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- (from the article "number game") ...Henry Dudeney, a contributor to the Strand Magazine, published several very popular collections of puzzles that have been reprinted from time to time (1917-67). The first edition of W.W. Rouse ...
- ball-and-socket joint
- in vertebrate anatomy, a joint in which the rounded surface of a bone moves within a depression on another bone, allowing greater freedom of movement than any other kind of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Balla, Giacomo
- Italian artist and founding member of the Futurist movement in painting. [3 Related Articles]
- ballad
- short narrative folk song whose distinctive style crystallized in Europe in the late Middle Ages and persists to the present day in communities where literacy, urban contacts, and mass media ... [9 Related Articles]
- ballad opera
- characteristic English type of comic opera, originating in the 18th century and featuring farcical or extravaganza plots. The music was mainly confined to songs interspersed in spoken dialogue. Such operas ... [3 Related Articles]
- ballad revival
- the interest in folk poetry evinced within literary circles, especially in England and Germany, in the 18th century. Actually, it was not a revival but a new discovery and appreciation ...
- ballad stanza
- a verse stanza common in English ballads that consists of two lines in ballad metre, usually printed as a four-line stanza with a rhyme scheme of abcb, as in The ...
- ballade
- one of several formes fixes ("fixed forms") in French lyric poetry and song, cultivated particularly in the 14th and 15th centuries (compare rondeau; virelai). Strictly, the ballade consists of three ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balladur, Edouard
- French neo-Gaullist politician, prime minister of France from 1993 to 1995. [3 Related Articles]
- Ballala II
- (from the article "India") ...Vishnuvardhana consolidated the kingdom in the 12th century. The Hoysalas were involved in conflict with the Yadava kingdom, which was seeking to expand southward, particularly during the reign of Ballala ...
- Ballala III
- (from the article "India") ...toward the landholders of the area, many of whom had not accepted Muslim rule, and began a process of consolidation and expansion. Their first campaign was against the neighbouring Hoysala ...
- Ballance, John
- prime minister of New Zealand (1891-93) who unified the Liberal Party, which held power for 20 years; he also played a major role in the enactment of social welfare legislation. [2 Related Articles]
- Ballanche, Pierre-Simon
- religious and social philosopher who influenced the Romantic writers and played an important part in the development of French thought in the early decades of the 19th century. The Romantics ...
- Ballangrud, Ivar
- Norwegian speed skater who, with Clas Thunberg of Finland, dominated speed-skating competitions in the 1920s and '30s. He won seven Olympic medals in his career, as well as four world ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ballantine, Ian Keith
- U.S. pioneer paperback book publisher (b. Feb. 15, 1916--d. March 9, 1995).
- Ballantyne, R.M.
- Scottish author chiefly famous for his adventure story The Coral Island (1858). This and all of Ballantyne's stories were written from personal experience. The heroes of his books are models ...
- Ballantyne, Sir Frederick
- (from the article "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines") Area: 389 sq km (150 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 106,000 | Capital: Kingstown | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Sir Frederick Ballantyne | Head ...
- Ballarat
- city, central Victoria, Australia, on the Yarrowee River. The area was first settled in 1838 by sheepherders and developed rapidly after the discovery of rich alluvial gold deposits in 1851. ...
- Ballarat Reform League
- (from the article "Eureka Stockade") ...and the acquittal of his alleged killers by a government board of inquiry further inflamed the situation. Demonstrations and clashes with the police followed. On November 11 the diggers formed ...
- Ballard Family
- printers who from 1560 to 1750 virtually monopolized music printing in France.
- Ballard, Edna W.
- (from the article "I AM movement") theosophical movement founded in Chicago in the early 1930s by Guy W. Ballard (1878-1939), a mining engineer, and his wife, Edna W. Ballard (1886-1971). The name of the movement is ...
- Ballard, Florence
- (from the article "Supremes, the") ...Ross (byname of Diane Earle; b. March 26, 1944Detroit, Mich., U.S.), Florence Ballard (b. June 30, 1943Detroit -d. Feb. 22,...
