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- (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 deal for the commercial and industrial progress of the country, ...
- 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 found himself obliged to grant to Baldwin IV in fief ...
- 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 nobility that weakened the kingdom during the years when its ... [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 at Frankfurt am Main in 1308 as Henry VII. The ...
- 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, Henry III, and was in desperate need of allies. At ...
- 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 King Baldwin IV, Baldwin V came to the throne when ... [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 was killed in battle in 1070. Robert then claimed ...
- 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, Robert II, and his cousin, Baldwin VII, counts of Flanders. ...
- 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. ("Casey") Baldwin and J.A.D. McCurdy, a pair of engineers from ...
- 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 the United States and, later, through much of western Europe. [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 of individual differences, stressed the importance of theory for psychology, ...
- 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 of 1936. [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 is also the highest peak in the 350-mile- (560-km-) long ... [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 Dzil Ligai (Apache: "Mountain of White Rock"), Baldy is located ...
- 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 Peak, and the Sangre de Cristo range, which rises to ...
- 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, immediately set box-office records amid the intense publicity surrounding the ...
- 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 16th century and for his antiquarian studies, including the first ...
- 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 and the garage music of New York City, the semiconductor ...
- 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. The archipelago lies 50 to 190 miles (80 to 300 ... [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 a rotary toothed pickup mechanism to lift the windrows and ...
- 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 and unsuccessful romance. That year the young couple moved to ...
- 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 tutto (1971; "We Want It All"); and Antonio Porta (pseudonym ...
- 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 was both a defender of northern special interests and an ... [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, the British foreign secretary, to Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron ... [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 (1926), establishing autonomy in foreign affairs for the dominions. When ...
- 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 to 1919 he is perhaps best remembered for his World ... [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, which represent elephants' heads, are used in ceremonies for ...
- 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 propitiate the heavenly beings.
- 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 central mountain chain in Java), the highest point being Mount ... [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 Museum, built by the Dutch government in 1932 and containing ...
- 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 balica) tigers. Because the tiger is so closely related to ...
- 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) composed of a few patricians, a predominating number of small ...
- 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 men under the command of Balian of Ibelin, capitulated to ...
- 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 by rail with Izmir and Ankara by way of Kutahya. ...
- 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 the early 14th century, Balikesir was an important town of ...
- 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 the Balikh and the Khabur rivers. Ample rainfall in the ...
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