Beehive

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The term Beehive can refer to several different things:

• Beehive (beekeeping) is the structure in which bees live and raise their young. It includes traditional designs such as skeps and gums and modern designs such as:
  • Langstroth hive
  • Top-bar hive (also known as the Kenyan hive)
• Beehive houses are an early form of stone building found in Scotland and Ireland.
• Beehive tombs are a style of Mycenaean chamber tomb from the Bronze Age.
• The Beehive (building) is the executive wing of New Zealand's Parliament Buildings.
• Beehive (hairstyle) refers to a distinctive female hair style named for its similarity to the shape of a straw skep.
• The Beehive Cluster is an open cluster of stars located some 500-600 light years from Earth.
• Beehive (1975 film) is an Iranian film, also known as Kandu.
• The Beehive (1982 film) is a Spanish film, also known as La Colmena.
• "Beehive" is also the name for a type of 105mm artillery shell — see flechette.
• "Beehive" was a codename for units of the Szare Szeregi during World War II.
• The Beehive Project is an open-source extensible java application development framework at Apache_Software_Foundation

See also

• Hive

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