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- any of several fragrant herbs of the mint family, particularly Melissa officinalis, also called balm gentle, or lemon balm, and cultivated in temperate climates for its fragrant leaves, which are ...
- balm of Gilead
- (from the article "balm") ...laevis, Molucca balm, or bells of Ireland. Aromatic exudations from species of Commiphora (trees and shrubs of the incense-tree family) may also be referred to as balm. Balm of Gilead, ...
- balm of Gilead poplar
- (from the article "poplar") ...tacamahac (P. tacamahaca or P. balsamifera), which is native throughout northern North America in swampy soil, is distinguished by its aromatic, resinous buds. The buds of the similar balm of ...
- Balmaceda, Jose Manuel
- liberal reformer and president of Chile (1886-91) whose conflict with his legislature precipitated a civil war in 1891. [3 Related Articles]
- Balmain, Pierre
- French couturier who in 1945 founded a fashion house that made his name a byword for elegance. His clients included the Duchess of Windsor, the Queen of Belgium, and many ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balmat, Jacques
- (from the article "mountaineering") ...offered prize money for the first ascent of Mont Blanc, but it was not until 1786, more than 25 years later, that his money was claimed by a Chamonix doctor, ...
- Balmer series
- (from the article "atom") Bohr's model accounts for the stability of atoms because the electron cannot lose more energy than it has in the smallest orbit, the one with n = 1. The model also explains ...
- Balmer, Johann Jakob
- Swiss mathematician who discovered a formula basic to the development of atomic theory and the field of atomic spectroscopy. [4 Related Articles]
- Balmer-alpha line
- (from the article "Stark effect") ...electric field in a space of a few millimetres. At electric field intensities of 100,000 volts per centimetre, Stark observed with a spectroscope that the characteristic spectral lines, called Balmer ...
- Balmes, Jaime Luciano
- ecclesiastic, political writer, and philosopher whose liberal ideas were strongly opposed by conservative Roman Catholics.
- Balmont, Konstantin
- (from the article "Russia") ...new cry was "art for art's sake," and the new idols were the French Symbolists. The first, "decadent" generation of Russian Symbolists included the poets Valery Bryusov, Konstantin Balmont, and ...
- Balmoral Castle
- private residence of the British sovereign, on the right bank of the River Dee, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, at 926 feet (282 metres) above sea level. After its acquisition (1852) by Albert, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balnaves, Henry
- politician and diplomat who was one of the chief promoters of the Reformation in Scotland.
- Baloch
- group of tribes speaking the Balochi language and estimated at about five million inhabitants in the province of Balochistan in Pakistan and also neighbouring areas of Iran and Afghanistan. In ... [5 Related Articles]
- Balochi language
- modern Iranian language of the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family. Balochi speakers live mainly in an area now composed of parts of southeastern Iran and southwestern Pakistan that ... [8 Related Articles]
- Balochistan
- westernmost province of Pakistan. It is bordered by Iran (west), by Afghanistan (northwest), by North-West Frontier and Punjab provinces (northeast and east), by Sindh province (southeast), and by the Arabian ... [9 Related Articles]
- Balochistan Plateau
- (from the article "Pakistan") The vast tableland of Balochistan contains a great variety of physical features. In the northeast a basin centred on the towns of Zhob and Loralai forms a trellis-patterned lobe that ...
- Balochistan Students Union
- (from the article "Pakistan") ...Province. Ethnic interests are served by organizations such as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (formerly the Muhajir Qaumi Movement) in Karachi and Hyderabad, the Sindhi National Front in Sind, and the ...
- Balochistan, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The University of Balochistan was established in Quetta in 1970. The Balochi Academy and the Pashto Academy, also in Quetta, promote the preservation of traditional cultures. Area 134,051 square miles ...
- Balodis, Janis
- army officer and politician who was a principal figure in the foundation and government of independent Latvia. He was commander in chief of the army and navy in Latvia's war ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baloise Art Prize
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...America, the artist's copy of photographer Gary Gross's controversial photo of a nude 10-year-old Brooke Shields posing seductively in a bath, reportedly sold for $1 million. The annual Baloise Art ...
