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- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...of his provinces. His artists created many statues and stelae. Among the best known is the Black Obelisk, which includes a picture of Jehu of Israel paying tribute. The bronze doors from the town of Imgur-Enlil (Balawat) in Assyria portray ...
- Balawi, Zuhayr ibn Qays al-
- (from the article "North Africa") ...at the hands of a Berber leader, albeit one professing Islam. Two large armies had to be sent from Egypt, however, before organized Berber resistance could be suppressed. The first, commanded by Zuhayr ibn Qays al-Balawi, reoccupied Kairouan, then pursued ...
- Balazs, Bela
- Hungarian writer, Symbolist poet, and influential film theoretician.
- Balazs, Peter
- (from the article "Hungary") ...the EU, and he received the tax portfolio in November. The opposition was critical of the choice-which had been made by Medgyessy prior to his departure-arguing that interim commissioner Peter Balazs, a technocrat, would have been more suited to representing ...
- Balbala
- (from the article "Djibouti, history of") ...Issa enmity; signs of the serious problems facing the young nation were also to be found in the urban demography of its capital. On the outskirts of the city an expansive squatter community known as Balbala, which originally developed just ...
- Balban, Ghiyath-al-Din
- (from the article "India") The political situation had changed by 1246, when Ghiyath al-Din Balban, a junior member of the Forty, had gained enough power to attain a controlling position within the administration of the newest sultan, Nasir al-Din Mahmud (reigned 1246-66). Balban, acting ...
- Balbas, Jeronimo de
- (from the article "Latin American art") The style was introduced by Jeronimo de Balbas of Seville in Mexico, where it had its greatest flowering. Balbas designed a retable for the high altar of the Seville Sagrario in 1706. He went to Mexico in 1717 and designed ...
- Balbinus
- Roman emperor for three months in 238. [1 Related Articles]
- Balbo, Cesare, Count
- Piedmontese political writer, a liberal but cautious constitutionalist who was influential during the Italian Risorgimento and served as the first prime minister of Sardinia-Piedmont under the constitution of March 5, 1848.
- Balbo, Italo
- Italian airman and fascist leader who played a decisive role in developing Benito Mussolini's air force.
- Balboa
- Pacific Ocean terminal port in central Panama, at the southern end of the Panama Canal. It lies between the canal docks and Ancon Hill, which separates it from Panama City. Founded in 1914 and named for Vasco Nunez de Balboa, ...
- Balboa Heights
- town, on a hill overlooking Balboa city. It is the administrative headquarters for the Panama Canal Company, and the Transisthmian Railway. Murals in the administration building depict the canal's construction. The Canal Zone Library and Museum (founded 1914) in Balboa ...
- Balboa Park
- (from the article "San Diego") The 1,200-acre (485-hectare) Balboa Park, near downtown, contains the world-renowned San Diego Zoo; a variety of arts and cultural organizations, such as the Globe Theatres and the Japanese Friendship Garden; and more than a dozen museums, including those devoted to ...
- Balboa, Vasco Nunez de
- Spanish conquistador and explorer, who was head of the first stable settlement on the South American continent (1511) and who was the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean (on Sept. 25 [or 27], 1513, from "a peak in Darien"). [3 Related Articles]
- Balbuena, Bernardo de
- poet and first bishop of Puerto Rico, whose poetic descriptions of the New World earned him an important position among the greatest poets of colonial America. [1 Related Articles]
- Balbus, Lucius Cornelius
- wealthy naturalized Roman, important in Roman politics in the last years of the republic.
- Balcarce, Juan Ramon
- (from the article "Argentina") By 1832 the opposition to federalism had disappeared throughout the country, and Rosas turned over the reins of the government of Buenos Aires to his legal successor, General Juan Ramon Balcarce. However, Balcarce's assumption of the office fanned sparks of ...
- Balcerowicz Plan
- (from the article "Poland") ...was the first government led by a noncommunist since World War II. The tasks it faced were immense. In 1990 the government adopted a "shock therapy" program of economic reform, named the Balcerowicz Plan after its author, Finance Minister Leszek ...
- Balch, Emily Greene
- American sociologist, political scientist, economist, and pacifist, a leader of the women's movement for peace during and after World War I. She received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1946 jointly with John Raleigh Mott. She was also noted for ... [1 Related Articles]
- Balchin, Nigel
- English novelist who achieved great popularity with novels of men at work.
- BALCO
- (from the article "baseball") In 2003 it was alleged that a number of players, including Bonds, had obtained an illegal steroidal cream from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO). Bonds testified before a grand jury that he had never knowingly taken steroids, but accusations ...
- Balcon, Sir Michael
- motion-picture producer, a leader in the British cinema industry.
- balcony
- external extension of an upper floor of a building, enclosed up to a height of about three feet (one metre) by a solid or pierced screen, by balusters (see also balustrade), or by railings. In the medieval and Renaissance periods, ...
