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- 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, the prince consort (husband of Queen Victoria), the small castle ... [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 Pakistan the Baloch people are divided into two groups, the ... [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 was once the historic region of Balochistan. They also live ... [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 Sea (south). [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 is surrounded on all sides by mountain ranges. To the ...
- 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 Students Union in Balochistan.
- 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 (347,190 square km). Pop. (2003 est.) 7,450,000.
- 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 of independence and later was a cabinet member and vice ... [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 Prize (25,000 Swiss francs [about $20,000] per recipient) was awarded ...
- 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. The ballet term is also thought to derive from the ... [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 1937 in connection with the construction of large copper-smelting works ...
- 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 the Aral Sea. It is 376 miles (605 km) long ...
- 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 (Robert MacGregor), who died in 1734. His grave and those ...
- 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 point in the 1860s. Gazetted a municipality in 1882, it ...
- 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 no annual growth rings. It can grow more than 5 ... [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: the balsa (boats) of Lake Titicaca, made of reeds and ...
- 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 in medicinal preparations. Certain of the more aromatic varieties of ...
- 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, short-lived, early successional tree occurring in the eastern and central ...
- 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 limited area in El Salvador and introduced into Sri Lanka. ...
- 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 value. Balsam of Tolu (Colombia), a brown balsam thicker than ...
- 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 the similar balm of Gilead poplar (P. jackii) are used ...
- 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 elegant interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn sonatas distinguished his ...
- 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, for which he won an Academy Award for best supporting ... [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 genus), with all the other species, grows throughout the family ...
- 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 Depression, which takes its name from the major river draining ...
- 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 flows southwestward and then westward through the Balsas Depression into ... [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 sea; Aestii was the name given these peoples by 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 (the Convention of Balta Liman) was technically binding on Egypt, ...
- 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 President Jose Balta (served 1868-72). Pardo was elected president in ...
- 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 Baltard and built between 1854 and 1866, and two 1936 ...
- 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 the decline of Spain as a great power. [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 Ireland, travelling from town to town, and then crossed over ...
- 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 best known for his controversial depictions of adolescent girls. [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 by Baltis, Muslim tribes of Tibetan origin who eke out ...
- 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 are concerned with processing farm produce, notably flour milling, sugar ... [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 twice this elevation, culminating in Vysokaya Hill (1,053 feet [321 ...
- 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 (Pomorze), the name of which means "along the sea." The ...
- 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 I, efforts were made to conclude a Baltic defense alliance ... [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 words in proto-Finnic), when the "proto-Finns" still maintained contact with ...
- 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. The Baltic languages are more closely related to Slavic, Germanic, ... [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 an action plan released in draft form in 2006, but ...
- 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 cargoes, are in operation. For example, a large part of ...
- 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. The largest expanse of brackish water in the world, the ... [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 of Greenland. The Baltic (or Scandinavian) Shield, centred on Finland, ...
- 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 bordered them along a belt to the south, stretching west ...
- 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, the Permic, and the Ob-Ugric. The largest of these, the ...
- 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 across the paleoequator from southern cool temperate latitudes into northern ...
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