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Blason Blason originally comes from French Heraldry and means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th c.
Blasphemy law in Pakistan Blasphemy law in Pakistan is found in several sections of the Pakistan Penal Code, including Section 295 B and C and 298 A, B, and C. It imposes a variety of penalties for different forms of blasphemy, including the death penalty for anyone found to have "by words or visible representation or by an imputation or insinuation, directly or indirectly, defiled the name of the Prophet Mohammad of Islam".
Blasphemy laws of Islamic Republic of Iran Blasphemy laws of Islamic Republic of Iran are laws against disrespecting Islam and the clerical members of the government in high positions. Blasphemy laws are in line with shariaFord Has a Better Idea: One Nation Under Allah The International Humanist and Ethical Union promulgates such laws as "frivolous and vindictive".
Blast (Venue) Blast is Ireland's largest alternative youth community and event promoter. It organises concerts in Athlone, Cork, Clare, Drogheda, Dundalk, Derry, Galway, Gorey, Kilkenny, Mullingar, Navan, Limerick, Sligo, Waterford, Thurles, and Swords.
Blast beat Blast beat is a drum beat consisting of rapid alternating or coinciding strokes on the snare and hi-hat or cymbal. The snare drum and hi-hat/cymbal forms the focus of such a beat, with bass drum often played beneath the snare to create a 'wall of sound'.
Blast Billiards Blast Billiards is a series of games found on the internet based on billiards. Although each games in the series is slightly different the aim of the game is generally the same, to pot each ball, designed to look like a bomb, before the time has run out and an explosion ending the game occurs.
Blast Corps Blast Corps (or Blast Dozer in Japan) is a video game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rareware that was released in 1997, in which the player must clear a path for a truck carrying a pair of defective nuclear missiles, called the Missile Carrier.
Blast fishing Blast fishing or dynamite fishing describes the practice of using dynamite or other explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection. This practice can be extremely destructive to the surrounding ecosystem, as the shockwaves often destroy the underlying habitat (such as coral reefs close to a coastline) that supports the fish.
Blast from the Past (novel) Blast from the Past is a 1998 novel by Ben Elton, published by Bantam Press. The plot centres around Polly Slade, an ordinary woman with a highly unusual past, whose world is thrown into turmoil when the two men in her life show up at her front door in the middle of the night: Jack, a general in the United States Army with whom she had a short-lived affair as a teenager; and Peter, an obsessive stalker who has been terrifying her for the past two years.
Blast furnace A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting. Fuel and ore are continuously supplied through the top of the furnace, while air (oxygen) is blown into the bottom of the chamber, so that the chemical reactions take place throughout the furnace as the material moves downward.
Blast furnace gas Blast furnace gas, also called converter gas or LD gas, is a by-product of blast furnaces that is generated when the iron ore is reduced with coke to metallic iron. It has a very low heating value, about 93 BTU/cubic foot, because it consists of about 60 percent nitrogen and some oxygen, which are not flammable.
Blast First Blast First is a sublabel of one time indie Mute Records. The label, founded by Paul Smith, specialises in music at the more extreme end of the spectrum and more hardcore rock bands than the master label of its parent company, Mute Records.
Blast gate Blast gates are used to focus a dust collection system's vacuum pressure for maximum dust (or other material) extraction at the desired location. Blast gates are positioned near individual pieces of machinery and operate by being, by default, closed — blocking air flow.
Blast Lacrosse Blast Lacrosse is an indoor lacrosse video game released in May 2001 for Sony's PlayStation. It is officially licensed by and based on the National Lacrosse League and includes all nine teams of their 14th season, including mascots.
Blast pen A blast pen was a specially-constructed E-shaped double bay at British RAF World War 2 fighter stations, being either 150 feet or 190 feet wide and 80 feet front-to-back, accommodating aircraft for safe-keeping against bomb blasts and splinters during enemy air-attacks.
Blast Processing Blast Processing was a marketing term coined by Sega in the 1990s to advertise the fact that the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis could calculate faster motion than the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and was generally taken by the public to refer to the main system processors. Strictly the term refers to a technical feature of the Genesis that wasn't replicated on the SNES - the ability for the CPU to be working on one visible section of map while the graphics processor displays another.
