All articles starting with B

Balikatan

Balikatan, meaning "shoulder-to-shoulder" in Tagalog, is the largest annual military exercise between the United States and the Philippines, held since 1981 and expanded by 2026 to include five more nations.

Oct 20, 2026

Balikpapan

Balikpapan is a coastal oil-refining city in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, founded around the 1897 Mathilda oil well, with about 503 km², six districts, an HDI of 82.24, and proximity to the new capital Nusantara.

Balin (Middle-earth)

Balin, son of Fundin, is a Dwarf of Durin's Folk in Tolkien's Middle-earth: a member of Thorin's Company in The Hobbit, Bilbo's closest Dwarf friend, later Lord of Moria, killed by an Orc arrow in T.A. 2994 and found entombed in the Chamber of Mazarbul by the Fellowship.

Balin Miller

Balin Scott Miller (2002–2025), Alaskan alpinist and first soloist of Denali's Slovak Direct, also soloed Reality Bath and the French Connection; died at 23 rappelling off the end of his rope on El Capitan's Sea of Dreams.

Oct 15, 2026

Balinese architecture

Balinese architecture is the traditional building tradition of Bali, Indonesia, in which temples, houses, and villages follow cosmological principles, with tiered Meru shrines and split gates.

Balinese cat

Balinese cat, longhaired variety of the Siamese named after Balinese dancers; developed in the US from 1940s, CFA championship 1970, Javanese merged 2008; single silky coat, blue eyes, vocal.

Balinese Hinduism

Balinese Hinduism, known in Indonesia as Agama Hindu Dharma, is the form of Hinduism practiced in Bali, centered on one supreme God, Sanghyang Widhi Wasa, and village temple ritual.

Balinese literature

Balinese literature is the body of writing associated with Bali, spanning traditional palm-leaf (lontar) manuscripts in Balinese and Old Javanese, and modern literature in Balinese and Indonesian.

Balinese people

The Balinese are Bali's dominant ethnic group, about 1% of Indonesia's population, mostly Hindu (83.5% of Bali, 2010 census), shaped by Majapahit Javanese influence, caste-stratified village institutions, and the modern construction of agama Hindu.

Balinese temple architecture

Balinese temple architecture is the tradition of building Hindu temples, called pura, on Bali, Indonesia, with split gates, odd-numbered tiered meru shrines, and courtyards graded toward greater sanctity.

Balinese wood carving

Balinese wood carving, known as ukir kayu, is the traditional craft of carving wood in Bali, Indonesia, centered on the village of Mas near Ubud since the 1930s.

Baling Talks

The Baling Talks (Rundingan Baling) were peace negotiations held in Baling, Kedah, on 28 and 29 December 1955 between the Malayan government and the Malayan Communist Party, ending without agreement.

Balingen

Balingen, seat of the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, is documented here through TSG Balingen von 1848 e.V., its >1250-member sports club, the Bizerba Arena football ground, and the town's 28 Kitas.

Oct 15, 2026

Balingian New power station

Balingian New power station is a 600 MW coal-fired power station in Balingian, Sarawak, Malaysia, commissioned in 2019 with two 300 MW lignite-fired units owned by Sarawak Energy.

Bálint Balassi

Bálint Balassi (1554–1594) was a Hungarian nobleman, soldier, and poet, considered the first great classic of Hungarian-language poetry, known for love and religious verse and the nine-line Balassi stanza.

Bálint Ruff

Bálint Ruff (Ruff Bálint György, born 1981), Hungarian lawyer, Partizán Vétó host, and opposition adviser; since May 2026 minister heading the Prime Minister's Office under Péter Magyar.

Balint syndrome

Balint syndrome (Balint-Holmes syndrome), first described by Rezső Bálint in 1909, is a rare visual disorder from bilateral parieto-occipital lesions, marked by simultanagnosia, optic ataxia, and oculomotor apraxia.

Balirajgarh Mound

Balirajgarh Mound (Raja Bali ka Garh): large fortified archaeological mound in Babubarhi, Madhubani district, Bihar, near the India-Nepal border. ASI-protected since 1938; fort built 2nd century BCE, used to the Pala period; five excavations, the fifth ongoing since 2026.

Sep 19, 2026

Balis (Syria)

Balis, in Arabic Bālis (بالىس), is an ancient city site on the Euphrates in Syria, occupied as Emar and Barbalissos before abandonment in the 13th century.

Balistidae

Balistidae, the triggerfishes, is a family of about 42 species of marine ray-finned fishes named for a dorsal spine that locks upright like a trigger.

Balitung

Balitung, full title Sri Maharaja Rakai Watukura Dyah Balitung, was a king of the Medang kingdom in Central Java who reigned from about 899 to 910.