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Balas (other)
Balas is a village in Iran. Balas may also refer to: People * Alexander Balas, ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom * Bill Balas, American screenwriter, director, and producer * E. Andrew Balas (born 1951), doctor * Edith Balas (born 1929), professor * Egon Balas (1922–2019), applied mathematician and a professor * Eli Balas, poker * Eva Marija Balas, birth name of Eva Ras * Iolanda Balaș (1936–2016), Romanian athlete * Iván Balás (1894–1971), Yugoslav tennis player * Mike Balas Mitchell Francis "Mike" Balas (May 9, 1910 – October 15, 1996) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in one game in with the Boston Bees in 1938. Balas entered professional baseball in 1929 playing for the Brockton Shoemakers of th ... (1910–1996), pitcher * Mohammad Balas (born 1982), footballer See also * Balas ruby, a rose-tinted variety of spinel {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balas
Balas ( fa, بالاس, also Romanized as Balās; also known as Balūs) is a village in Do Hezar Rural District, Khorramabad District, Tonekabon County Tonekabon County ( fa, شهرستان تنکابن) is in Mazandaran province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Tonekabon. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 193,428 in 55,318 households. The following census in 2 ..., Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 108, in 36 families. References Populated places in Tonekabon County {{Tonekabon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Balas
Alexander I Theopator Euergetes, surnamed Balas ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος Βάλας, Alexandros Balas), was the ruler of the Seleucid Empire from 150/Summer 152 – August 145 BC. Picked from obscurity and supported by the neighboring Roman-allied Kingdom of Pergamon, Alexander landed in Phoenicia in 152 BC and started a civil war against Seleucid King Demetrius I Soter. Backed by mercenaries and factions of the Seleucid Empire unhappy with the existing government, he defeated Demetrius and took the crown in 150 BC. He married the princess Cleopatra Thea to seal an alliance with the neighboring Ptolemaic kingdom. His reign saw the steady retreat of the Seleucid Empire's eastern border, with important eastern satrapies such as Media being lost to the nascent Parthian Empire. In 147 BC, Demetrius II Nicator, the young son of Demetrius I, began a campaign to overthrow Balas, and civil war resumed. Alexander's ally, Ptolemaic king Ptolemy VI Philometor, moved troops in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Balas
Bill Balas is an American screenwriter, director and producer best known for his work on the A&E series '' Bates Motel'' and the TNT series '' Animal Kingdom''. Early life Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Balas is a graduate of the American Film Institute, where he earned a MFA in Screenwriting. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, California, he was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as an infant and underwent a successful double-lung transplant in his early twenties. Awards Writers Guild of America, West * 2015 Writer Access Project Honoree (''Affliction'') Slamdance Film Festival * 2010 Teleplay Competition: Original Pilot Winner (''Murphy's Last Stand'') American Screenwriting Competition * 2006 Grand Prize Winner (''The Pros and Cons of Breathing'') International Student Film Festival Hollywood * 2006 Best Horror/Thriller Winner (''House of the Rising Sun'') Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Balas
Edith Balas is a Professor of Art History, College of Humanities & Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Born June 20, 1929 in Cluj, Romania, she is a Holocaust survivor, art professor and historian. Biography She is the widow of the late mathematician Egon Balas, who was a professor at Carnegie Mellon. Balas' main areas of interest are modern art (1890-1960), painting and sculpture, and the art of the Italian Renaissance. In 2003, she curated an exhibition at the Frick Art Museum, and several in Pittsburgh, Paris, New York and Budapest. She has been teaching at Carnegie Mellon University since 1977, and is also an Adjunct Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Balas is also a Holocaust survivor, having been sent to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. In ''Bird in Flight: Memoir of a Survivor and Scholar,'' Balas tells her story of facing grim situations and becoming what she describes as a “professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Balas
Egon Balas (June 7, 1922 in Cluj, Romania – March 18, 2019) was an applied mathematician and a professor of industrial administration and applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and did fundamental work in developing integer and disjunctive programming. Life and education Balas was born in Cluj (Romania) in a Hungarian Jewish family. His original name was Blatt, which was first changed to the Hungarian Balázs and then later to the Romanian Balaş. He was married to art historian Edith Balas, a survivor of Auschwitz, with whom he had two daughters. He was imprisoned by the Communist authorities for several years after the war. He left Romania in 1966 and accepted an appointment with Carnegie Mellon University in 1967. Balas obtained a "Diploma Licentiate" in economics ( Bolyai University, 1949) and Ph.D.s in economics ( University of Brussels, 1967) and mathemati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Balas