Blast resistant mine A Blast resistant mine is a landmine with a fuze designed to not be triggered by the shockwave from an explosion, making it difficult or impossible to be cleared using explosive minefield breaching techniques. This can be achieved in a number of ways.
Blast shelter A blast shelter is a place where people can go to protect themselves from bomb blasts. It differs from a fallout shelter, in that its main purpose is to protect from shock waves and overpressure, instead of from radioactive precipitation, as a fallout shelter does.
Blast valve A blast valve is used to protect a shelter, such as a fallout shelter or bunker, from the effects of sudden outside air pressure changes. A nuclear weapon creates a shock wave, which may produce sudden pressure changes of more than an atmosphere (about 14 pounds per square inch) even several miles or kilometers from the detonation point.
Blast-off Blast-Off was a term commonly used in the early 1900s when the game of pool was first invented. When a player reaches a low shot to made ratio he stays at the table and many considered this "Blasting Off".
Blastazoid BLASTAZOID is a new 2006 TV show that was created from a portion of the CKY crew, Brandon DiCamillo, Rake Yohn, and Joe Frantz This show contains countdowns of the best gaming footage found on the internet (Some clips are taken from Mega 64), while Brandon, Rake, and the boys play a few pranks.
Blasted (arcade game) Blasted is a shoot 'em up arcade game released by Bally Midway in 1988. Using your high-powered scope rifle, shoot cyborgs who have invaded an apartment complex, but be careful not to shoot the tenants or get hit by return fire.
Blastema A blastema is a mass of undifferentiated cells capable of growth and regeneration into organs or body parts. Blastemata are typically found in the early stages of an organism's development such as in embryos, and in the regeneration of tissues, organs and bone.
Blaster (Star Wars) In the fictional Star Wars universe, the most common weapon is the blaster. This category of plasma-converting laser-firing rayguns includes various handheld pistols, mounted rifles, and other powerful firearms.
Blaster (Transformers) Blaster (Broadcast in Japan, Tempo in France, Radiorobot in Italy) is the communications center of the Autobots in the Transformers television and comic series based on the popular toy line produced by Takara and Hasbro.
Blaster Al Ackerman Blaster Al Ackerman is the most commonly used name by an American mail artist and writer who has been active since the early 1970s. Heavily influenced by post-war pulp writers like Theodore Sturgeon, Raymond Chandler and Fredric Brown (with whom Ackerman corresponded as a young person) as well as by modernists like Ray Johnson, Francis Ponge and the Oulipo, Ackerman's writing has dealt playfully, if obsessively, with themes of madness and weird phenomena.
Blaster Bates Blaster Bates is the name used by Derek McIntosh Bates (February 5, 1923 – September 1, 2006), a British explosives and demolition expert who made a series of sound recordings from the 1960s to 1980s, recounting bizarre and funny experiences from his long career, and also tales of his hobbies of motorcycling, hunting and shooting. He was also much in demand as an after-dinner speaker.
Blaster Beam The Blaster Beam is a concept electronic musical instrument consisting of a 15 to 18 foot long metal beam strung with numerous tensed wires under which are mounted electric guitar pickups which can be moved to alter the sound produced. The instrument is played by striking or plucking the strings with fingers, sticks, pipes or even large objects such as artillery shell casings.
Blaster Learning System The Blaster Learning System was originally created by Davidson, but is now owned by Knowledge Adventure. Originally the series simply taught mathematics, but eventually expanded to other subjects, such as reading and science.
Blaster Master Blaster Master is a video game released by Sunsoft in 1988 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the localized version of a Japanese Famicom game titled Chô Wakusei Senki Metafight (超惑星戦記メタファイト, which loosely translates to Super Planetary War Records: Metafight).
Blasteroids Blasteroids is one of the sequels to the original 1979 shoot 'em up video game Asteroids. It was developed by Atari Games (which later became Midway Games West) and published in 1987 by Image Works for: arcade cabinet, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64/128, MSX, MS-DOS PC, ZX Spectrum.
Blasting Off Blasting Off was Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's fifth and final album, released on the small Sparkhead independent record label in 1991. The band at this point consisted of Chris Reed and a completely new assortment of musicians; Dave Wolfenden and Leon Phillips were long gone.
