Bali, island and propinsi (or provinsi; province) in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. It is situated 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the island of Java, separated by the narrow Bali Strait. Area province, 2,232 square miles (5,780 square km). Pop. (2000) province, 3,151,162; (2010) province, 3,890,757.

Bally, city, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies on the west bank of the Hugli (Hooghly) River, opposite Baranagar, and is part of the Haora (Howrah) urban agglomeration as well as the larger Kolkata (Calcutta) metropolitan area. Bally was constituted a municipality in 1883.

South Asian arts: Tovil dance: …to rout pestilence, and the bali, danced to propitiate the heavenly beings.

banteng, (species Bos banteng), a species of wild Southeast Asian cattle, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), found in hill forests. A shy animal resembling a domestic cow, the banteng attains a shoulder height of about 1.5–1.75 m (60–69 inches). It has a slight ridge on the back, a white rump,

Denpasar: …National Archaeological Research Centre; the Bali Museum, built by the Dutch government in 1932 and containing specimens of Balinese art from prehistoric times to the early 20th century; and Udayana University (founded 1962) are located at Denpasar. Sites of interest include the Puri (temple) Pemecutan, St. Joseph Church, Meredith Memorial…

Mount Agung, volcano, northeastern Bali, Indonesia. The highest point in Bali and the object of traditional veneration, it rises to a height of 9,888 feet (3,014 meters). In 1963 it erupted after being dormant for 120 years; some 1,600 people were killed and 86,000 left homeless. According to one

tiger: Tigers and humans: tigris sondaica), and the Bali (P. tigris balica). Because the tiger is so closely related to the lion, the two species can be crossbred in captivity. The offspring of such matings are called tigons when the male father (sire) is a tiger and ligers when the sire is a…

Mount Agung, volcano, northeastern Bali, Indonesia. The highest point in Bali and the object of traditional veneration, it rises to a height of 9,888 feet (3,014 meters). In 1963 it erupted after being dormant for 120 years; some 1,600 people were killed and 86,000 left homeless. According to one

Italy: Florence in the 14th century: …of a ruling committee (balìa) composed of a few patricians, a predominating number of small masters, and 32 representatives of the ciompi. Michele di Lando, foreman in a cloth factory, was appointed to the balìa as “standard-bearer of justice.”

Crusades: The Crusader states to 1187: …men under the command of Balian of Ibelin, capitulated to Saladin, who agreed to allow the inhabitants to leave once they had paid a ransom. Though Saladin’s offer included the poor, several thousand apparently were not redeemed and probably were sold into slavery. In Jerusalem, as in most of the…

Balıkesir, city, northwestern Turkey. It is 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, Balıkesir was an important town of the Turkmen Karası emirate, which was soon

Balıkesir: …of a rich agricultural province, Balıkesir is linked by rail with İzmir and Ankara by way of Kütahya. Industries produce cotton textiles, flour, rugs, and leather goods. The area around Balıkesir has a milder climate than that of inner Anatolia, and its rich soil produces a varied crop of cereals,…

Tigris-Euphrates river system: Physiography of the Euphrates: …flow is supplemented by the Balīkh and the Khābūr rivers. Ample precipitation in the northern reaches of both those tributaries allowed the creation of major cities in ancient times and now supports intensive agriculture.

Cyzicus: …Marmara in what is now Balikhisar, Tur. It was probably founded as a colony of Miletus in 756 bc, and its advantageous position soon gave it commercial importance.

Balikpapan, bay and seaport, East Kalimantan (Kalimantan Timur) propinsi (or provinsi; province), Indonesia. It is situated on the eastern coast of Indonesian Borneo, facing the Makassar Strait, and is the site of a major oil refinery that processes both imported and local crude oils. There are

Hinduism: The Ramayana: …killing of the monkey king Valin and his banishment of the innocent Sita, for example, have been troublesome to subsequent tradition. These problems of the “subtlety” of dharma and the inevitability of its violation, central themes in both epics, remained the locus of considerable argument throughout Indian history, both at…

Jefferson Airplane: >Marty Balin (original name Martyn Jerel Buchwald; b. January 30, 1942, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—d. September 27, 2018, Tampa, Florida) Paul Kantner (b. March 17, 1941, San Francisco, California, U.S.—d. January 28, 2016, San Francisco) Jorma Kaukonen (b. December 23, 1940,