- Balon, Jean
- ballet dancer whose extraordinarily light, elastic leaps reputedly inspired the ballet term "ballon" used to describe a dancer's ability to ascend without apparent effort and to land smoothly and softly. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balqash
- city, east-central Kazakhstan. The city is a landing on the northern shore of Lake Balqash. A major centre of nonferrous (copper, predominantly, and molybdenum) metallurgy, it came into being in ...
- Balqash-Alakol basin
- (from the article "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 ...
- Balquhidder
- village, Stirling council area, historic county of Perthshire, Scotland. It lies near the east end of Loch Voil. Balquhidder is famous as the burial place of the outlaw Rob Roy ...
- Balranald
- town, southern New South Wales, Australia, on the Murrumbidgee River, near its junction with the Murray. Settled in 1847 and proclaimed a town in 1851, it was an important livestock-ferrying ...
- balsa
- common, fast-growing tropical tree, occurring from southern Mexico to Bolivia, that is noted for its extremely lightweight and light-coloured wood. Balsa has pale bark and, like many tropical trees, has ... [3 Related Articles]
- balsa
- (from the article "basketry") ...over the shoulders (especially in Southeast Asia and Indonesia). There are three fairly spectacular types of small basketry craft found in regions as far apart as Peru, Ireland, and Mesopotamia: ...
- balsam
- aromatic resinous substance that flows from a plant, either spontaneously or from an incision; it consists of a resin dispersed in benzoic or cinnamic acid esters and is used chiefly ...
- balsam fir
- (from the article "boreal forest") All North American tree species are distributed across the continent except jack pine (Pinus banksiana), lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), and balsam fir (Abies balsamea). Jack pine is a relatively small, ...
- balsam of Peru
- (from the article "balsam") Balsam of Peru, a fragrant, thick, deep brown or black fluid used in perfumery, is a true balsam, the product of a lofty leguminous tree, Myroxylon pereirae, growing in a ...
- balsam of Tolu
- (from the article "balsam") ...product of a lofty leguminous tree, Myroxylon pereirae, growing in a limited area in El Salvador and introduced into Sri Lanka. It is mentioned in pharmacopoeias but has no medicinal ...
- Balsam poplar
- (from the article "poplar") The Balsam poplar, or tacamahac (P. tacamahaca or P. balsamifera), which is native throughout northern North America in swampy soil, is distinguished by its aromatic, resinous buds. The buds of ...
- Balsam, Artur
- Polish-born U.S. pianist (b. Feb. 8, 1906, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire--d. Sept. 1, 1994, New York, N.Y.), was an accomplished soloist, accompanist for violin and cello, and chamber musician whose ...
- Balsam, Martin
- U.S. character actor who provided durable support in a wide variety of roles onstage and in such films as Twelve Angry Men, Psycho, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and A Thousand Clowns, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balsaminaceae
- (from the article "Ericales") Balsaminaceae, or the touch-me-not family, includes 2 genera and about 1,000 species of fleshy herbs. Hydrocera, with one species, is Indo-Malesian, while Impatiens (touch-me-not ...
- Balsamon, Theodore
- the principal Byzantine legal scholar of the medieval period and patriarch of Antioch (c. 1185-95). [1 Related Articles]
- Balsas Depression
- (from the article "Mexico") ...youngest volcanoes, Paricutin emerged violently from the fields of Michoacan between 1943 and 1952. The region is rich in silver, lead, zinc, copper, and tin deposits. The hot, dry Balsas ...
- Balsas River
- river in south-central Mexico, one of that country's largest rivers. It rises as the Atoyac River at the confluence of the San Martin and Zahuapan rivers in Puebla state and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Balt
- member of a people of the Indo-European linguistic family living on the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea. (The name Balt, coined in the 19th century, is derived from the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Balta Liman, Convention of
- (from the article "Egypt") ...Egypt and clashed with the economic doctrine of free trade upheld by the British government. Although a free-trade convention that was concluded between Britain and the Ottoman Empire in 1838 ...
