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Bellevue Square Bellevue Square is a shopping mall in Bellevue, eight miles east of Seattle. The mall is home to 200 retailers, including anchors JCPenney, Macy's, Macy's Home Store, and Nordstrom, specialty stores like Pottery Barn, Apple Computer, and Williams-Sonoma, and restaurants like P.
Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Bellevue is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River, adjoining Pittsburgh. The 1890 population was 1,418; the 1900 population was 3,416; the 1910 population was 6,323; and the 1940 population was 10,488.
Bellevue, Western Australia Bellevue (; post code: 6056) is an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its Local Government Areas are the City of Swan and the Shire of Mundaring, and it is located at the foot of the slopes of Greenmount, a landmark on the Darling Scarp that is noted in the earliest of travel journals of the early Swan River Colony.
Bellewaerde Bellewaerde is a theme park in the West-Flemish countryside near Ypres (Belgium). Established in 1954 on grounds that during World War I functioned as the location of the Battle of Bellewaerde, named after the old castle that to this day stands near the main entrance of the park.
Bellewstown Bellewstown is a village on the Hill of Crockafotha in County Meath in the Republic of Ireland, is beautifully situated in a rural setting with magnificent views of the Mountains of Mourne to the north and the Irish sea to the east.
Bellflower High School Bellflower Middle/High School is located in Bellflower, California, as part of the Bellflower Unified School District (BUSD). Bellflower is a combination middle school and high school, having students from grades seven through twelve.
Bellingham Festival of Music The Bellingham Festival of Music is a primarily classical music festival held annually in Bellingham, Washington in late summer. The festival was established in 1993, with American orchestral conductor Michael Palmer as its Artistic Director.
Bellingham riots The Bellingham Riots occurred on September 5, 1907, in Bellingham, Washington, USA. A group of 400-500 white men with intentions to exclude East Indian immigrants from the local work force mobbed waterfront barracks.
Bellingham Railway Museum The Bellingham Railway Museum in Bellingham, Washington, displays a pictorial and text history of railroad traffic in Bellingham and Whatcom/Skagit Counties, as well as a large electric model railroad, an exhibit of railroad lanterns, and a freight train simulator.
Bellingham SLAM The Bellingham SLAM are a 2005 expansion team in the Ron Boone Division of the American Basketball Association. They were originally expected to play in Everett, Washington, but were relocated to Bellingham, Washington under the ownership of John Dominguez.
Bellingham Sportsplex The Bellingham Sportsplex is a multi-use sports facility located in Bellingham, Washington. The Sportsplex contains two turf fields, primarily used for indoor soccer, and an ice rink, used by local amateur ice hockey teams, figure skating lessons and performances, and home games for the Bellingham Bulls of the WHA Junior Hockey League and Western Washington University hockey teams.
Bellingham, Tasmania Bellingham is a tiny coastal hamlet in Northern Tasmania, situated on the mouth of the Pipers River directly opposite the town of Weymouth. About 60 km from Launceston, 20 km from Bridport and 30 km from George Town.
Bellingshausen Island Bellingshausen Island () is one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group. It is named after its discoverer, Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen (1778-1852).
Bellinsgauzen (crater) Bellinsgauzen is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southern part of Moon, on the far side from the Earth. It is attached to the northern rim of the larger Berlage crater, and within a half crater diameter of Cabannes crater to the west.
Bellinzona Bellinzona (in French Bellinzone, in archaic German Bellenz and Bilitio in Latin) is the capital city of the canton Ticino in Switzerland. The city is famous for its three castles (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sasso Corbaro) that are now part of the UNESCO world heritage.
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. It is native to western, central and northern Europe.
Bellite Bellite is a mixture of minerals from Tasmania which forms attractive orange red crystals. Its empirical formula, PbCrO4,As4,SiO2 suggests a rather complex mixture of chromates and silicates of lead and arsenic.
Bellman-Ford algorithm The Bellman-Ford algorithm computes single-source shortest paths in a weighted digraph (where some of the edge weights may be negative). Dijkstra's algorithm accomplishes the same problem with a lower running time, but requires edge weights to be non-negative.
Bello Mill Bello Mill was a mill on the river called the Lugar Water, on the estate of James Boswell (Lord Auchenleck) in Ayrshire, in Scotland. Before being rebuilt in the 1940s, it had three different sets of mill stones.
Bellona (goddess) Bellona was an Ancient Roman war goddess. She is believed to be one of the numinous gods of the Romans (without a particular mythology and possibly of Etruscan origin), and is supposed by many to have been the Romans' original war deity, predating the identification of Mars with Ares.
Bellona Foundation The Bellona Foundation is an international environmental organization established in 1986 and based in Oslo, Norway. It primarily functions as a nuclear watchdog focusing on developments in Russia (Bellona has branches in Murmansk and Saint Petersburg).
Bellonid Dynasty The Bellonid Dynasty (in Catalan Bel·lònides and in Spanish Bellónidas) was a Catalan dynasty, the descendants of the Goth Belló who ruled in Urgel, Cerdanya, Conflent, Barcelona, and numerous other Catalan and Septimanian counties and marches in the ninth century and whose most famous son was Wilfred the Hairy, who founded the ruling dynasty of Barcelona which lasted until 1410 and the death of Martin I of Aragón.
Bellovaci The Bellovaci were the most powerful and numerous of the Belgic tribes of north-eastern Gaul conquered by Julius Caesar in 57 BC. The name survives today in the French city of Beauvais, called by the Romans Caesaromagus.
Bellow's Regiment of Militia Bellow's Regiment of Militia also known as the 16th New Hampshire Militia Regiment was called up at Walpole, New Hampshire on September 21, 1777 as reinforcements for the Continental Army during the Saratoga Campaign. The regiment marched quickly to join the gathering forces of Gen.
Bellowhead Bellowhead is an English folk band brought together by John Spiers and Jon Boden. The band plays traditional English tunes and songs, but in a funky, contemporary and unique style aided by a four-piece brass section.
Bellows Air Force Station Bellows Air Force Station is a United States military reservation located in Waimanalo, Hawaii. Once an important air field during World War II, the reservation now serves as a military training area and recreation area for active and retired military and civilian employees of the Department of Defense.
