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Balarama Varma

Balarama Varma (ബാലരാമ വർമ്മ) was Maharaja of the South Indian princely state of Travancore from 1798 to 1810, whose 1805 treaty made Travancore a subsidiary ally of the English East India Company.

Oct 22, 2026

Balaramayana (Bālarāmāyaṇa) is a ten-act Sanskrit drama by the poet Rājaśekhara, generally regarded as his first play, retelling Rama's story from Valmiki's Ramayana and first staged at Mahendrapāla's court.

Balarista

Balarista (Balarishta, Balarishtam), a classical Ayurvedic fermented polyherbal arishta from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, based on Sida cordifolia and Withania somnifera, used for weakness and vata disorders, distinct from unrelated homonyms.

Balarka Rasa

Bālārka rasa (Balarka rasa), Ayurvedic Formulary of India formulation AFI000563, a herbo-mineral pediatric rasa medicine dosed at 125 mg, combining calcined calamine, coral, deer horn, cattle bile stone with saffron, zedoary, brahmi, and asafoetida.

Balash

Balash (بلاش) was a Sasanian king of kings who ruled Iran from 484 to 488, succeeding his brother Peroz and making peace with the Hephthalites before the nobility deposed him.

Balashikha

Balashikha (Балашиха) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, east of Moscow; founded 1830 by Prince Trubetskoy's textile factory, city status 1939, merged with Zheleznodorozhny in 2015, over 500,000 residents.

Balasi

Balasi was an Assyrian court astrologer and scholar of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BC, who became the personal teacher of the crown prince Ashurbanipal and is known from letters found at Nineveh.

Balasore (ବାଲେଶ୍ୱର)

Balasore (ବାଲେଶ୍ୱର, Baleshwar) is a coastal district and town in northernmost Odisha, India, created in 1828; known for the 1642 East India Company factory, paddy agriculture, Chandipur beach, and recurring river floods.

Balasvagandhalaksadi taila

Balāśvagandhalākṣādi taila (Balashvagandhalakshadi taila) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated sesame oil cooked with bala, ashwagandha, laksha, and 23 listed ingredients, recorded in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI000127) for external Abhyanga massage.

Balat (Dakhla Oasis)

Balat, in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis, is an archaeological zone comprising the Old Kingdom town of Ayn Asil and the necropolis of Qila el-Dabba, seat of the oasis governors from about 2350 to 2000 BC.

Balathal

Balathal is a Chalcolithic site of the Ahar-Banas culture in Rajasthan, India, and the source of the oldest skeletal evidence of leprosy in the Indian Subcontinent.

Balaton Park Circuit

Balaton Park Circuit, a 4.115 km FIM Grade A and FIA Grade 2 race track at Balatonfőkajár, Hungary, opened May 2023; hosted WorldSBK 2025 and the 2025 MotoGP Hungarian Grand Prix, won by Marc Márquez.

Balaton Sound

Balaton Sound, also known as the Balaton Sound Festival, was an electronic music festival held each July on the beach of Zamárdi, Hungary, from 2007 to 2024.

Balatro

Balatro is a 2024 poker-themed roguelike deck-builder by anonymous solo Canadian developer LocalThunk, published by Playstack. Players beat blinds with poker hands modified by Joker cards; it sold over 5 million copies and won three Game Awards 2024 categories.

Balawat

Balawat (Tell Balawat), the ancient Imgur-Enlil, is a Neo-Assyrian site in northern Iraq near Nimrud, best known for the inscribed bronze gates of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III found there in 1878.

Balawat Gates

The Balawat Gates, also called the Gates of Balawat, are embossed bronze bands from palace doors at Balawat, Iraq, made under kings Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III in the 9th century BC.

Oct 15, 2026

Balayage

Balayage, French for "sweeping," is a potential theory operation replacing a charge inside a domain with a boundary distribution whose potential matches the original outside the domain.

Balázs Dzsudzsák

Balázs Dzsudzsák (born 1986, Debrecen) is a Hungarian left-footed winger, Hungary's most-capped footballer with 109 caps and 21 goals, a EURO 2016 captain, and DVSC captain contracted to 2027.

Balazs Kiss

Balázs Kiss (born 1972, Veszprém), Hungarian hammer thrower, 1996 Atlanta Olympic champion with 81.24 m, four-time NCAA champion for USC, personal best 83.00 m; not the gymnast born 1999.

BALB/3T3 clone A31

BALB/3T3 clone A31 (ATCC CCL-163, CVCL_0184) is a contact-inhibited mouse embryo fibroblast line from BALB/c mice, established by Aaronson and Todaro in 1968 and widely used in cell transformation assays for carcinogenicity testing.

Oct 15, 2026

BALB/c mouse

The BALB/c mouse is an albino inbred strain of the house mouse and one of the most widely used mouse models in biomedical research, especially immunology and antibody production.

BALB/cByJ

BALB/cByJ (BALB Bailey Jackson) is an inbred albino laboratory mouse substrain at The Jackson Laboratory, separated from BALB/cJ in 1935, carrying Acads^del-J, Ahr^b-2, and Cdh23^ahl, less aggressive and more fertile than BALB/cJ.

BALB/cJ

BALB/cJ (JAX 000651) is an inbred mouse substrain separated from BALB/cByJ in 1935; the pair shows divergent aggression, anxiety, cardiomyocyte ploidy, and immune disease susceptibility from fixed spontaneous mutations.

Balbala

Balbala (بالبالا) is a commune and the largest suburb of Djibouti City, located on the left bank of the Ambouli Wadi and home to about 40 percent of the capital's population.

Balban's suppression of the Chihalgani

Balban's suppression of the Chihalgani (بلبن کی چہلگانی کی سرکوبی) was Ghiyasuddin Balban's destruction of the Corps of Forty, the Turkish amirs who dominated the Delhi Sultanate.

Balban's suppression of the Mewatis and restoration of royal authority

Balban's suppression of the Mewatis (बलबन का मेवाती दमन) was a series of campaigns by Sultan Ghiyas al-Din Balban against the predatory Mewatis of Mewat near Delhi.

Balbhadra Kunwar

Balbhadra Kunwar (बलभद्र कुँवर) was a Gorkhali commander of the Nepali army, born in Kathmandu in 1790, known for defending Nalapani fort against a British assault in 1814.

Sep 21, 2026

Balbino Alarcón

Balbino Alarcón is a Spanish immunologist and CSIC Research Professor in Madrid known for work on T-cell receptor signaling, TCR assembly, and a familial immunodeficiency.