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- (from the article "India") ...Bundelkhand, and the territory north of these provinces continued as before. The emperor was compelled to appoint the Maratha chief minister (peshwa), Balaji Baji Rao, as governor of Malwa. The province of Katehar (Rohilkhand) was seized by ...
- Balak
- (from the article "Balaam") a non-Israelite prophet described in the Old Testament (Num. 22-24) as a diviner who is importuned by Balak, the king of Moab, to place a malediction on the people of Israel, who are camped ominously on the plains of Moab. ...
- Balak Singh
- (from the article "Namdhari") an austere sect within Sikhism, a religion of India. The Namdhari movement was founded by Balak Singh (1797-1862), who did not believe in any religious ritual other than the repetition of God's name (or nam, for which ...
- Balakirev, Mily
- Russian composer of orchestral music, piano music, and songs. He was a dynamic leader of the Russian nationalist group of composers of his era. [4 Related Articles]
- Balaklava, Battle of
- (Oct. 25 [Oct. 13, Old Style], 1854), indecisive military engagement of the Crimean War, best known as the inspiration of the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade. In this battle, the Russians failed ... [3 Related Articles]
- Balakot
- (from the article "India") ...number of other sites have been excavated, each important in its own way. On the coast near Las Bela in Balochistan, materials suggesting a substantial shell-working industry have been found at Balakot. Not far from Mehrgarh, at the head of ...
- Balakovo
- city, Saratov oblast (province), southwestern Russia, on the left bank of the Volga River. Founded in 1762, it long remained a small agricultural town. Its growth was greatly stimulated by the construction in 1967-70 of the Saratov hydroelectric station on ...
- balalaika
- Russian stringed musical instrument of the lute family. It was developed in the 18th century from the dombra, or domra, a round-bodied, long-necked, three-stringed lute played in Russia and Central Asia. The balalaika is made in six sizes, from piccolo ...
- Balalyk Tepe
- (from the article "Central Asian arts") ...These motifs often figure both on surviving textiles and on those recorded in the paintings. The murals at Varakhsha, for example, include motifs taken from textiles, and a 5th-century mural from Balalyk Tepe displays the head of a tusked, boarlike ...
- balam
- (from the article "Tigris-Euphrates river system") ...the return trip north. Traditional sailing craft still in use include muhaylahs and safinahs that are 30 to 80 feet (9 to 24 metres) long, with a capacity of up to 50 tons. Balams are slender, double-ended, flat-bottom craft with ...
- balance
- (from the article "sculpture") The balance, or equilibrium, of freestanding sculpture has three aspects. First, the sculpture must have actual physical stability. This can be achieved by natural balance-that is, by making the sculpture stable enough in itself to stand firmly-which is easy enough ...
- balance
- instrument for comparing the weights of two bodies, usually for scientific purposes, to determine the difference in mass (or weight). [2 Related Articles]
- balance
- (from the article "watch") ...watch, or other spring-driven mechanism, is wound, the curvature of the spring is increased, and energy is thus stored. This energy is transmitted to the oscillating section of the watch (called the balance) by the wheeltrain and escapement, the motion ...
- balance beam
- gymnastics apparatus used in women's competition. It is a wooden beam 5 metres (16.4 feet) long, 10 cm (4 inches) wide, and raised 125 cm (4.1 feet) from the floor. The performer begins the exercise by mounting the beam by ... [1 Related Articles]
- balance of payments
- systematic record of all economic transactions between residents of one country and residents of other countries (including the governments). The transactions are presented in the form of double-entry bookkeeping. [14 Related Articles]
- balance of trade
- the difference in value over a period of time between a country's imports and exports of goods and services, usually expressed in the unit of currency of a particular country or economic union (e.g., dollars for the United States, pounds ... [2 Related Articles]
- balance sheet
- (from the article "Table 1: Any Company, Inc.: Balance Sheet as of December 31, 20__") A balance sheet describes the resources that are under a company's control on a specified date and indicates where these resources have come from. As an overview of the company's financial position, the balance sheet consists of three major sections: ...
- balance spring
- (from the article "watch") Controlling the oscillations of a balance with a spring was an important step in the history of timekeeping. English physicist Robert Hooke designed a watch with a balance spring in the late 1650s; there appears to be no evidence, however, ...