- Ballard, Guy
- (from the article "I AM movement") theosophical movement founded in Chicago in the early 1930s by Guy W. Ballard (1878-1939), a mining engineer, and his wife, Edna W. Ballard (1886-1971). The name of the movement is ...
- Ballard, Hank
- American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter best remembered for songs that were frequently as scandalous as they were inventive, most notably the salacious Work with Me, Annie (1954). ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ballard, J.G.
- British author of science fiction set in ecologically unbalanced landscapes caused by decadent technological excess.
- Ballard, John
- (from the article "Babington, Anthony") ...associated at Paris with Mary's supporters, who were planning her release with the help of Spain, and on his return he was entrusted with letters for her. In May 1586 ...
- Ballard, Robert
- American oceanographer and marine geologist whose pioneering use of deep-diving submersibles laid the foundations for deep-sea archaeology. He is best known for discovering the wreck of the [1 Related Articles]
- Ballard, Robert
- (from the article "Ballard Family") The founder of the dynasty was Robert Ballard (d. 1588), brother-in-law to the celebrated lutenist and composer Adrian Le Roy. These two used movable type, cut in 1540 by Robert's ...
- ballas
- (from the article "industrial diamond") Ballas, or shot bort, is composed of concentrically arranged, spherical masses of minute diamond crystals. Ballas is extremely hard, tough, and difficult to cleave. Principal sources are Brazil and South ...
- ballast
- (from the article "railroad") When track is laid on a completed roadbed, its foundation is ballast, usually of crushed rock, slag, or volcanic ash. The sleepers, or crossties, to which the rails are fastened, ...
- ballast tank
- (from the article "harbours and sea works") ...maintenance care without putting the dock out of use. The most vulnerable areas, those immediately adjacent to the waterline, can be reached by careening, a process that involves filling the ...
- ballata
- (from the article "musical form") ...however, are reverting types. In the Middle Ages there existed the fixed forms used in songs, such as the French ballade (a a b), virelai (A b b a A), ...
- Balleroy, Chateau of
- (from the article "Mansart, Francois") ...1623, when he designed the facade of the chapel of the church of the Feuillants in the Rue Saint-Honore in Paris (no longer standing). Of his early works, the only ...
- Ballesteros, Seve
- Spanish golfer who was one of the sport's most prominent figures in the 1970s and '80s. He was known for his flamboyant and imaginative style of play and by the ...
- Ballestrero, Anastasio Alberto Cardinal
- Italian Roman Catholic priest who served as archbishop of Turin from 1977 to 1989 and as such was custodian of the Shroud of Turin; he allowed scientific dating tests to ...
- ballet
- theatrical dance in which a formal academic dance technique-the danse d'ecole-is combined with other artistic elements such as music, costume, and stage scenery. The academic technique itself ... [16 Related Articles]
- Ballet Caravan
- (from the article "American Ballet") Ballet Caravan, founded by Kirstein in 1936 to produce works by young American choreographers, presented many American Ballet dancers in the early works of Eugene Loring, Lew Christensen, and William ...
- Ballet comique de la reine
- court entertainment that is considered the first ballet. Enacted in 1581 at the French court of Catherine de Medicis by the Queen, her ladies, and the nobles of the court ... [2 Related Articles]
- ballet d'action
- ballet in which all the elements of production (e.g., choreography, set design, and costuming) are subordinate to the plot and theme. John Weaver, an English ballet master of the early ... [4 Related Articles]
- Ballet Folklorico
- (from the article "Mexico") ...and help disseminate Mexican art in all its forms, the federal government sponsors the National Institute of Fine Arts. Under its auspices are the programs of the National Symphony Orchestra, ...
- Ballet Gulbenkian
- (from the article "Performing Arts") The announcement of the closure of the Ballet Gulbenkian, based in Lisbon, came with no advance warning for its dancers, who reacted with shock and an appeal to the rest ...