- Balcony Falls
- (from the article "James River") ...Roads through an estuary 5 miles (8 km) wide at Newport News after a course of 340 miles (550 km). As the James River flows through one of the gorges in the Blue Ridge Mountains, it drops in the Balcony ...
- Balcytis, Zigmantas
- (from the article "Lithuania") Area: 65,300 sq km (25,212 sq mi) | Population (2006 est.): 3,392,000 | Capital: Vilnius | Chief of state: President Valdas Adamkus | Head of government: Prime Ministers Algirdas Brazauskas, Zigmantas Balcytis (acting) from June 1, and, from July 4, ...
- Balczo, Andras
- Hungarian modern pentathlete who dominated the sport in the 1960s and is considered among the greatest of the storied line of Hungarian competitors in the modern pentathlon.
- bald cypress
- (from the article "conifer") ...of this family are traditionally divided between two families, Cupressaceae for the cypresses (Cupressus) and similar genera and Taxodiaceae for the much more varied genera allied to the bald cypress (Taxodium) and redwood (Sequoia), present evidence shows that all belong ...
- bald cypress
- either of two species of ornamental and timber conifers constituting the genus Taxodium (family Cupressaceae), native to swampy areas of southern North America. The name bald cypress, or swamp cypress, is used most frequently as the common name for T. ... [1 Related Articles]
- bald eagle
- the only eagle solely native to North America, and the national bird of the United States. [3 Related Articles]
- Bald Eagle Protection Act
- (from the article "bald eagle") ...(an annoyance eventually overcome by fitting the traps with devices to discourage perching), Alaskan bounty hunters killed more than 100,000 eagles in the period 1917-52. The U.S. government's Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940 made it illegal to kill bald ...
- baldachin
- in architecture, the canopy over an altar or tomb, supported on columns, especially when freestanding and disconnected from any enclosing wall. The term originates from the Spanish baldaquin, an elaborately brocaded material imported from Baghdad that was hung as a ... [5 Related Articles]
- baldachin
- (from the article "baldachin") in architecture, the canopy over an altar or tomb, supported on columns, especially when freestanding and disconnected from any enclosing wall. The term originates from the Spanish baldaquin, an elaborately brocaded material imported from Baghdad that was hung as a ...
- Baldamus, Eduard
- (from the article "cuculiform") ...the host species may have many different egg colours. Early naturalists noted that there was often a marked resemblance between the egg of a cuckoo and those of the host, and a German ornithologist, Eduard Baldamus, in 1892 showed that ...
- Balder
- in Norse mythology, the son of the chief god Odin and his wife Frigg. Beautiful and just, he was the favourite of the gods. Most legends about him concern his death. Icelandic stories tell how the gods amused themselves by ... [6 Related Articles]
- Baldessari, John
- American artist whose work in altered and adjusted photographic imagery and video were central to the development of conceptual art in the United States. [2 Related Articles]
- Baldini, Stefano
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports") ...just before the 36-km (22.5-mi) mark in the men's race and knocked leader Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil into the crowd. The stunned Brazilian lost 10-15 sec in the incident and was passed by Stefano Baldini of Italy and Mebrahtom ...
- Baldinucci, Filippo
- Florentine art historian, the first to make full use of documents and to realize the importance of drawings in the study of painting. [3 Related Articles]
- baldness
- the lack or loss of hair. Two primary types of baldness can be distinguished: permanent hair loss arising from the destruction of hair follicles, and temporary hair loss arising from transitory damage to the follicles. The first category is dominated ... [2 Related Articles]
- Baldomir, Alfredo
- (from the article "Uruguay") ...out a coup in March 1933 that abolished the National Council and concentrated power in the hands of the president. Terra's dictatorship, followed by the presidency of his brother-in-law General Alfredo Baldomir during the period 1938-42, formulated a conservative response ...
- Baldomir, Carlos
- (from the article "Boxing") ...when unified welterweight champion Zab Judah (U.S.)-who had won the WBC, WBA, and IBF titles by knocking out Cory Spinks (U.S.) on Feb. 5, 2005-lost a 12-round decision on January 7 to Carlos Baldomir (Argentina) in New York City. The ...
- Baldoni, Enzo
- (from the article "Italy") ...security firm seized in April by the hitherto unknown Green Falanges of Muhammad, which claimed that the killing was aimed at teaching Italy a lesson for refusing to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Enzo Baldoni, a freelance journalist, was executed ...
- Baldovinetti, Alessio
- painter whose work, though seldom innovative, exemplified the careful modeling of form and the accurate depiction of light characteristic of the most progressive style of Florentine painting during the last half of the 15th century. At the same time, he ... [1 Related Articles]
- baldpate
- (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 mentor to many later stars, including members of the Rolling ...
- 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, although the demonic energy of his later style is closer ... [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 for Frankish rule in Syria and Palestine. [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 kings, married her (862), and fled with his bride to ... [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. On his mother's side a descendant of Charlemagne, he strengthened ... [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 Muslim attacks. [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]
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