IND Rockaway Line) Beach 44th Street, sometimes referred as Beach 44th Street–Frank Avenue, is a station on the New York City Subway's IND Rockaway Line. This station has no closed exits, and the full time fare control is at the middle of the platforms.
Beach 60th Street (IND Rockaway Line) Beach 60th Street, sometimes called Beach 60th Street–Straiton Avenue, is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway. Located in Queens on the Rockaway Freeway at Beach 60th Street, it is served by the train at all times.
Beach Abort The Beach Abort was an unmanned test in NASA's Project Mercury, of the Mercury spacecraft Launch Escape System. Objectives of the test were a performance evaluation of the escape system, the parachute and landing system, and recovery operations in an off-the-pad abort situation..
Beach ball A beach ball is a large inflatable ball used in various games and other recreational activities traditionally conducted on the beach. Their large size and light weight means it takes little effort to propel one, and they travel slowly to their target, making them ideal for lazy games on hot days.
Beach bum trust provision A beach bum trust provision, in the law of trusts, ties the ability of a trust beneficiary to take from the trust to the beneficiary's own earnings. Such a provision serves to prevent a beneficiary from lazily living off the trust funds.
Beach Blanket Babylon Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon is a cabaret show based in San Francisco. As of 2006, it has sold out every performance for 32 years, with close to 12,000 performances and a combined audience of nearly five million.
Beach Boys Historic Landmark Dedicated on May 20th, 2005, The Beach Boys Historic Landmark commemorates the site of the childhood home of the Wilson Brothers and the birthplace of a unique musical and cultural icon, and a worldwide sensation. Although the original Wilson home was demolished in the mid-1980s for the construction of the Century Freeway, California Landmark #1041 now stands to honor this place of great importance to post World War II California
Beach casting Beach casting is a popular form of fishing which is carried out all around the coast of the British Isles. Beach casting is a type of fishing that involves the use of the longest possible fishing rod, usually between 12 feet and 16 feet.
Beach cruiser A beach cruiser is typically a single geared bicycle that you reverse pedal to brake. Made popular in the 50s by Schwinn, they have since greatly increased in popularity relative to other bicycles on the market.
Beach Cemetery, Anzac Beach Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the remains of allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli. It is located at Hell Spit, at the southern end of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Beach Festival World Championship 1997 Beach Festival World Championship 1997 is a Beach volleyball arcade game released by Comad in 1997. It features international teams of women and men volleyball players contesting the "World Beach Ball Championships".
Beach handball Beach handball is a team sport where two teams pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. The game is similar to team handball, but is not played in a sports hall, but on sand instead.
Beach house A beach house is a house on or near a beach, generally used as a vacation (or secondary) home for people who commute to the house on weekends or during vacation periods. A beach house is seen in some areas as a status symbol, for example many of Melbourne's wealthiest residents own beach houses in Portsea, a coastal suburb in Victoria, Australia, including billionaire Lindsay Fox.
Beach hut A beach hut is a small, usually wooden, building above the high tide mark on popular bathing beaches. Beach huts are used for changing into and out of swimming costumes and to provide a base for informal family recreation.
Beach Hop Whangamata The first Beach Hop Whangamata Event was held in April 2001 and was established to coincide with the local Rock’n’Roll Club’s (Coastal Rockers) birthday hop which was bringing people to the town. A group of interested people got together to put establish a 1 day festival and it is estimated that around 6000 people attended including many from out of town.
Beach Channel Drive Beach Channel Drive is the main thoroughfare in the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It extends from the Nassau County border at Inwood westward to the Marine Parkway Bridge at the end of Jacob Riis Park.
Beach Life Beach Life (known as 'Spring Break' in America) is a business strategy PC game released on September 6, 2002 by Eidos Interactive. The game was developed by Deep Red and, presumably due to the somewhat comic allusions to sexual activity and intoxication, the game is certified 12+ by PEGI and 'Teen' by ESRB.
Beach muscles Beach muscles refer to a groups of muscles that lie on the front of the human body. These include the biceps, the pectoralis (chest) muscles, the abdominals, the obliques, the serratus anterior, and the quadriceps.
Beach music Beach music, also known as Carolina beach music, is a regional genre which developed from various musical styles of the forties, fifties and sixties. These styles ranged from big band swing instrumentals to the more raucous sounds of blues/jump blues, doo-wop, boogie, rhythm and blues.
Beach Music (novel) Beach Music is Pat Conroy's novel of Jack McCall, a South Carolina native who flees the South with his daughter, Leah, after his wife commits suicide. This novel explores the Vietnam War-era, the Holocaust, and coming of age in the twentieth century.
Beach nourishment Beach nourishment is a complimentary term that describes a process by which sediment (usually sand) lost through longshore drift or erosion is replaced on a beach. It involves the transport of the nourishment material from one area to the affected area.
Beach patrol Beach patrols are groups of lifeguards usually hired to be responsible for public safety of those who visit a particular beach. The lifeguards are responsible for medical emergencies and any other possible event that may occur on a beach.
