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Baldomero Espartero
Baldomero Espartero (1793-1879) was a Spanish general and statesman, hero of the First Carlist War (Luchana, Convenio de Vergara), Regent of Spain 1841-1843, prime minister during the Progressive Biennium 1854-1856, and Duke of the Victory who declined the Spanish crown in 1870.
Baldomero M. Olivera
Baldomero M. Olivera is a Filipino molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah who founded conotoxin research; his work yielded the pain drug Prialt.
Baldor Electric
Baldor Electric was an American manufacturer of industrial electric motors, power transmission products, drives, and generators, founded in 1920 in St. Louis and acquired by ABB for about $4.2 billion in 2011.
Baldr
Baldr (Old Norse Baldr; Balder, Baldur) is an Æsir god in Norse mythology, son of Odin and Frigg, husband of Nanna, father of Forseti, killed by blind Höðr via Loki's mistletoe trick, heralding Ragnarök, with a rival warlike version in Saxo's Gesta Danorum.
Baldur R. Stefansson
Baldur R. Stefansson (1917–2002) was a Canadian agronomist at the University of Manitoba whose rapeseed breeding created canola, earning him the title father of canola.
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur von Schirach (Baldur Benedikt von Schirach, 1907–1974) was a German Nazi politician who led the Hitler Youth for most of the 1930s and served as Gauleiter of Vienna.
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate is a Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms RPG franchise begun by BioWare in 1998 on the Infinity Engine, continued in Baldur's Gate II (2000), and revived by Larian's 2023 Baldur's Gate 3, which sold over 20 million copies and swept Game of the Year awards.
Baldur's Gate (video game)
Baldur's Gate (1998) is a BioWare computer RPG published by Interplay under Black Isle, set in D&D's Forgotten Realms on the Infinity Engine; it sold about 1.5 million copies, revived the Western RPG, and spawned Baldur's Gate II and the Enhanced Editions.
Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3 is a role-playing game based on the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, developed by Larian Studios, released for PC in 2023, and winner of Game of the Year 2023.
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (SoA) is BioWare's 2000 AD&D 2nd-edition isometric RPG for Interplay/Black Isle, set in Amn, built on the Infinity Engine with real-time-with-pause combat, followed by Throne of Bhaal and the 2013 Enhanced Edition.
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal is BioWare's 2001 expansion to Shadows of Amn, set in Tethyr, raising the XP cap to 8 million (level 40), adding Watcher's Keep and Sarevok as a companion.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is a 2001 Snowblind Studios action RPG for PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and GBA, set in D&D's Forgotten Realms, with two-player local co-op, three classes, and a 2021 4K re-release.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II is a 2004 hack-and-slash action RPG by Black Isle Studios for PS2 and Xbox, a direct sequel to Dark Alliance, with five classes, item crafting, and a 2022 re-release.
Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus is a 256-page D&D 5th edition adventure book by Wizards of the Coast, released September 17, 2019, taking characters from levels 1 to 13 from Baldur's Gate into Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells, featuring Zariel, soul coins, and infernal war machines.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is a 2012 remaster of BioWare's 1998 role-playing game Baldur's Gate, developed by Overhaul Games and led by founding BioWare developer Trent Oster.
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (TotSC) is BioWare and Interplay's 1999 expansion pack for Baldur's Gate, adding Ulgoth's Beard, Durlag's Tower, and the Ship of Balduran, raising the XP cap to 161,000, and later bundled into the Enhanced Edition.
Baldus
Baldus is a mock-epic poem in macaronic Latin hexameters by the Italian poet Teofilo Folengo, writing as Merlin Cocai, regarded as the masterpiece of the macaronic genre.
Baldwin
Baldwin of Forde (c.1125–1190) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1184, a Cistercian abbot remembered for a long dispute with his cathedral monks and for preaching the Third Crusade.
Baldwin and Lima-Hamilton diesel locomotives
Diesel locomotives built by Baldwin and Lima-Hamilton in the United States between 1925 and 1956, including the VO-1000 switcher and Loewy-styled RF-16 sharknose, before EMD's dominance ended both lines.
Baldwin County, Alabama, United States
Baldwin County, Alabama (seat: Bay Minette): Alabama's largest county by land area, established December 21, 1809 in the Mississippi Territory, named for Senator Abraham Baldwin, governed by a four-member commission, population 231,767 (2020).
Baldwin effect
The Baldwin effect is the anticorrelation in quasars and active galactic nuclei where emission lines weaken as continuum luminosity rises, first reported by Jack Baldwin in 1977.
Baldwin Energy Station
Baldwin Energy Station, also called the Baldwin Power Plant, is a coal-fired power plant in Baldwin, Illinois, owned by Dynegy Midwest Generation and scheduled to retire in 2027.
Baldwin family
Baldwin family: the Massapequa, Long Island acting family of brothers Alec, Daniel, Billy, and Stephen Baldwin, sons of Alexander and Carol Baldwin, known for 30 Rock, The Usual Suspects, and the TLC show The Baldwins.
Baldwin I of Jerusalem
Baldwin I of Jerusalem (ca. 1058–1118), Baldwin of Boulogne, brother of Godfrey of Bouillon, was count of Edessa 1098–1100 and first Latin king of Jerusalem 1100–1118, crowned in Bethlehem on Christmas Day 1100, winning three battles of Ramla and dying on an Egyptian raid.
Baldwin II of Jerusalem
Baldwin II of Jerusalem (Baldwin of Bourcq, d. 21 August 1131), count of Edessa 1100–1118 and second Latin king of Jerusalem 1118–1131; captured 1123, took Tyre 1124 with Venetian aid, founded the Templars, and left the throne to Melisende and Fulk V of Anjou.
Baldwin III of Jerusalem
Baldwin III of Jerusalem (بالدوين الثالث) was king of Jerusalem from 1143 to 1163, the eldest son of King Fulk and Queen Melisende, who captured Ascalon from the Fatimids in 1153.
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, called the Leper King, was king of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1174 until his death in 1185, leading its armies against Saladin despite leprosy.
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Baldwin Locomotive Works, begun as Matthias W. Baldwin's Philadelphia machine shop in 1831, was the world's largest steam locomotive builder, producing about 70,500 locomotives before 1956.
Baldwin RF-16
The Baldwin RF-16 is a 1,600-horsepower diesel-electric freight locomotive built by Baldwin between 1950 and 1953, known for its Sharknose styling and strong low-speed pulling power.
Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen were an Australian ethnographic partnership whose studies of Central Australian Aboriginal peoples produced The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899).