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Balto (film)
Balto (1995) is an animated adventure film directed by Simon Wells for Amblimation and Universal, loosely based on the 1925 serum run to Nome, Alaska. It stars Kevin Bacon, Bob Hoskins, and Bridget Fonda, grossed $11.2 million, and was Amblimation's final hand-drawn feature.
Balto-Slavic languages
Balto-Slavic is the proposed Indo-European subgroup uniting the Baltic and Slavic languages under a reconstructed Proto-Balto-Slavic ancestor, supported by shared sound laws, accentual mobility, and core lexicon, though its uniformity and a distinct Proto-Baltic stage remain debated.
Balts
Balts (baltai, balti): Indo-European peoples of the south-eastern Baltic coast speaking Baltic languages; today only Lithuanians and Latvians survive, Old Prussians and other tribes extinct after the 13th-century Teutonic conquest.
Balu Brigada
Balu Brigada, also styled Balu Brigada (no native-script name), is a New Zealand alt-pop duo of brothers Henry and Pierre Beasley, formed in Auckland in 2016, known for "So Cold", the 2025 debut album Portal, and touring with Twenty One Pilots.
Balu Mahendra
Balu Mahendra (Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran, 1939–2014), Sri Lankan Tamil cinematographer-director of Tamil cinema; directed Kokila, Moondram Pirai, Veedu, Sadma; six National Film Awards; natural-lighting auteur who mentored Bala and Vetrimaaran.
Balu, Kaithal
Balu, Kaithal, locally Theh Khera, is a pre-Harappan and Harappan settlement mound in Kaithal district, Haryana, India, excavated as a fortified rural settlement of about 24 acres.
Balu'a Stele
The Balu'a Stele, also called the Al-Balu'a Stele, is a basalt relief monument found in 1930 at Khirbet al-Balu'a in Jordan, bearing an undeciphered hieroglyphic-style inscription.
Balubakat
Balubakat, the Association des Baluba du Katanga, was a Congolese political party of the Baluba people of northern Katanga, founded in 1957 under Jason Sendwe.
Baluchistan
Baluchistan, or Balochistan, is a dry plateau in southwestern Asia covering parts of Iran and Pakistan, bounded by the Arabian Sea and the Sulaiman Mountains.
Balulu
Balulu was, per the Sumerian King List, the fourth and last king of the First Dynasty of Ur, credited with a 36-year reign in the mid-25th century BC.
Balumama (बाळूमामा महाराज)
Balumama (बाळूमामा महाराज), born Balappa, was a sant of the Dhangar shepherd community, born in 1892 in Karnataka and venerated after his 1966 samadhi at Adamapur, Maharashtra.
Balun
A balun, a portmanteau of "balanced" and "unbalanced," is an electrical device that converts between balanced and unbalanced signals, used most visibly with radio-frequency antennas and feeders.
Balupu
Balupu (బలుపు) is a 2013 Telugu action comedy directed by Gopichand Malineni, starring Ravi Teja, Shruti Haasan, and Anjali; produced by PVP Cinema, music by S. Thaman, released 28 June 2013, Ravi Teja's comeback hit.
Bālurghāt
Balurghat (বালুরঘাট) is a city and municipality in Dakshin Dinajpur district, West Bengal, India, on the Atreyee River near the Bangladesh border; district headquarters since 1992, municipality since 1951, population about 151,000 (2011).
Baluster
A baluster is one of a series of closely spaced vertical supports for a handrail or coping, also called a banister or spindle, forming a balustrade.
Balut (food)
Balut is a fertilized duck egg incubated 14-18 days (17 ideal in the Philippines), then boiled and eaten from the shell; also called trứng vịt lộn in Vietnam, with penoy as its unfertilized counterpart.
Baluta
Baluta (बलुतं) is a 1978 autobiographical novel by the Marathi writer Daya Pawar, credited as the first Dalit autobiography in Marathi and a founding text of the Dalit autobiographical genre in India.
Balvinder Singh Sahni
Balvinder Singh Sahni, known as Abu Sabah, is an Indian-born businessman who founded the Dubai property developer Raj Sahni Group and was convicted of money laundering in 2025.
Balvir Singh
Balvir Singh is an American Democratic politician in the New Jersey General Assembly's 7th district, appointed in January 2025 and the first Sikh legislator in New Jersey.
Balwant Gargi
Balwant Gargi (1916–2003) was an Indian Punjabi-language playwright, novelist, and theater director who founded Panjab University's Indian Theatre Department and won the Sahitya Akademi and Sangeet Natak Akademi awards.
Balwant Singh of Benares
Balwant Singh of Benares (بلونت سنگھ) was a zamindar who ruled the Benares state from 1740 to 1770 and is regarded as the real founder of the Benares Raj.
Balwant Singh of Bharatpur
Balwant Singh (बलवंत सिंह) was Maharaja of the Jat princely state of Bharatpur in Rajasthan from 1826 to 1853, succeeded by his son Jashwant Singh.
Balwant Wankhade
Balwant Baswant Wankhade, born 1967, is an Indian National Congress politician serving since 2024 in the Lok Sabha for Amravati, Maharashtra, after representing Daryapur in the state assembly.
Balwantray Thakore
Balwantray Thakore (બળવંતરાય ઠાકોર, 1869–1952) was a Gujarati poet, critic, and historian who pioneered the sonnet in Gujarati poetry, bridging the Pandit and Gandhi eras.
Balwinder Sandhu (ਬਲਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧੂ)
Balwinder Singh Sandhu (ਬਲਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧੂ), born 1956, Indian right-arm fast-medium swing bowler; 8 Tests, 22 ODIs; famous for bowling Gordon Greenidge in the 1983 World Cup final; later a coach.
Balyakalasakhi
Balyakalasakhi (ബാല്യകാലസഖി), meaning "childhood friend", is a 1944 Malayalam tragic love novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, his most popular novel and the first major Malayalam work to portray Muslim customs.
Balyan family
The Balyan family, also spelled Balian, was an Ottoman Armenian dynasty of architects who served the sultans for four generations and built Dolmabahçe Palace and the Ortaköy Mosque.
Balyogi Umeshnath
Balyogi Umeshnath is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh in 2024 for a term to 2030.
Balys Sruoga
Balys Sruoga (1896–1947) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, playwright, and university professor, best known for Forest of the Gods, his memoir of imprisonment in the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp.
Balz–Schiemann reaction
The Balz–Schiemann reaction, also called the Schiemann reaction, converts aromatic amines into aryl fluorides via diazonium tetrafluoroborate salts, first reported by Balz and Schiemann in 1927.