Ballooning
Ballooning may refer to:* Hot air ballooning* Balloon * Ballooning * Ballooning degeneration

Ballooning (spider)
Ballooning is a term used for the mechanical kiting that many spiders, especially small species, as well as certain mites and some caterpillars use to disperse through the air. Many small spiders use gossamer or especially fine silk to lift themselves off a surface or use the silk as an anchor in mid air

Balloons (Foals song)
"Balloons" is the first single from the album Antidotes by Foals. It is their fourth single in total to date. It was released as a digital download on 9 December 2007 and on CD and vinyl the following day.

Ballot
A ballot is a device used to record choices made by voters. Each voter uses one ballot, and ballots are not shared. In the simplest elections, a ballot may be a simple scrap of paper on which each voter writes in the name of a candidate, but governmental elections use pre-printed to protect the secrecy of the votes

Ballot box
A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually square box though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period

Ballottement
Ballottement is a medical sign which indicates increased fluid in the suprapatellar pouch over the patella at the knee joint. To test ballottement the examiner would apply downward pressure towards the foot with one hand, while pushing the patella backwards against the femur with one finger of the opposite hand. A "milking" motion is used with the downward pressure

Ballpoint pen
A ballpoint pen is a writing instrument with an internal ink reservoir and a sphere for a point. The internal chamber is filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at its tip during use by the rolling action of a small sphere

Ballroom
A ballroom is a large room inside a building, the designated purpose of which is holding formal dances called balls. Traditionally, most balls were held in private residences; many mansions contain one or more ballrooms

Ballroom (musical)
Ballroom is a musical with a book by Jerome Kass and music by Billy Goldenberg and lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.Based on Kass' teleplay for the 1975 Emmy Award-winning television drama Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, the plot focuses on lonely widow Bea Asher, who becomes romantically involved with Alfred Rossi, a mail carrier she meets at the local dance hall

Balls (Elizabeth Cook album)
Balls is the third major-label album of country music singer Elizabeth Cook. It was released May 1, 2007.-Track listing:All songs written by Elizabeth Cook except where noted.#"Times Are Tough in Rock 'N Roll" - 2:05

Balls (TV channel)
Balls is a Filipino sports television network owned by Creative Programs, Inc., a subsidiary of ABS-CBN. It is managed by the sports division of ABS-CBN Corporation, ABS-CBN Sports. The channel operates non-stop 24/7.-History:

Ballyhoo
The ballyhoo or bally, Hemiramphus brasiliensis, is a baitfish of the halfbeak family . It is similar to the Balao halfbeak . Ballyhoo are frequently used as cut bait and for trolling purposes by saltwater sportsmen.Ballyhoo can also be seen above the waters skimming the surface to escape from their predators

Ballyhoo (album)
Ballyhoo is a compilation album by Echo & the Bunnymen, released in 1997. Liner notes were written by the group's former manager Bill Drummond.- Track listing :# "Rescue"# "Do It Clean"# "Villiers Terrace"# "All That Jazz"# "Over the Wall"

Ballyhoo (disambiguation)
Ballyhoo is a baitfish species.Ballyhoo may also refer to:*Ballyhoo , published 1986*Ballyhoo , stage lighting*Ballyhoo , published 1931–1954 intermittently

Ballyhoo (magazine)
Ballyhoo was a humor magazine published by Dell, created by George T. Delacorte Jr., and edited by Norman Anthony , from 1931 until 1939, with a couple of attempts to resuscitate the magazine after the war between 1948 and 1954.In common with other magazines of the era it featured a central section dedicated to one-off

Balm
Balm can refer to:*Liniment, a topical medical preparation*Melissa , a plant genus, particularly the species commonly known as Lemon balm*Balm of Gilead, a medicinal resin from the North American species Populus candicans

Balmoral
- Australia :* Balmoral, New South Wales, a locality of Sydney* Balmoral, New South Wales * Balmoral, New South Wales * Balmoral, Queensland* Balmoral, Victoria* Balmoral, Western Australia- Canada :

Balmoral (cruise ship)
Balmoral is a cruise ship owned and operated by Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines. She was built in 1988 by the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, West Germany as Crown Odyssey for Royal Cruise Line. She has also sailed for the Norwegian Cruise Line as Norwegian Crown and Orient Lines as Crown Odyssey

Balochistan
Balochistan or Baluchistan is a region which covers parts of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. It can also refer to one of several modern and historical territories within that region:

Balochistan (Afghanistan)
Balochistan or Baluchistan is an arid, mountainous region that includes part of southern and southwestern Afghanistan. It extends into southeastern Iran and western Pakistan and is named after the Baloch people.-Geography:

Balochistan (region)
Balochistan or Baluchistan is an arid, mountainous region in the Iranian plateau in Southwest Asia; it includes part of southeastern Iran, western Pakistan, and southwestern Afghanistan. The area is named after the numerous Baloch tribes, Iranian peoples who moved into the area from the west around 1000 AD

Baloney (album)
Baloney is an EP by Los Angeles hip-hop group LA Symphony.-Track listing:# "Power Converters"# "10"# "King Kong" # "You"# "Haters"# "Maintain"# "Win Win"# "Crush"# "Big Rap Money Makin' "

Baloney (disambiguation)
Baloney is another name for bologna sausage.Baloney may also refer to:* Baloney , a character from Animaniacs* Baloney , an EP by LA Symphony

Baloney (Henry P.)
Baloney is a children's picture book written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith. It was published in 1991 by Viking Press.