- ballet movement
- in classical ballet, any of the formalized actions of a dancer that follow specific rules regarding the positions of the arms, feet, and body. Ballet choreography is based on combinations ... [1 Related Articles]
- ballet position
- any of the five positions of the feet fundamental to all classical ballet. The term may also denote the various poses of the body. First used by Thoinot Arbeau in ...
- Ballet Rambert
- oldest existing ballet company in England. Since the 1930s the Ballet Rambert has been an important training ground for young talent; among the famous artists who gained early experience with ... [4 Related Articles]
- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
- ballet company founded in Monte-Carlo in 1932. The name Ballets Russes had been used by the impresario Sergey Diaghilev for his company, which revolutionized ballet in the first three decades ... [4 Related Articles]
- ballet slipper
- (from the article "Fashions") ...in high-fashion spring-summer collections-notably Michael Kors's Perspex and black-leather open-toe sandals and Gucci's strappy silk-ribbon evening shoes. In addition, less-expensive ballet slippers proved to be overwhelmingly popular, especially those produced ...
- Ballet West
- (from the article "Christensen, Willam") ...and choreography, established an annual campus Ballet Gala with guest artists (1955), and founded the Utah Ballet (1952). In 1963 the company turned professional, and in 1968 it changed its ...
- Ballets 1933, Les
- (from the article "Balanchine, George") ...to his reputation by composing La Concurrence (1932) and Cotillon (1932). In 1933 he was one of the founders of the avant-garde company Les ...
- Ballets de Paris de Roland Petit
- (from the article "Petit, Roland") ...in Paris. In 1945 Petit was instrumental in creating Les Ballets des Champs-Elysees, where he remained as principal dancer, ballet master, and choreographer until 1947. In 1948 he formed the ...
- Ballets des Champs-Elysees, Les
- (from the article "Petit, Roland") ...Ballet school, he joined the company in 1940 but left in 1944 to create and perform his own works at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, in Paris. In 1945 Petit was ...
- Ballets Russes
- ballet company founded in Paris in 1909 by the Russian impresario Sergey Diaghilev. The original company included the choreographer Michel Fokine and the dancers Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinsky; the ... [14 Related Articles]
- balletto
- in music, genre of light vocal composition of the late 16th-early 17th centuries, originating in Italy. Dancelike and having much in common with the madrigal, a major vocal form of ...
- Ballia
- town, eastern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies along the Ganges River, 75 miles (120 km) northeast of Varanasi (Benares). An ancient settlement, the town has occasionally been moved ...
- Balliett, Whitney Lyon
- American writer became the most influential of all jazz critics by describing the music and its musicians with vivid, sensual metaphors. During 1957-2001 The New Yorker published more than ...
- Ballina
- town and port, north coastal New South Wales, Australia, at the mouth of the Richmond River. Founded (1842-43) as the shipping outlet for the river valley, it was significantly affected ...
- Ballina
- urban district, County Mayo, Ireland, on the River Moy. The town, the largest in Mayo, has a modern Roman Catholic cathedral and the remains of an Augustinian friary founded about ...
- Ballinasloe
- market town and urban district, County Galway, Ireland, on the River Suck and a northerly extension of the Grand Canal. Originally a small settlement beside the medieval castle guarding the ...
- balling
- (from the article "reptile") ...under coils of their bodies. For most species with this habit, the body may be coiled loosely; however, it may also be tightly coiled so that it forms a compact ...
- Ballinger, Richard A
- U.S. secretary of the interior (1909-11) whose land-use policy contributed to the rift between the conservative and progressive factions in the Republican party.
- Balliol College
- (from the article "Balliol, John de") Scottish magnate of Norman descent, one of the richest landowners of his time in Britain, who is regarded as the founder of Balliol College, Oxford; he was the father of ...
