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- (from the article "baldpate") popular North American game duck, also known as the American wigeon. See wigeon.wigeonswigeon...birds and excellent table fare. The European w
- Baldry, Long John
- British-born Canadian blues musician (b. Jan. 12, 1941, Haddon, Derbyshire, Eng.-d. July 21, 2005, Vancouver, B.C.), was one of the founding fathers of the 1960s British blues scene and a ...
- Baldung-Grien, Hans
- painter and graphic artist, one of the most outstanding figures in northern Renaissance art. He served as an assistant to Albrecht Durer, whose influence is apparent in his early works, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baldwin I
- count of Flanders (as Baldwin IX) and of Hainaut (as Baldwin VI), a leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became the first Latin emperor of Constantinople (now Istanbul). [3 Related Articles]
- Baldwin I
- king of the Crusader state of Jerusalem (1100-18) who expanded the kingdom and secured its territory, formulating an administrative apparatus that was to serve for 200 years as the basis ... [4 Related Articles]
- Baldwin I
- the first ruler of Flanders. A daring warrior under Charles II the Bald of France, he fell in love with the king's daughter Judith, the youthful widow of two English ... [3 Related Articles]
- Baldwin II
- second ruler of Flanders, who, from his stronghold at Bruges, maintained, as his father Baldwin I before him, a vigorous defense of his lands against the incursions of the Norsemen. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Baldwin II
- count of Edessa (1100-18), king of Jerusalem (1118-31), and Crusade leader whose support of the religious-military orders founded during his reign enabled him to expand his kingdom and to withstand ... [4 Related Articles]
- Baldwin II Porphyrogenitus
- the last Latin emperor of Constantinople, who lost his throne in 1261 when Michael VIII Palaeologus restored Greek rule to the capital. [1 Related Articles]
- Baldwin III
- (from the article "Arnulf I") In 958 Arnulf placed the government in the hands of his son Baldwin (Baldwin III), and the young man, though his reign was a very short one, did a great ...
- Baldwin III
- king of the Crusader state of Jerusalem (1143-63), military leader whose reputation among his contemporaries earned him the title of "ideal king." [1 Related Articles]
- Baldwin IV
- count of Flanders (988-1035) who greatly expanded the Flemish dominions. He fought successfully both against the Capetian king of France, Robert II, and the Holy Roman emperor Henry II. Henry ...
- Baldwin IV
- king of Jerusalem (1174-85), called the "leper king" for the disease that afflicted him for most of his short life. His reign saw the growth of factionalism among the Latin ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baldwin of Trier
- (from the article "Germany") The princes, released from Albert's heavy hand, sought a servant, not a master. Archbishop Baldwin of Trier sponsored the candidacy of his brother, Count Henry of Luxembourg, who was elected ...
- Baldwin V
- (from the article "William I") In 1049 William negotiated with Baldwin V of Flanders for the hand of his daughter, Matilda. Baldwin, an imperial vassal with a distinguished lineage, was in rebellion against the emperor, ...
- Baldwin V
- nominal king of Jerusalem who reigned from March 1185 until his death a year and a half later. The son of William Longsword of Montferrat and Sybil, the sister of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baldwin VI
- (from the article "Robert I") His right to Imperial Flanders, however, was disputed by his elder brother, Baldwin VI, who had succeeded to the countship of Flanders. War broke out between the two brothers, and ...
- Baldwin VII
- (from the article "Charles") ...refuge in Flanders, taking with her her son. Charles was brought up by his mother and grandfather, Robert the Frisian, on whose death he did great services to his uncle, ...
- Baldwin, F. W.
- (from the article "Aerial Experiment Association") ...of a practical aerodrome driven by its own motive power and carrying a man." In addition to the Bells (who funded the organization), the members of the AEA included F.W. ...
- Baldwin, Faith
- American author, one of the most successful writers of light fiction in the 20th century, whose works targeted an audience of middle-class women.
- Baldwin, Frank Stephen
- inventor best-known for his development of the Monroe calculator.
- Baldwin, Henry
- associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1830-44).
- Baldwin, James
- American essayist, novelist, and playwright whose eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America made him an important voice, particularly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in ... [3 Related Articles]
- Baldwin, James Mark
- philosopher and theoretical psychologist who exerted influence on American psychology during its formative period in the 1890s. Concerned with the relation of Darwinian evolution to psychology, he favoured the study ...
- Baldwin, Matthias William
- manufacturer whose significant improvements of the steam locomotive included a steam-tight metal joint that permitted his engines to use steam at double the pressure of others.