Irving Berlin was an American composer and songwriter who played a leading role in the evolution of the popular song from the early ragtime and jazz eras through the golden age of musicals. His easy mastery of a wide range of song styles, for both stage and motion pictures, made him one of the

Balinese, people of the island of Bali, Indonesia. Unlike most Indonesians, who practice Islam, the Balinese adhere to Hinduism, though their interpretation of it has been heavily influenced by the neighbouring Javanese culture. The Balinese language belongs to the Austronesian language family. In

Austronesian languages: Major languages: Balinese, and Buginese of western Indonesia; and Malagasy of Madagascar. Each of these languages has more than one million speakers. Javanese alone accounts for about one-quarter of all speakers of Austronesian languages, which is a remarkable disparity in view of the total number of languages…

Sándor Bálint was a Hungarian ethnographer and eminent researcher on sacral ethnology and popular Roman Catholic traditions. Bálint completed his studies at Szeged University, then taught at the teacher-training institute from 1931 to 1947. He was a professor of ethnography at Szeged University

optic ataxia: History of optic ataxia: …that later became known as Bálint syndrome. Among the symptoms that characterize the syndrome are a restriction of visual attention to single objects and a paucity of spontaneous eye movements. Bálint noted inaccurate reaching of the man’s right hand. The patient commented that his right hand was clumsy; for instance,…

Endre Bálint was a Hungarian painter and printmaker. From 1930 to 1934 Bálint studied at the College of Applied Arts in Budapest, then from 1935 to 1936 at the private school of János Vaszary and Vilmos Aba Novák. He was for a time associated with artists working in the town of Szentendre. His

Esterházy Family: Count Miklós Bálint (1740–1806), whose father, József Bálint, was Count Antal’s son, had entered the service of France. Miklós Bálint became a favourite of Marie Antoinette and also stood in favour with the Count d’Anjou (later Charles X of France). During the French Revolution Miklós…

Sándor Bálint was a Hungarian ethnographer and eminent researcher on sacral ethnology and popular Roman Catholic traditions. Bálint completed his studies at Szeged University, then taught at the teacher-training institute from 1931 to 1947. He was a professor of ethnography at Szeged University

Apollonius Of Tyana was a Neo-Pythagorean who became a mythical hero during the time of the Roman Empire. Empress Julia Domna instructed the writer Philostratus to write a biography of Apollonius, and it is speculated that her motive for doing so stemmed from her desire to counteract the influence

Balliol family, medieval family that played an important part in the history of Scotland and came originally to England from Bailleul (Somme) in Normandy. Guy de Balliol already possessed lands in Northumberland and elsewhere during the reign of William II of England (1087–1100). Guy’s nephew and

Edward was the son of King John de Balliol of Scotland and claimant to the title of King of Scots, who was crowned in September 1332. Expelled in December 1332, he was restored in 1333–56, having acknowledged Edward III of England as his lord. Edward inherited only the family lands in France and

John de Balliol was a Scottish magnate of Norman descent, one of the richest landowners of his time in Britain, who is regarded as the founder of Balliol College, Oxford; he was the father of John de Balliol, king of Scots. The elder John served (1251–55) as guardian of the young Scottish king

John was the king of Scotland from 1292 to 1296, the youngest son of John de Balliol and his wife Dervorguilla, daughter and heiress of the lord of Galloway. His brothers dying childless, he inherited the Balliol lands in England and France in 1278 and succeeded to Galloway in 1290. In that year,

Diwali: The fourth day, known as Govardhan Puja, Balipratipada, or Annakut, commemorating Krishna’s feat of lifting up a mountain, Govardhan Hill, to protect the local cowherds in defiance of Indra, the king of the gods, who had sent a torrential rain upon them. It is also the first day of Karttika…

triggerfish: Common species include the queen triggerfish (Balistes vetula), a tropical Atlantic fish brightly striped with blue, and Rhinecanthus aculeatus, a grayish, Indo-Pacific fish patterned with bands of blue, black, orange, and white.