- Balliol family
- medieval family that played an important part in the history of Scotland and came originally to England from Bailleul (Somme) in Normandy. Guy de Balliol already possessed lands in Northumberland ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balliol, John de
- Scottish magnate of Norman descent, one of the richest landowners of his time in Britain, who is regarded as the founder of Balliol College, Oxford; he was the father of ... [2 Related Articles]
- ballista
- ancient missile launcher designed to hurl javelins or heavy balls. Ballistas were powered by torsion derived from two thick skeins of twisted cords through which were thrust two separate arms ... [2 Related Articles]
- ballistic galvanometer
- (from the article "galvanometer") The ballistic galvanometer is designed to deflect its indicating needle (or mirror) in a way that is proportional to the total charge passing through its moving coil or to a ...
- ballistic missile
- (from the article "Military Affairs") In January China became only the third country (after the former Soviet Union and the United States) to have successfully tested an antisatellite weapon. The test involved using a medium-range ...
- ballistic missile defense radar
- (from the article "radar") The systems for detecting and tracking ballistic missiles and orbiting satellites are much larger than those for aircraft detection because the ranges are longer and the radar echoes from space ...
- Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
- (from the article "radar") ...Two antennas make up a system, with each capable of covering a sector 120 degrees in azimuth. Vertical coverage is from 3 to 85 degrees. An upgraded variant of this ...
- ballistic pendulum
- device for measuring the velocity of a projectile, such as a bullet. A large wooden block suspended by two cords serves as the pendulum bob. When a bullet is fired ... [2 Related Articles]
- ballistics
- science of the propulsion, flight, and impact of projectiles. It is divided into several disciplines. Internal and external ballistics, respectively, deal with the propulsion and the flight of projectiles. The ... [4 Related Articles]
- ballistite
- (from the article "explosive") In 1887 Nobel introduced another of his revolutionary inventions, which he called Ballistite. He mixed 40 percent of a lower nitrogen content, more soluble nitrocellulose, and 60 percent of nitroglycerin. ...
- ballistocardiogram
- (from the article "ballistocardiography") ...of the body, which in turn causes movements in a suspended supporting structure, usually a special table or bed on which the subject is lying, and these movements are recorded ...
- ballistocardiography
- graphic recording of the stroke volume of the heart for the purpose of calculating cardiac output. The heartbeat results in motion of the body, which in turn causes movements in ...
- ballistospore
- in fungi, a spore forcibly propelled from its site. The basidiospores of the mushrooms, produced on the gills and on the walls of the spores, are ballistospores. They are shot ...
- Ballivian, Lake
- predecessor to modern Lake Titicaca, on the Bolivia-Peru border during the Pleistocene Epoch (approximately 1.8 million to 11,800 years ago). Its surface is thought to have been at least 100 ...
- ballivus
- (from the article "agency") About this time, the doctrine of principal and agent developed in England as an outgrowth or expansion of the doctrine of master and servant. Anglo-Norman law created the figures of ...
- balloon
- large airtight bag filled with hot air or a lighter-than-air gas, such as helium or hydrogen, to provide buoyancy so that it will rise and float in the atmosphere. Transport ... [13 Related Articles]
- balloon angioplasty
- (from the article "atherosclerosis") ...have been saved by coronary bypass surgery, in which sections of blood vessels from other parts of the body are used to route blood flow around the obstructions. Some occlusions ...
- balloon flight
- passage through the air of a balloon that contains a buoyant gas, such as helium or heated air, for which reason it is also known as lighter-than-air free flight. Unmanned ...
- balloon fly
- any member of a family of flies in the insect order Diptera that are named for their swollen abdomen. It is also characterized by an extremely small head and a ...
- balloon framing
- framework of a wooden building in which the elements consist of small members nailed together. In balloon framing, the studs (vertical members) extend the full height of the building (usually ... [1 Related Articles]
- balloon tuboplasty
- (from the article "infertility") ...tube can be used to remove an obstruction and, as a result, correct the underlying fertility problem. Less-invasive techniques also may be used to unblock obstructed fallopian tubes. For example, ...
