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Baldassare Reina
Baldassare Reina (born 1970) is an Italian cardinal, Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome, Archpriest of Saint John Lateran, and Apostolic Administrator of Ostia, made cardinal by Pope Francis on 7 December 2024.
Balder (oil field)
Balder is an oil field in the central North Sea on the Norwegian shelf, the first hydrocarbon discovery there in 1967, producing since 1999 and operated by Vår Energi.
Balder Oil and Gas Field
Balder is an oil and gas field in the central Norwegian North Sea, whose discovery well proved the first hydrocarbons on the Norwegian continental shelf in 1967.
Balder the Brave
Balder the Brave (Balder Odinson), Marvel Comics' Asgardian God of Light, Thor's half-brother, debuted in Journey Into Mystery #85 (1962); invulnerable via Frigga's enchantment except to mistletoe; his death prophesied to trigger Ragnarok; starred in the 1985 Simonson limited series and was name-checked in Loki season two.
Baldersdorf
Baldersdorf is a village in Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia, Austria, known for the Magdalenenkapelle, an excavated church site on a rock spur east of the village.
Baldet (Martian crater)
Baldet is a 180-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 22.76°N, 65.40°E, known for dune fields on its floor imaged by THEMIS and HiRISE, including dune-change monitoring and a 2.01 m/pixel digital terrain model.
Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning
Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning, or Baldi's Basics Classic, is a 2018 indie meta horror game by Micah McGonigal that parodies 90s edutainment; players collect seven notebooks while Baldi pursues them.
Baldo Baldi
Baldo Baldi (1888-1961), Italian fencer from Livorno's Circolo Fides; won gold in team foil and team sabre at Antwerp 1920, placed 12th in individual sabre, later turned professional.
Baldomero Espartero
Baldomero Espartero (1793-1879) was a Spanish general and statesman, hero of the First Carlist War (Luchana, Convenio de Vergara), Regent of Spain 1841-1843, prime minister during the Progressive Biennium 1854-1856, and Duke of the Victory who declined the Spanish crown in 1870.
Baldomero M. Olivera
Baldomero M. Olivera is a Filipino molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah who founded conotoxin research; his work yielded the pain drug Prialt.
Baldor Electric
Baldor Electric was an American manufacturer of industrial electric motors, power transmission products, drives, and generators, founded in 1920 in St. Louis and acquired by ABB for about $4.2 billion in 2011.
Baldr
Baldr (Old Norse Baldr; Balder, Baldur) is an Æsir god in Norse mythology, son of Odin and Frigg, husband of Nanna, father of Forseti, killed by blind Höðr via Loki's mistletoe trick, heralding Ragnarök, with a rival warlike version in Saxo's Gesta Danorum.
Baldur R. Stefansson
Baldur R. Stefansson (1917–2002) was a Canadian agronomist at the University of Manitoba whose rapeseed breeding created canola, earning him the title father of canola.
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur von Schirach (Baldur Benedikt von Schirach, 1907–1974) was a German Nazi politician who led the Hitler Youth for most of the 1930s and served as Gauleiter of Vienna.
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate is a Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms RPG franchise begun by BioWare in 1998 on the Infinity Engine, continued in Baldur's Gate II (2000), and revived by Larian's 2023 Baldur's Gate 3, which sold over 20 million copies and swept Game of the Year awards.
Baldur's Gate (video game)
Baldur's Gate (1998) is a BioWare computer RPG published by Interplay under Black Isle, set in D&D's Forgotten Realms on the Infinity Engine; it sold about 1.5 million copies, revived the Western RPG, and spawned Baldur's Gate II and the Enhanced Editions.
Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3 is a role-playing game based on the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, developed by Larian Studios, released for PC in 2023, and winner of Game of the Year 2023.
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (SoA) is BioWare's 2000 AD&D 2nd-edition isometric RPG for Interplay/Black Isle, set in Amn, built on the Infinity Engine with real-time-with-pause combat, followed by Throne of Bhaal and the 2013 Enhanced Edition.
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal is BioWare's 2001 expansion to Shadows of Amn, set in Tethyr, raising the XP cap to 8 million (level 40), adding Watcher's Keep and Sarevok as a companion.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is a 2001 Snowblind Studios action RPG for PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and GBA, set in D&D's Forgotten Realms, with two-player local co-op, three classes, and a 2021 4K re-release.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II is a 2004 hack-and-slash action RPG by Black Isle Studios for PS2 and Xbox, a direct sequel to Dark Alliance, with five classes, item crafting, and a 2022 re-release.
Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus is a 256-page D&D 5th edition adventure book by Wizards of the Coast, released September 17, 2019, taking characters from levels 1 to 13 from Baldur's Gate into Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells, featuring Zariel, soul coins, and infernal war machines.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a 2012 remaster of BioWare's 1998 role-playing game Baldur's Gate, developed by Overhaul Games and led by founding BioWare developer Trent Oster.
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (TotSC) is BioWare and Interplay's 1999 expansion pack for Baldur's Gate, adding Ulgoth's Beard, Durlag's Tower, and the Ship of Balduran, raising the XP cap to 161,000, and later bundled into the Enhanced Edition.
Baldus
Baldus is a mock-epic poem in macaronic Latin hexameters by the Italian poet Teofilo Folengo, writing as Merlin Cocai, regarded as the masterpiece of the macaronic genre.
Baldwin
Baldwin of Forde (c.1125–1190) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1184, a Cistercian abbot remembered for a long dispute with his cathedral monks and for preaching the Third Crusade.
Baldwin and Lima-Hamilton diesel locomotives
Diesel locomotives built by Baldwin and Lima-Hamilton in the United States between 1925 and 1956, including the VO-1000 switcher and Loewy-styled RF-16 sharknose, before EMD's dominance ended both lines.
Baldwin County, Alabama, United States
Baldwin County, Alabama (seat: Bay Minette): Alabama's largest county by land area, established December 21, 1809 in the Mississippi Territory, named for Senator Abraham Baldwin, governed by a four-member commission, population 231,767 (2020).
Baldwin effect
The Baldwin effect is the anticorrelation in quasars and active galactic nuclei where emission lines weaken as continuum luminosity rises, first reported by Jack Baldwin in 1977.
Baldwin Energy Station
Baldwin Energy Station, also called the Baldwin Power Plant, is a coal-fired power plant in Baldwin, Illinois, owned by Dynegy Midwest Generation and scheduled to retire in 2027.