triggerfish, any of about 30 species of shallow-water marine fishes of the family Balistidae, found worldwide in tropical seas. Triggerfishes are rather deep-bodied, usually colourful fishes with large scales, small mouths, and high-set eyes. Their common name refers to the triggering mechanism in

tetraodontiform: Annotated classification: Superfamily Balistoidea (leatherjackets) 2 or 3 dorsal spines, the 2nd spine serving to lock the 1st in an erected position; pelvic spine rudimentary or absent. About 43 genera, 142 species; worldwide. Family Balistidae (triggerfishes) 3 dorsal spines; 8 outer teeth in each jaw. 11 genera,

tetraodontiform: Annotated classification: Suborder Balistoidei Frontals extending far anterior to the articulation between lateral ethmoid and ethmoid. 3 superfamilies with 4 families, 61 genera, 182 species. Superfamily Triacanthoidea 1 family. Family Triacanthidae (triple spines) Shallow-water

ostariophysan: Annotated classification: Family Balitoridae (hill-stream loaches) Ventral sucking disk formed by paired fins. Freshwater, Eurasia. About 59 genera, 590 species. Family Cobitidae (loaches) Wormlike; scales minute or absent; barbels 3–6 pairs. Intestine sometimes modified for aerial respiration. Mostly carnivorous. Aquarium fishes. Size to

Al-Andalus: Islamic hegemony in Spain: …an army from Syria under Balj ibn Bishr, which suppressed the Berbers in North Africa before embarking from Ceuta to Spain. Balj put down the rebellion in Spain, seized power in Córdoba (742), and executed the governor, only to be killed in combat shortly thereafter. These troubles enabled Alfonso I…

baseball: Pitching with men on base: …not to commit a “balk.” A balk occurs when (1) the pitcher, in pitching the ball to the batter, does not have his pivoting foot in contact with the pitching plate, (2) the pitcher does not hold the ball in both hands in front of him at chest level…

balkline billiards: …lines and cushions are called balks, and, when both object balls are within one of them, a player may score only once or twice (depending on the game played) before driving at least one of the balls out of the balk. The large central area of the table is not…

India: Consolidation of the sultanate: …Iltutmish invaded Bengal and slew Balka, the last of the Khaljī chiefs to claim independent power. Iltutmish’s campaigns in Rajasthan and central and western India were ultimately less successful, although he temporarily captured Ranthambhor (1226), Mandor (Mandawar; 1227), and Gwalior (1231) and plundered Bhilsa and Ujjain in Malwa (1234–35). His…

Balkan League, (1912–13), alliance of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro, which fought the First Balkan War against Turkey (1912–13). Ostensibly created to limit increasing Austrian power in the Balkans, the league was actually formed at the instigation of Russia in order to expel the Turks

Marina Abramović: Her exhibit, the brooding Balkan Baroque, used both video and live performance to interrogate her cultural and familial identity. She also captured public attention for The House with the Ocean View (2002), a gallery installation in which she lived ascetically for 12 days in three exposed cubes mounted onto…

Balkan confederation, proposed union of communist Balkan republics. The plan, conceived by Balkan social-democratic parties at the beginning of the 20th century, was fostered immediately after World War II by Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia and Georgi Dimitrov of Bulgaria. To implement the plan,

20th-century international relations: The Balkan crises and the outbreak of war, 1907–14: In the end, war did not come over the naval race or commercial competition or imperialism. Nor was it sparked by the institutional violence of the armed states, but by underground terrorism…

Balkan Entente, (Feb. 9, 1934), mutual-defense agreement between Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Yugoslavia, intended to guarantee the signatories’ territorial integrity and political independence against attack by another Balkan state (i.e., Bulgaria or Albania). The agreement provided for a

Q fever, acute self-limited systemic disease caused by the rickettsia Coxiella burnetii. Q fever spreads rapidly in cows, sheep, and goats, and in humans it tends to occur in localized outbreaks. The clinical symptoms are those of fever, chills, severe headache, and pneumonia. The disease is

Balkan League, (1866–68), an alliance organized by the Serbian prince Michael III (Mihailo Obrenović). Concluded by the governments of Serbia, Romania, Montenegro, and Greece and a Bulgarian revolutionary society, it tried to drive the Turks from the Balkans and to unite the South Slavs in a single