- Balta, Jose
- (from the article "Civilista") ...centuries that opposed military control of the government. The party of the Civilistas, the Partido Civilista, was founded in 1871 by Manuel Pardo to oppose the corrupt military regime of ...
- Baltard, Victor
- (from the article "Paris") ...products) of Paris. When the market moved out to a new location at Rungis, near the Paris-Orly airport, the quarter's distinctive 19th-century iron-and-glass market halls (10 originals, designed by Victor ...
- Baltazar de Zuniga
- Spanish diplomat and statesman who led his country into the Thirty Years' War and renewed the war against the Dutch Republic (see Eighty Years' War), creating strains that eventually produced ... [2 Related Articles]
- Balther of Sackingen
- (from the article "Fridolin of Sackingen, Saint") Accounts of his life (generally unreliable and deriving principally from the 10th-century monk Balther of Sackingen) describe him as a man of noble birth who became an itinerant preacher in ...
- Balthus
- reclusive French painter who, in the midst of 20th-century avant-gardism, explored the traditional categories of European painting: the landscape, the still life, the subject painting, and the portrait. He is ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balti
- (from the article "Baltistan") ...occasional skirmishes between Indian and Pakistani troops over the status of Kashmir. The valleys lie at elevations of 8,000 to 10,000 feet (2,500 to 3,000 metres). Baltistan is chiefly inhabited ...
- Balti
- city, northern Moldova, on the Raut (Reut) River. Balti, dating from the 15th century, is a major railway junction and the centre of the rich agricultural Balti Steppe. Most industries ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balti steppe
- (from the article "Moldova") The northern landscape of Moldova is characterized by the level plain of the Balti steppe (500 to 650 feet [150 to 200 metres] in elevation) and also by uplands averaging ...
- Baltic Coastal Plain
- (from the article "Poland") The Baltic Coastal Plain stretches across northern Poland from Germany to Russia, forming a low-lying region built of various sediments. It is largely occupied by the ancient province of Pomerania ...
- Baltic Entente
- mutual-defense pact signed by Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on Sept. 12, 1934, that laid the basis for close cooperation among those states, particularly in foreign affairs. Shortly after World War ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baltic Finn
- (from the article "Finno-Ugric religion") When the Baltic Finns came to the regions bordering the Baltic Sea is not certain. The latest possible date would be c. 1500 BC (the evidence being the Baltic loan ...
- Baltic languages
- group of Indo-European languages that includes modern Latvian and Lithuanian, spoken on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and the extinct Old Prussian, Yotvingian, Curonian, Selonian, and Semigallian languages. ... [5 Related Articles]
- Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission
- (from the article "The Environment") The annual meeting of HELCOM, or the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, took place in early March in Helsinki. Countries that bordered the Baltic Sea approved the general direction of ...
- Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange
- (from the article "ship") Most of the world's tramp-ship chartering business is carried out in the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange in London, commonly known as the Baltic Exchange. Other exchanges, especially for special ...
- Baltic religion
- religious beliefs and practices of the Balts, ancient inhabitants of the Baltic region of eastern Europe who spoke languages belonging to the Baltic family of languages.
- Baltic Sea
- arm of the North Atlantic Ocean, extending northward from the latitude of southern Denmark almost to the Arctic Circle and separating the Scandinavian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe. ... [8 Related Articles]
- Baltic Shield
- (from the article "Arctic") ...the Canadian Shield, underlies all the Canadian Arctic except for part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. It is separated by Baffin Bay from a similar shield area that underlies most ...
- Baltic states
- northeastern region of Europe containing the countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. [1 Related Articles]
- Baltic States, history of
- (from the article "Baltic states") In prehistoric times Finno-Ugric tribes inhabited a long belt stretching across northern Europe from the Urals through northern Scandinavia, reaching south to present-day Latvia. The predecessors of the modern Balts ...