- Baldwin, Robert
- statesman who was joint leader with Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine of the first and second Reform administrations in Canada, which established the principle of responsible, or cabinet, government in Canada. [3 Related Articles]
- Baldwin, Roger Nash
- American civil-rights activist, cofounder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). [1 Related Articles]
- Baldwin, Stanley, 1st Earl Baldwin Of Bewdley, Viscount Corvedale Of Corvedale
- British Conservative politician, three times prime minister between 1923 and 1937; he headed the government during the General Strike of 1926, the Ethiopian crisis of 1935, and the abdication crisis ... [6 Related Articles]
- Baldy Mountain
- highest peak in Manitoba, Can., in the southeastern part of Duck Mountain Provincial Park, 36 miles (58 km) northwest of Dauphin. At 2,730 feet (832 metres) above sea level, it ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baldy Mountain
- summit (11,403 feet [3,476 metres]) in the White Mountains, Apache county, eastern Arizona, U.S. Springs on the mountain's northern slope form the headwaters of the Little Colorado River. Also called ...
- Baldy Peak
- (from the article "Colfax") county, northeastern New Mexico, U.S., bordered on the north by Colorado. Its westernmost section is in the Southern Rocky Mountains and includes the Cimarron range, topped by 12,441-foot (3,782-m) Baldy ...
- Bale, Christian
- Welsh film actor Christian Bale had a mixed year in 2008. He drew international acclaim for his role as Batman/Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight, which, upon its July release, ...
- Bale, John
- bishop, Protestant controversialist, and dramatist whose Kynge Johan is asserted to have been the first English history play. He is notable for his part in the religious strife of the ...
- Balearic Beat
- (from the article "Balearic Beat") Britain's rave culture and the sound that powered it were the product of a cornucopia of influences that came together in the late 1980s: the pulse of Chicago house music ...
- Balearic Islands
- archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea and a comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Spain coextensive with the Spanish provincia (province) of the same name. ... [5 Related Articles]
- baleen whale
- any cetacean possessing unique epidermal modifications of the mouth called baleen, which is used to filter food from water. [3 Related Articles]
- Balenciaga, Cristobal
- Spanish dress designer who created elegant ball gowns and other classic designs. [3 Related Articles]
- baler
- (from the article "baler") largest living snail, a species of conch (q.v.).characteristicsconch...canaliculatum) and the ligh
- baler
- (from the article "hay") Balers compress hay or straw into tightly packed rectangular or cylindrical bales weighing 50 to 100 pounds (22.5 to 45 kg) and tied with wire or twine. Pickup balers have ...
- Bales, Peter
- English calligrapher who devised one of the earliest forms of shorthand, published in his book Arte of Brachygraphie (1590).
- Balestier, Wolcott
- (from the article "Kipling, Rudyard") In 1892 Kipling married Caroline Balestier, the sister of Wolcott Balestier, an American publisher and writer with whom he had collaborated in The Naulahka (1892), a facile ...
- Balestrini, Nanni
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...author of disconcertingly noncommunicative works such as Laborintus (1956) and Erotopaegnia (1960) and thereafter a prolifically undeterred creative experimentalist; Nanni Balestrini, who would subsequently publish the left-wing political collage Vogliamo ...
- Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa
- Nigerian politician, leader in the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC), and the first federal prime minister. A commoner by birth, an unusual origin for a political leader in the NPC, Balewa ... [2 Related Articles]
- Balfe, Michael William
- singer and composer, best known for the facile melody and simple ballad style of his opera The Bohemian Girl.
- Balfour Declaration
- (Nov. 2, 1917), statement of British support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." It was made in a letter from Arthur James Balfour, ... [12 Related Articles]
- Balfour Report
- (from the article "South Africa") ...South Africa's autonomy, aided local capital, and protected white workers against black competition. Hertzog also played a leading role at the Imperial Conference in London that issued the Balfour Report ...
- Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, 1st earl of, Viscount Traprain
- British statesman who maintained a position of power in the British Conservative Party for 50 years; he was prime minister from 1902 to 1905, and as foreign secretary from 1916 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Balfour, Francis Maitland
- British zoologist, younger brother of the statesman Arthur James Balfour, and a founder of modern embryology. [1 Related Articles]
- Balfour, Robert
- philosopher accomplished in Latin and Greek who spent his career teaching these languages in France.
- Balfour, Sir James
- Scottish judge who, by frequently shifting his political allegiances, influenced the course of events in the early years of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland.
- Bali
- (from the article "Cameroon") ...worked leather goods and ornate calabashes (gourds used as containers), and the Kirdi and the Matakam of the western mountains produce distinctive types of pottery. The powerful masks of the ...
- bali
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...ceremonies, most picturesque and important are the kohomba kankariya (or "ritual of the god Kohomba"), performed to ensure prosperity and to get rid of pestilence, and the bali, danced to ...