Balkan League, (1912–13), alliance of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro, which fought the First Balkan War against Turkey (1912–13). Ostensibly created to limit increasing Austrian power in the Balkans, the league was actually formed at the instigation of Russia in order to expel the Turks

Balkan Mountains, chief range of the Balkan Peninsula and Bulgaria and an extension of the Alpine-Carpathian folds. The range extends from the Timok River valley near the Yugoslav (Serbian) border, spreading out eastward for about 330 miles (530 km) into several spurs, rising to 7,795 feet (2,376

Balkan Entente, (Feb. 9, 1934), mutual-defense agreement between Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Yugoslavia, intended to guarantee the signatories’ territorial integrity and political independence against attack by another Balkan state (i.e., Bulgaria or Albania). The agreement provided for a

Balkans, easternmost of Europe’s three great southern peninsulas. There is not universal agreement on the region’s components. The Balkans are usually characterized as comprising Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and

Balkans, easternmost of Europe’s three great southern peninsulas. There is not universal agreement on the region’s components. The Balkans are usually characterized as comprising Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and

The Balkan Trilogy, series of three novels by Olivia Manning, first published together posthumously in 1981. Consisting of The Great Fortune (1960), The Spoilt City (1962), and Friends and Heroes (1965), the trilogy is a semiautobiographical account of a British couple living in the Balkans during

Balkan Wars, (1912–13), two successive military conflicts that deprived the Ottoman Empire of all its remaining territory in Europe except part of Thrace and the city of Adrianople (Edirne). The second conflict erupted when the Balkan allies Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria quarreled over the

Balkanabat, city and administrative centre of Balkan oblast (province), western Turkmenistan. It is located at the southern foot of the Bolshoy (Great) Balkhan Ridge. The city’s former name, Nebitdag, means “Oil Mountain,” and it is the headquarters of the Turkmen oil industry. Balkanabat grew up

Balkanization, division of a multinational state into smaller ethnically homogeneous entities. The term also is used to refer to ethnic conflict within multiethnic states. It was coined at the end of World War I to describe the ethnic and political fragmentation that followed the breakup of the

Balkans, easternmost of Europe’s three great southern peninsulas. There is not universal agreement on the region’s components. The Balkans are usually characterized as comprising Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and

Kabardino-Balkariya: The Balkar of the high mountains long resisted Russian incursion. The area was organized as the Kabardin autonomous oblast (region) in 1921 and extended in 1922 through amalgamation with Balkariya to form the Kabardino-Balkar autonomous oblast, which was constituted as an autonomous republic in 1936. In…

Turkic languages: Classification: …partly endangered languages, Kumyk (Dagestan), Karachay and Balkar (North Caucasus), Crimean Tatar, and Karaim. The Karachay and Balkars and Crimean Tatars were deported during World War II; the latter were allowed to resettle in Crimea only after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Karaim is preserved in…

Netherlands: Into the 21st century: In 2003 Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, head of the CDA, formed a centrist coalition with the liberal Democrats ’66 and the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie; VVD). In the parliamentary elections of 2006, the Socialist Party made large gains, though the CDA…

Balkh, village in northern Afghanistan that was formerly Bactra, the capital of ancient Bactria. It lies 14 miles (22 km) west of the city of Mazār-e Sharīf and is situated along the Balkh River. A settlement existed at the site as early as 500 bce, and the town was captured by Alexander the Great

Balqash, city, east-central Kazakhstan. The city is a landing on the north shore of Lake Balqash (Balkhash). Balqash is 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 for

Lake Balkhash, lake, situated in east-central Kazakhstan. The lake lies in the vast Balqash-Alaköl 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 from west to east. Its area varies within significant limits,

cribbage: The cut and the deal: …tries to lay away “balking” cards, those least likely to create scoring combinations. After the discard, the undealt remainder of the pack is cut by the nondealer; the top card of the lower packet is turned faceup on top of the reunited deck and becomes the starter. If the…

balkline billiards, group of billiard games played with three balls (red, white, and white with a spot) on a table without pockets, upon which lines are drawn parallel to all cushions and usually either 14 or 18 in (36 or 46 cm) away from them. The object of the games is to score caroms by driving

ball, spherical or ovoid object for throwing, hitting, or kicking in various sports and games. The ball is mentioned in the earliest recorded literatures and finds a place in some of the oldest graphic representations of play. It is one of the earliest children’s toys known. A ball can be made from