Balor (comics)
Balor is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.-Fictional character biography:Balor is a giant red-skinned, yellow-horned, one-eyed member of the Fomor, extra-dimensional beings from the dimension of Avalon

Balor (disambiguation)
Balor may refer to:*Balor, from Irish mythology*Balor , a creature from Dungeons & Dragons*Balor , a Marvel Comics character

Balsa
Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as the balsa tree , is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is a large, fast-growing tree that can grow up to tall. It is the source of balsa wood, a very lightweight material with many uses

Balsa
Balsa is the tree Ochroma pyramidale or the light-weight wood it producesBalsa may also refer to:* Balsa *Balsa , moth of the Noctuidae family* Balsa , in present-day southern Portugal

Balsa (Roman town)
Balsa was a Roman coastal town in Hispania, province of Lusitania, Conventus Pacensis .The modern location is in the rural estates of Torre d'Aires, Antas and Arroio, parish of Luz de Tavira, county of Tavira, district of Faro, in Algarve, Southern Portugal.- Name origin:BALSA is a pre-Roman place-name with a probable Phoenician etymology: B'LŠ..., a possible

Balsa (ship)
A Balsa is a boat or ship built by various pre-Columbian South American civilizations constructed from woven reeds of the Totora bullrush. They varied in size from small canoe sized personal fishing boats to large ships up to 30 meters long

Balsam
Balsam is a term used for various pleasantly scented plant products, and the plants which produce them. Balsams are oily or gummy oleoresins, usually containing benzoic acid or cinnamic acid, obtained from the exudates of various trees and shrubs and used as a base for some botanical medicines

Balsam Fir
The balsam fir is a North American fir, native to most of eastern and central Canada and the northeastern United States .-Growth:It is a small to medium-size evergreen tree typically tall, rarely to tall, with a narrow conic crown

Balsid
Balsid is a village in Chandpur District in the Chittagong Division of eastern Bangladesh.

Balthazar (novel)
Balthazar, published in 1958, is the second volume in the The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell. Set in Alexandria, Egypt around WWII, the four novels tell essentially the same story from different points of view and come to a conclusion in Clea

Baltic
-Northern Europe:* The Baltic Sea* Baltic states : Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia* The Baltic region, an ambiguous term referring to the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt

Baltimore (tug)
The Baltimore is a preserved steam-powered tugboat, built in 1906 by the Skinner Shipbuilding Company of Baltimore, Maryland. It is the oldest operating steam tugboat in the United States

Baluchi (horse)
The Baluchi horse is a breed of horse native to the Baluchistan, Sindh and Punjab Provinces in Pakistan. They are best recognized by their turned in ears, which resemble those of the Marwari horse from nearby Marwar, India.- Characteristics :

Baluster
A baluster is a moulded shaft, square or of lathe-turned form, one of various forms of spindle in woodwork, made of stone or wood and sometimes of metal, standing on a unifying footing, and supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase. Multiplied in this way, they form a balustrade

Bam
Bam is commonly used as an onomatopoeia for a sound, mostly that of an impact or collision.Bam or BAM may also refer to:Places:*Bam, Iran, a city*Bam County, an administrative subdivision of Iran*Bam Province, Burkina Faso

Bamako (film)
Bamako is a 2006 film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, first released at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on May 21 and in Manhattan by New Yorker Films on February 14, 2007.

Bambara
Bambara may refer to:* Ethnic group and language** Bambara people, an ethnic group primarily in Mali.** Bambara language, their language, which like other Manding languages is also used by other groups as a lingua franca. The linguistically correct term for the language of the Bambara ethnic group of Mali is Bamanankan

Bambino
Bambino is Italian for "little boy". The feminine is bambina. It can refer to:* Il Bambino, name given in art to the image of the infant Jesus* Bambino , another name for the Italian wine grape Bombino bianco* Bambino!, Japanese manga

Bamboo
Bamboo is a group of perennial evergreens in the true grass family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family.