- Baltic-Finnic languages
- (from the article "Uralic languages") ...Ugric and Finnic (sometimes called Volga-Finnic) groups, which may have separated as long ago as five millennia. Within these, three relatively closely related groups of languages are found: the Baltic-Finnic, ...
- Baltica
- (from the article "Paleozoic Era") ...Siberia, essentially the large Asian portion of present-day Russia, was a separate continent during the early and middle Paleozoic, when it moved from equatorial to northern temperate latitudes. Baltica moved ...
- Baltimore
- county, north-central Maryland, U.S. It almost surrounds (but excludes) the city of Baltimore and is bounded by Pennsylvania to the north, the Gunpowder River and Chesapeake Bay to the southeast, ...
- Baltimore
- city, north-central Maryland, U.S., about 40 miles (65 km) northeast of Washington, D.C. It lies at the head of the Patapsco River estuary, 15 miles (25 km) above Chesapeake Bay. ... [6 Related Articles]
- Baltimore Album
- (from the article "applique") ...for "best quilts" until replaced toward the mid-19th century by the elaborate applique patterns-wreaths, urns of flowers, sentimental and patriotic designs-of Baltimore Album quilts and other red and green floral ...
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- first steam-operated railway in the United States to be chartered as a common carrier of freight and passengers (1827). The B&O Railroad Company was established by Baltimore (Md.) merchants to ... [3 Related Articles]
- Baltimore clipper
- small, fast sailing ship developed by Chesapeake Bay (U.S.) builders in the 18th century. Its speed made it valuable for use as a privateer, for conveying perishables, and in the ...
- Baltimore incident
- (from the article "Itata and Baltimore incidents") (1891), two serious occurrences involving the United States and Chile, the first taking place during and the second shortly after the Chilean civil war of 1891.
- Baltimore of Baltimore, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron
- (from the article "Claiborne, William") Kent Island was included in the proprietorial grant to Lord Baltimore in 1632, despite Claiborne's opposition in London to the grant. When Claiborne resisted Baltimore's claim to the island, the ...
- Baltimore oriole
- (from the article "oriole") ...New World were first called orioles by the early American settlers because the birds' black-and-yellow patterns resembled those of the true orioles of Europe. Among the icterids is the well-known ...
- Baltimore Orioles
- American professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Md. Playing in the American League (AL), the Orioles won World Series titles in 1966, 1970, and 1983. [6 Related Articles]
- Baltimore Ravens
- (from the article "Football") ...by rushing) and 186 points for San Diego's top-scoring offense with 30.8 points per game. San Diego, the AFC West champion, was joined in the conference play-offs by the other ...
- Baltimore Sun, The
- morning newspaper published in Baltimore, long one of the most influential dailies in the United States. It was founded in Baltimore in 1837 by A.S. Abell as a four-page tabloid. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...Opera from the start of the 2010-11 season, and he said that he would continue his duties as musical director of the Cleveland Orchestra. Marin Alsop began her tenure as ...
- Baltimore, Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron
- English statesman who was commissioned governor of the American colony of Maryland in 1661 and succeeded as proprietor of the colony in 1675.
- Baltimore, David
- American virologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975 with Howard M. Temin and Renato Dulbecco. Working independently, Baltimore and Temin discovered reverse transcriptase, an enzyme ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Baron
- English statesman who projected the founding of the North American province of Maryland, in an effort to find a sanctuary for practicing Roman Catholics. [3 Related Articles]
- Baltimore, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...Towson (1866), Frostburg State (1898), Coppin State (1900), and Salisbury State (1925). Bowie State, Coppin State, and Eastern Shore (1886) were initially established as schools for blacks. The University of ...
- Baltistan
- geographic region of the Northern Areas, in the Pakistani-administered sector of the Kashmir region, in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. Drained by the Indus River and tributaries such ...
- Baltiysk
- city and port, Kaliningrad oblast (province), northwestern Russia. It lies at the entrance to the tip of the narrow peninsula separating Frisches Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. Originally the German ...