Bells & Whistles (computer animation) More Bells & Whistles was a computer animation created by Wayne Lytle in 1990. Wayne Lytle now owns and operates a company called Animusic, creating music-driven animation similar to the techniques demonstrated in the More Bells & Whistles video.
Bells of Doom (album) Bells of Doom is an Therion's compilation album released by the official fan club (now called Therion Society) in 2001. The album was originally available for Therion Society members only but is now available to the anyone in Therion's Official online store.
Bells of Christmas "Bells of Christmas" is a christmas song written by Al Jardine, Ron Altbach and Mike Love. The song was recorded by the American pop band The Beach Boys and was released on their 1998 christmas album Ultimate Christmas.
BellSouth Advertising & Publishing BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation, or "BAPCO", publishes telephone directories for AT&T customers served by BellSouth Telecommunications. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T, subject to integration with AT&T Yellow Pages.
Belltown, Seattle, Washington Belltown is the most densely populated neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on the city's downtown waterfront. Formerly a low-rent, semi-industrial, artsy district, in recent decades it has transformed into a neighborhood of trendy restaurants, boutiques, nightclubs, and residential towers.
Bellum Bellum is the Classical Latin word for "war". The words antebellum and postbellum, which mean before war and after war respectively, often refer specifically to periods before and after the American Civil War.
Bellum iustum Bellum iustum in Latin stands for "just war", or, a war that is a "justification for going to war, gathered under the ius ad bellum, and including ideas of just cause, right authority, last resort, right intention and the superior and final goal of achieving peace, or the other main component of just war tradition, the ius in bello, or law of war, that has to do with the restraint or limiting of war once begun, strongly appearing in terms of discrimination and proportionality, i.e.
Bellum omnium contra omnes Bellum omnium contra omnes, a Latin phrase meaning "the war of all against all", is the description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state of nature thought experiment that he conducts in Leviathan (1651).
Bellwether A bellwether is any entity in a given arena that serves to create or influence trends or to presage future happenings; the term is derived from the Middle English bellewether and refers to the practice of placing a bell around the neck of a castrated ram (a wether) in order that this animal might lead its flock of sheep.
Bellwether (novel) Bellwether, a 1996 novel by Connie Willis, is a book that can fall into many genres, such as comedy, fairy tale, romance, and science fiction. The novel is broadly based on the unsettling concepts of human culture.
Belly (band) Belly was a rock band formed in 1991 by former Throwing Muses members Tanya Donelly (also in The Breeders with Kim Deal) and Fred Abong. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the band consisted of Tanya Donelly on lead vocals, Fred Abong bass, Tom Gorman guitar, and Chris Gorman drums.
Belly (film) Belly is a 1998 motion picture, the feature film debut of music video director Hype Williams. An urban drama, the film stars rappers DMX and Nas as Tommy and Sincere, former partners in crime who become enstranged after Sincere decides to go straight and Tommy takes on a major drug deal from a Jamaican drug lord.
Belly landing A Belly landing is an emergency landing procedure in which an aircraft lands without its landing gear fully extended—using its underside, or belly, as its primary landing device. During a belly landing there is normally extensive damage to the airplane, and if the speed is too high then the airplane can flip over.
Belly of the Beast Belly of the Beast is a 2003 action movie starring Steven Seagal, and directed by Siu-Tung Ching, featuring an ex-CIA agent on a quest to find his kidnapped daughter. Byron Mann is Seagal's on-screen partner in the movie.
Bellybutton Nautilus The Bellybutton Nautilus (Nautilus macromphalus) is a species of nautilus native to the waters off New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and northeastern Australia. The shell of this species lacks a callus, leaving the umbilicus exposed, in which the inner coils of the shell are visible.
Bellydance Superstars The Bellydance Superstars is a professional American belly dance troupe formed by Miles Copeland. Founded in 2002, the troupe consists of ever-increasing number of successful and talented belly dancers who extensively tour around North America and Europe.
Belmeken (dam) The Belmeken (Bulgarian - Белмекен ) dam lake is situated in the Rila Mountains and is the highest dam lake on the Balkan pensinsula. There is a Steam Accumulative Hydroelectric Power Plant built on the lake (SAWPP) (Bulgarian : ĐźĐВЕЦ).
Belmiro de Azevedo Belmiro de Azevedo (February 17 1938) is a Portuguese entrepreneur, ranked by Forbes as the 387th richest person in the world (2005), as well as the richest in Portugal. He owns Sonae SGPS, one of the biggest business groups in Portugal, which also operates in Spain, Greece, Germany, Italy and Brazil, Portuguese leader in real estate and retailing which also have business in telecommunications, tourism, venture capital and the media.
Belmont Abbey, North Carolina Belmont Abbey is a small community of Benedictine monks living outside of Charlotte, North Carolina in the town of Belmont, North Carolina, in the United States. Founded by Bishop Leo Haid in the mid-1800s, it is the daughter abbey to St.
Belmont Airport Belmont Airport (ICAO Code - BEO, IATA Code - YPEC) is an airfield located in the Lake Macquarie suburb of Pelican, 15 kilometres south of Newcastle, New South Wales. It had one runway of 3000ft (914 metres), and was served by regional airline Aeropelican.
Belmont Club The Belmont Club is the name of a political and historical weblog that has been in existence since December 2003. The site focuses on current affairs and public policy, often placing an emphasis on military action and foreign policy issues.
Belmont District, Pennsylvania Belmont District is a defunct district that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
Belmont Greene Belmont Green is a neighborhood development in Ashburn, Virginia located off of Belmont Ridge Road. The development is situated adjacent to Stone Bridge High School and Trailside Park, the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail also goes along the border of the development.
Belmont Heights, Long Beach, California Belmont Heights is a neighborhood in the south-east portion of the city of Long Beach, California, United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean and the more commercial community of Belmont Shore. It is primarily residential but has a mix of local businesses and entertainment within a short walking distance of most residents.
Belmont Hill School Belmont Hill School is an all-boys preparatory school located on a 23 acre campus in Belmont, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. It enrolls approximately 420 students in grades 7-12, which the school refers to as "forms one through six.
