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Ballad of the Army Carts
Ballad of the Army Carts (Bing che xing, 兵車行) is a narrative poem by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written around 751, protesting conscription for frontier wars.
Ballad of the East Gate
Ballad of the East Gate (Dongmen xing, 东门行) is an anonymous Han-dynasty yuefu ballad about a poor man who resolves on a desperate course despite his wife's pleas.
Ballad of the Two Grandfathers
Ballad of the Two Grandfathers (Balada de los dos abuelos) is a 1934 poem by Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, spoken through the shadows of his black and white grandfathers.
Ballad of the West Gate
Ballad of the West Gate (西门行, "West Gate Ballad") is an anonymous Han dynasty yuefu ballad, a classic example of Chinese carpe diem poetry about life's brevity.
Ballad of the White Horse
The Ballad of the White Horse (白马篇) is a 28-line poem by the Three Kingdoms poet Cao Zhi celebrating a young frontier knight-errant devoted to defending the state.
Ballad of Xizhou
The Ballad of Xizhou (Xizhou qu, 西洲曲) is an anonymous lyric folk song of the Southern Dynasties (420–589) yuefu tradition, the longest such lyric preserved, describing a woman's longing for her absent lover.
Ballad opera
Ballad opera is a genre of English musical theater combining spoken dialogue with songs set to popular tunes, begun by John Gay's The Beggar's Opera in 1728.
Ballad revival
The ballad revival was the renewed literary and scholarly enthusiasm for traditional ballads, begun with Percy's Reliques of 1765, inspiring Romantic writers and culminating in Child's standard ballad scholarship.
Ballad stanza
The ballad stanza, or ballad meter, is a four-line stanza with four stresses on lines 1 and 3 and three on lines 2 and 4, rhyming ABCB.
Ballade
The ballade is a fixed French poetic form of three strophes on the same rhymes with a refrain and envoi, codified by Guillaume de Machaut in the 14th century.
Ballade des dames du temps jadis
Ballade des dames du temps jadis is a 15th-century Middle French poem by François Villon asking what became of celebrated women, with the refrain "But where are the snows of yesteryear?"
Ballade des pendus
The Ballade des pendus is a Middle French poem by François Villon, written in the voice of corpses on a gibbet who ask the living for pity and prayers.
Ballads 1
Ballads 1 (BALLADS 1) is Joji's debut studio album, released 26 October 2018 on 88rising/12Tone; it debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200, topped the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and is certified gold.
Ballads and Romances
Ballads and Romances, Polish Ballady i romanse, is a cycle of fourteen narrative poems by Adam Mickiewicz, published in Vilnius in 1822 and taken as the beginning of Polish Romanticism.
Balladyna
Balladyna is a five-act romantic drama by the Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki, written in 1834 and published in 1839, one of the most important Polish Romantic dramas.
Ballala II
Ballala II, also called Vira Ballala (ವೀರಬಲ್ಲಾಳ ಎರಡನೆಯನು), was a Hoysala king of the Deccan who reigned from 1173 to 1220 and made his kingdom an independent empire.
Ballala Sena
Ballala Sena (বল্লালসেন) was a Sena dynasty ruler of Bengal, son and successor of Vijayasena, who reigned about eighteen years in the mid-twelfth century and wrote Sanskrit works.
Ballana
Ballana is a post-Meroitic royal tumulus cemetery in Lower Nubia, near the Egyptian-Sudanese border, where Nobatian rulers were buried in great earthen mounds with rich grave goods; it gives its name to the Ballana Culture.
Ballanstra
Ballanstra: ancient Roman roadside station (mutatio) on the Naissus–Serdica road, listed in the Itinerarium Burdigalense (333 AD), identified with Kalotina, Bulgaria; also called Balanstra, a Dako-Mysian 'white river' name.
Ballantine's
Ballantine's is a blended Scotch whisky brand founded by George Ballantine in Edinburgh in 1827, now made by Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard) in Dumbarton; flagship Finest dates to 1910, and it is the world's number two Scotch behind Johnnie Walker.
Ballarat
Ballarat is a regional city in western Victoria, about 80 km from Melbourne, founded on the 1851 gold discovery that started Victoria's gold rush, site of the 1854 Eureka Stockade, now a UNESCO Creative City of over 100,000 people.
Ballard
Ballard: primarily Lake Ballard, a 60-km intermittent hypersaline salt lake near Menzies, Western Australia, home of Gormley's 51 'Inside Australia' sculptures; also a Seattle neighborhood, a Wisconsin lake, and a Kentucky wildlife area.
Ballard (TV series)
Ballard is a Prime Video police procedural (2025) starring Maggie Q as LAPD Detective Renée Ballard, head of a new cold case unit; a Michael Connelly adaptation and Bosch spinoff, renewed for season 2.
Ballard Partners
Ballard Partners, also Ballard Partners LLC, is a lobbying and government-relations firm founded by Brian Ballard in 1998 in Tallahassee, Florida. It became the top federal lobbying firm by disclosed income in 2025 at $88.1 million, with alumni Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi in the second Trump administration.
Ballard Power Systems
Ballard Power Systems is a Canadian manufacturer of proton exchange membrane hydrogen fuel cells in Burnaby, British Columbia, founded in 1979, which built the first zero-emission fuel cell bus in 1993.
Ballari
Ballari (Bellary), Karnataka's Iron City and district headquarters in eastern Karnataka, holds 25% of India's iron ore reserves, hosts JSW Vijayanagar Works, and is known for Ballari Fort, textiles, and semi-arid climate.
Ballas
Ballas is a Predynastic and Early Dynastic site on the west bank of the Nile in the Naqada region of Upper Egypt, excavated by James Edward Quibell in 1894–95.
Ballast
Ballast is weight carried by a ship or submarine to improve stability, immersion, and trim; it was once stone or sand, and is now usually seawater.
Ballast tank
A ballast tank is a compartment within a boat, ship, or submarine that holds water ballast to provide stability, control draft and trim, and keep hull stresses within safe limits.
Ballastless track
Ballastless track, also called slab track, is railway track in which the ballast bed is replaced by a solid concrete or asphalt foundation holding the rails.