Blastitude Blastitude is an online music publication (rumoured to be edited anonymously by either Colby Stark of Head of Femur, Bobby Conn fame or his midwestern acquaintance Matt Silcock) dedicated to finding the genius behind the wonkiest and noisiest music available from avante-rockers, most of whom are generally influenced by artists like Thurston Moore and Sun Ra. Its contributors include Weasel Walter among them.
Blastobasidae Blastobasidae is a family of moths with species found in all parts of the world. These are generally small, slender moths with muted colours (Edward Meyrick described the group as "obscure and dull coloured moths, decidedly the least attractive family of Lepidoptera").
Blastoise are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. Blastoise are famous for evolving from one of the three species of Pokémon the player can choose at the start of their adventure in Pokémon Red and Blue.
Blastolene Special The Blastolene Special is one of two enormous V-12 tank-engined hotrods, done in the style of the old Duesenberg automobiles, sponsored by the fictitious Blastolene Corporation. The Special is owned by auto enthusiast Jay Leno.
Blastopore A blastopore is an opening into the archenteron during the embryonic stages of an organism. The distinction between protostomes and deuterostomes is based on the direction in which the mouth (stoma) develops in relation to the blastopore.
Blat (Russia) Blat (Russian: ) is a term which appeared in the Soviet Union to denote the use of informal agreements, Party contacts, or black market deals to achieve results or get ahead. The adverbial usage of the word is po blatu (), meaning "by blat".
Blatherwycke Blatherwycke is a village and civil parish in the East Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England, with a population of 55 according to the 2001 census. It is about seven miles north-east of Corby.
Blatcherism Blatcherism is a term formed as a combination of the names of two British politicians, Tony Blair (Labour Party) and Margaret Thatcher (Conservative Party). It is used by critics of neo-liberal economics to refer to the thesis that a policy model of the Thatcher government, distinct from One Nation conservatism, was resurrected when Blair came to power.
Blatná Blatná is a small town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, with a water castle in the center of an artificial lake and a landscape garden around it. It lies in a pleasant rolling countryside with a mosaic of fields, meadows and hundreds of ponds and nearly no industry.
Blatnica Valley The Blatnica Valley (Slovak: Blatnická dolina) is one of the valleys in the Greater Fatra (Slovak: Veľká Fatra) mountains in central Slovakia. It is accessible from the village of Blatnica and is the gateway to the peaks of Tlstá and Ostrá.
Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase (1878-1939; ብላቴን፡ጌታ፡ኅሩይ፡ወልደ፡ሥላሴ Blatten-Geta Həruy Wäldä-səllase) was a Foreign Minister and Ethiopian writer. After a diplomatic mission to Japan in 1930 he came away sufficiently impressed to argue for strengthened ties between the two nations.
Blattner's conjecture In mathematics, Blattner's conjecture was a description of the discrete series representations of a general semisimple group G in terms of their restricted representations to a maximal compact subgroup K (their so-called K-types), formulated by R. J.
Blau space Blau space consists of the multidimensional coordinate system, created by considering the set of socio-demographic variables as dimensions. All socio-demographic characteristics are potential elements of Blau space, including continuous characteristics such as age, years of education, income, occupational prestige, geographic location, and so forth.
Blau-Weiss Berlin Blau-Weiss Berlin (Blau-Weiß Berlin) is a German football club based in the Mariendorf district of the city. The side is the successor organization to SpVgg Blau-Weiss 90 Berlin which was formed out of the merger on July 27, 1927 of Berliner FC Vorwärts 1890 (November 1890) and Berliner Thor- und Fussball Club Union 1892 (BTuFC Union, June 1892).
Blau-Weiss Wiehre Freiburg SV Blau-Weiss Wiehre Freiburg is a German sports club located in the Wiehre district in the south of Freiburg, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg. The club was formed in 1994 out of the merger of SpVgg Wiehre 04 and Blau-Weiss Freiburg.