- balanced circuit
- (from the article "telecommunications media") ...a two-wire system called the open-wire pair. In an open-wire pair the forward and return conductors are copper wires that run in parallel and in a common plane. The parallel arrangement produces a balanced transmission circuit that has low sensitivity ...
- balanced incomplete block design
- (from the article "combinatorics") A design is a set of T = {1, 2, . . . , upsilon} objects called treatments and a family of subsets B1, B2, . . . , Bb of T, called blocks, such that the block BI contains ...
- balanced translocation
- (from the article "genetic disease, human") ...syndrome, or a couple who have experienced multiple miscarriages. To provide the most accurate recurrence risk values to such couples, both parents should be karyotyped to determine if one may be a balanced translocation carrier. Balanced translocations refer to genomic ...
- balancer
- (from the article "amphibian") ...hatching. (In contrast, the limbs of anurans do not appear until after hatching.) Soon after the appearance of forelimbs, most pond-dwelling salamanders develop an ectodermal projection known as a balancer on each side of the head. These rodlike structures arise ...
- Balanchine, George
- most influential choreographer of classical ballet in the United States in the 20th century. His works, characterized by a cool neoclassicism, include The Nutcracker (1954) and Don Quixote (1965), both pieces choreographed for the ... [25 Related Articles]
- Balanesti, Mount
- (from the article "Moldova") The uplands of the centre of the republic, the Codri Hills, lie at an average elevation of about 1,150 to 1,300 feet (350 to 400 metres), and the highest point, Mount Balanesti, in the west, reaches 1,407 feet (429 metres). ...
- balanitis
- (from the article "reproductive system disease") Balanitis, or inflammation of the glans penis, and posthitis, or infection of the foreskin, result from the retention of secretions and bacteria beneath the foreskin and can be prevented with proper hygiene. Balanitis can also develop as a complication of ...
- Balanoglossus gigas
- (from the article "acorn worm") ...a collar that may be used to burrow into soft sand or mud. The animals vary in length from about 5 cm (about 2 inches) in certain Saccoglossus species to more than 180 cm (about 6 feet) in Balanoglossus gigas. ...
- Balanopaceae
- family of dicotyledonous flowering plants in the order Malpighiales, containing a single genus (Balanops) and nine species of trees and shrubs that have simple, alternately positioned or somewhat whorled leaves. The plants are further characterized by flowers that lack showy ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balanophora
- (from the article "Balanophoraceae") ...tuberous rhizomes (underground stems) to the roots of host trees by means of highly modified roots (haustoria), through which water and nutrients pass from host to parasite. Plants of the genera Balanophora and Langsdorffia contain an inflammable waxy material, and ...
- Balanophoraceae
- the balanophora family of flowering plants, which includes about 18 genera containing more than 100 species of root parasites that are distributed primarily throughout the tropics. Balanophoraceae has sometimes been placed by most authorities in its own order, Balanophorales, but ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balante
- (from the article "Guinea-Bissau") The largest and most widely spread group, the Balanta Brassa, belong to a relatively egalitarian society in which patrilineage, household, age group, and gender are important divisions. They were the most receptive to nationalist slogans of emancipation from Portuguese rule. ...
- balantidiosis
- (from the article "Balantidium") ...hairlike projections (cilia), Balantidium exists as a parasite in the intestines of pigs, apes, and other animals. The species B. coli can, in rare cases, infect humans and cause balantidiosis (balantidial dysentery), a relatively severe disease causing formation of intestinal ...
- Balantidium
- genus of ovoid protozoans of the holotrichous order Trichostomatida. Uniformly covered with longitudinal rows of minute, hairlike projections (cilia), Balantidium exists as a parasite in the intestines of pigs, apes, and other animals. The species B. coli can, in rare ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balantidium coli
- (from the article "Balantidium") genus of ovoid protozoans of the holotrichous order Trichostomatida. Uniformly covered with longitudinal rows of minute, hairlike projections (cilia), Balantidium exists as a parasite in the intestines of pigs, apes, and other animals. The species B. coli can, in rare ...
- Balanus nubilus
- (from the article "cirripede") ...elegans, from the northeastern and tropical eastern Pacific, respectively, are often imported as substitutes. Indians of the American Pacific Northwest consume the large sessile barnacle Balanus nubilus, and the inhabitants of Chile eat yet another large balanid species. In Japan ...