Big Mama Thornton: The 1960s and Ball and Chain: …version of the Thornton-written “Ball and Chain” revived interest in the blues singer called “Big Mama” because of her girth and larger-than-life voice and stage presence. Though she resented Presley’s success with her song “Hound Dog,” Thornton held much greater respect for Joplin, perhaps because Joplin was more vocal…

ball bearing, one of the two members of the class of rolling, or so-called antifriction, bearings (the other member of the class is the roller bearing). The function of a ball bearing is to connect two machine members that move relative to one another in such a manner that the frictional resistance

ball cactus, (genus Parodia), genus of 60–70 species of cacti (family Cactaceae) native to the grasslands of South America. Several species are commonly cultivated as potted plants, including silver ball cactus (Parodia scopa) and golden ball cactus (P. leninghausii), which are especially valued

copra: Whole copra, also called ball or edible copra, is produced by the less common drying of the intact, whole nut kernel.

baseball: Baseball and the arts: Former pitcher Jim Bouton’s Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues (1970) is a funny and honest recounting of the daily life of a major league ballplayer. And Roger Angell wrote elegantly about baseball for The New Yorker; many of the best…

Central American and northern Andean Indian: Traditional culture patterns: Ball courts and large ceremonial plazas were constructed only among the Antillean Arawak, who were unusual in having communities with as many as 3,000 people.

space debris: …2013, the Russian laser-ranging satellite BLITS (Ball Lens in the Space) experienced a sudden change in its orbit and its spin, which caused scientists to abandon the mission. The culprit was believed to have been a collision with a piece of Fengyun-1C debris. Fragments from Fengyun-1C, Iridium 33, and Cosmos…

ball lightning, a rare aerial phenomenon in the form of a luminous sphere that is generally several centimetres in diameter. It usually occurs near the ground during thunderstorms, in close association with cloud-to-ground lightning. It may be red, orange, yellow, white, or blue in colour and is

explosive: Manufacture of black powder: …this device is called a ball mill. The saltpetre is crushed separately by heavy steel rollers. Next, a mixture of several hundred pounds of saltpetre, charcoal, and sulfur is placed in a heavy iron device shaped like a cooking pan. There it is continuously turned over by devices called plows,…

epiphyte: …are uncommon in arid environments, ball moss (Tillandsia recurvata) is a notable exception and can be found in coastal deserts in Mexico, where it receives moisture from marine fog.

Howard Hawks: Films of the 1940s: Ball of Fire (1941), written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, was a well-conceived romantic comedy centred on Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The patriotic Air Force (1943) transposed Hawks’s Air Corps experience and men-at-work ethos to World War II, with John Garfield, Gig Young,

Sergey Vladimirovich Obraztsov: …of finger puppet called a ball puppet and for demonstrating puppeteering with his bare hands.

Ball State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning located in Muncie, Ind., U.S. The university comprises the colleges of applied sciences and technology, sciences and humanities, fine arts, architecture and planning, communication, information, and media, and business as

Ball State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning located in Muncie, Ind., U.S. The university comprises the colleges of applied sciences and technology, sciences and humanities, fine arts, architecture and planning, communication, information, and media, and business as

American Beauty: Alan Ball had written only for television before creating the script for American Beauty, for which he won an Oscar. In development, the script became a pet project of DreamWorks Pictures chief Steven Spielberg. American Beauty was the first movie helmed by British theatre director…

Albert Ball was a British fighter ace during World War I who achieved 43 victories in air combat. Ball was educated at Trent College, which he left in 1913. On the outbreak of World War I, he joined the army. During the summer of 1915 he learned to fly at his own expense at Hendon, Middlesex,

Josephine Bell was an English physician and novelist best known for her numerous detective novels, in which poison and unusual methods of murder are prominent. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge (1916–19), and University College Hospital, London, and was a practicing physician from 1922

