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Ballbreaker
Ballbreaker is the thirteenth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in September 1995 and produced by Rick Rubin, marking Phil Rudd's return on drums.
Ballena Gas Field
Ballena Gas Field is an operating onshore natural gas field in the Guajira department of northern Colombia, part of the Chuchupa–Ballena–Riohacha complex, operated by Hocol, a subsidiary of Ecopetrol.
Balleny Islands
Balleny Islands, Antarctic island chain in the northern Ross Sea, ~250 km north of Victoria Land; discovered 9 February 1839 by Captain John Balleny of the Eliza Scott; glaciated volcanic islands (Sturge, Buckle, Young) with 2001 eruption and Sabrina Island ASPA 104.
Baller League
Baller League: six-a-side indoor football league founded in Germany by Felix Starck, Mats Hummels and Lukas Podolski; expanded to UK (KSI president, 2025) and USA (IShowSpeed, 2026); German operations suspended 2026.
Baller League UK – Season 1
Baller League UK Season 1 (2025): the inaugural British six-a-side indoor football competition, 12 teams at London's Copper Box Arena, won by Sharky's SDS FC 4-3 over MVPs United at The O2.
Baller-Gerold syndrome
Baller-Gerold syndrome (BGS), or craniosynostosis-radial aplasia syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive RECQL4 disorder combining coronal craniosynostosis with radial ray limb anomalies, poikiloderma, growth delay, and probable increased cancer risk.
Ballerina (2016 film)
Ballerina, released in the United States as Leap!, is a 2016 France-Canada animated musical about an orphan girl who runs away to 1879 Paris to become a dancer.
Ballerina (2024 film)
Ballerina (2024 film), released June 6, 2025 as From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, is a Len Wiseman action spinoff starring Ana de Armas as assassin Eve Macarro, set between John Wick Chapters 3 and 4; distinct from the 2023 Korean Netflix film of the same name.
Ballerina (soundtrack)
Ballerina (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the 2025 score album by Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard for the John Wick spin-off film Ballerina, released June 6, 2025 by Lakeshore Records, 26 tracks, distinct from the 2023 Korean film and 2016 animated Ballerina scores.
Ballerina (발레리나) (2023 film)
Ballerina (발레리나) is a 2023 South Korean Netflix action revenge thriller directed by Lee Chung-hyun, starring Jeon Jong-seo as ex-bodyguard Ok-ju avenging her ballerina friend Min-hee (Park Yu-rim); distinct from the 2025 John Wick film.
Ballerina Farm
Ballerina Farm: Utah farm and direct-to-consumer food brand of Hannah and Daniel Neeleman in Kamas; Hannah is the Juilliard-trained "tradwife" influencer with millions of followers; raw milk sales ended after failed 2025 bacteria tests.
Ballermann Hits
Ballermann Hits are the German-language party schlager songs of the Ballermann, the party mile on Mallorca's Playa de Palma beach, and a long-running compilation series and television show built on that repertoire.
Ballers
Ballers: HBO comedy-drama (2015–2019, 5 seasons, 47 episodes) created by Stephen Levinson, starring Dwayne Johnson as retired NFL player turned Miami financial manager Spencer Strasmore; 72% Tomatometer, streamed on Netflix from 2023.
Ballet
Ballet: theatrical dance form originating in 15th-century Italian Renaissance courts, codified in France under Louis XIV, shaped by Romantic and Russian classical eras; known for turnout, pointe work, and companies like the Paris Opera Ballet.
Ballet choreography
Ballet choreography is the art of composing dance for ballet, blending movements, mime, music, and scenic design into a unified stage work, a term once meaning written dance records.
Ballet Comique de la Reine
The Ballet Comique de la Reine, or Balet comique de la Royne, is a French court ballet staged in Paris in 1581, regarded as the first true ballet de cour.
Ballet conductor
A ballet conductor leads a ballet company's orchestra from the pit while watching the stage, adjusting tempo in real time so the music serves the dancers, and helps shape new works.
Ballet dancer
Ballet dancer: a performer trained in ballet's standardized classical technique, including en pointe work. Distinguished by vocational training from childhood, company ranks, and injury rates near 1.24 per 1000 dance hours.
Ballet Philippines
Ballet Philippines is a professional classical and contemporary dance company resident at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila since its 1969 founding by Alice Reyes.
Ballets based on novels and prose fiction
Ballets based on novels and prose fiction are ballets whose stories come from novels or novellas rather than plays or fairy tales, documented since a danced Don Quixote in 1740.
Ballets by George Balanchine
The ballets of George Balanchine span 465 cataloged works from 1920 to 1982, including Serenade, Apollo, and Jewels, with more than 150 created for New York City Ballet.
Ballets by Jerome Robbins
Ballets by Jerome Robbins is the repertory of concert ballets choreographer Jerome Robbins created over more than fifty years, from Fancy Free in 1944 to Brandenburg in 1997.
Ballets by Marius Petipa
The ballets of Marius Petipa, the French-born choreographer who worked for the Russian Imperial Theatres from 1847, include Don Quixote, La Bayadère, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.
Ballets Russes
Ballets Russes: Paris-based ballet company founded by Serge Diaghilev in 1909, active until his death in 1929; created over 100 ballets with Fokine, Nijinsky, Massine, Nijinska, and Balanchine, bringing modernism onto the dance stage.
Balli Kombëtar
Balli Kombëtar, Albanian for "National Front," was an Albanian nationalist, anticommunist resistance movement and political organization founded in November 1942 under Italian occupation and led by Mid'hat bey Frashëri.
Ballia
Ballia (बलिया) is the easternmost district of Uttar Pradesh, India, bounded by the Ganges and Ghaghara rivers, which meet at one corner of its boundary, and bordering Bihar.
Ballie (robot)
Ballie (볼리) is a spherical AI home companion robot developed by Samsung Electronics, shown at CES 2020 and redesigned in 2024 with a built-in projector.
Ballin' (Mustard and Roddy Ricch song)
Ballin' is a 2019 hip-hop single by producer Mustard featuring Roddy Ricch, from the album Perfect Ten. It peaked at #11 on the Hot 100, was Grammy-nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance, and later became a meme.
Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College, Oxford, founded about 1263 by John de Balliol and Dervorguilla of Galloway, claims to be Oxford's oldest college. Known for PPE (born there in the 1920s), 42% Firsts, and alumni from Wyclif to Dawkins and Boris Johnson.
Ballism
Ballism (ballismus, hemiballism) is a rare hyperkinetic movement disorder of violent, flinging proximal limb movements, classically from contralateral subthalamic nucleus lesions, treated with dopamine blockers or tetrabenazine.