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Baker A baker is someone who primarily bakes and sells bread. Cakes and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades.
Baker & McKenzie Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker. One of the first law firms to be truly globalit is now home to more than 3,400 lawyers spread over more than 70 offices in 38 different countries.
Baker (military code-name) Baker is the code-name for a series of training exercises conducted by the United States Army and several Asian countries which hosted the exercises. The purpose of the exercises is to practice and develop counter-narcotics operations.
Baker College (Rice University) James Addison Baker College is one of nine residential colleges on the Rice University campus in Houston, Texas. Like the other eight residential colleges on the Rice campus, James Addison Baker College provides undergraduate residential and dining facilities, social organizations and student government, as well as faculty members and alumni and community associates.
Baker Creek Baker Creek is a community located in British Columbia Canada west of Quesnel along the Nazko highway. People in the community enjoy many outdoor activities, such as fishing, hunting, boating, camping, horse back riding, atv and skidoo.
Baker Heights, West Virginia Baker Heights is an unincorporated community near Opequon Creek in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Located on West Virginia Route 9 southeast of Martinsburg, Baker Heights is the site of the Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Baker Hotel The Baker Hotel, in Mineral Wells, Texas, was opened November 22nd, 1929 and was designed after the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas, which is still operating today. The Baker is 14 stories tall and has 460 rooms.
Baker Hughes INTEQ Baker Hughes INTEQ is among the world's leading oilfield drilling service companies. INTEQ was formed from the legacy companies of Eastman Christensen, Teleco MWD and Exlog which were bought over by the Baker Hughes Inc in the late 1980s.
Baker Island Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean at , about 3,100 km (1,675 nautical miles) southwest of Honolulu. The island is about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia.
Baker Lake Baker Lake or Qamani’tuaq (where the river widens) is situated in Nunavut, Canada and is approximately 1,887 km² (729 mi²) in size. The lake is fed by the Thelon River from the west and the Kazan River from the south and drains into Chesterfield Inlet and thus into Hudson Bay.
Baker Lake, Nunavut Baker Lake or Qamani’tuaq (where the river widens) (Inuktitut syllabics:ᖃᒪᓂᑦᑐᐊᖅ), is a hamlet in Nunavut on mainland Canada. Located 320 kilometers inland from Hudson Bay, it is near the nation's geographical center.
Baker Memorial Library Fisher Ames Baker Memorial Library is the main library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The fresco, The Epic of American Civilization, was painted by José Clemente Orozco in the lower level of Baker Library.
Baker Plan The Baker Plan (formal name, Peace Plan for Self-Determination of the People of Western Sahara) is a United Nations initiative to grant Western Sahara self-determination. It was intended to substitute the Settlement Plan of 1991, which had been further detailed in the Houston Agreement of 1997.
Baker rifle The Baker rifle was the flintlock rifle used by the Rifle regiments of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. The Baker Rifle was first produced in 1800 by Ezekiel Baker, a master gunsmith from Whitechapel.
Baker River (Washington) The Baker River is a tributary of the Skagit River, approximately 28 mi (45 km) long, in northwestern Washington in the United States. It drains an area of the high Cascade Range in the watershed of Puget Sound north of Seattle.
Baker Street (song) "Baker Street" is a song by Gerry Rafferty written in 1978 during his break from the band Stealers Wheel. The song was featured on his second solo album City to City and released as the first of three singles, marketed primarily to Adult Contemporary radio.
Baker valve gear Baker valve gear was the main competitor to Walschaert valve gear for steam locomotives in the United States. It used more pivot bearings, but avoided the sliding connection of Walschaert gear, thus somewhat lessening wear and the need for service.
Baker's Drive-thru Baker's Drive-thru is a chain of fast-food restaurants located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. It was the first fast food chain in America to offer a dual menu of both American and Mexican-style food options.
Baker's Haulover Inlet Baker's Haulover Inlet is a man-made channel in Miami-Dade County, Florida connecting the northern end of Biscayne Bay with the Atlantic Ocean, at coordinates . The inlet was cut in 1925 through a narrow point in the peninsula that extends to a point east of the mouth of the Miami River, and which now is occupied by the cities of Bal Harbour, Surfside and Miami Beach.
Baker's map In dynamical systems theory, the baker's map is a chaotic map from the unit square into itself. It is named after a kneading operation that bakers apply to dough: the dough is cut in half, and the two halves are stacked on one-another, and compressed.