- balloon vine
- (species Cardiospermum halicacabum), woody perennial vine in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) that is native to subtropical and tropical America. It is naturalized and cultivated widely as an ornamental for its ... [1 Related Articles]
- balloonflower
- plant that is the only species of its genus, an East Asian perennial of the bellflower family (Campanulaceae). The balloonflower has balloonlike buds that become flaring, five-lobed, bell-shaped flowers with ...
- ballooning
- unpowered balloon flight in competition or for recreation, a sport that became popular in the 1960s. The balloons used are of plastic, nylon, or polyethylene, and are filled with hydrogen, ... [8 Related Articles]
- ballooning
- (from the article "gypsy moth") ...stage. Small larvae spin silk from glands in their mouthparts and hang from branches high up in trees. If the silk lines are long enough, the wind breaks them from ...
- Ballot Act
- (from the article "Australian ballot") In Great Britain the secret ballot was finally introduced for all parliamentary and municipal elections by the Ballot Act of 1872. In the United States, the Australian ballot system was ...
- ballotade
- (from the article "horsemanship") ...is more upward than forward; the levade, in which the horse stands balanced on its hindlegs, its forelegs drawn in; the courvet, which is a jump forward in the levade ...
- Ballou, Hosea
- (from the article "Tufts University") Hosea Ballou (1796-1861), nephew of the theologian Hosea Ballou (1771-1852), was joined by Universalist church members in founding Tufts College in 1852 and served as its first president. It was ...
- Ballou, Hosea
- American theologian who for more than 50 years was an influential leader in the Universalist church. [2 Related Articles]
- ballpoint pen
- (from the article "Frawley, Patrick Joseph, Jr.") ...his father's import-export firm, and by his early 20s he was managing his own import-export company in San Francisco. He expanded his business in 1949 by purchasing a bankrupt fabricator ...
- ballroom dance
- European and American social dancing performed by couples. It includes the standard repertory of dances such as the fox-trot, waltz, polka, and tango as well as various fad dances from ... [3 Related Articles]
- Bally
- city, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India. Bally lies just west of the Hooghly River. A part of the Howrah urban agglomeration, it is connected by road and rail with ...
- Bally, Charles
- (from the article "stylistics") The traditional idea of style as something properly added to thoughts contrasts with the ideas that derive from Charles Bally (1865-1947), the Swiss philologist, and Leo Spitzer (1887-1960), the Austrian ...
- Ballycastle
- town, Moyle district (established 1973), formerly in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated along Ballycastle Bay, opposite Rathlin Island, where Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, is said to have ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ballyman Church
- (from the article "Bray") ...terminate southward in Bray Head, a 653-foot (199-metre) quartzite peak. Bray is an important tourist centre, both as a resort and as a base for touring the scenic areas of ...
- Ballymena
- district, Northern Ireland. It was established in 1973 and was formerly in County Antrim. Ballymena borders the districts of Magherafelt to the west, Ballymoney and Moyle to the north, Larne ...
- Ballymena
- town and seat of Ballymena district, Northern Ireland. It lies in the River Main valley 24 miles (40 km) northwest of the city of Belfast. The town is the market ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ballymoney
- (from the article "Ballymoney") ...on a tributary of the River Bann, was the birthplace of James McKinley, grandfather of the U.S. president William McKinley. The town preserves a marketplace of 1775 and an old ...
- Ballymoney
- town, seat, and district (established 1973), formerly within County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The town of Ballymoney, located on the eastern side of the valley on a tributary of the River ...
- Ballymun
- (from the article "Dublin") After the war, as shortages eased, new suburbs began to spread. In 1969 high-rise apartment blocks were built in new satellite developments in the towns of Ballymun and Ballyfermot; unfortunately, ...
- Ballynahinch
- (from the article "Down") ...chief crops are oats, barley, wheat, and hay. Livestock raising (sheep and pigs) is also important. Downpatrick is the district's market and administrative seat and has some textile industry, while ...
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