Eli Balas is an Israeli professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Balas has won 3 bracelets at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). He has also finished 2nd in 5 WSOP preliminary events. Balas finished on the television bubble, which was 7th place, for the inaugural World Poker Tour The World Poker Tour (WPT) is an internationally televised gaming and entertainment brand. Since 2002, the World Poker Tour has operated a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting playdown and the ... (WPT) event and made two final tables of the Ultimate Poker Challenge. As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,300,000. His 24 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,148,041 of those winnings. , worldseriesofpoker.com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Marija Balas
Eva or EVA may refer to: * Eva (name), a feminine given name Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment * Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in the ''Devil May Cry'' video game series * Eva (''Metal Gear''), a fictional character in the ''Metal Gear'' video games series * Evangelion (mecha), commonly referred to as "Eva" or "EVA", a fictional cyborg in the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' franchise Films * ''Eva'' (1948 film), a Swedish film * ''Eva'' (1953 film), a Greek drama film * ''Eva'' (1958 film), an Austrian film * ''Eva'' (1962 film), a French-Italian film in English * ''Eva'' (2010 film), an English-language Romanian film * ''Eva'' (2011 film), a Spanish film * ''Eva'' (2018 film), a French film Music Artists *Eva (singer), French singer * E.V.A. (band) (Eve Versus Adam), an Italian female pop band * Banda Eva, a Brazilian axé band formerly fronted by Ivete Sangalo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iolanda Balaș
Iolanda Balaș (, hu, Balázs Jolán, later ''Balázs-Sőtér Jolán''; 12 December 1936 – 11 March 2016) was a Romanian athlete, an Olympic champion and former world record holder in the high jump. She was the first Romanian woman to win an Olympic gold medal and is considered to have been one of the greatest high jumpers of the twentieth century. Early life Balaș was born in Timișoara to a family of Hungarian descent.Ághassi, Attila (18 November 2005'Sajnálom, hogy nem Magyarországnak nyertem olimpiákat' index.hu: Én még az europoliszhoz hasonlító Temesváron születtem, 1936 decemberében. A szüleim, a rokonaim egytől-egyig magyarok, most is Magyarországon élnek. Nekem viszont nem adatott meg ez a lehetőség. "I was born in December 1936, in Timișoara which then still resembled an europolis town. My parents, my relatives are one by one Hungarians, they still live in Hungary. But I could not have this chance" Her mother, Etel Bozó was a homemaker, while h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Balás
Iván Balás ( sr, Iván Balaž, Иван Балаж ; hu, Balázs Iván ; 1894 – 1971) was a Yugoslav tennis player of Hungarian ethnicity. He was one of the first to play for the Yugoslavian team at the International Lawn Tennis Challenge, and later the Davis Cup in 1927. Technically, his match was the second rubber of the tie. Apart from team competitions, he clinched international championships for Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Romania and Slovakia in various events. Early life and family Iván Balás was born in 1894 in Elemir, Bečkerek (renamed Zrenjanin in 1946), Banat, then part of Austria-Hungary and now Serbia. He was born into a wealthy landowner family of ethnic Hungarians, the son of Iván Balás, Sr. (1866, Tápióbicske – 1909, Budapest and Erna Koronghy (1874, Baracháza – 1850, Budapest). His family's wealth contributed to his rapid growth in tennis. His Hungarian father, built two tennis courts in Elemir where his son Iván learned tennis. Iván a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Balas
Mitchell Francis "Mike" Balas (May 9, 1910 – October 15, 1996) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in one game in with the Boston Bees in 1938. Balas entered professional baseball in 1929 playing for the Brockton Shoemakers of the New England League. After moving around the minors for the next 9 years, he played in his only MLB game on April 27, 1938. In that game, he pitched 1 innings facing 8 batters, surrendering 3 runs (1 earned), walking and striking out none. Following the game he returned to the minors and continued there until 1940. He also was a minor league manager from 1945 to 1948. Balas was a Jehovah's Witness and in 1942 was prosecuted in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts for failing to report to a conscientious objector camp during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Balas
Mohammad Najeh Balas is a retired Jordanian footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ... who played as a defender. References Jordanian Mohammad Balas Heads to Bahrain to Take Proficiency in Malkiya ClubMohammad Balas: "Professionalism Was in Favor of the Players at the Expense of Clubs" External links * Living people Jordanian footballers People from Irbid 1982 births Jordanian expatriate sportspeople in Bahrain Expatriate footballers in Bahrain Jordanian expatriate footballers Jordanian Pro League players Al-Hussein SC (Irbid) players Al-Arabi (Jordan) players Mansheyat Bani Hasan players Al-Sareeh SC players Al-Sheikh Hussein FC players Bahraini Premier League players Malkiya Club players Association football defenders {{Jordan-footy- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