Baker-Venkataraman rearrangement The Baker-Venkataraman rearrangement is the chemical reaction of 2-acetoxyacetophenones with base to form 1,3-diketones. | title = Molecular rearrangement of some o-acyloxyacetophenones and the mechanism of the production of 3-acylchromones }} | title = Synthetical experiments in the chromone.
Bakers Arms, Leyton Baker's Arms is a district of Leyton, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The district is named after a junction of High Road Leyton, Hoe Street and Lea Bridge Road, which in turn is named after the public house, which still operates at the crossroads.
Bakers Hill, Western Australia Bakers Hill () is a town 73 km east of Perth, Western Australia on the Great Eastern Highway. The town is located within the Shire of Northam, between Wundowie and Clackline, with Northam being 24 km to the east.
Bakers Island Bakers Island (Salem City) is a small residential island within Massachusetts Bay, in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA. It's located southeast of Great Misery Island & Little Misery Island, northeast of North Gooseberry Island & South Gooseberry Island, and far northeast of Cat Island (Salem City).
Bakers Square Bakers Square Restaurant & Pies (also known as Bakers Square) is a casual dining restaurant chain in the United States. While they are known for their pies, Bakers Square offers full breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus.
Bakers' queues Bakers' queues are long line-ups at shops when essential goods are short. The phrase is quite rarely used, and it is generally only seen in references to Thomas Carlyle's book The French Revolution, A History.
Bakersfield Brigade Bakersfield Brigade are an American soccer team, founded in 2005. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference against teams from Fresno, Glendora, La Mirada, Lancaster, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Ana and Ventura.
Bakersfield College Bakersfield College (BC) is a public community college located in Bakersfield, California, USA. Its main campus is located on a 153 acre plot in northeast Bakersfield, and it also operates two satellite campuses: the Weill Institute in downtown Bakersfield, and at the Delano Center in Delano, California, approximately 35 miles north of Bakersfield.
Bakersfield Fire Department The Bakersfield Fire Department (BFD) is a fire protection agency that serves the City of Bakersfield, California. The department currently serves a population of approximately 400,000, making the city of Bakersfield one of the largest in California.
Bakersfield Jam The Bakersfield Jam are an expansion franchise of the National Basketball Association Development League that will begin play in 2006-07. They will play their home games at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, California, United States.
Bakersfield sound The Bakersfield sound was a genre of country music developed in the mid- to late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California, at honky-tonk bars such as The Blackboard, and on local television stations in Bakersfield and throughout California in the 1950's and 60's. The town, known mainly for agriculture and oil production, was the destination for many Dust Bowl migrants and others from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and other parts of the Southwest.
Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union (BCTGM) is a labor union in the United States and Canada. It has a membership of 120,000, and was formed January, 1999 from the merger of the Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers' International Union and the American Federation of Grain Millers.
Bakestone Bakestones are cut flat stones that can be placed on a fire or stove to cook cakes of various kinds. The Northern tradition in areas such as Saddleworth was for oatcakes (a sort of hard, long lasting oaten biscuit).
Bakewell tart A Bakewell tart is a traditional English baked dessert tart or cake consisting of a shortcrust pastry shell, spread with jam and covered with a sponge-like filling enriched with ground almonds. They may also be covered with nuts such as almonds and peanuts.
Bakha In Egyptian mythology, Bakha (also spelt Bakh, Buchis, and Bukhis) was the manifestation of the a deification of Ka (power/life-force) of the war god Menthu, worshipped in the region of Hermonthis. The name is simply Ba-Kha, which is a reference to the Ba and Akh (Akh is sometimes referred to as Khu), the components into which the Ka was split, after death (a characteristic of war).
Bakharwal Dog The Bakharwal Dog is an ancient working breed of dog found in the Pir Panjal mountain range of the Kashmir Himalayas, where it has been bred for many centuries by the Gujjar nomadic tribes as a livestock guardian dog and settlement protector.
Bakhdida Bakhdida, also known as Al-Hamdaniya Municipality, is a town in northern Iraq, located about 32 km south eastern of the city of Mosul amid agricultural lands, close to the ruins of Nemrod and Nineveh. It is connected to the main city of Mosul by two main roads.
