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- 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, and the Patapsco River to the south and southwest. The ...
- 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. Baltimore is Maryland's largest city and economic centre and constitutes ... [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 appliqued styles.emergence during 19th century
- 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 compete with New York merchants and their newly opened Erie ... [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 slave trade, and its hull design gives it claim as ...
- 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 proprietor ordered his governor in Maryland to seize the settlement. ...
- 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 oriole (I. galbula), which breeds in North America east ...
- 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 division winners-Baltimore (13-3) of the North, Indianapolis (12-4) of the ...
- 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. Abell dedicated The Sun to printing the ... [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 music director of the Baltimore (Md.) Symphony Orchestra, becoming the ...
- 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 that synthesizes DNA from RNA. Baltimore also conducted research that ... [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 Baltimore (1925) is an upper-division school that does not admit ...
- 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 as the Shyok River, Baltistan is situated on the high ...
- 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 East Prussian town of Pillau (1686-1946), Baltiysk is connected by ...
- 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, the lead dog of the team that finally reached Nome. ...
- 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 overcoat-like balto to a
- 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 similarities in the vocabulary, grammar, and sound systems of the ... [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, for example, the Baltoro Glacier moves about six feet per ...
- 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) west of Ecuador. Before volcanic faulting occurred, the island was ...
- 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 influential The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste in America, did ...
- 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 carved into great hemispheric bowls; on Rambutyo figures and anthropomorphic ...
- 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 field. Some present a maze of intricate latch-hooked forms. Prayer ... [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 on their way to the Hindu Kush and, on their ...
- 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 centre, trading mainly in rice, jute, sugarcane, and oilseeds. It ...
- 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 distinguish between baluster jugs from London and pichets from Paris ...
- 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) north-northwest. Balykchy's economy centres on a food industry, including meat-packing ...
- 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 establish the traditional form of the novel and is generally ... [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 in 2004. [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 of a few hundred inhabitants, grouped in villages. It became ... [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 state colleges, which include teacher-training colleges, a college of administration, ...
- 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 Birwa (both Northern Sotho), and Kalanga (Western Shona). With larger ...
- Bamba
- (from the article "Mali") ...as "Arab" had occurred intermittently. On September 6, 16 Kounta and Arab prisoners, who had been jailed for fighting, broke out of prison in Gao. In a major flare-up on September 11 in Bamba, 220 km (137 mi) west of ...
- bamba
- (from the article "Native American dance") ...zarabanda of Guatemala. Sometimes the theme of flirtation or female coyness blossoms forth in humorous interludes. Contests of improvisations to la bamba, widely danced in the Mexican Gulf Coast area, also contribute to the merriment of the ...
- Bamba M'backe, Amadou
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...where French continues to be the chief literary language for most writers, especially in Morocco and Algeria. Yet there is no hard and fast rule: a leading member of the Senegal community, Amadou Bamba, who founded the politically important group ...
- Bambara
- ethnolinguistic group of the upper Niger region of Mali whose language, Bambara (Bamana), belongs to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Bambara are to a great extent intermingled with other tribes, and there is no centralized organization. ... [13 Related Articles]
- Bambara groundnut
- (from the article "Fabales") Notable among the locally useful plants of the legume family is Vigna subterranea (Bambara groundnut), a leguminous plant that develops underground fruits in the arid lands of Africa. Important too are the seeds of Bauhinia esculenta; they are gathered for ...
- Bambara language
- (from the article "Mande languages") Many scholars divide Mande into western and eastern groups. The larger western group of 27 languages includes several estimated as having more than a million speakers: Bambara (which has four million), Malinke, Maninka, Mende, Dyula (which is used as a ...
- Bambara states
- two separate West African states, one of which was based on the town of Segou, between the Senegal and Niger rivers, and the other on Kaarta, along the middle Niger (both in present-day Mali). According to tradition, the Segu kingdom ... [4 Related Articles]
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- American writer, civil-rights activist, and teacher who wrote about the concerns of the African-American community. [3 Related Articles]
- Bambatana language
- (from the article "Melanesian languages") ...languages of note are Motu, in the form of Police Motu (a pidgin), used widely as a lingua franca in Papua New Guinea; Roviana, the language of the Methodist Mission in the Solomon Islands; Bambatana, a literary language used by ...
- Bambatha
- (from the article "South Africa") ...protest occurred through the new middle-class organizations, however. Some black farmers from Natal refused to pay a poll tax in 1906, and their resistance developed into an armed rising led by Bambatha, a Zulu chief. At the end of this ...
- Bamberg
- city, Bavaria Land (state), south-central Germany. It lies along the canalized Regnitz River, 2 miles (3 km) above the latter's confluence with the Main River, north of Nurnberg. First mentioned in 902 as the seat of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bamberg
- county, south-central South Carolina, U.S. Bordered to the northeast by the South Fork Edisto River and to the southwest by the Salkehatchie River, it is also drained by the Little Salkehatchie River. The county is largely agricultural, with wetlands in ...
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