Bally may refer to:
Places
*Bally, a historical spelling of
Bali
Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nu ...
*Bally (from the Irish ''baile'') or
townland
A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...
, a traditional division of land, as well as a common prefix in the names of settlements throughout Ireland
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Bally, Bally-Jagachha
Bally, sometimes spelled Bāli, is a census town in Bally Jagachha CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.
Bally is under the jurisdiction of N ...
, a census town in Howrah district, West Bengal, India
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Bally, Howrah
Bally ( bn, বালি) is a neighbourhood in the city of Howrah of Howrah district in the States and territories of India, Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). , a city in Howrah district, West Bengal, India
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Bally, Pennsylvania
Bally is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,090 at the 2010 census.
History
Bally was originally called Goshenhoppen, possibly deriving from an Indian word meaning meeting place. Others claim the name de ...
, a borough in the U.S.
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Bally Creek, a stream in Minnesota
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Bally Jagachha
Bally Jagachha is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Howrah Sadar subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Geography
Location
Ghoshpara is located at .
Bally Jagachha CD Block is bo ...
, a community development block in Howrah district, West Bengal, India
People
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Albert W. Bally (fl. 1988), American geologist
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Charles Bally
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Charles Bally (; 4 February 1865, Geneva – 10 April 1947, Geneva) was a Swiss linguist from the Geneva School. He lived from 1865 to 1947 and was, like Ferdinand de Saussure, from Switzerland. His parents were Jean Gabriel, a te ...
(1865–1947), Swiss linguist
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Étienne Bally
Étienne Marcel Bally (17 April 1923 – 10 January 2018) was a French sprinter and a European champion over 100 metres. He was born in Vénissieux.
Bally's first major competition was the 1946 European Championships held in Oslo, wh ...
(1923–2018), French sprinter
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Elena Baltacha
Elena Sergeevna Baltacha ( uk, Олена Сергіївна Балтача; 14 August 1983 – 4 May 2014) was a Ukrainian-born British professional tennis player. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Awards, she was also a long-ter ...
(born 1983), British tennis player nicknamed Bally
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Bally Sagoo
Baljit Singh "Bally" Sagoo ( Punjabi: ਬਲਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੱਗੂ, born 19 May 1964) is a British-Indian record producer and DJ. Born in Delhi, India, Sagoo was raised in Birmingham, England. He entered the recording and enterta ...
(born 1971), British-Indian singer and DJ
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Ralph Sharman
Ralph Edward Sharman (April 11, 1895 – May 24, 1918), nicknamed "Bally", was a professional baseball player who played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball for the 1917 Philadelphia Athletics.
Career
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Sharman was a ...
(1895-1918), professional baseball player nicknamed Bally
Companies
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Bally (fashion house)
Bally is a Swiss luxury fashion house, established in 1851 by Carl Franz Bally and his brother Fritz in Schönenwerd, Solothurn, as Bally & Co. Historically known for its shoes, the house also specializes in bags, accessories, and ready-to-wear ...
, Swiss fashion house founded in 1851
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Bally Manufacturing
Bally Manufacturing, later renamed Bally Entertainment, was an American company that began as a pinball and slot machine manufacturer, and later expanded into casinos, video games, health clubs, and theme parks. It was acquired by Hilton Hotel ...
, later known as Bally Entertainment, a defunct pinball manufacturer and casino company
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Bally Midway
Midway Games Inc., known previously as Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known as simply Midway, was an American video game developer and publisher. Midway's franchises included ''Mortal Kombat'', ''Rampage (series), Rampage'' ...
, a defunct video game publisher once owned by Bally Manufacturing
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Bally Total Fitness
Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation was an American fitness club chain. At its 2007 peak, prior to the filing of the first of two Chapter 11 bankruptcies, Bally operated nearly 440 facilities located in 29 U.S. states, Mexico, Canada, South K ...
, a defunct American fitness club chain once owned by Bally Manufacturing
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Bally Technologies
Bally Technologies, Inc. is an American manufacturer of slot machines and other gambling technology based in Enterprise, Nevada. It is owned by Light & Wonder.
The company was founded in 1968 as Advanced Patent Technology. It eventually changed i ...
, a gaming company, successor of Bally Manufacturing
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Bally's Corporation
Bally's Corporation is a gaming, betting, and interactive entertainment company headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. It owns and operates 15 casinos across ten states, a horse track in Colorado, and online sports betting operations in 14 st ...
, a casino company and current owner of the casino brand
**For hotels and casinos named "Bally's", see
Bally's Corporation#Properties
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Bally Sports
The Bally Sports Regional Networks are a group of regional sports networks in the United States owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint-venture company of the Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios. The naming rights to the network we ...
, a group of regional sports networks formerly known as Fox Sports Networks
Other uses
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Bally (Vidhan Sabha constituency), electoral constituency in Howrah district, India
*Bally, a British minced oath meaning "
bloody
''Bloody'', as an adjective or adverb, is a commonly used expletive attributive in British English, Australian English, Irish English, Indian English and a number of other Commonwealth nations. It has been used as an intensive since at lea ...
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See also
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Baly (disambiguation)
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