Bakhchisaray Bakhchisaray (, , ) is a town in Central Crimea, centre of the Bakhchisaray raion (district), best known as the former capital of the Crimean Khanate. Its main landmark is Hansaray, the only extant palace of the Crimean Khans, currently opened to tourists as a museum.
Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage The Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage is a constructivist building designed in Moscow (1926-1927) by the architect Konstantin Melnikov and the engineer Vladimir Shukhov. It is one of the best examples of Moscow industrial architecture.
Bakhshali Manuscript The Bakhshali Manuscript is a mathematical manuscript written on birch bark which was found near the village of Bakhshali in what is now Pakistan in 1881. The manuscript is incomplete, with only seventy leaves of birch bark, many mere scraps, remaining.
Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Bakhtar Afghan Airlines is an airline based in Afghanistan. The international airline of Afghanistan is called Ariana Afghan Airlines and the it's domestic partner is called Bakhtar Air, even though they both are the same airline company.
Bakhtiyar Artayev Bakhtiyar Artayev (born March 14, 1983) is a Kazakh boxer who competed in the welterweight (69 kg) category at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal. In the final, Artayev beat Lorenzo Aragon Armenteros of Cuba with a score of 36-26.
Baking Baking is the technique of cooking food in an oven by dry heat applied evenly throughout the oven or only from the bottom element. Many household ovens in North America are usually provided with two heating elements, one in the bottom for baking, and one in the top for broiling.
Baking powder Baking Powder is a dry chemical leavening agent used in baking and deodorizing. There are several formulations; all contain an alkali, typically sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), and an acid in the form of salt crystals, together with starch to keep it dry. When dissolved in water the acid and alkali react and emit carbon dioxide gas, which expands existing bubbles to leaven the mixture. Most modern baking powders are double acting, that is, they contain two acid salts, one which reacts at room temperature, producing a rise as soon as the dough or batter is prepared, and another which reacts at a higher temperature, causing a further rise during baking. Baking powders that contain only the low-temperature acid salts are called single acting. Many recipes call for a process called creaming, where butter and sugar are beaten together to introduce tiny seed bubbles which the leavening gas will further expand.
Bakio Bakio is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. Famed locally for its stunning beach with steep cliffs but golden sands, the town has recently undergone significant urban renewal with the construction of new blocks of flats.
Bakis Bakis (Bacis in a Latinised spelling) was a semi-legendary ancient Greek seer of the 6th or 7th century BC, a native of Boeotia. Bakis was said to have been possessed by nymphs, who gave him the power of prophecy.
Bakithi Khumalo Bakithi Khumalo is a South African Bassist, composer and vocalist who has worked with a wide variety of diverse artists including Gloria Estefan, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Harry Belafonte, Cyndi Lauper and Paul Simon. Khumalo is most well known for his frettless bass playing on Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland.
Bakithi Kumalo Bakithi Kumalo (also Romanized as Bakhiti Kumalo, Baghiti Khumalo, pronounced bah-gee-tee koo-mah-low) is a bassist from South Africa, notable for working with Paul Simon as his backing bass player from Simon's album Graceland in 1986 to You're the One in 2000. He now works as a session player and soloist.
Bakkar Bakkar (Arabic:بكار) is an Egyptian cartoon series, and the name of that series' main character, a young boy, always seen in a turban. The signature tune by Mohammed Mounir is very popular and sung by some children.
Bakken Museum The Bakken Library and Museum is a museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Calhoun. Devoted to educating people about electricity and electromagnetism, it includes a library, display space, and classrooms.
Bakker-Schut Plan The Bakker-Schut Plan was proposed by the Netherlands after the end of World War II. It entailed giving the Netherlands huge monetary reparations from Germany and included the annexation of part of Germany, in its most ambitious form even including the cities of Cologne, Aachen, MĂĽnster and OsnabrĂĽck, that would have enlarged the country by 30 to 50 percent.
Bakkies Botha John Philip "Bakkies" Botha, usually referred to by his nickname (born 22 September 1979 in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal Province) is a South African rugby union footballer who plays lock for the South African national rugby team, the Springboks. He also plays for the Blue Bulls provincial team in the Currie Cup competition and for the Bulls Super 14 team.
Bakkwa Bakkwa or Rougan () is a Chinese dried meat product that is salty and sweet and flat in form. Although bakkwa is usually made of pork, it may also be prepared using beef or chicken, with certain Chinese populations favoring one type over the other.
