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Baluchis
Group of tribes speaking the Baluchi language and inhabiting the province of Baluchistan in Pakistan and neighboring areas of Iran, Afghanistan, Bahrain, and the Punjab (India). Some 70% of the total Baluchi population live in Pakistan, where they are divided into two groups, the Sulaimani and the Makrani. They probably came originally from the Iranian plateau, and are mentioned in 10th-cent. Arabic chronicles. Traditional Baluchis are nomads, but settled agricultural existence is becoming more common. They raise camels and other livestock and engage in carpet making and embroidery.
Balch
U.S. sociologist and peace activist. Born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., she studied at Bryn Mawr College and taught at Wellesley College from 1896. She founded a settlement house in Boston and served on state commissions on industrial relations (1908-9) and immigration (1913-14). She lost her professorship in 1918 because of her opposition to U.S. entry into World War I. In 1919, with J. Addams, she helped found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. In 1946 she shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John R. Mott (1865-1955).
Baruch
U.S. financier and adviser to presidents. Born in Camden, S.C., he went to work in Wall Street brokerage houses, where he amassed a fortune as a speculator. During World War I he was appointed chairman of the War Industries Board by Pres. W. Wilson. In 1919 he was a member of the economic council at the Versailles peace conference and one of Wilson's advisers on the treaty. In World War II he was an unofficial adviser on economic mobilization to Pres. F. Roosevelt. Later he was instrumental in setting U.N. policy on the international control of atomic energy.
Baugh
First outstanding quarterback of U.S. professional football. Born in Temple, Texas, he led the NFL in forward passing in 6 of 16 seasons (1937-52) with the Washington Redskins. He also excelled as a punter and as a defensive halfback.
Bloch
French historian. He served in the French infantry in World War I. From 1919 he taught medieval history at Strasbourg, where he cofounded the important periodical Annales d'histoire é conomique et sociale. He taught economic history at the Sorbonne from 1936. During World War II he joined the French Resistance and was captured and killed by the Germans. Among his major works are The Royal Touch (1924), French Rural History (1931), and Feudal Society (1939). As the founder of the "Annales school" of historiography, with its wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, Bloch exerted a huge influence on the study of history that is still being felt internationally.
Swiss-U.S. composer. He conducted and lectured at the Geneva Conservatory before moving in 1916 to the U.S., where he served as director of the San Francisco Conservatory 1925-30 and taught at UC-Berkeley 1942-52. He worked in tonal, atonal, and serialist idioms; his ...
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