- Bali
- island and propinsi ("province") in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the island of Java. Most of Bali is mountainous (essentially an extension of the ... [21 Related Articles]
- Bali Museum
- (from the article "Denpasar") A network of roads links Denpasar with Singaraja and other cities on the island. Denpasar also has an international airport. A branch of the National Archaeological Research Centre; the Bali ...
- Bali tiger
- (from the article "tiger") ...at about 1,500. Three subspecies have gone extinct within the past century: the Caspian (P. tigris virgata) of central Asia, the Javan (P. tigris sondaica), and the Bali (P. tigris ...
- balia
- (from the article "Italy") ...upon each other. In the third week of July, new outbreaks of violence, probably fomented by Salvestro, brought spectacular change: the appointment of a ruling committee (balia) ...
- Balian of Ibelin
- (from the article "Crusades") ...the ports south of Tripoli Jubayl and Botron (Al-Batrun) in the county of Tripoli and Tyre in the kingdom. On October 2 Jerusalem, then defended by only a handful of ...
- Balikesir
- (from the article "Balikesir") ...Ottoman period. Below the old town are the modern administrative buildings, the railway station, a teacher-training school, and residential districts. The centre of a rich agricultural province, Balikesir is linked ...
- Balikesir
- city, northwestern Turkey, situated on rising ground above a fertile plain that drains to the Sea of Marmara. It lies about where the ancient Roman town of Hadrianutherae lay. In ...
- Balikh River
- (from the article "Tigris-Euphrates river system") ...few miles wide. The Euphrates Dam (completed in 1973) impounds a large reservoir, Lake Al-Asad, above the city of Al-Thawrah (Tabaqah). Below the dam, the reduced flow is supplemented by ...
- Balikhisar
- (from the article "Cyzicus") ancient Greek town, located on the southern coast of the Sea of Marmara in what is now Balikhisar, Tur. It was probably founded as a colony of Miletus in 756 ...
- Balikpapan
- bay and seaport, East Kalimantan propinsi (province), Indonesia. It is situated on the eastern coast of Indonesian Borneo, facing the Makassar Strait, and is the site of a major oil ...
- Balilty, Oded
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...Malian photographer Malick Sidibe received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his years of documentary photography in his home country. Pulitzer Prizes in 2007 went to Oded ...
- Balinese
- people of the island Bali, Indonesia. They differ from other Indonesians in adhering to the Hindu religion, though their culture has been heavily influenced by the Javanese. Their language belongs ... [2 Related Articles]
- Balinese language
- (from the article "Austronesian languages") ...include Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Waray, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan of the Philippines; Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Minangkabau, the Batak languages, Acehnese, Balinese, and Buginese of western Indonesia; and Malagasy ...
- Balint, Endre
- Hungarian painter and printmaker.
- Balint, Miklos
- (from the article "Esterhazy Family") Count Miklos Balint (1740-1806), whose father, Jozsef Balint, was Count Antal's son, had entered the service of France. Miklos Balint became a favourite of Marie Antoinette and also stood in ...
- balk
- (from the article "baseball") ...lead or even "pick off" the runner (catch him off base) by making throws over to the runner's base. The pitcher attempting to pick off a runner must be careful ...
- balk
- (from the article "balkline billiards") ...either 14 or 18 in (36 or 46 cm) away from them. The object of the games is to score caroms by driving a cue ball against both object balls. ...
- Balka
- (from the article "India") ...authority in Lakhnauti (northern Bengal) and was encroaching on the province of Bihar. 'Iwaz Khalji was defeated and slain in 1226, and in 1229 Iltutmish invaded Bengal and slew Balka, ...
- Balkan Crises
- (from the article "international relations") The Balkan crises and the outbreak of war, 1907-14
- Balkan Entente
- (Feb. 9, 1934), mutual-defense agreement between Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Yugoslavia, intended to guarantee the signatories' territorial integrity and political independence against attack by another Balkan state (i.e., Bulgaria or ... [3 Related Articles]
- Balkan League
- (1866-68), an alliance organized by the Serbian prince Michael III (Mihailo Obrenovic). Concluded by the governments of Serbia, Romania, Montenegro, and Greece and a Bulgarian revolutionary society, it tried to ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balkan League
- (1912-13), alliance of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro, which fought the First Balkan War against Turkey (1912-13). Ostensibly created to limit increasing Austrian power in the Balkans, the league was ... [8 Related Articles]
- Balkan Mountains
- chief range of the Balkan Peninsula and Bulgaria and an extension of the Alpine-Carpathian folds. The range extends from the Timok River valley near the Yugoslav (Serbian) border, spreading out ... [4 Related Articles]
- Balkan Wars
- (1912-13), two successive military conflicts that deprived the Ottoman Empire of almost all its remaining territory in Europe. [21 Related Articles]
- Balkanization
- division of a multinational state into smaller ethnically homogeneous entities. The term also is used to refer to ethnic conflict within multiethnic states. It was coined at the end of ...