Belmont Park (LIRR station) Belmont Park is a seasonal-use Long Island Rail Road station on the grounds of the Belmont Park racetrack in Elmont, New York. The station is open and train service is operated only during the racing seasons of Belmont Park.
Belmont railway station Belmont railway station serves the suburb of Belmont in the London Borough of Sutton in south London. The station is located on the Epsom Downs line, part of the Sutton & Mole Valley Line services of the Southern, and is in Travelcard Zone 5.
Belmont railway station, Harrow Belmont was a station in Belmont, north-west London. It was opened on 18 December 1890 by the London & North Western Railway as the only intermediate station on a short branch line running north from Harrow & Wealdstone to Stanmore.
Belmont Report The Belmont Report is a report created by the former United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (which was renamed to Health and Human Services) entitled "Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human
Belmont Stakes The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious Grade I stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The race is the third leg of the Triple Crown, following five weeks after the Kentucky Derby, and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes.
Belmont transmitting station The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated close to the village of Donington on Bain, near Market Rasen and Louth in Lincolnshire, England (). It is owned and operated by Arqiva.
Belmont Tunnel / Toluca Substation and Yard The Belmont Tunnel / Toluca Substation and Yard is a designated historic monument located within the city limits of Los Angeles, California. The tunnel, substation, and yard are remnants of the former Pacific Electric Railway's line that ran between Downtown Los Angeles and the district of Westlake.
Belmont und Constanze Belmont und Constanze, oder Die EntfĂĽhrung aus dem Serail by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner is a book, published in 1781, containing the story on which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart based his opera Die EntfĂĽhrung aus dem Serail (Abduction from the Seraglio). The hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, attempt to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio of the Pasha Selim.
Belmont University Belmont University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is the largest Christian university in Tennessee and the second largest private university in the state.
Belmont, New South Wales Belmont () is a town within the city of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia. Lake Macquarie is demographically a set of closely contiguous towns which surround a coastal saltwater lake, and merge with the suburbs of Newcastle to the north.
Belmont, Virginia Belmont is an unincorporated community on Goose Creek in Loudoun County, Virginia. Belmont is siutated along Belmont Ridge Road (State Route 659) between State Route 7 and the State Route 267 (Dulles Toll Road).
Belmonte Calabro Belmonte Calabro, known simply as Belmonte prior to the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, is a town and commune in the province of Cosenza, in Calabria (Southern Italy). The town is perched on a hilltop on the coast of the Ionian Sea.
Belmonte Jews The Belmonte Jews are a community that survived in secrecy for hundreds of years by maintaining a tradition of intermarriage and by hiding all the external signs of their faith. The Jewish community in Belmonte, Portugal, goes back to the 12th century and they were only discovered in the 20th century by an Ashkenazi captain of the Portuguese army.
Belmonte, Santa Catarina Belmonte is a city, and its adjacent municipality (municĂpio), in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. It is located at 26Âş50'29" S, 53Âş34'32 W, and has an estimated population of some 2600 inhabitants.
Belmore Mountain Belmore Mountain is a hill in the west of County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. With a summit 398 metres above sea level, it is the second highest point in Fermanagh, the highest being at Cuilcagh on the Northern Ireland–Republic of Ireland border in the south of the county.
Belo Blato Belo Blato (Serbian: Бело Блато or Belo Blato, Slovak: Biele Blato, Hungarian: Nagyerzsébetlak, Bulgarian: Бело блато, German: Elisenheim) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.
Belo Jegonfoy Belo Jegonfoy is one of the 21 woredas in the Benishangul-Gumaz Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Kamashi Zone, Belo Jegonfoy is bordered by Kamashi in the west, by Yaso in the north, and by Oromia Region in the south; parts of the woreda are enclaves in the Oromia Region.
Belobog Belobog, Belbog, Bialbog, Byelobog, Bielobog, Belun, Bylun (all names meaning: White God) is a hypothetical Slavic deity of light and Sun, the counterpart of dark and cursed Crnobog (Black God). It is, however, questionable whether such a deity was ever truly worshipped by pagan Slavs, as there are no reliable historic or ethnographic records which mention this name.
Belogradchik Fortress The Belogradchik Fortress (, Belogradchiska krepost), also known as Kaleto (Калето, "the fortress" from Turkish kale), is an ancient fortress close to the northwestern Bulgarian town of Belogradchik and the town's primary cultural and historical tourist attraction, drawing, together with the Belogradchik Rocks, the main flow of tourists into the region. It is one of the best-preserved strongholds in Bulgaria and a cultural monument of national importance.
Belogradchik Observatory The Astronomical Observatory of Belogradchik or Belogradchik Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. It is located near the town of Belogradchik in northwestern Bulgaria.
Belogradchik Rocks The Belogradchik Rocks (, Belogradchishki skali) is a group of bizarre sandstone and limestone rock formations, reaching up to 200 m in height. They form a strip, which is 30 km long and up to 3 km wide, and are located north of the western slopes of Stara Planina, near the town of Belogradchik in Bulgaria.
Beloiannisz Beloiannisz (in Greek: Μπελογιάννης) is a village in Fejér county, Hungary. It was founded by Communist Greek refugees who left Greece after the civil war and was named after Nikos Beloyannis (Beloiannisz is the Hungarian spelling of his name).
Beloit College Beloit College is a liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin and a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Its current president is John Burris, and its enrollment stands at roughly 1,300 undergraduate students.
Beloit Memorial High School Beloit Memorial High School is a public, four year comprehensive high school located in Beloit, Wisconsin. The average class size is 24 students with an enrollment of 2200 students and 142 full-time certified staff.
Belokrinitskoe Soglasie Belokrinitskoe soglasie is the largest and one of the most 'temperate' and 'optimistic' denominations among the Popovtsy Old Believers. The name derives from the name of this denomination's spiritual and administrative center - the Rogozhskoe cemetery.
Belokurikha Belokurikha () is a town and a balneological resort in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the Bolshaya Belokurikha River some 250Â km south of Barnaul. Population: 14,700 (2005); 14,533 (2002 Census); 5,700 (1968).