Blauer Portugieser Blauer Portugieser is a German name of the old, red wine grape varietal known also as: Autrichien, Badener, Blaue Feslauertraube, Feslauer, Kékoporto (Hungary), Portugizac Plavi(Croatia), Modra Porotugalka (Slovenia), Oporto, Portugais Bleu (France), Portugieser and Vöslauer.
Blaumilch Canal Blaumilch Canal (international release title: The Big Dig): a 1969 Israeli comedy directed by Ephraim Kishon, which depicts the madness of bureaucracy through a municipality’s reaction to the actions of a lunatic.
Blaupunkt Blaupunkt GmbH (German for "point of blue" or "blue dot") is a German electronic equipment manufacturer, noted for its home and car audio equipment. It is a 100% subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH.
Blausen Medical Communications Blausen Medical Communications, based in Houston, Texas, is a medical and scientific communications firm specializing in branding and 3D medical animations. Founded in 1991 by Bruce Blausen, the company has become a provider of biomedical visualizations and has developed a library of medical animations.
Blautopf The Blautopf (German for Bowl of the Blau, "blau" means blue) is a spring that serves as the source of the river Blau in the karst landscape on the Swabian Alb's southern edge, in Southern Germany. It is located in the city of Blaubeuren, approximately 16 km (10 miles) west of Ulm.
Blaw-Knox tower The Blaw-Knox company was a manufacturer of steel structures and construction equipment based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company is today best known for its radio towers, most of which were constructed during the 1930s in the United States.
Blaxland, New South Wales Blaxland is a town in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, 70 kilometres west of Sydney, Australia. It is at an altitude of 234 metres and named for Gregory Blaxland who along with William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth, led the exploration that discovered a route over the Mountains in 1813.
Blaxploitation Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made that targeted the urban African American audience; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation". Blaxploitation films starred primarily black actors, and were the first to feature soundtracks of funk and soul music.
Blaxton Blaxton is a village in the metropolitan borough of Doncaster (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with Lincolnshire. It lies to the north of Finningley, on the A614 road, and is located at approximately 53° 29' 30" North, 0° 59' West, at an elevation of around 5 metres above sea level.
Blaydon railway station Blaydon railway station is a railway station serving Blaydon in Tyne and Wear, northern England. It is located on the Tyne Valley Line which runs from Newcastle upon Tyne to Carlisle, and is managed by Northern Rail.
Blaydon Races "Blaydon Races" is a famous Geordie folk song written in the 1800s by Geordie Ridley, deriving from music hall. It is regarded by many as the unofficial anthem of North-East England and is frequently sung by supporters of Newcastle United.
Blayney, New South Wales Blayney is a farming town and administrative centre with a population of 2,608 in 2001, in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. Situated on the Mid-Western Highway about 240 km west of Sydney, 35 km west of Bathurst and 863 m above sea-level, Blayney is the seat of Blayney Shire Council.
Blazar A blazar is a very compact and highly variable energy source associated with a supermassive black hole at the center of a host galaxy. Blazars are among the most violent phenomena in the universe and are an important topic in extragalactic astronomy.
Blaze (band) Blaze are an electronica band formed in 1984 in New Jersey, USA. It was formed by Josh Milan, Kevin Hedge and Chris Herbert, when Herbert introduced Milan, a member of his church choir to Hedge, his childhood friend.
Blaze (toy) Blaze was a rocking-horse toy produced by Mattel during the 1960's, featured prominently on children's television (another Mattel innovation, sponsoring TV programming with Mattel television commercials). Unlike other rocking-horse toys of the same era, Blaze was much more than the typical static horse figure mounted via springs to a frame.
Blaze Bayley Blaze Bayley (born Bayley Cook, on 29 May, 1963 in Birmingham, England) is the lead singer for the heavy metal band Blaze. He is, however, most known for his role as the lead singer of Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999.
Blaze Berdahl Blaze Autumn Berdahl (born September 6, 1980, New York City) is an American actress best known for her roles as Lenni Frazier in the children's television series Ghostwriter and Ellie Creed in the film Pet Sematary (1989). She guest-starred on the television series Third Watch in 2004.
Blaze of Glory (comics) Blaze of Glory is a four-issue Marvel Comics limited series published in 2000. It featured a dark, gritty, and violent update of Marvel's Western heroes, primarily the Two-Gun Kid, the Rawhide Kid, Kid Colt and the Outlaw Kid.