Baklava Baklava is a rich, sweet pastry found in many cuisines of the Middle East, the Balkans and South Asia and developed in Ottoman cuisine. It is made of chopped nuts, usually walnuts or pistachios, layered with phyllo pastry, sweetened with sugar or honey syrup.
Baklunish Basin In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Baklunish Basin is the northwestern portion of the Flanaess. Consisting chiefly of remnants of the ancient Baklunish Empire, the human peoples of these lands are known as the Baklunish.
Bako Gazer Bako Gazer is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Debub Omo Zone, Bako Gazer is bordered on the south by Hamer Bena, on the west by Selamago, and on the north by the Semien Omo Zone, and on the east by the Weito River which separates it from the Dirashe special woreda.
Bako Tibe Bako Tibe is one of the 180 woredas, or districts, in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mirab Shewa Zone, Bako Tibe is bordered on the south, west and north by the Misraq Welega Zone, and on the east by Cheliya.
Bakony Bakony (German: Bakonyer Wald; Serbian: Bakonjska gora or Бакоњска гора) is the largest mountain range in Transdanubia, Hungary and the largest part of the Transdanubian Medium Mountains. It is located north from the Lake Balaton and almost entirely in Veszprém county.
Bakonydraco Bakonydraco galaczi ('Bakony dragon', Ősi, Weishapel & Jianu 2005) was a pterosaur (flying reptile) of the family Azhdarchidae. Its remains, including a complete mandible, some cervical vertebrae and limb fragments, were uncovered in the Upper Cretaceous Csehbanya Formation of the Bakony Mountains, Western Hungary.
Bakornas Bakornas is the National Disaster Management Coordinating Board of Indonesia (Indonesian: Badan Koordinasi Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana dan Penanganan Pengungsi). It was established in 1979 to replace the Advisory Board for Natural Disaster.
Bakota The Bakota (or Kota) are a Bantu ethnic group from the northeastern region of Gabon. The language they speak is called iKota, but is sometimes referred to as Bakota, ikuta, Kota, and among the Fang, they are known as Mekora.
Bakoumba Bakoumba is a town in south eastern Gabon with a population of around 2,500 people. It lies south west of Moanda and was the headquarters for the COMILOG Cableway, carrying manganese from Moanda to Mbinda in Congo-Brazzaville.
Bakoy River The Bakoy or Bakhoy River (also Semefé River) is a river in West Africa. It runs through Guinea and Mali and joins with the Bafing River to form the Sénégal River in Bafoulabé, in the Kayes Region of western Mali.
Bakran tribe The Bakran tribe had connections with the Bagratuni Dynasty of Armenia and later Georgia and the Tirikan tribe with the Armenian King Tigranes the Great. The reconstruction of Lake Van immediately east of the country of the Bakran tribe.
Bakria Mawasi Bakria Mawasi is a published Israeli Arab artist and writer. Born on August 12, 1987 in Baqa Al-Gharbeyya, she has made claim to renown through her memorable participation in "Crossing Borders" - a magazine supervised by Garba Diallo, International People's College, Elsinore, Denmark - which aims to bring young Israeli and Arab people together, and to form a dialogue.
Baksan Neutrino Observatory The Baksan Neutrino Observatory (BNO) is a neutrino observatory located in the Baksan gorge in the Caucasus. It consists of the Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope, located 300m below the surface , a Gallium-Germanium Neutrino Telescope 3,500m deep , as well as a number of ground facilities.
Baku (spirit) Baku (獏 or 貘) is the name of a fantastic beast in Japanese folklore, originally from China. It is usually depicted as a squat, trunked creature, vaguely resembling the tapir with which it shares its name in Japanese.
Baku Academy of Music The Hajibeyov Baku Academy of Music (Azeri: Hacıbəyov adına Bakı Musiqi Akademiyası) is a leading Azerbaijani music school. It was established in 1920 in Baku and was previously known as the Hajibeyov Azerbaijan State Conservatoire.
Baku City Executive Committee Baku City Executive Committee (Russian: Бакинский городской исполнительный комитет [Bakinskiy gorodskoy ispolnitel'nyi komitet], commonly known as Bakgorispolkom (Бакгорисполком)) was the main administrative institution of Baku during the Soviet period. Bakgorispolkom was headed by the presidium and consisted of the Chief Architecture Department and Town-planning Council"Эхо": Законы "О статусе Баку" и "Статусе бакинца".
