Bale
Encyclopedia
Places
- Bale (town), a small town in Croatia
- Bale, CaliforniaBale, CaliforniaBale is an unincorporated community in Napa County, California. It lies at an elevation of 282 feet . Bale is located on the Carne Humana land grant, along the Southern Pacific Railroad, east-southeast of Calistoga....
, in Napa County - Bale, NorfolkBale, NorfolkBale is a village within the civil parish of Gunthorpe in the English county of Norfolk. The village is on the north side of the A148 King's Lynn to Cromer road.The village is 9 miles east north east of the town of Fakenham, 14.3 miles west south west of Cromer and 125 miles north north east of...
in England - Bale, PolandBale, PolandBale is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mokobody, within Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Siedlce and east of Warsaw.The village has a population of 140.-References:...
- Balé ProvinceBale ProvinceBale Province may refer to:* Balé Province, Burkina Faso* Bale Province, Ethiopia...
, Burkina Faso - BaselBaselBasel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
, the Swiss city, for which the French name is Bâle
Ethiopia
- Bale MountainsBale MountainsThe Bale Mountains are a range of mountains in the Oromia Region of southeast Ethiopia, south of the Awash River. They include Tullu Demtu, the second-highest mountain in Ethiopia , and Mount Batu . The Weyib River, a tributary of the Jubba River, rises in these mountains east of Goba...
- Bale Mountains National ParkBale Mountains National ParkThe Bale Mountains National Park is a national park in the Oromia Region of southeast Ethiopia. Created in 1970, this park covers about 2,200 square kilometers of the Bale Mountains to the west and southwest of Goba in the Bale Zone...
- Bale Province, EthiopiaBale Province, EthiopiaBale is the name of two former polities located in the southeastern part of modern Ethiopia.- The medieval dependency of Bale :...
, a former province in Ethiopia - Bale ZoneBale ZoneBale is one of the 17 zones in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Bale is named for the former kingdom of Bale, which was in approximately the same area...
in Oromia, Ethiopia
People
- Christian BaleChristian BaleChristian Charles Philip Bale is an English actor. Best known for his roles in American films, Bale has starred in both big budget Hollywood films and the smaller projects from independent producers and art houses....
(b. 1974), English actor born in Wales - David BaleDavid BaleDavid Charles Howard Bale was a South African-born entrepreneur and an environmentalist animal rights activist, perhaps best known as the husband of journalist, political and social activist, and Women's Movement leader Gloria Steinem and the father of actor Christian Bale.Bale grew up in England,...
(1941-2003), South African entrepreneur - Edward Turner BaleEdward Turner BaleEdward Turner Bale was an English immigrant physician who built the Bale Grist Mill in Napa County, California.-Life:...
(1810-1849), English physician - Elvin BaleElvin BaleElvin Bale, born in London, England, was a world-famous daredevil with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, among many other international circuses...
, English circus daredevil - Ernest BaleErnest BaleErnest William Bale was an English cricketer who played 148 first-class matches between 1904 and 1920, the great majority of these being for Worcestershire, for whom he was the first-choice wicket-keeper for several years before the First World War...
(1878-1952), English cricketer - Gareth BaleGareth BaleGareth Frank Bale is a Welsh footballer who plays for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Wales national team. Bale began his professional career with Southampton in 2005 and was transferred to Tottenham two years later...
(b. 1989), Welsh footballer - Sir Henry Bale, Chief Justice, Colony of NatalColony of NatalThe Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on May 4, 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia, and on 31 May 1910 combined with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, as one of its...
- John BaleJohn BaleJohn Bale was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English , and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being...
(1496-1563), English churchman and playwright - John Bale (baseball) (b. 1974), baseball player
- Lan BaleLan BaleLan Bale , is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 4 doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 4 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No...
(b. 1969), former South African tennis player - Qoriniasi BaleQoriniasi BaleQoriniasi Babitu Bale is a lawyer and political leader, who has served twice as Fiji's Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, most recently from 2001 to 2006, when he was deposed in the military coup of 5 December...
, Fijian lawyer and politician - Sue BaleSue BaleSue Bale, FRCN, RGN, NDN, RHV is a British nurse with a special interest in wound healing.-Education and career:She received her PhD degree from the University of Glamorgan in 2003....
, British nursing researcher and administrator
Industrial packaging
- Hay bale or straw bale, in farming, bound by a balerBalerA baler is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport and store...
- Paper bale, a unit of paper measurement equal to ten reams