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Balm of Gilead
Balm of Gilead: biblical Hebrew tsori resin of Gilead, ancient Judean Commiphora balsam of Jericho and Ein Gedi, poplar-bud herbal salve, and the "There Is a Balm in Gilead" spiritual metaphor.
Balmain (fashion house)
Balmain is a French luxury fashion house founded in Paris in 1945 by Pierre Balmain, originator of the New French Style and Jolie Madame. Owned by Qatar's Mayhoola since 2016; led by Olivier Rousteing 2011-2025, then Antonin Tron.
Balmer (lunar crater)
Balmer is a 136.30-km IAU-approved lunar crater at 20.27S, 70.22E, named for Swiss mathematician Johann Jakob Balmer and approved in 1964; it lies within the ancient pre-Nectarian Balmer basin, a cryptomare region.
Balmer break
The Balmer break is a step in a galaxy's spectrum near 3600 Å, caused by hydrogen ionization, and indicates the age of the galaxy's stars.
Balmer decrement
The Balmer decrement is the ratio of hydrogen Balmer emission lines, especially Hα to Hβ, used in astronomy to measure dust attenuation in nebulae and galaxies.
Balmer series
The Balmer series, or Balmer line, is the set of hydrogen spectral lines from electron transitions to the second energy level, with visible lines described by Johann Balmer's 1885 formula.
Balmis Expedition
The Balmis Expedition, formally the Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna, was a Spanish mission that carried the smallpox vaccine across the empire from 1803 to 1813.
Balmoral Castle
Balmoral Castle is a large granite castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, built between 1853 and 1856, and the private summer residence of the British royal family, owned personally by the monarch.
Balmuildy Roman Fort
Balmuildy (Medio) Roman Fort, an Antonine Wall fort on the River Kelvin near Glasgow, Scotland; one of only two stone-built Wall forts, built before the Wall under Lollius Urbicus, excavated by S. N. Miller 1912-14.
Balneotherapy
Balneotherapy is a treatment in which patients bathe in natural mineral or thermal waters, or apply heated mineral muds, to manage chronic rheumatic and skin conditions.
balneum Caesaris
balneum Caesaris, a Roman bath in ancient Rome known only from its inscription on the Severan Marble Plan (Forma Urbis Romae, fragments 43ab/49) and possibly the Historia Augusta; perhaps the palace baths where Didius Julianus was murdered.
Baló concentric sclerosis
Baló concentric sclerosis (BCS), or concentric demyelination, is a rare multiple sclerosis variant with concentric ring-like white matter lesions of alternating myelinated and demyelinated tissue, described by József Baló in 1928, diagnosed by MRI, often monophasic.
Balo Raja
Balo Raja is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh, a BJP minister for Urban Affairs, Land Management, and Civil Aviation who was first elected in 2004.
Baloch people
The Baloch, also spelled Baluch and called Baluchis or Balochis, are an Iranian-speaking people of Balochistan, a homeland spanning Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, where most live.
Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar
Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar (BRAS, Baluch National Freedom Movement) is a Baloch insurgent alliance announced November 10, 2018, uniting groups including the BLF, BLA-J, BRG, and SRA to coordinate separatist attacks in Pakistan's Balochistan.
Balochi language
Balochi (Balōčī) is a Northwestern Iranian language, related to Parthian and Kurdish, spoken by about 10 million people in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and the Gulf. It has a short written history, no official status in Pakistan or Iran, and Western, Southern, and Eastern dialect groups.
Balochistan (بلوچستان)
Balochistan (بلوچستان) is a region of the southeastern Iranian plateau spanning Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, homeland of the Baloch; Pakistan's largest but least populated province, historically the Khanate of Kalat, annexed in 1948.
Balochistan Liberation Army
Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), ethnic Baloch separatist militant group founded by Hyrbyair Marri, fighting for Balochistan's independence from Pakistan; proscribed 2012, US FTO 2025, targets security forces, Chinese nationals, and CPEC projects.
Balochistan, Pakistan
Balochistan (بلوچستان) is Pakistan's largest province by area, 347,190 km² or about 44% of the country, but its least populated, with capital Quetta, Gwadar port, major natural gas and copper reserves, and a decades-long Baloch separatist insurgency.
Bâloise Group
Bâloise Group was a Basel-headquartered European insurance group selling life, non-life, and investment-type products in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, and Luxembourg until merging with Helvetia in 2025 to form Helvetia Baloise.
Baloo
Baloo is the bear in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894), likely a sloth bear, Mowgli's strict teacher of jungle law; Disney's 1967 Phil Harris version made him a fun-loving icon of "The Bare Necessities."
Baloo (musician)
Baloo is the stage name of Ahmad Alammary, a Saudi house DJ and producer based in Riyadh who is Chief Creative Officer of the entertainment company MDLBEAST.
Baloot
Baloot (البلوت) is Saudi Arabia's most popular card game, a four-player partnership trick-taking game derived from French Belote, played with 32 cards, Hokum and Sun contracts, projects, and a 152-point sakka.
Balopwe
Balopwe is the term for sacred kingship among the Luba people of Central Africa, the plural of mulopwe, the title of the Luba sacred king.
Balor
Balor (Balor Birugderc, "Balor of the piercing eye") is the Fomorian king of Irish mythology whose poisoned destroying eye levels armies; he is killed by his prophesied grandson Lugh at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, the central tale of Cath Maige Tuired.
Balota (film)
Balota (international title Ballot) is a 2024 Philippine political satire-thriller written and directed by Kip Oebanda, starring Marian Rivera as a teacher protecting the last ballot box of a contested 2007 mayoral election; a Cinemalaya 2024 entry that became a Netflix release and earned Rivera multiple Best Actress awards.
Balovaptan
Balovaptan (RG7314, RO5285119) is Roche's oral vasopressin 1a receptor antagonist for autism core social communication symptoms; FDA breakthrough designation 2018, but it failed efficacy in the VANILLA, aV1ation, and V1aduct trials.
Baloxavir marboxil
Baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza), a single-dose oral influenza PA endonuclease inhibitor developed by Shionogi with Roche, approved in Japan in 2018 and the US in 2018 for treatment and post-exposure prophylaxis in people 5 years and older, with PA I38 resistance as its main limitation.
Balqa Governorate
Balqa Governorate (محافظة البلقاء) is a western Jordanian governorate with capital Al-Salt, area 1,120.4 km², terrain from 224 m below sea level to 1,130 m, and an estimated 614,000 residents in 2025.
Balqees Ahmed Fathi
Balqees Ahmed Fathi (بلقيس أحمد فتحي), known as Balqees, is a Yemeni-Emirati pop singer born in 1988, the daughter of Yemeni oud player Ahmed Fathi.