Baku Initiative The Baku Initiative is a policy dialogue on energy cooperation between the European Union and the littoral states of the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and their neighbours. The initiative was announced on 13 November 2004 at the Energy Ministerial Conference in Baku.
Baku International Jazz Festival The Baku International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz event organized by renowned saxophonist and Baku resident Rain Sultanov. The festival aims to showcase the country's long-running attachment to the American-born art form, a connection first established in the country during the 1950s and 1960s, a time when jazz was outlawed by Soviet authorities.
Baku Oil Fields The Baku oil fields were created during the time of the Soviet Union by the Neftciler, which means Oil Workers in Azerbaijani. The oil fields produced more than 90% of the world's oil for over 100 years, from approximately 1830 to 1930.
Baku Private Turkish School The Baku Private Turkish School, in Azerbaijani language Bakı Özəl Türk Litseyi (BOTL), is a private, boys-only, secondary school in Baku, Azerbaijan. The school is considered the elite school and admissions is competitive.
Baku Stock Exchange Baku Stock Exchange (BSE, Azeri: Bakı Fond Birjası) is the main stock exchange in Azerbaijan. A member of Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS), BSE is organized in the form of closed joint stock company with 18 shareholdersBSE trades short-term treasury bond]s, [[common stocks (primarily from former state-owned enterprises that have been privatized, including food and beverage, construction and banking companies), and foreign currency futures
Baku Yumemakura Baku Yumemakura (夢枕獏; born 1951) is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer. His most critically heralded book might be Jōgen no Tsuki wo Taberu Shishi (The Lion that Ate the Crescent Moon) which won both the Seiun Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award.
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (sometimes abbreviated as BTC pipeline) transports crude petroleum 1,776 km from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The total length of the pipeline in Azerbaijan is 440 km long, in Georgia it is 260 km long and in Turkey is 1076 km long.
Bakulev Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery Bakulev Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery () is attached to the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and is one of the leading cardiovascular surgery-related facilities of the Russian Federation. The center embraces Burakovskiy Institute of Cardiac Surgery and the Institute of Coronary and Vascular Surgery, both located in Moscow.
Bakuryu (1st) the Mole Bakuryu (バクリュウ) is a fictional character from the Bloody Roar series. He is only playable in the first game of the series, though another character, Kenji, becomes the successor of the name Bakuryu for the rest of the series.
Bakusho Mondai Bakushō Mondai (爆笑問題) is a Japanese comedy duo consisting of Yūji Tanaka (田中裕二, Tanaka Yūji, born January 10, 1965) and Hikari Ōta (太田光, Ōta Hikari, born May 13, 1965) under the entertainment agency, Titan Inc. The comedians first met when they were students in the Department of Fine Arts at Nihon University, and they formed Bakushō Mondai in 1988 after dropping out of school.
Bakutis Coast Bakutis Coast () is that part of the coast of Antarctica extending from a point opposite eastern Dean Island, at , to Cape Herlacher. The coast in this area is bounded by several large ice-covered islands and the very extensive Getz Ice Shelf.
BaKoMa TeX BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX implementation for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95 with Visual (True WYSIWYG) LaTeX Editor, PostScript enabled graphical engine and support for using scalable font formats such as OpenType, TrueType, and PostScript Type 1 Font.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Marāṭhī: बाळ गंगाधर टिळक) (July 23 1856 - August 1 1920), was an Indian nationalist, social reformer and freedom fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement and is known as "Father of the Indian unrest." Tilak sparked the fire for complete independence in Indian consciousness, and is considered the father of Hindu nationalism as well.
Bal Harbour Shops Bal Harbour Shops, is an upscale open-air shopping mall located in Bal Harbour, Florida, a suburb of Miami, and Florida's most exclusive shopping destination. It opened in 1964 with its first tenant being toy retailer FAO Schwartz, who maintained a store in the mall until they went bankrupt.
Bal Thackeray "Bal" Keshav Thackeray (Marathi: बाळ केशव ठाकरे bāḷ keśav ṭhākare) (born January 23, 1927), popularly called 'Balasaheb', 'Sher', 'Tiger', or "Hridaysamrat" is the founder and president of the Shiv Sena, a Hindu nationalist and populist party mainly present in Maharashtra, India.