Bamboo (length)
A bamboo is an obsolete unit of length in India and Myanmar.-India:In India, the unit was fixed by the reforms of Akbar the Great at approximately 12.8 m . After Metrication in India in the mid-20th century, the unit became obsolete.-Myanmar:In Myanmar it was approximately 3.912 meters

Bamboo (lyricist)
Simon Kimani, more popularly known as Bamboo, is an emcee who represents Kenya and currently lives in New York City. He was raised in Inglewood, California by parents of East African descent, and at the age of 17, his parents sent him to Nairobi, Kenya to eschew the potentially dangerous life they feared he might have if he stayed in Inglewood

Bamboo (production act)
Bamboo was a short-lived British house production act formed by producer Andrew Livingstone, formerly of Hed Boys . It had a #2 hit in the UK Singles Chart with "Bamboogie" in 1998, which was based on a sample from the KC and the Sunshine Band song "Get Down Tonight". The act's other hit single, also in 1998, was "The Strutt", which peaked at #36

Bamboo Antshrike
The Bamboo Antshrike is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.-References:

Bamboo Shoots
Bamboo Shoots is an American four-piece musical group based out of Brooklyn, New York and suburban New Jersey. They are known for their dueling, two-person rhythm section and their South Asian identity and influence

Bamboozle
Bamboozle! was a quiz game featured on Channel 4 Teletext in the United Kingdom. It was originally part of Teletext's "Fun & Games" category, though the rest of the category had been discontinued for some years before Bamboozle! ended

Bambu
Bambu may refer to:*Bamboo *Bambu, the incomplete second album by Beach Boy Dennis Wilson*Bambu, a Filipino American Hip-Hop emcee and former member of rap group Native Guns*Bambu, Ethiopia, a town in southern Ethiopia

BAMS
BAMS may refer to:* Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery* Broad Area Maritime Surveillance* Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society* BAM Shallow

Ban
Ban may refer to:* Ban , a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship* The imperial ban, a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire* Cherem, usually translated as the Ban, a form of excommunication in Judaism

BAN
BAN may refer to:*Balinese language *Bangladesh at the Olympics *Basel Action Network*Biblioteka Akademii Nauk, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences*Blut Aus Nord, a black metal band.

Bana
Baňa is a village and municipality in Stropkov District in the Prešov Region of north-eastern Slovakia.-Geography:The municipality lies at an altitude of 415 metres and covers an area of 1.912 km². It has a population of about 190 people.

Bana (singer)
Bana is a balladeer from Cape Verde and an interpreter of the morna, the plaintive, melodic lament which is a staple musical style of the country.

Bana (Village)
Bana is a Village situated in Bikaner district in Rajasthan, India. It is situated 10 km south of Sri Dungargarh city. It was founded by Bana Jats.

Banaba (disambiguation)
Banaba can have the following meanings:* Banaba is an island in the Pacific Ocean. Much of the former population of the island now lives in Fiji

Banality
Banality may refer to:*Banality, the predictability of a system. See Predictability.*The payment serfs were required to make to local nobles in order to use facilities such as mills and looms. See Serfdom.

Banan
Banan may refer to:* Banan District, Chongqing, a district of Chongqing Municipality, China* Banan District, Battambang Province, a district in Battambang Province, Cambodia* Gholam Hossein Banan, an Iranian traditional music vocalist

Banana
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red.

Banana (band)
-Band history:Banana was formed in 1985 in Belgrade. They released their debut album Ponoćni pasaži in 1986 in the following lineup: Aleksandra Toković , Dragan Lončar , Boban Šaranović , Srđan Cincar and Igor Borojević

Banana (disambiguation)
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce.Banana or bananas may also refer to:In nature:* Nymphoides_aquatica , Aquatic species known for its unusual root structure

Banana Republic
Banana Republic is an American clothing brand founded by Mel and Patricia Ziegler in 1978 as a travel-themed clothing company; it has subsequently largely eliminated this tropical or travel-related theme. The company was bought by Gap in 1983

Banana republic
In political science, the pejorative term Banana Republic denotes a politically unstable country dependent upon limited primary productions , which is ruled by a plutocracy, a small, self-elected, wealthy group who exploit the country by means of a politico-economic oligarchy

Banana Republic (album)
Banana Republic is a live album of Italian singer-songwriters Francesco De Gregori and Lucio Dalla. It was recorded in their tour of 1979 and released by RCA Italia

Banana split
A banana split is an ice cream-based dessert. In its classic form it is served in a long dish called a boat. A banana is cut in half lengthwise and laid in the dish. There are many variations, but the classic banana split is made with scoops of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream served in a row between the split banana

Bananas (Who You Gonna Call?)
"Bananas " is the first single from Queen Latifah's fourth studio album, Order in the Court . The song embodies portions of "Fu Gee-La" by The Fugees.-Video:There are 2 versions of the video

Banco (album)
Banco is a 1975 album by Italian progressive rock band Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. The album was originally released on the Manticore Records label launched by Emerson, Lake & Palmer with whom the band shared a firm stylistic similarity. A lively and inventive collection of songs and instrumentals combining elements of classical chamber music, electronic rock and operatic song

Band
- Clothing, jewelry, and accessories :* Bands , two pieces of cloth fitted around the neck as part of formal clothing for clergy, academics and lawyers* Bandolier or bandoleer, an ammunition belt* Belt * Wedding ring or wedding band