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    Balls 8 is a NASA Boeing NB-52B mothership which was retired in 2004 after almost 50 years of flying service with NASA. The aircraft is famous for dropping...
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    Chinese "balls for ball practice" exercise balls, Chinese health balls, Chinese meditation balls, and Chinese medicine balls. Baoding balls are used by...
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    Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British broadcaster, economist and former politician. He served as Secretary of State for Children,...
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    Eight-ball (redirect from 8 ball)
    billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls). The object balls include seven solid-colored balls numbered 1 through 7, seven striped balls numbered...
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    also known as Balls 8) served as carrier planes for all X-15 flights. Release of the X-15 from NB-52A took place at an altitude of about 8.5 miles (13.7 km)...
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  • per innings and were played in traditional white clothing and with red balls. They were all played during the day. The eight teams at the tournament...
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    Balls 8 by Air Force pilots, following a tradition of referring to aircraft numbered with multiple zeroes as "Balls" plus the final number. Balls 8 received...
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    Pegasus-XL. Previous launches used the NASA-operated Boeing B-52 nicknamed "Balls 8," which was also used for four subsequent launches, as the original Pegasus...
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    Yvette Cooper (redirect from Yvette Balls)
    2010 to 2011. In 2011, her husband Ed Balls was promoted to Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer; Cooper replaced Balls as Shadow Home Secretary and served...
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    Katy Balls (born 12 February 1989) is a British journalist. She is political editor of The Spectator. Born in Aberdeen, Balls grew up in North Berwick...
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    a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of the many different pool games, the most popular include: eight-ball...
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    Sea balls (also known as Aegagropila or Pillae marinae) are tightly packed balls of fibrous marine material, recorded from the seashore. They vary in size...
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    Eight-ball pool is played with a cue ball and 15 numbered balls, the black ball numbered 8 being the middle and most important one, as the winner is the...
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  • Balls of Fury is a 2007 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Ben Garant, who also wrote the screenplay with Thomas Lennon, who also co-starred...
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    Epididymal hypertension (EH), informally referred to as blue balls for males or blue vulva for females, is a harmless but uncomfortable sensation in the...
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    Rechner (April 11, 1972 – April 12, 2016), better known by his ring name Balls Mahoney, was an American professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known...
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  • match balls List of Copa América official match balls List of CONCACAF Gold Cup official match balls List of Africa Cup of Nations official match balls List...
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    pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played. Various particular...
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    center long operated the oldest B-52 Stratofortress bomber, a B-52B (dubbed Balls 8 after its tail number, 008) that had been converted to drop test aircraft...
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  • Balls to Picasso is the second solo album by Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, released in 1994. It is the first album in Dickinson's solo career...
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    performance. The 32-panel ball design was soon joined by 24-panel balls as well as 42-panel balls, both of which improved on performance prior to 2007.[citation...
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  • Jonathan Balls (1769 – 20 April 1846) was an English serial killer who was posthumously accused of poisoning at least 22 people, almost all of them close...
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    Marimo (redirect from Japanese Moss Balls)
    green balls with a velvety appearance. The species can be found in a number of lakes and rivers in Japan and Northern Europe. Colonies of marimo balls are...
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    Matzah ball (redirect from Matzoh balls)
    Matzah balls or matzo balls are Ashkenazi Jewish soup morsels made from a mixture of matzah meal, beaten eggs, water, and a fat, such as oil, margarine...
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    spaceflight. This flight profile is shared with The High and Mighty One and Balls 8, two modified B-52s which carried the North American X-15 into flight....
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  • reach 207/8 from their 50 overs. The West Indians had reached 165/2 in the 42nd over before losing their last eight wickets for 37 runs in 50 balls. Sri Lanka...
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  • Golden Balls is a British daytime game show that was presented by Jasper Carrott. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 18 June 2007 to 18 December...
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    Ball's Pyramid (redirect from Balls Pyramid)
    Archived from the original on 8 December 2012. "Ball's Pyramid". Peakware.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. "Balls Pyramid". Volcano World....
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  • to a flying start. Adam Gilchrist (57 from 48 balls, 8 fours, 1 six) and Matthew Hayden (37 from 54 balls, 5 fours) shared an opening partnership of 105...
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  • "Great Balls of Fire" is best known for Jerry Lee Lewis's original, which was recorded in the Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 8, 1957, using...
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