Bal-bals Balbals are a type of Kurgan Obelisks, ancient stone figures found throughout Central Asia and Eastern and Central Europe. Some kurgan obelisks are found still standing on kurgans, others were found buried in the slopes.
Bal-musette Bal-musette is a style of French popular music which arose in 1880s Paris especially the 5th, 11th and 12th districts. It was in these districts that Auvergnats settled in large numbers in the 19th century, opening cafés and bars where patrons danced the bourrée to the accompaniment of musette (a bellows-powered bagpipe) and grelottière.
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania Bala Cynwyd is a village in Lower Merion Township which is located in the Main Line in southeastern Pennsylvania, bordering the western edge of Philadelphia. It was originally two separate towns, Bala and Cynwyd, but is commonly treated as a single community.
Bala Prajapathi Adikalar Bala Prajapathi Adikalar (also spelt Adigalar or Adigal) is considered as the present religious leader of Ayyavazhi. Ayyavazhi is not an organised religious system and so it does not fall directly under his control officially.
Bala railway station Bala railway station was a railway station on the Great Western Railway's Bala Ffestiniog Line in Wales. The line northwards to Blaenau Ffestiniog closed to passenger services on 2 January 1960 and freight services on 27 January 1961.
Bala shark The Bala shark, Balantiocheilos melanopterus, also known as the tricolor shark, silver shark, or shark minnow, is a schooling community fish of family Cyprinidae and the sole member of the genus Balantiocheilos. This species is not a true shark, but is commonly called a "shark" because of its torpedo-shaped body and large fins.
Balaclava A balaclava (IPA: )also known as a balaclava helmet or ski mask, is a form of headgear covering the whole head, exposing only the face or upper part of it, and sometimes only the eyes. The name "balaclava" comes from the town of Balaklava] in [[Crimea.
Balaclava Junction Balaclava Junction is the only grand union in the southern hemisphere where trams can go in all directions from all directions. It is also a traffic blackspot mainly because it is a grand union, but changes to the light sequence and road markings have improved the safety of the interesction for both cars and trams alike.
Balaclava, Grey County, Ontario Settled in the early 1850s by Scottish immigrants, Balaclava grew around a mill established by George Scott. The majority of settlers came as a result of the Highland Clearances and/or the Potato Famine (1846-1857).
Balaclava, Renfrew County, Ontario Balaclava in Renfrew County, Ontario is a near ghost town today, a come down from the bustling lumber town of its heyday. It was begun with a sawmill in 1855 and by the 1860 had acquired a blacksmith shop and hotel to go with its permanent residents.
Balaclava, Victoria Balaclava is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia. It is situated in the south-east of the city in the St Kilda East area and is bounded by Inkerman street to the north, Chapel street to the west, Hotham Street to the east and Oak Grove and Los Angeles Streets to the South.
Balacrus Balacrus (in Greek Bαλακρoς), the son of Nicanor, one of Alexander the Great's body-guard, was appointed satrap of Cilicia after the battle of Issus, 333 BC. He fell in battle against the Pisidians in the life-time of Alexander.
Balad (Israel) Balad ( Brit Le'umit Demokratit, meaning National Democratic Assembly, referred to by the acronym בל"ד; in Arabic, بلد: home town, التجمع الوطني الديمقرآطي, pronounced al-tajamu' al-watani al-dīmūqrati) is a political party in Israel. The current leader of Balad is Dr Azmi Bishara.
Balad al-Shaykh massacre Balad al-Shaykh, was an Arab village in Palestine, now part of the Israeli town of Nesher. During the night of December 31 to January 1 1947 the Palmach, an arm of the Haganah, or Jewish militia, attacked the town, firing from the slopes of Mount Carmel, in retribution for the killing of 41 Jews during the Haifa Oil Refinery massacre the day before.
Balad, Iraq Balad (Arabic: بلد) is a city 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of Baghdad in Iraq. It is located within the borders of the so-called Sunni Triangle; however, Balad is a primarily Shiite town of approximately 100,000.
Baladites Baladites (or Valadites), from the Arabic baladiye, 'country' monks, are one of the two congregations (Pope Clement XIV sanctioned this separation in 1770) of St. Antony monks (the only other order being that of St.

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