Blaze of Glory (song) "Blaze of Glory" is a song by Jon Bon Jovi which hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990, his only chart-topper away from his band Bon Jovi. The song also went to number one in Australia for six weeks.
Blaze Starr Blaze Starr (born 1932) was an American stripper and burlesque star. Her vivacious presence and inventive use of stage props earned her the nicknames "Miss Spontaneous Combustion" and "The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque".
Blazefield Group The Blazefield Group is one of the main bus groups in England. Owner of several bus companies around the Yorkshire and Lancashire regions, since 2006 it has been part of the international transport company Transdev.
Blazer A blazer or boating jacket is a type of jacket, usually double-breasted although single-breasted blazers have become more common recently. A blazer resembles a suit jacket except that it usually has patch pockets with no flaps, and metal shank buttons.
Blazhen Muzh Blazhen Muzh, in English, "Blessed is the Man," is taken from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition of Vespers. As with many of the psalms and hymns, Blazhen Muzh attracted the attention of composers.
Blaziken is one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the Pokémon media franchise. The purpose of Blaziken in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Blazing Dragons Blazing Dragons is the title of a graphic adventure video game released for the original Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn in 1996 by Crystal Dynamics. It is based on the popular British cartoon series of the same name, is the brainchild of Monty Python's own Terry Jones and features the voice talents of several celebrities.
Blazing Fury Blazing Fury is an steel enclosed roller coaster at the Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The ride was built in-house by Silver Dollar City Tennessee in 1978, prior to the park becoming Dollywood.
Blazing Skull The Blazing Skull (Mark Anthony Todd) is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, created during the 1930-'40s Golden Age of Comic Books for Marvel's predecessor, Timely Comics. He first appeared in Mystic Comics # 5 (March 1941), though his writer and artist creators are unknown.
Blazing Star Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo-Geo home game system. It is the semi-official sequel to the acclaimed Neo-Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise.
Blazing Stewardesses Blazing Stewardesses is a raunchy 1975 comedy film that reunited the last remaining members of the Ritz Brothers comedy team. Originally, the film was to have starred the Three Stooges featuring Moe Howard, Emil Sitka (the new middle Stooge replacing Larry Fine), and Curly Joe (De Rita), but Howard's death in 1975 led to the Stooges being disbanded, and the Ritz Brothers were brought in as replacements.
Blazing Transfer Student Blazing Transfer Student (炎の転校生; Honoo no Tenkōsei in Japanese) was a relatively obscure two-episode Original Video Animation series made in 1991 by Gainax (though technically it was the world's first OLA, see below), based on a manga by Shimamoto Kazuhiko. For some reason, Gainax does not list it as one of their official works, even though their name is clearly and rather largely emblazoned, in English, during the opening and closing credits.
Blazon In heraldry and heraldric vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of, most often, a coat of arms or flag, which enables a person to construct or reconstruct the appropriate image. A coat of arms or flag is therefore not primarily defined by a picture, but rather by the wording of its blazon (though often flags are in modern usage additionally and more precisely defined using geometrical specifications).
Blåvandshuk Blåvandshuk is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ribe County on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 223 km², and has a total population of 4,378 (2005).
BlĂĽmchen Jasmin Wagner, (born April 20, 1980, Hamburg, Germany) better known as BlĂĽmchen, is a multi-platinum selling pop and dance music singer, aspiring actress, model/spokesperson and a proud vegetarian. Although she releases her English albums under the name Blossom, her German stage name "BlĂĽmchen" actually translates to "floret" or "small flower".
BlĂĽthner BlĂĽthner, formally Julius BlĂĽthner Pianofortefabrik GmbH, is a piano-manufacturing company founded by Julius BlĂĽthner in 1853 in Leipzig Germany. Early success occurred at exhibitions, conservatories and the concert stage.
BlöödHag BlöödHag are a death metal band from the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The group started off performing songs about science fiction authors, but has since spread out into songs about authors from all walks of literature.
Bløf Bløf is a pop group from Vlissingen, the Netherlands. The group was founded in 1992, but broke through in 1998 with the song "Liefs uit Londen" (Love from London) and has arguably been one of the most popular bands from the Netherlands ever since.
