• Look up Bess or BESS in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bess or BESS may refer to: Bess (name), a given name, nickname and surname, including lists of...
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  • Porgy and Bess (/ˈpɔːrɡi/) is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist...
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    Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Jewish Miss America...
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    Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman (née Wallace; February 13, 1885 – October 18, 1982) was the wife of President Harry S. Truman and the First Lady of the...
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  • "Brown Bess" is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives. The...
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  • Daniel Luke Bess (born October 8, 1977) is an American television and film actor. Bess was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and attended both high school and a...
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  • Porgy and Bess is an opera by George Gershwin. Porgy and Bess may also refer to: Highlights from Porgy and Bess, a 1935 recording of selections from the...
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  • Queen Bess can refer to: Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England and Ireland Bessie Coleman (1892–1926), an early American civil aviator Queen Bess, Scunthorpe...
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    Countess of Shrewsbury (née Hardwick; c. 1521  – 13 February 1608), known as Bess of Hardwick, of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, was a notable figure of Elizabethan...
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  • known professionally as BESS (stylized in all caps), is a Finnish singer. She combines pop, electro and house in her music. Bess makes music together with...
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  • Look up Bess in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bess is both a surname and a feminine given name, usually the shortened form (hypocorism) of Elizabeth...
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    BESS is a particle physics experiment carried by a balloon. BESS stands for Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer. BOOMERanG experiment...
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  • Storm Bess (1978), hit Nautla, Mexico Bess was used for ten tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific: Typhoon Bess (1952) (T5221) Typhoon Bess (1957)...
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    Elizabeth Key "Bess" Armstrong (born December 11, 1953) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Four Seasons (1981), High Road...
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  • Bess (born September 18, 1961) is a venture capitalist known for his work in technology. He has served as principal and founder of family fund Bess Ventures...
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  • Bess Motta (née Bess Motter) (born February 10, 1958) is an American actress, singer, choreographer, and exercise demonstrator who appeared in the Canadian...
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    Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini (née Rahner; January 23, 1876 – February 11, 1943) was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini. Wilhelmina...
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    Catherine Howard and a second half-cousin of Jane Seymour, so Bess was well connected at court. Bess and her brother Arthur were cousins and courtiers to Elizabeth...
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    Stacey Bess (born October 16, 1963 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American author and educator, known for authoring the memoir Nobody Don't Love Nobody...
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  • 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...
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    Dominic Mark Bess (born 22 July 1997) is an English professional cricketer who has played internationally for the England Test cricket team. In domestic...
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    Davone Atrayo Bess (born September 13, 1985) is a former American football wide receiver. He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent...
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    Elizabeth I (redirect from Good Queen Bess)
    a charismatic performer ("Gloriana") and a dogged survivor ("Good Queen Bess") in an era when government was ramshackle and limited, and when monarchs...
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    Typhoon Bess, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Susang, was responsible for the disappearance of a United States Air Force weather reconnaissance aircraft...
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  • Gene Bess (born March 3, 1935) is a retired American basketball coach. Bess, a native of Oak Ridge, Missouri, coached twelve years at Lesterville High...
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  • Bess Eaton or Bess Eaton Management LLC is a small chain of coffee shops based in Rhode Island and Connecticut, serving doughnuts, bagels, and muffins...
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  • following which charges were brought against a convicted rapist, Donald Andrew Bess Jr., who was subsequently tried and received a death sentence. He died of...
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  • Bess Wohl is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress whose plays include Grand Horizons, Small Mouth Sounds, and the book for the musical Pretty...
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    Ardon Bess (born 1941) is a Canadian actor best known for appearing in a Heritage Minutes short film about the 1958 Springhill mining disaster portraying...
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    Javon Bess (born April 1, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for Türk Telekom of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He played college basketball...
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