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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) 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.

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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.

Sep 23, 2026

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.

Sep 19, 2026

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.

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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.

Sep 19, 2026

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.

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.