Belomorkanal (cigarette) Belomorkanal (Cyrillic Беломорканал) is a Soviet brand of cigarettes that was introduced to commemorate the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, abbreviated as "Belomorkanal" in Russian.
Belonging Belonging is a British television drama series, produced by BBC Wales and screened on the BBC One network during a regional opt-out section from the national feed. As such it is only available to viewers in Wales via conventional analogue or digital television viewing, but viewers with Sky Digital can receive all BBC regional opt-outs nationally on that platform.
Belorusskaya-Koltsevaya Belorusskaya () is a station on the Moscow Metro's Koltsevaya Line. It is named for the nearby Belarus rail terminal and is sometimes referred to as Belorusskaya-Koltsevaya to distinguish it from the similarly-named station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line.
Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace is a Neo-Baroque palace at the intersection of the Fontanka River and Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The mauve-colored palace mirrors the Stroganov Palace, designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli in the 1750s and situated on the opposite site of the Nevsky.
Belot Belot (usually abbreviated to Bela, in Armenian to Blot) is a trick-taking card game very popular in some parts of Croatia (especially Zagreb), and played worldwide by the Armenian Diaspora. The game is played by 2, 3 or 4 players.
Belote Belote is the name of a popular 32-card trick-taking game, played in France, the Benelux, South-Eastern Europe, Armenia, and elsewhere. In Dutch the game is known as Klaverjassen, in Bulgarian the official name is Bridge-Belote (), in Cyprus it is called Pilotta (), in Québec the word was shortened to the fist syllable and spelled bœuf, and in Croatian Bela is used as a synonym.
Belouga class submarine Project 1710 Макрель (NATO reporting name "Belouga") was a Russian SSA diesel-electric submarine. It was an experimental vessel, used for testing propulsion systems, hull forms, and boundary layer control techniques.
Belouis Some Belouis Some (born Neville Keighley, 12 December 1959), is a British new wave musician. He had a few minor hits in the 1980s with "Some People", "Round and Round", (which appeared on the soundtrack album to the film Pretty in Pink), plus "Imagination", which reached #17 on the UK Singles Chart.
Belousov Belousov is a common Russian surname formed from the nickname Belye Usy () meaning "White Moustache" which actually translates into English as "Grey Moustache". To an intelligent Russian ear, the meaning is that of "someone older, grey-haired, i.
Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction A Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, or BZ reaction, is one of a class of reactions that serve as a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, resulting in the establishment of a nonlinear chemical oscillator. The only common element in these oscillating systems are the inclusion of bromine and an acid. The reactions are theoretically important in that they show that chemical reactions do not have to be dominated by equilibrium thermodynamic behavior. These reactions are far from equilibrium and remain so for a significant length of time. In this sense, they provide an interesting chemical model of nonequilibrium biological phenomena, and the mathematical model of the BZ reactions themselves are of theoretical interest.
Beloved (band) Beloved was a Christian metalcore/post-hardcore punk band from Greensboro and Winston-Salem, North Carolina that formed in 1999. They were signed to Solid State Records, on which they released two albums, 2001's The Running and 2003's Failure On.
Beloved Infidel Beloved Infidel is the eighth episode of the first season of Frasier. In this episode, spotting their dad with an old woman friend of the family in a restaurant provokes Frasier and Niles to speculate on whether Martin had an affair years back.
Below Records Below Records is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany and run by artist Luc Berger. Below originally started in San Francisco, California in 1998 when it signed it's first artist Camille Davila.
Below the belt Mainly used in combat sports such as boxing and kickboxing, the term Below the belt is referred to all the area of the body that lies, as the term indicates, below the line of the belt, including the genital area, legs, and crotch. In these sports, as in many others, punches must not be struck below the belt, as it is deemed unfair and contrary to sportsmanship.
Below the line (film production) In budgeting a motion picture, below-the-line costs include the salaries of the non-starring cast members and the technical crew, as well as use of the film studio and its technical equipment, travel, location, and catering costs, etc. In contrast to above the line costs, the below-the-line budget is usually fixed.
Below the Lion Rock Below the Lion Rock () is a TV show about the lives of Hong Kong citizens that ran from 1974 to 1994. The series was a collection of unrelated stories produced by the RTHK, and depicted the life stories of different social strata set against backgrounds that are today part of Hong Kong history, such as the Shek Kip Mei fire that burnt down the slums, and the early immigrants from Mainland China.
Below wholesale Below wholesale is a term used by marketers to make their wholesale pricing sound more attractive and sellable. This term is an oxymoron: while wholesale pricing can be tiered there is no real below wholesale for new products.
Below Zero (album) [Zero (1998) is an album by the American] [[ambient music|ambient musician Robert Rich. It is a compilation of work that were released on multi-artist collections, works created for such albums due later that year and previously unreleased tracks.
Belozem Hill Belozem Hill (Halm Belozem 'h&lm be-lo-'zem) is the northeasternmost of a chain of hills along Bulgarian Beach in the east of Livingston Island. The hill is boulder-clay capped with twin peaks; the higher east-northeastern of them rising to 41m.
Belper (UK Parliament constituency) Belper is a former constituency in the UK Parliament. It was created at the 1918 general election as a county division of Derbyshire, comprising the area in the centre of the county and surrounding Derby, and named after the market town of Belper although this was in the north of the constituency.
Belphégor (novel) Belphégor (English title The Mystery of the Louvre) is a 1927 horror novel by French writer Arthur Bernède, about a ghost which haunts the Louvre Museum, in reality a masked villain trying to steal a hidden treasure. It was simultaneously adapted as a movie serial starring René Navarre as Chantecoq, Bernède's fictional detective and Elmire Vautier as the villainous Belphégor.
Belphegor (comic) Belphegor was a comic created by Arthur Bernède (1871–1937), a renowned playwright, journalist, screenwriter, and the author of numerous popular novels. His best-remembered creations are the mysterious avenger known as Judex (co-created with—and for—filmmaker Louis Feuillade who directed the first Fantômas serials) and the villainous Belphegor, the so-called "Ghost of the Louvre".
Belphegor (truck) In 1964, Citroën released a range of trucks from 3.5 to 8 ton capacity, styled by Flaminio Bertoni, the Italian sculptor also responsible for the Citroën 2CV, Citroën DS, Citroën Ami 6, and Citroën Traction Avant cars.
Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Bellevue is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River, adjoining Pittsburgh. The 1890 population was 1,418; the 1900 population was 3,416; the 1910 population was 6,323; and the 1940 population was 10,488.
Bellevue, Western Australia Bellevue (; post code: 6056) is an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its Local Government Areas are the City of Swan and the Shire of Mundaring, and it is located at the foot of the slopes of Greenmount, a landmark on the Darling Scarp that is noted in the earliest of travel journals of the early Swan River Colony.
Bellewaerde Bellewaerde is a theme park in the West-Flemish countryside near Ypres (Belgium). Established in 1954 on grounds that during World War I functioned as the location of the Battle of Bellewaerde, named after the old castle that to this day stands near the main entrance of the park.
Bellewstown Bellewstown is a village on the Hill of Crockafotha in County Meath in the Republic of Ireland, is beautifully situated in a rural setting with magnificent views of the Mountains of Mourne to the north and the Irish sea to the east.
Bellflower High School Bellflower Middle/High School is located in Bellflower, California, as part of the Bellflower Unified School District (BUSD). Bellflower is a combination middle school and high school, having students from grades seven through twelve.
Bellingham Festival of Music The Bellingham Festival of Music is a primarily classical music festival held annually in Bellingham, Washington in late summer. The festival was established in 1993, with American orchestral conductor Michael Palmer as its Artistic Director.
Bellingham riots The Bellingham Riots occurred on September 5, 1907, in Bellingham, Washington, USA. A group of 400-500 white men with intentions to exclude East Indian immigrants from the local work force mobbed waterfront barracks.
Bellingham Railway Museum The Bellingham Railway Museum in Bellingham, Washington, displays a pictorial and text history of railroad traffic in Bellingham and Whatcom/Skagit Counties, as well as a large electric model railroad, an exhibit of railroad lanterns, and a freight train simulator.
Bellingham SLAM The Bellingham SLAM are a 2005 expansion team in the Ron Boone Division of the American Basketball Association. They were originally expected to play in Everett, Washington, but were relocated to Bellingham, Washington under the ownership of John Dominguez.
Bellingham Sportsplex The Bellingham Sportsplex is a multi-use sports facility located in Bellingham, Washington. The Sportsplex contains two turf fields, primarily used for indoor soccer, and an ice rink, used by local amateur ice hockey teams, figure skating lessons and performances, and home games for the Bellingham Bulls of the WHA Junior Hockey League and Western Washington University hockey teams.
Bellingham, Tasmania Bellingham is a tiny coastal hamlet in Northern Tasmania, situated on the mouth of the Pipers River directly opposite the town of Weymouth. About 60 km from Launceston, 20 km from Bridport and 30 km from George Town.
Bellingshausen Island Bellingshausen Island () is one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group. It is named after its discoverer, Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen (1778-1852).
Bellinsgauzen (crater) Bellinsgauzen is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southern part of Moon, on the far side from the Earth. It is attached to the northern rim of the larger Berlage crater, and within a half crater diameter of Cabannes crater to the west.
Bellinzona Bellinzona (in French Bellinzone, in archaic German Bellenz and Bilitio in Latin) is the capital city of the canton Ticino in Switzerland. The city is famous for its three castles (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sasso Corbaro) that are now part of the UNESCO world heritage.
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. It is native to western, central and northern Europe.
Bellite Bellite is a mixture of minerals from Tasmania which forms attractive orange red crystals. Its empirical formula, PbCrO4,As4,SiO2 suggests a rather complex mixture of chromates and silicates of lead and arsenic.
Bellman-Ford algorithm The Bellman-Ford algorithm computes single-source shortest paths in a weighted digraph (where some of the edge weights may be negative). Dijkstra's algorithm accomplishes the same problem with a lower running time, but requires edge weights to be non-negative.
Bello Mill Bello Mill was a mill on the river called the Lugar Water, on the estate of James Boswell (Lord Auchenleck) in Ayrshire, in Scotland. Before being rebuilt in the 1940s, it had three different sets of mill stones.
Bellona (goddess) Bellona was an Ancient Roman war goddess. She is believed to be one of the numinous gods of the Romans (without a particular mythology and possibly of Etruscan origin), and is supposed by many to have been the Romans' original war deity, predating the identification of Mars with Ares.
Bellona Foundation The Bellona Foundation is an international environmental organization established in 1986 and based in Oslo, Norway. It primarily functions as a nuclear watchdog focusing on developments in Russia (Bellona has branches in Murmansk and Saint Petersburg).
Bellonid Dynasty The Bellonid Dynasty (in Catalan Bel·lònides and in Spanish Bellónidas) was a Catalan dynasty, the descendants of the Goth Belló who ruled in Urgel, Cerdanya, Conflent, Barcelona, and numerous other Catalan and Septimanian counties and marches in the ninth century and whose most famous son was Wilfred the Hairy, who founded the ruling dynasty of Barcelona which lasted until 1410 and the death of Martin I of Aragón.
Bellovaci The Bellovaci were the most powerful and numerous of the Belgic tribes of north-eastern Gaul conquered by Julius Caesar in 57 BC. The name survives today in the French city of Beauvais, called by the Romans Caesaromagus.
Bellow's Regiment of Militia Bellow's Regiment of Militia also known as the 16th New Hampshire Militia Regiment was called up at Walpole, New Hampshire on September 21, 1777 as reinforcements for the Continental Army during the Saratoga Campaign. The regiment marched quickly to join the gathering forces of Gen.
Bellowhead Bellowhead is an English folk band brought together by John Spiers and Jon Boden. The band plays traditional English tunes and songs, but in a funky, contemporary and unique style aided by a four-piece brass section.
Bellows Air Force Station Bellows Air Force Station is a United States military reservation located in Waimanalo, Hawaii. Once an important air field during World War II, the reservation now serves as a military training area and recreation area for active and retired military and civilian employees of the Department of Defense.
Bells & Whistles (computer animation) More Bells & Whistles was a computer animation created by Wayne Lytle in 1990. Wayne Lytle now owns and operates a company called Animusic, creating music-driven animation similar to the techniques demonstrated in the More Bells & Whistles video.
Bells of Doom (album) Bells of Doom is an Therion's compilation album released by the official fan club (now called Therion Society) in 2001. The album was originally available for Therion Society members only but is now available to the anyone in Therion's Official online store.
Bells of Christmas "Bells of Christmas" is a christmas song written by Al Jardine, Ron Altbach and Mike Love. The song was recorded by the American pop band The Beach Boys and was released on their 1998 christmas album Ultimate Christmas.
BellSouth Advertising & Publishing BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation, or "BAPCO", publishes telephone directories for AT&T customers served by BellSouth Telecommunications. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T, subject to integration with AT&T Yellow Pages.
Belltown, Seattle, Washington Belltown is the most densely populated neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on the city's downtown waterfront. Formerly a low-rent, semi-industrial, artsy district, in recent decades it has transformed into a neighborhood of trendy restaurants, boutiques, nightclubs, and residential towers.
Bellum Bellum is the Classical Latin word for "war". The words antebellum and postbellum, which mean before war and after war respectively, often refer specifically to periods before and after the American Civil War.
Bellum iustum Bellum iustum in Latin stands for "just war", or, a war that is a "justification for going to war, gathered under the ius ad bellum, and including ideas of just cause, right authority, last resort, right intention and the superior and final goal of achieving peace, or the other main component of just war tradition, the ius in bello, or law of war, that has to do with the restraint or limiting of war once begun, strongly appearing in terms of discrimination and proportionality, i.e.
Bellum omnium contra omnes Bellum omnium contra omnes, a Latin phrase meaning "the war of all against all", is the description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state of nature thought experiment that he conducts in Leviathan (1651).
Bellwether A bellwether is any entity in a given arena that serves to create or influence trends or to presage future happenings; the term is derived from the Middle English bellewether and refers to the practice of placing a bell around the neck of a castrated ram (a wether) in order that this animal might lead its flock of sheep.
Bellwether (novel) Bellwether, a 1996 novel by Connie Willis, is a book that can fall into many genres, such as comedy, fairy tale, romance, and science fiction. The novel is broadly based on the unsettling concepts of human culture.
Belly (band) Belly was a rock band formed in 1991 by former Throwing Muses members Tanya Donelly (also in The Breeders with Kim Deal) and Fred Abong. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the band consisted of Tanya Donelly on lead vocals, Fred Abong bass, Tom Gorman guitar, and Chris Gorman drums.
Belly (film) Belly is a 1998 motion picture, the feature film debut of music video director Hype Williams. An urban drama, the film stars rappers DMX and Nas as Tommy and Sincere, former partners in crime who become enstranged after Sincere decides to go straight and Tommy takes on a major drug deal from a Jamaican drug lord.
Belly landing A Belly landing is an emergency landing procedure in which an aircraft lands without its landing gear fully extended—using its underside, or belly, as its primary landing device. During a belly landing there is normally extensive damage to the airplane, and if the speed is too high then the airplane can flip over.
Belly of the Beast Belly of the Beast is a 2003 action movie starring Steven Seagal, and directed by Siu-Tung Ching, featuring an ex-CIA agent on a quest to find his kidnapped daughter. Byron Mann is Seagal's on-screen partner in the movie.
Bellybutton Nautilus The Bellybutton Nautilus (Nautilus macromphalus) is a species of nautilus native to the waters off New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and northeastern Australia. The shell of this species lacks a callus, leaving the umbilicus exposed, in which the inner coils of the shell are visible.
Bellydance Superstars The Bellydance Superstars is a professional American belly dance troupe formed by Miles Copeland. Founded in 2002, the troupe consists of ever-increasing number of successful and talented belly dancers who extensively tour around North America and Europe.
Belmeken (dam) The Belmeken (Bulgarian - Белмекен ) dam lake is situated in the Rila Mountains and is the highest dam lake on the Balkan pensinsula. There is a Steam Accumulative Hydroelectric Power Plant built on the lake (SAWPP) (Bulgarian : ĐźĐВЕЦ).
Belmiro de Azevedo Belmiro de Azevedo (February 17 1938) is a Portuguese entrepreneur, ranked by Forbes as the 387th richest person in the world (2005), as well as the richest in Portugal. He owns Sonae SGPS, one of the biggest business groups in Portugal, which also operates in Spain, Greece, Germany, Italy and Brazil, Portuguese leader in real estate and retailing which also have business in telecommunications, tourism, venture capital and the media.
Belmont Abbey, North Carolina Belmont Abbey is a small community of Benedictine monks living outside of Charlotte, North Carolina in the town of Belmont, North Carolina, in the United States. Founded by Bishop Leo Haid in the mid-1800s, it is the daughter abbey to St.
Belmont Airport Belmont Airport (ICAO Code - BEO, IATA Code - YPEC) is an airfield located in the Lake Macquarie suburb of Pelican, 15 kilometres south of Newcastle, New South Wales. It had one runway of 3000ft (914 metres), and was served by regional airline Aeropelican.
Belmont Club The Belmont Club is the name of a political and historical weblog that has been in existence since December 2003. The site focuses on current affairs and public policy, often placing an emphasis on military action and foreign policy issues.
Belmont District, Pennsylvania Belmont District is a defunct district that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
Belmont Greene Belmont Green is a neighborhood development in Ashburn, Virginia located off of Belmont Ridge Road. The development is situated adjacent to Stone Bridge High School and Trailside Park, the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail also goes along the border of the development.
Belmont Heights, Long Beach, California Belmont Heights is a neighborhood in the south-east portion of the city of Long Beach, California, United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean and the more commercial community of Belmont Shore. It is primarily residential but has a mix of local businesses and entertainment within a short walking distance of most residents.
Belmont Hill School Belmont Hill School is an all-boys preparatory school located on a 23 acre campus in Belmont, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. It enrolls approximately 420 students in grades 7-12, which the school refers to as "forms one through six.
Belmont Park (LIRR station) Belmont Park is a seasonal-use Long Island Rail Road station on the grounds of the Belmont Park racetrack in Elmont, New York. The station is open and train service is operated only during the racing seasons of Belmont Park.
Belmont railway station Belmont railway station serves the suburb of Belmont in the London Borough of Sutton in south London. The station is located on the Epsom Downs line, part of the Sutton & Mole Valley Line services of the Southern, and is in Travelcard Zone 5.
Belmont railway station, Harrow Belmont was a station in Belmont, north-west London. It was opened on 18 December 1890 by the London & North Western Railway as the only intermediate station on a short branch line running north from Harrow & Wealdstone to Stanmore.
Belmont Report The Belmont Report is a report created by the former United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (which was renamed to Health and Human Services) entitled "Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human
Belmont Stakes The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious Grade I stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The race is the third leg of the Triple Crown, following five weeks after the Kentucky Derby, and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes.
Belmont transmitting station The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated close to the village of Donington on Bain, near Market Rasen and Louth in Lincolnshire, England (). It is owned and operated by Arqiva.
Belmont Tunnel / Toluca Substation and Yard The Belmont Tunnel / Toluca Substation and Yard is a designated historic monument located within the city limits of Los Angeles, California. The tunnel, substation, and yard are remnants of the former Pacific Electric Railway's line that ran between Downtown Los Angeles and the district of Westlake.
Belmont und Constanze Belmont und Constanze, oder Die EntfĂĽhrung aus dem Serail by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner is a book, published in 1781, containing the story on which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart based his opera Die EntfĂĽhrung aus dem Serail (Abduction from the Seraglio). The hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, attempt to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio of the Pasha Selim.
Belmont University Belmont University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is the largest Christian university in Tennessee and the second largest private university in the state.
Belmont, New South Wales Belmont () is a town within the city of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia. Lake Macquarie is demographically a set of closely contiguous towns which surround a coastal saltwater lake, and merge with the suburbs of Newcastle to the north.
Belmont, Virginia Belmont is an unincorporated community on Goose Creek in Loudoun County, Virginia. Belmont is siutated along Belmont Ridge Road (State Route 659) between State Route 7 and the State Route 267 (Dulles Toll Road).
Belmonte Calabro Belmonte Calabro, known simply as Belmonte prior to the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, is a town and commune in the province of Cosenza, in Calabria (Southern Italy). The town is perched on a hilltop on the coast of the Ionian Sea.
Belmonte Jews The Belmonte Jews are a community that survived in secrecy for hundreds of years by maintaining a tradition of intermarriage and by hiding all the external signs of their faith. The Jewish community in Belmonte, Portugal, goes back to the 12th century and they were only discovered in the 20th century by an Ashkenazi captain of the Portuguese army.
Belmonte, Santa Catarina Belmonte is a city, and its adjacent municipality (municĂpio), in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. It is located at 26Âş50'29" S, 53Âş34'32 W, and has an estimated population of some 2600 inhabitants.
Belmore Mountain Belmore Mountain is a hill in the west of County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. With a summit 398 metres above sea level, it is the second highest point in Fermanagh, the highest being at Cuilcagh on the Northern Ireland–Republic of Ireland border in the south of the county.
Belo Blato Belo Blato (Serbian: Бело Блато or Belo Blato, Slovak: Biele Blato, Hungarian: Nagyerzsébetlak, Bulgarian: Бело блато, German: Elisenheim) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.
Belo Jegonfoy Belo Jegonfoy is one of the 21 woredas in the Benishangul-Gumaz Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Kamashi Zone, Belo Jegonfoy is bordered by Kamashi in the west, by Yaso in the north, and by Oromia Region in the south; parts of the woreda are enclaves in the Oromia Region.
Belobog Belobog, Belbog, Bialbog, Byelobog, Bielobog, Belun, Bylun (all names meaning: White God) is a hypothetical Slavic deity of light and Sun, the counterpart of dark and cursed Crnobog (Black God). It is, however, questionable whether such a deity was ever truly worshipped by pagan Slavs, as there are no reliable historic or ethnographic records which mention this name.
Belogradchik Fortress The Belogradchik Fortress (, Belogradchiska krepost), also known as Kaleto (Калето, "the fortress" from Turkish kale), is an ancient fortress close to the northwestern Bulgarian town of Belogradchik and the town's primary cultural and historical tourist attraction, drawing, together with the Belogradchik Rocks, the main flow of tourists into the region. It is one of the best-preserved strongholds in Bulgaria and a cultural monument of national importance.
Belogradchik Observatory The Astronomical Observatory of Belogradchik or Belogradchik Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. It is located near the town of Belogradchik in northwestern Bulgaria.
Belogradchik Rocks The Belogradchik Rocks (, Belogradchishki skali) is a group of bizarre sandstone and limestone rock formations, reaching up to 200 m in height. They form a strip, which is 30 km long and up to 3 km wide, and are located north of the western slopes of Stara Planina, near the town of Belogradchik in Bulgaria.
Beloiannisz Beloiannisz (in Greek: Μπελογιάννης) is a village in Fejér county, Hungary. It was founded by Communist Greek refugees who left Greece after the civil war and was named after Nikos Beloyannis (Beloiannisz is the Hungarian spelling of his name).
Beloit College Beloit College is a liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin and a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Its current president is John Burris, and its enrollment stands at roughly 1,300 undergraduate students.
Beloit Memorial High School Beloit Memorial High School is a public, four year comprehensive high school located in Beloit, Wisconsin. The average class size is 24 students with an enrollment of 2200 students and 142 full-time certified staff.
Belokrinitskoe Soglasie Belokrinitskoe soglasie is the largest and one of the most 'temperate' and 'optimistic' denominations among the Popovtsy Old Believers. The name derives from the name of this denomination's spiritual and administrative center - the Rogozhskoe cemetery.
Belokurikha Belokurikha () is a town and a balneological resort in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the Bolshaya Belokurikha River some 250Â km south of Barnaul. Population: 14,700 (2005); 14,533 (2002 Census); 5,700 (1968).
Belomorkanal (cigarette) Belomorkanal (Cyrillic Беломорканал) is a Soviet brand of cigarettes that was introduced to commemorate the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, abbreviated as "Belomorkanal" in Russian.
Belonging Belonging is a British television drama series, produced by BBC Wales and screened on the BBC One network during a regional opt-out section from the national feed. As such it is only available to viewers in Wales via conventional analogue or digital television viewing, but viewers with Sky Digital can receive all BBC regional opt-outs nationally on that platform.
Belorusskaya-Koltsevaya Belorusskaya () is a station on the Moscow Metro's Koltsevaya Line. It is named for the nearby Belarus rail terminal and is sometimes referred to as Belorusskaya-Koltsevaya to distinguish it from the similarly-named station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line.
Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace is a Neo-Baroque palace at the intersection of the Fontanka River and Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The mauve-colored palace mirrors the Stroganov Palace, designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli in the 1750s and situated on the opposite site of the Nevsky.
Belot Belot (usually abbreviated to Bela, in Armenian to Blot) is a trick-taking card game very popular in some parts of Croatia (especially Zagreb), and played worldwide by the Armenian Diaspora. The game is played by 2, 3 or 4 players.
Belote Belote is the name of a popular 32-card trick-taking game, played in France, the Benelux, South-Eastern Europe, Armenia, and elsewhere. In Dutch the game is known as Klaverjassen, in Bulgarian the official name is Bridge-Belote (), in Cyprus it is called Pilotta (), in Québec the word was shortened to the fist syllable and spelled bœuf, and in Croatian Bela is used as a synonym.
Belouga class submarine Project 1710 Макрель (NATO reporting name "Belouga") was a Russian SSA diesel-electric submarine. It was an experimental vessel, used for testing propulsion systems, hull forms, and boundary layer control techniques.
Belouis Some Belouis Some (born Neville Keighley, 12 December 1959), is a British new wave musician. He had a few minor hits in the 1980s with "Some People", "Round and Round", (which appeared on the soundtrack album to the film Pretty in Pink), plus "Imagination", which reached #17 on the UK Singles Chart.
Belousov Belousov is a common Russian surname formed from the nickname Belye Usy () meaning "White Moustache" which actually translates into English as "Grey Moustache". To an intelligent Russian ear, the meaning is that of "someone older, grey-haired, i.
Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction A Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, or BZ reaction, is one of a class of reactions that serve as a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, resulting in the establishment of a nonlinear chemical oscillator. The only common element in these oscillating systems are the inclusion of bromine and an acid. The reactions are theoretically important in that they show that chemical reactions do not have to be dominated by equilibrium thermodynamic behavior. These reactions are far from equilibrium and remain so for a significant length of time. In this sense, they provide an interesting chemical model of nonequilibrium biological phenomena, and the mathematical model of the BZ reactions themselves are of theoretical interest.
Beloved (band) Beloved was a Christian metalcore/post-hardcore punk band from Greensboro and Winston-Salem, North Carolina that formed in 1999. They were signed to Solid State Records, on which they released two albums, 2001's The Running and 2003's Failure On.
Beloved Infidel Beloved Infidel is the eighth episode of the first season of Frasier. In this episode, spotting their dad with an old woman friend of the family in a restaurant provokes Frasier and Niles to speculate on whether Martin had an affair years back.
Below Records Below Records is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany and run by artist Luc Berger. Below originally started in San Francisco, California in 1998 when it signed it's first artist Camille Davila.
Below the belt Mainly used in combat sports such as boxing and kickboxing, the term Below the belt is referred to all the area of the body that lies, as the term indicates, below the line of the belt, including the genital area, legs, and crotch. In these sports, as in many others, punches must not be struck below the belt, as it is deemed unfair and contrary to sportsmanship.
Below the line (film production) In budgeting a motion picture, below-the-line costs include the salaries of the non-starring cast members and the technical crew, as well as use of the film studio and its technical equipment, travel, location, and catering costs, etc. In contrast to above the line costs, the below-the-line budget is usually fixed.
Below the Lion Rock Below the Lion Rock () is a TV show about the lives of Hong Kong citizens that ran from 1974 to 1994. The series was a collection of unrelated stories produced by the RTHK, and depicted the life stories of different social strata set against backgrounds that are today part of Hong Kong history, such as the Shek Kip Mei fire that burnt down the slums, and the early immigrants from Mainland China.
Below wholesale Below wholesale is a term used by marketers to make their wholesale pricing sound more attractive and sellable. This term is an oxymoron: while wholesale pricing can be tiered there is no real below wholesale for new products.
Below Zero (album) [Zero (1998) is an album by the American] [[ambient music|ambient musician Robert Rich. It is a compilation of work that were released on multi-artist collections, works created for such albums due later that year and previously unreleased tracks.
Belozem Hill Belozem Hill (Halm Belozem 'h&lm be-lo-'zem) is the northeasternmost of a chain of hills along Bulgarian Beach in the east of Livingston Island. The hill is boulder-clay capped with twin peaks; the higher east-northeastern of them rising to 41m.
Belper (UK Parliament constituency) Belper is a former constituency in the UK Parliament. It was created at the 1918 general election as a county division of Derbyshire, comprising the area in the centre of the county and surrounding Derby, and named after the market town of Belper although this was in the north of the constituency.
Belphégor (novel) Belphégor (English title The Mystery of the Louvre) is a 1927 horror novel by French writer Arthur Bernède, about a ghost which haunts the Louvre Museum, in reality a masked villain trying to steal a hidden treasure. It was simultaneously adapted as a movie serial starring René Navarre as Chantecoq, Bernède's fictional detective and Elmire Vautier as the villainous Belphégor.
Belphegor (comic) Belphegor was a comic created by Arthur Bernède (1871–1937), a renowned playwright, journalist, screenwriter, and the author of numerous popular novels. His best-remembered creations are the mysterious avenger known as Judex (co-created with—and for—filmmaker Louis Feuillade who directed the first Fantômas serials) and the villainous Belphegor, the so-called "Ghost of the Louvre".
Belphegor (truck) In 1964, Citroën released a range of trucks from 3.5 to 8 ton capacity, styled by Flaminio Bertoni, the Italian sculptor also responsible for the Citroën 2CV, Citroën DS, Citroën Ami 6, and Citroën Traction Avant cars.
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