- Balto
- (from the article "Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race") ...conditions and rushed serum to icebound Nome. This heroic action, called the "Great Race of Mercy," brought renewed international fame to the trail and the dog teams, particularly to Balto, ...
- balto
- (from the article "Yemen") ...of darker colours, and, when a woman goes outside of the home, she wears some sort of overgarment; this may range from the complete coverage of a burka to an ...
- Balto-Slavic languages
- hypothetical language group comprising the languages of the Baltic and Slavic subgroups of the Indo-European language family. Those scholars who accept the Balto-Slavic hypothesis attribute the large number of close ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baltoro Glacier
- (from the article "Himalayas") ...and is one of the most popular routes for the ascent of the mountain. The rate of movement of the Himalayan region glaciers varies considerably; in the neighbouring Karakoram Range, ...
- Baltra Island
- one of the smaller of the Galapagos Islands, with an area of 8 square miles (21 square km). It lies in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 600 miles (1,000 km) ...
- Baltzell, E Digby
- U.S. sociologist who popularized the term WASP, an acronym for "white Anglo-Saxon Protestant"; though the term reportedly originated in 1957, not until 1964, when Baltzell used it in the highly ...
- Baluan Island
- (from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") The Matankor produced wood carvings and decorated objects, each island having its own specialties. For example, the people on Baluan made bird-shaped bowls, ladles, and spatulas; on Lou, obsidian was ...
- Baluchi rug
- floor covering woven by the Baloch people living in Afghanistan and eastern Iran. The patterns in these rugs are highly varied, many consisting of repeated motifs, diagonally arranged across the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Baluchistan, Iranian
- (from the article "Baloch") In ancient times, Iranian Balochistan provided a land route to the Indus River valley and the Babylonian civilizations. The armies of Alexander the Great marched through Balochistan in 326 BCE ...
- Balue, Jean
- French cardinal, the treacherous minister of King Louis XI.
- Balurghat
- town, northern West Bengal state, northeastern India, just east of the Atrai River. Connected by road with English Bazar (India) and Dinajpur and Rajshahi (Bangladesh), it is a regional distributing ...
- baluster jug
- (from the article "metalwork") ...Europe were evolving their own special types of vessels for beer and wine, which, with a few modifications, remained standard for centuries. Thus, it is a very simple matter to ...
- balustrade
- low screen formed by railings of stone, wood, metal, glass, or other materials and designed to prevent falls from roofs, balconies, terraces, stairways, and other elevated architectural elements. [1 Related Articles]
- Baluze, Etienne
- French scholar, notable both as a historian and as the collector and publisher of documents and manuscripts.
- Balykchy
- town, capital of Ysyk-Kol oblasty (province), Kyrgyzstan. It is a port located on the western shore of Lake Ysyk (Issyk-Kul) and is linked to Frunze, about 87 miles (140 km) ...
- Balzac, Honore de
- French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comedie humaine (The Human Comedy). He helped to ... [10 Related Articles]
- Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez de
- man of letters and critic, one of the original members of the Academie Francaise; he had a great influence on the development of Classical French prose. [1 Related Articles]
- Bam
- city in eastern Kerman province, Iran. The city, an agricultural centre situated on the Silk Road and long famed for its large fortress, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bamako
- capital of Mali, located in the southwestern part of the country on the Niger River. When occupied for the French in 1880 by Captain Joseph-Simon Gallieni, Bamako was a settlement ... [5 Related Articles]
- Bamako, University of
- (from the article "Mali") ...secondary school, or lycee, provides the last three years of traditional secondary education. Higher education-geared directly to the needs of the government-is offered by the University of Bamako (1993) and ...
- Bamangwato
- (from the article "Botswana") The Ngwato of east-central Botswana constitute the largest traditional "tribal" state but are probably less than one-fifth ethnic Tswana by origin. The major incorporated ethnic groups are Khalagari, Tswapong and ...
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