Beach plum The Beach Plum (Prunus maritima) is a species of plum native to the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is a shrub, in its natural sand dune habitat growing 1-2 m high, although it can grow larger when cultivated in gardens.
Beach Party film Beach Party movies were an American 1960s genre of feature films which often starred Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. They were originally intended as a low-budget imitation of both the Elvis Presley musical and the Doris Day sex comedy, aimed at the teen market, but they ended up taking on a life of their own.
Beach Road, Perth Beach Road is a major east-west road in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, connecting Perth's inner northern beachside suburbs and inland state housing areas with shopping and public transport facilities at Warwick and the Malaga industrial area. It was mostly built between 1967 and 1974Metropolitan Street Directory (9th-16th editions; 1968-1975) Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth.
Beach Rugby Beach Rugby is a sport based off of Rugby Football and, more specifically, rugby league. There is no centralized regulation of the sport as in Beach Soccer, but leagues are common across Europe, and the sport is particularly popular in Italy.
Beach Soccer Worldwide Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) is the organisation responsible for the founding and growth of the association football deriviative sport of beach soccer. The founding partners of beach soccer codified the rules of beach soccer in 1992, and the company is recognised as playing a major role in helping to spread the sport around the world.
Beach Spikers Beach Spikers (or Beach Spikers Virtua Beach Volleyball) is an arcade-style beach volleyball game for Nintendo GameCube (and originally for arcade machines). The game was published by Sega and developed in-house by Sega-AM2.
Beach Strawberry The Beach Strawberry, Chilean Strawberry, Sand Strawberry, or Coastal Strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis) is one of two species of strawberry that were hybridized to create the modern Garden Strawberry. It is noted for its large berries.
Beach to Beacon race The Beach to Beacon race is a 10 kilometer road running event that takes place along the coastline of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It begins at Crescent Beach State Park and ends in Fort Williams Park at the Portland Head Lighthouse.
Beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a popular sport in which two teams, positioned on either side of a net, hit a ball back and forth over the net, usually using the hands or arms. Beach volleyball evolved from indoor volleyball, and the two sports remain very similar.
Beachborough Manor Beachborough Manor was a manor in Beachborough, Kent UK purchased by Sir William's Great-Grandfather Father Henry Brockman ca. 1500 and subsequently passed through various squires in the English Brockman family.
Beaches (film) Beaches is a 1988 movie adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue from the novel Beaches by Iris Rainer Dart. It was directed by Garry Marshall, and stars Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, James Read, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan, Mayim Bialik and Marcie Leeds.
Beaches in Sydney Sydney is renowned for its beaches and, with its warm climate, attracts people to the beaches almost all year round. Sydney's beaches are either ocean facing, such as the internationally renowned Bondi Beach, or harbour beaches, such as Balmoral Beach.
Beaches International Jazz Festival The Beaches International Jazz Festival is an annual outdoor music, food and fun event in the Beaches neighbourhood, in Toronto. The festival is a four day event in July celebrating the best of Canadian and international jazz music.
Beaches of Singapore Although a nation composed of islands, the physical state and extent of Singapore's beaches today pales in comparison to their proliferation and quality two centuries ago. Rapid urbanisation and land use pressures necessitated the disappearance of most of these natural beaches as a result of land reclamation.
Beaches—East York Beaches—East York (formerly Beaches—Woodbine) is a federal and provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1967.
Beachhead Beachhead is a military term used to describe the line created when a unit (by sea) reaches a beach, and begins to defend that area of beach, while other reinforcements (hopefully) help out, until a unit large enough to begin advancing has arrived. Beachheads were very important in operations such as Operation Neptune, the Korean War (especially at Inchon), and the Vietnam War, among many other examples.
Beachley Beachley is a village in Gloucestershire, England, near the border with Wales. It is located on a peninsula at the junction between the Rivers Wye and Severn, where the Severn Bridge ends and the smaller secondary bridge for the River Wye begins, at .
Beachwear Beachwear refers to clothing suitable for wearing on a beach or urban beach. In terms of how much material is on the body, beachwear usually falls somewhere between swimwear and what a person wears when fully clothed.
Beachwood Place Beachwood Place is a high-end shopping mall in Beachwood, Ohio, located in the southeastern corner of the intersection of Richmond and Cedar Roads. Its anchor stores are Dillard's, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Beachwood Sparks Beachwood Sparks were an alternative rock band from Los Angeles. The band was formed by bassist Brent Rademaker, also of The Tyde, and guitarist Christopher Gunst who met in the 1990's when both were members of LA group Further.
Beak The beak—(bill or rostrum) is an external anatomical structure of birds which, in addition to eating, is used for grooming, manipulating objects, killing prey, probing for food, courtship, and feeding their young. The term also refers to a similar mouthpart in some cephalopods.
Beak Street (Manhattan) Beak Street is a recent addition to the streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was opened on May 11, 1925 by the New York City Board of Aldermen (replaced by today's New York City Council), and runs a total of one block (231 feet) between Payson Avenue and Seaman Avenue in the Inwood Hill section of Manhattan (ZIP Code 10034).

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