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Baltika Breweries

Baltika Breweries (Пивоваренная компания «Балтика») is Russia's largest brewing company, founded in Saint Petersburg in 1990, with more than 50 brands including Baltika, Yarpivo, and Nevskoye.

Baltim South West Oil and Gas Field

Baltim South West is a shallow-water natural gas field in the Nile Delta's Great Nooros area off Egypt, discovered by Eni in 2016, producing from 2019, and operated by Petrobel.

Baltimora

Baltimora (also written BALTIMORA) was an Italian Italo disco music project from Milan, active 1984-1987, founded by producer Maurizio Bassi with Northern Irish frontman Jimmy McShane, best known for the 1985 hit "Tarzan Boy" (#3 UK, #13 US) and the follow-up "Woody Boogie."

Baltimore

Baltimore, Maryland's largest independent city and a Patapsco River port founded in 1729, had 569,997 residents in 2025, hosts the top U.S. roll-on/roll-off port, and recorded 133 homicides in 2025, a nearly 50-year low.

Baltimore accent

Baltimore accent, or Baltimore English (Balmerese), the regional speech of Baltimore, Maryland: Mid-Atlantic variety near Philadelphia with fronted GOOSE/GOAT vowels, distinct Black and white working-class (Hon) varieties, and roots in West Country, Scottish, Irish, German, and Southern settlement.

Baltimore album quilt

The Baltimore album quilt is an appliqué album quilt made in and around Baltimore, Maryland, in the 1840s and 1850s, its blocks bearing distinct designs, signatures, and inscriptions.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was the first common carrier railroad chartered in the United States, opened in 1827 to link Baltimore with the Ohio River.

Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel

The Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel (B&P Tunnel) is a 1.4-mile railroad tunnel under West Baltimore, opened in 1873 and now the oldest tunnel on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.

Baltimore City College

Baltimore City College, also known as the City College of Baltimore, is a public college-preparatory magnet high school in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1839 and the third oldest public high school in the United States.

Baltimore classification

The Baltimore classification, also called the Baltimore scheme, groups viruses into seven classes by genome type and how it is expressed as mRNA, devised by David Baltimore in 1971.

Baltimore County

Baltimore County, Maryland: central Maryland county established by 1659/60, county seat Towson, charter government since 1956. Encircles independent Baltimore City, from which it separated in 1851; 847,650 residents (2025 est.), 598.4 sq mi.

Baltimore Gas and Electric

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) is a regulated electric and gas utility based in Baltimore, Maryland, serving about 1.3 million electric customers as an Exelon subsidiary.

Baltimore Harbor Tunnel

The Baltimore Harbor Tunnel is a four-lane twin-tube tunnel carrying Interstate 895 under the Patapsco River between Canton and Fairfield in Baltimore, Maryland, opened in November 1957.

Baltimore Memorial Stadium

Baltimore Memorial Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium at 33rd Street in Baltimore, Maryland, home to the Orioles from 1954 to 1991 and the Colts, demolished in 2002.

Baltimore oriole

Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula), also called Northern Oriole historically: an orange-and-black migratory songbird breeding in eastern North America, wintering in Central and South America; Maryland's state bird, declining about 36% since 1966.

Baltimore Orioles

Baltimore Orioles, American League East MLB team at Oriole Park at Camden Yards since 1992; moved from St. Louis as the Browns in 1954; three World Series titles (1966, 1970, 1983), Earl Weaver era, Ripken's streak, Rubenstein ownership.

Baltimore Orioles (1882–1899)

Baltimore Orioles (1882–1899), original NL/AA franchise, won three straight NL pennants 1894–1896 under Ned Hanlon with inside baseball; stars sold to Brooklyn, folded 1899; 1901 AL successor became the Yankees.

Baltimore Penn Station

Baltimore Penn Station, officially Pennsylvania Station and originally Union Station, is Baltimore's main passenger rail station, a 1911 Beaux-Arts landmark serving Amtrak and MARC at the city's center.

Baltimore Police Department

Baltimore Police Department (BPD), municipal police agency of Baltimore, Maryland, with over 2,000 sworn members, under a 2017 federal consent decree mandating reforms after a 2016 DOJ civil rights findings report.

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), founded 1883 as the Baltimore Manual Training School, is a competitive citywide STEM magnet high school in Baltimore, Maryland, integrated in 1952, coeducational since 1974, ranked No. 6 in Maryland by U.S. News in 2026.

Baltimore Ravens

Baltimore Ravens, NFL AFC North team founded 1996 after Art Modell moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore; named via Baltimore Sun fan poll after Edgar Allan Poe's poem; two-time Super Bowl champions (XXXV, XLVII), play at M&T Bank Stadium.

Baltimore riot of 1861

The Baltimore riot of 1861, also known as the Pratt Street Riot, was a street battle in Baltimore in April 1861 that caused the first fatalities of the Civil War.

Baltimore School for the Arts

Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA), a public magnet high school at 712 Cathedral Street in Baltimore, Maryland, founded 1979-1980, admits students solely by audition into six arts disciplines, pairs arts training with college prep, and runs the free TWIGS program for grades 2-8.

Baltimore truss

The Baltimore truss, also called the Petit truss, is a subdivided Pratt truss with sub-diagonals and sub-struts, developed in 1871 by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad engineers for heavy railroad bridges.

Baltimore-class cruiser

Baltimore-class cruiser: US Navy WWII heavy cruisers (CA-68 to CA-136), developed from USS Wichita free of treaty limits; 13,600 tons, nine 8-inch guns, 33 knots; served WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and as missile cruiser conversions.

Baltimore–Washington Parkway

The Baltimore–Washington Parkway (MD 295) is a 29-mile limited-access highway connecting Baltimore, Maryland, with Washington, D.C., opened in 1954 and partly managed by the National Park Service.

Baltimore/Washington International Airport

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, known as BWI, is a commercial airport in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, serving Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and a major Southwest Airlines hub.

Baltis Vallis

Baltis Vallis, a sinuous lava channel on Venus, is the longest known channel in the Solar System at about 6,800–7,000 km, discovered by Magellan in 1991, roughly 1.6–2.2 km wide, carved by erosional lava flows.

Baltistan

Baltistan (Baltiyul) is the eastern, Tibetic-speaking division of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, with capital Skardu; districts Skardu, Shigar, Ghanche, Kharmang; Balti language, Shiite majority, K2 and Baltoro Glacier.

Balto

Balto (1919–1933) was the sled dog who led Gunnar Kaasen's team on the final leg of the 1925 Nome serum run, honored with a Central Park statue by Frederick Roth and preserved in taxidermy at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.