- Balkans
- easternmost of Europe's three great southern peninsulas, comprising Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova. [31 Related Articles]
- Balkar
- (from the article "Kabardino-Balkaria") ...part of the Terek Cossack district. A Russian fortress was built at Terek on the river, and another, in 1818, at Nalchik. Many of the Russians now living in the ...
- Balkenende, Jan Peter
- (from the article "Netherlands, The") Area: 41,543 sq km (16,040 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 16,371,000 | Capital: Amsterdam; seat of government, The Hague | Chief of state: Queen Beatrix | Head of government: ...
- Balkh
- village in northern Afghanistan that was formerly Bactra, the capital of ancient Bactria. It lies 14 miles (22 km) west of the city of Mazar-e Sharif and is situated along ... [7 Related Articles]
- Balkhash, Lake
- lake, situated in east-central Kazakhstan. The lake lies in the vast Balqash-Alakol basin at 1,122 feet (342 m) above sea level and is situated 600 miles (966 km) east of ... [3 Related Articles]
- balking card
- (from the article "cribbage") ...to the nondealer and to the dealer. Each player then discards two cards facedown to form the crib. In discarding to the crib, since it scores for the dealer, the ...
- balkline billiards
- group of billiard games played with three balls (red, white, and white with a spot) on a table without pockets, upon which lines are drawn parallel to all cushions and ...
- ball
- spherical or ovoid object for throwing, hitting, or kicking in various sports and games. The ball is mentioned in the earliest recorded literatures and finds a place in some of ... [6 Related Articles]
- ball bearing
- one of the two members of the class of rolling, or so-called antifriction, bearings (the other member of the class is the roller bearing). The function of a ball bearing ... [1 Related Articles]
- ball cactus
- any of 25 species in the genus Parodia, family Cactaceae, native in grasslands of South America. Small, globose to cylindroid, they are commonly cultivated as potted plants. P. scopa and ...
- ball game
- (from the article "Central American and northern Andean Indian") ...with highly developed agriculture. The warring expansionist groups, such as the Chibcha and Guaymi, even built palisades around their larger towns, many of which included palaces and temples. Ball courts ...
- ball lightning
- a rare aerial phenomenon in the form of a luminous sphere that is generally several centimetres in diameter. It usually occurs near the ground during thunderstorms, in close association with ... [1 Related Articles]
- ball mill
- (from the article "explosive") In the modern process, charcoal and sulfur are placed in a hollow drum along with heavy steel balls. As the drum rotates, the steel balls pulverize the contents; this device ...
- ball puppet
- (from the article "Obraztsov, Sergey Vladimirovich") ...Magic Lamp") became popular throughout the world. His Don Zhuan ("Don Juan") was produced in 1976. He also gained renown for his work with a kind of finger puppet called ...
- Ball State University
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning located in Muncie, Ind., U.S. The university comprises the colleges of applied sciences and technology, sciences and humanities, fine arts, architecture and planning, communication, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ball, Alan James
- British association football (soccer) player and manager represented his country in 72 matches over a 10-year period (1965-75) and was, at age 21, the youngest player on the team ...
- Ball, Albert
- British fighter ace during World War I who achieved 43 victories in air combat.
- Ball, George Wildman
- U.S. government official and lawyer (b. Dec. 21, 1909, Des Moines, Iowa--d. May 26, 1994, New York, N.Y.), as undersecretary of state (1961-66) in the administrations of John F. Kennedy ...
- Ball, Hugo
- writer, actor, and dramatist, a harsh social critic, and an early critical biographer of German novelist Hermann Hesse (Hermann Hesse, sein Leben und sein Werk, 1927; "Hermann Hesse, His Life ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ball, J. Arthur
- (from the article "1938: Other Winners") ...Alfred Newman for Alexander's Ragtime BandSong: "Thanks for the Memory" from The Big Broadcast of 1938; music by Ralph Rainger, lyrics by Leo RobinHonorary Award: J. Arthur Ball, Deanna Durbin, ...
- Ball, John
- one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
- Ball, Lucille
- radio and motion-picture actress and longtime comedy star of American television, best remembered for her classic television comedy series I Love Lucy.
- Ball, Sir Alexander John, 1st Baronet
- rear admiral, a close friend of Admiral Lord Nelson, who directed the blockade of Malta (1798-1800) and served as civil commissioner (governor) of the island (1802-09).
- Ball, Thomas
- sculptor whose work had a marked influence on monumental art in the United States, especially in New England.
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