- Balanus psittacus
- (from the article "crustacean") Another crustacean, the large acorn shell (Balanus psittacus), a barnacle (order Cirripedia) measuring up to 27 centimetres (11 inches) in length, is regarded as a delicacy in South America, and a stalked barnacle (Mitella pollicipes) is eaten in parts of ...
- Balao
- (from the article "submarine") The highly successful U.S. submarine campaign in the Pacific war was waged mainly with the Gato- and Balao-class submarines. These were approximately 311.5 feet long, displaced 1,525 tons, and had diesel-electric machinery for 20-knot surface and nine-knot underwater speeds. The ...
- Balao
- oil port, northwestern Ecuador, on the Pacific coast adjacent to Esmeraldas city. Its development is entirely due to its choice as the terminus for the Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline, built 1970-72 to exploit the rich petroleum deposits of Ecuador's Napo province, in ...
- Balarama
- in Hindu mythology, the elder half-brother of Krishna, with whom he shared many adventures. Sometimes Balarama is considered one of the 10 avatars (incarnations) of the god Vishnu, particularly among those members of Vaisnava sects who elevate Krishna to the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balard, Antoine-Jerome
- French chemist who in 1826 discovered the element bromine, determined its properties, and studied some of its compounds. Later he proved the presence of bromine in sea plants and animals. [2 Related Articles]
- balas ruby
- (from the article "balas ruby") variety of the gemstone ruby spinel (q.v.).for more general content related to this topicruby spinel
- Balas, Iolanda
- Romanian athlete, the dominant performer in the women's high jump during the late 1950s and '60s. She won two Olympic gold medals in the event, set 14 world records, and was the first woman to high-jump 6 feet. [1 Related Articles]
- Balasaghun
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") ...Khitans moved westward under Yeh-lu Ta-shih's leadership and created the Karakhitan (Black Khitai, or Western Liao) state. Its centre lay in the Semirechye and the Chu valley, where the city of Balasaghun was located. Founded by the Sogdians, Balasaghun was ...
- Balash
- Sasanian king (reigned 484-488), succeeding his brother Firuz I. Soon after he ascended the throne, Balash was threatened by the dominance of invading Hephthalites, a nomadic eastern tribe. Supported by Zarmihr, a feudal chief, Balash suppressed an uprising by his ... [2 Related Articles]
- Balashikha
- city, Moscow oblast (province), western Russia, situated 15 miles (25 km) east of Moscow on the banks of the Pekhorka River. Balashikha developed in the 19th century, first as the site of a cloth factory and later ...
- Balasore
- town, northeastern Orissa state, eastern India. Balasore lies on the Burhabalang River, 7 miles (11 km) from the Bay of Bengal. It was the site of a British settlement in 1633; Dutch, Danish, and French merchants followed later in the ...
- Balassi, Balint
- the outstanding Hungarian lyric poet of his time, remaining unrivaled in his native literature until the end of the 18th century. [1 Related Articles]
- balata
- hard rubberlike material made by drying the milky juice produced principally by the bully tree (species Manilkara bidentata) of Guyana and the West Indies. The tree is tapped by cutting zigzag gashes in the bark and collecting the latex in ...
- Balatah, Tall al-
- (from the article "Nablus") ...and early Christian literature commonly equated Nablus with ancient Shechem, and Nablus has been called Shekhem in Hebrew to the present. Ruins of the Canaanite city lie at Tall al-Balatah, to the east of the present city of Nablus; these ...
- Balaton, Lake
- largest lake of central Europe, located in central Hungary about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Budapest. It has an area of 231 square miles (598 square km) and extends for 48 miles (77 km) along the southern foothills of ... [5 Related Articles]
- Balatonfelvideki National Park
- (from the article "Veszprem") ...castle there was the seat of Hungarian queens in the 10th century. At Zirc, high in the Cuha valley, is a 12th-century abbey, and in Nagyvazsony are the ruins of the legendary Kinizsi Castle. Balatonfelvideki National Park is located on ...
- Balatonfured
- (from the article "Balaton, Lake") ...a result of the development of the tourist industry in the second half of the 20th century. A number of watering places sprang up, notable among which were Siofok, on the southern shore, and Balatonfured, on the northern shore. The ...
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