Hugo Ball was a writer, actor, and dramatist, a harsh social critic, and an early critical biographer of German novelist Hermann Hesse (Hermann Hesse, sein Leben und sein Werk, 1927; “Hermann Hesse, His Life and His Work”). Ball studied sociology and philosophy at the Universities of Munich and

John Ball was one of the leaders of the Peasants’ Revolt in England. A sometime priest at York and at Colchester, Ball was excommunicated about 1366 for inflammatory sermons advocating a classless society, but he continued to preach in open marketplaces and elsewhere. After 1376 he was often

golf: British tournaments and players: Hutchinson, John Ball (who won it eight times), J.E. Laidlay, and H.H. Hilton. The interwar years were marked by many outstanding players, including Cyril Tolley, Amateur champion in 1920 and 1929; Roger Wethered, Amateur champion in 1923; and Scots Hector Thomson, Jack McLean, and A.T. Kyle.

Lucille Ball was a radio and motion-picture actress and longtime comedy star of American television, best remembered for her classic television comedy series I Love Lucy. Ball determined at an early age to become an actress and left high school at age 15 to enroll in a drama school in New York

Lucille Ball was a radio and motion-picture actress and longtime comedy star of American television, best remembered for her classic television comedy series I Love Lucy. Ball determined at an early age to become an actress and left high school at age 15 to enroll in a drama school in New York

Mary Ann Bickerdyke was an organizer and chief of nursing, hospital, and welfare services for the western armies under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War. Mary Ann Ball grew up in the houses of various relatives. She attended Oberlin College and later studied

Sir Alexander John Ball, 1st Baronet was a rear admiral, a close friend of Admiral Lord Nelson, who directed the blockade of Malta (1798–1800) and served as civil commissioner (governor) of the island (1802–09). Ball served under Admiral Sir George Rodney in the West Indies and was present at

Thomas Ball was a sculptor whose work had a marked influence on monumental art in the United States, especially in New England. Ball began his career as a wood engraver and miniaturist. An accomplished musician, he fashioned many early cabinet busts of musicians. Among his best-known works are an

number game: 20th century: The first edition of W.W. Rouse Ball’s Mathematical Recreations and Essays appeared in 1892; it soon became a classic, largely because of its scholarly approach. After passing through 10 editions it was revised by the British professor H.S.M. Coxeter in 1938; it is still a standard reference.

William Ball was an American attorney and expert on constitutional questions concerning the role of religion in education. Ball argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and assisted in 25 others. Several were landmarks in the development of case law and policy on church-and-state relations.

William Ball was an American attorney and expert on constitutional questions concerning the role of religion in education. Ball argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and assisted in 25 others. Several were landmarks in the development of case law and policy on church-and-state relations.

ball-and-socket joint, in vertebrate anatomy, a joint in which the rounded surface of a bone moves within a depression on another bone, allowing greater freedom of movement than any other kind of joint. It is most highly developed in the large shoulder and hip joints of mammals, including humans,

Verghina, archaeological site and ancient capital of Macedonia (Modern Greek: Makedonía) in Imathía nomós (department), northern Greece. It is situated on a plateau 47 miles (75 km) southwest of Thessaloníki, at the eastern foot of the Vérmio (also spelled Vérmion) Mountains, on the southern edge

Giacomo Balla was an Italian artist and founding member of the Futurist movement in painting. Balla had little formal art training, having attended briefly an academy in Turin. He moved to Rome in his twenties. As a young artist, he was greatly influenced by French Neo-Impressionism during a

Ballarat, city, central Victoria, Australia, on the Yarrowee River. The area was first settled in 1838 by sheepherders and developed rapidly after the discovery of rich alluvial gold deposits in 1851. In 1854, two years after its founding, Ballarat (its name was derived from two Aboriginal words

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio: Later works included Ballaciner (2007), a personal tribute to the art of filmmaking and its relationship to literature, and the novels Ritournelle de la faim (2008 “Ritornello of Hunger”) and Alma (2017).

Michael Ballack is a German professional football (soccer) midfielder who was named the German Footballer of the Year three times (2002, 2003, 2005). Ballack grew up in Chemnitz in East Germany during the era of a divided Germany. There he played youth football with FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitzer