Bess
Encyclopedia

People

  • Davone Bess
    Davone Bess
    Davone Atrayo Bess is an American football wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2008...

    , wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League
    National Football League
    The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

  • Elizabeth I (1533-1603), also known as Good Queen Bess
  • Elizabeth "Bess" Truman
    Bess Truman
    Bess Truman , was the wife of Harry S. Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953.-Early life:...

     (1885-1982), former First Lady of the United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     and wife of Harry S. Truman
    Harry S. Truman
    Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

  • Elizabeth Raleigh
    Elizabeth Raleigh
    Elizabeth, Lady Raleigh , née Throckmorton, was Sir Walter Raleigh's wife, and a Lady of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Their secret marriage precipitated a long period of royal disfavour for Raleigh....

     (1565-1647), aka Bess or Elizabeth Throgmorton, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I
  • Bess of Hardwick
    Bess of Hardwick
    Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1521 – 13 February 1608, known as Bess of Hardwick, was the daughter of John Hardwick, of Derbyshire and Elizabeth Leeke, daughter of Thomas Leeke and Margaret Fox...

     (1527-1608), the 3rd surviving daughter of John Hardwick
    John Hardwick
    John Hardwick is a television, film and theatre director whose projects have been produced by companies such as Film4, BBC, Warp, Kudos, Channel4 and BFI.- Biography :...

     of Hardwicke in Derbyshire
  • Brandon Bess
    Brandon Bess
    Brandon Jeremy Bess is an international cricketer who made his debut for the West Indies cricket team in June 2010 as a late replacement for Nelon Pascal, who was injured pre-match...

     (born 1987), West Indies Test cricketer
    Cricketer
    A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

  • Bess Houdini
    Bess Houdini
    Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner , known as Bess, was the stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini; they had no children.-Biography:...

     (1876-1943), Harry Houdini
    Harry Houdini
    Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts...

    's wife- full name Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner
  • Bess Lord, an alternate personality of the character Jessica Buchanan
    Jessica Buchanan
    Jessica Eugenia Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live...

     on the American soap opera
    Soap opera
    A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

     One Life to Live
    One Life to Live
    One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...


In science

  • Bess (content-control software), a brand of web filtering software made by Secure Computing Corporation that is usually used in libraries and school
    School
    A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...

    s
  • BESS
    BESS
    BESS is a particle physics experiment carried by a balloon. BESS stands for Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer...

    , a particle physics
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

     experiment carried by a balloon
    Balloon
    A balloon is an inflatable flexible bag filled with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, or air. Modern balloons can be made from materials such as rubber, latex, polychloroprene, or a nylon fabric, while some early balloons were made of dried animal bladders, such as the pig...

    , which started in 1993
  • Bess beetle
    Bess beetle
    Passalidae is a family of beetles known variously as "bessbugs", "bess beetles", "betsy beetles" or "horned passalus beetles". Nearly all of the 500-odd species are tropical; species found in North America are notable for their size, ranging from 20–43 mm, for having a single "horn" on the...

    , a family, Passalidae, of beetle
    Beetle
    Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...

    s

In business

  • Bess Press
    Bess Press
    Bess Press is a Hawaii-based publisher that issues various books on Hawaiian and Pacific history and culture. It was founded by Benjamin "Buddy" Bess, who came to Hawaii in 1976 from New York....

    , a Hawaii
    Hawaii
    Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

    -based publisher that issues various books on Hawaiian and Pacific history and culture
  • Brown Bess
    Brown Bess
    Brown Bess is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives. This musket was used in the era of the expansion of the British Empire and acquired symbolic importance at least as significant as its physical importance. It was in use for over a hundred...

    , a nickname of unknown origin for the British Army's Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives

Other uses

  • Basic Enlisted Submarine School, commonly known as BESS, the United States Navy's school for enlisted submarine
    Submarine
    A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...

    rs
  • Tropical Storm Bess (disambiguation), a name for multiple storms
  • Bess the Boreal Owl, from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole
    Guardians of Ga'Hoole
    Guardians of Ga’Hoole is a fantasy book series written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic. The series, which ended in 2008 with the publication of The War of the Ember, has a total of fifteen books. Apart from the main series there are a few more books and spin offs set in the same universe...

     series by Kathryn Lasky
    Kathryn Lasky
    Kathryn Lasky is an American author whose work includes several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.-Biography:...

    .
  • In music notation, new Swedish name for B flat, used since about 1990.
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