Bess or BESS may refer to:
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People and fictional characters
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Bess (name), a given name, nickname and surname, including lists of people and fictional characters so named
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Bess (singer), Finnish singer Essi Miia Marianna Launimo (born 1993)
Geography
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Mount Bess, on the border between Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
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Lake Bess, Florida, United States
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Basic Enlisted Submarine School
Basic Enlisted Submarine School (BESS) is the U.S. Navy's submarine training school for enlisted sailors. Located on Naval Submarine Base New London (NAVSUBASE NLON) in Groton, Connecticut, Groton, New London County, Connecticut, the school is a ...
, the United States Navy's school for enlisted submariners
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Battery energy storage system
A battery energy storage system (BESS), battery storage power station, battery energy grid storage (BEGS) or battery grid storage is a type of energy storage technology that uses a group of batteries in the grid to store electrical energy
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BESS (experiment) (Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer), a particle physics experiment
Other uses
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List of storms named Bess
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Delta Bessborough
The Delta Hotels Bessborough, formerly and commonly known as the Bessborough (), is a historic hotel in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hotel is within the Central Business District, Saskatoon, Central Business District, a commercial distric ...
or The Bess, a hotel in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Bess Press
Bess Press is an American publisher, based in Hawaii, that issues various books on Hawaiian and Pacific history and culture. It was founded in 1979 by Benjamin "Buddy" Bess, who came to Hawaii in 1976 from New York
New York most commonly refe ...
, an American publisher
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Bess (Dane), legendary Danish general mentioned in ''Gesta Danorum''
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Bess beetle, a family of beetles
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Porgy and Bess
''Porgy and Bess'' ( ) is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play ''Porgy (play), ...
, American opera by George Gershwin
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Secure Web SmartFilter EDU, formerly called Bess, a brand of web filtering software
See also
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BES (disambiguation) BES or Bes may refer to:
* Bes, Egyptian deity
* Bes (coin), Roman coin denomination
* Bes (Marvel Comics), fictional character loosely based on the Egyptian deity
Abbreviations
* Bachelor of Environmental Studies, a degree
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Besse (disambiguation)
Besse may refer to:
Places
* Besse, Cantal, France
* Besse, Dordogne, France
* Besse, Isère, France
* Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, Puy-de-Dôme, France
** Super-Besse, a ski resort
* Besse-sur-Issole, Var, France
* Bessé, Charente, France
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Brown Bess
"Brown Bess" is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's Muzzleloader, muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives. The musket design remained in use for over a hundred years with many incremental c ...
, nickname of a British Army musket
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Old Bess (beam engine)
''Old Bess'' is an early beam engine built by the partnership of Boulton and Watt. The engine was constructed in 1777 and worked until 1848.
The engine is most obviously known simply for being an early example of an engine built by Boulton an ...
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