* Ball State Cardinals, the athletic teams of Ball State University

Active double bass ensembles include L ' Orchestre de Contrebasses ( 6 members ), Bass Instinct ( 6 members ), Bassiona Amorosa ( 6 members ), the Chicago Bass Ensemble ( 4 + members ), The Bass Gang ( 4 members ), the London Double Bass Ensemble ( 6 members ) founded by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London who produced the LP Music Interludes by London Double Bass Ensemble on Bruton Music records, Brno Double Bass Orchestra ( 14 members ) founded by the double bass professor at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and principal double bass player at Brno Philharmonic Orchestra-Miloslav Jelinek, and the ensembles of Ball State University ( 12 members ), Shenandoah Conservatory, and the Hartt School of Music.

Sheets is a 1955 graduate of Fairmount High School and attended Ball State University in nearby Muncie.

Jim Davis has also collaborated with Ball State University and Pearson Digital Learning to create Professor Garfield, a site with educational games focusing on math and reading skills and with Children's Technology Group to create MindWalker, a web browser that allows parents to limit the websites their children can view to a pre-set list.

A study at Ball State University sponsored by Nabisco, the former parent company of Knox gelatin, found that gelatin supplementation relieved knee joint pain and stiffness in athletes.

Smaller schools such as the University of Notre Dame, Indiana State University, Ball State University, Butler University, the University of Evansville, IUPUI, IPFW, and Valparaiso University add to the mix.

The Ball State Cardinals have won several conference championships and earned a number of NCAA Tournament berths over the years, including:

* Bonzi Wells, a Muncie, Indiana native, was a four-year letterwinner at Ball State, finishing his career as the Mid-American Conference's all-time leading scorer, and leading the NCAA in steals.

* Ball State's highest finish in the NCAA Tournament came in 1990, when they defeated Gary Payton's Oregon State Beavers and Coach Denny Crum's Louisville Cardinals before falling to eventual champion UNLV by 2, 69-67.

The project followed SARA astronomers from Ball State University to the observatory and featured time-lapse images from various points around Kitt Peak.

In 1963, Harvey Ball, an American commercial artist, was employed by State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts ( now known as Hanover Insurance ) to create a happy face to raise the morale of the employees.

* Honorary Degree, Ball State University

The acting American Secretary of State George Wildman Ball described Erhard's plan to essentially buy East Germany from the Soviet Union as " half-baked and unrealistic ".

* Full text of writings of Louis XV in Ball State University's Digital Media Repository.

* Full text of writings of Louis XVI in Ball State University's Digital Media Repository

* The Ball State University Digital Media Repository Historic Children's Book collection provides online access to children's books from the 20th and 19th centuries.

The first major expansion since the 1950s took place in the mid-1970s with the addition of Central Michigan University and Eastern Michigan University in 1972 and Ball State University and Northern Illinois University in 1973.

Historic attractions open to the public include the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library, Belle Isle State Park and the eighteenth-century Christ Church ).

* Lisa Winter, basketball player at Ball State University and Valparaiso University.

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* Ball State University Libraries-External link

The safe is a repository for three dead flashlight batteries, a hundred and fifty unused left-hand fingerprint cards, a stack of unsold Policemen's Ball tickets from last year, and thirty-seven cents in coins and stamps.

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players operated from 1871 through 1875, and is considered by some to have been the first major league.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

* Ball in play: A ball after it has been played into the game, which is not a ball in hand or pegged out.

As Hugo Ball expressed it, " For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.

There is a Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center museum in Jamestown, New York ( birthplace of Lucille Ball ) and a Desi Arnaz Bandshell in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in Celoron, New York ( childhood home of Lucille Ball ).

While awaiting their food at The Brown Derby, a Hollywood restaurant, Lucy ( Lucille Ball ) and Ethel ( Vivian Vance ) argue over whether a certain portrait on a nearby wall is Shelley Winters or Judy Holliday.

Olivia Ball and Paul Gready argue that for both civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights, it is easy to find examples which do not fit into the above categorisation.

* Ball hockey is played in a gym using sticks and a ball, often a tennis ball with the fuzz removed.

" Father of Base Ball " is inscribed on his grave marker.

* 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1.

* 1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants ' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.

Most well known of the nation balls ( as opposed to balls organized by student unions ) is the ball hosted by Göteborgs Nation-called the " Gustaf II Adolf Ball " ( also known as the " GA-Ball ").

* Cue Ball is an uninhabitable ice world orbiting Beta Lyrae.

In Akira Toriyama's manga and anime series Dragon Ball, a scientist named Dr. Gero created several cyborgs, including villain Cell, sibling cyborgs Android 17 and Android 18, as well as Android 20, who was built from Gero himself.

A second village was started at Ball Bay, named after the captain of HMS Supply, Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball.

Balls Pond Road in Islington was named after an establishment run by a Mr Ball that had a duck pond at the rear, where drinkers could, for a fee, go out and take a potshot the ducks.

* In Dragon Ball Zs third movie Tree of Might, a giant tree named the Tree of Might is represented as an evil version of the Tree of Life.

Mount Joy is often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise .< ref name =" Mencken63 "> Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote:

Lititz is often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Mount Joy, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise .< ref > Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote:

Paradise, like Intercourse, is a popular site in Pennsylvania Dutch Country for tourists who like the name of the town ; they are together often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Blue Ball, Lititz, Intercourse, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand, and Mount Joy .< ref > Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote: It was the setting of the 1994 comedy film Trapped in Paradise.

Bird-in-Hand is often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Bareville, Mount Joy and Paradise .< ref > Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote:

Ball returned to Raleigh to bring back a man named Tubb Daughtry and his family to help run the business.

It is named for Bedford, Virginia, former home of the first settler, Richard Ball, who built a house near what he called Bedford Spring in 1805.

Bareville is often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Mount Joy, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise .< ref > Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote:

It is named for John Ball who migrated from England to the United States in 1893.

An annual 5k race is held in June, respectively named the Kugel Ball race, which starts and ends at the actual kugel ball in Railroad Plaza.

Koko selected a gray male Manx from a litter of abandoned kittens and named him " All Ball ".

The animals she chose, later named " Lipstick " and " Smokey ", were also Manxes like All Ball.

Ball and Arnaz used the same radio team of Oppenheimer, Pugh, and Carroll to create the television series that was named I Love Lucy.

Further up Priory Avenue, a 51-year-old handyman named Eric Vardy and his passenger, Steven Ball, drove into Ryan's path while travelling en route to a job in Vardy's Leyland Sherpa.

Nevertheless, Miroslav Klose won the Silver Boot and German captain and goalkeeper Oliver Kahn won the Golden Ball, the first time in the World Cup's history that a goalkeeper was named the best player of the tournament, as well as the Yashin-Award for the best goalkeeper in the tournament.

As the Dragon Ball series progresses, Krillin is one of Goku and Gohan's allies, He eventually marries Android # 18 and has a child named Marron.

* In the anime Dragon Ball, a martial-arts master named Muten Roshi is often referred to as a Turtle Hermit, despite the fact that over the course of the series characters are often visiting or even living in his island home.

* One of the levels in the Xbox Live Arcade game N + is named " Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball ", probably referring to the round shock drones introduced in the level.