Bleaberry Tarn Bleaberry Tarn is a small natural mountain tarn near Buttermere in the English Lake District. Located at NY165154 (OS Landranger 89), it lies in a corrie below the Lakeland fells of Red Pike and High Stile, backed by Chapel Crags on the ridge between them.
Bleach To bleach something is to remove or lighten its color; a "bleach" is a chemical that can produce these effects, often via oxidation. Common chemical bleaches include a solution of sodium hypochlorite (NaClO), or "chlorine bleach," and "oxygen bleach," which contains hydrogen peroxide or a peroxide-releasing compound such as sodium perborate or sodium percarbonate.
Bleach (musical) Rock Musical Bleach is a rock musical jointly produced by Studio Pierrot and Nelke Planning, based on the manga Bleach by Tite Kubo (久保 帯人 Kubo Taito). The musical is directed by Takuya Hiramitsu, with a script adaptation by Naoshi Okumura, a veteran of the Japanese theatre scene.
Bleach bypass Bleach bypass, also known as skip bleach or silver retention, is an optical effect which entails either the partial or complete skipping of the bleaching function during the processing of a film. By doing this, the silver is retained in the image along with the color dyes.
Bleach GC: Tasogare Ni Mamieru Shinigami Bleach GC: Tasogare Ni Mamieru Shinigami (BLEACH CG: 黄昏にまみえる死神) is the first video game for the Nintendo GameCube based on the manga and anime series Bleach. It is primarily a weapon-based fighting game, with gameplay mechanics reminiscent of 2.
Bleak Cabal The Bleak Cabal are one of the factions, organizations based around a particular ideology or philosophy, headquartered in Sigil in the Planescape campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Its members are known as Bleakers, the Cabal or Madmen.
Bleak House Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. The plot concerns a long-running legal dispute (Jarndyce and Jarndyce) which has far-reaching consequences for all involved.
Bleak House (TV serial) Bleak House is a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House, which was originally published in 1852–53. Produced with an all-star cast, the serial was shown on BBC One from October to December 2005, and drew much critical and popular praise.
Bleak Seasons Bleak Seasons is the sixth novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history.
Bleaker Island Bleaker Island (Spanish: Isla Maria) is one of the Falkland Islands, lying off south east Lafonia (the southern peninsula of East Falkland). The name is a corruption of "Breaker Island" due to the waves that break on it.
Blean Blean is located in the Canterbury district of Kent, England. It is the name of the civil parish as well as the village within it: the latter is scattered along the road between Canterbury and Whitstable, in the middle of what was once the extensive Forest of Blean.
Bleating Tree Frog The Bleating Tree Frog or Keferstein's Tree Frog (Litoria dentata) is a tree frog of the genus Litoria. This frog is natve to coastal eastern Australia, from south-eastern Queensland, to around Eden, New South Wales.
Bled agreement The Bled agreement (also referred to as the "Tito-Dimitrov treaty") was an agreement signed on the 1st August, 1947 in Bled, Slovenia. The agreement was signed between Bulgaria under Georgi Dimitrov and Yugoslavia under Josip Broz Tito which paved the way for union between Vardar Macedonia and Pirin Macedonia.
Bled castle The Bled castle (Slovenian: Blejski grad) is a castle built on top of a 130 meter cliff overlooking lake Bled, located in Bled, Slovenia. It is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Slovenia, second only to the Postojna Cave.
Bled for Days "Bled for Days" is the third single from the industrial metal band Static-X's debut album, Wisconsin Death Trip. It has appeared on several soundtracks, including the Universal Soldier: The Return and Bride of Chucky soundtracks.
Bleddyn Williams Bleddyn Williams (born 22 February 1923, at Taffs Wells, near Cardiff), was a Welsh rugby union centre. He played in 22 internationals for Wales, captaining them four times, winning each time, and captained the British Lions in 1950 for some of their tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Bleecker Street Line The Bleecker Street Line was a public transit line in Manhattan, New York City, United States, running mostly along Bleecker Street, Crosby Street, and Lafayette Street from the West 14th Street Ferry in Chelsea to the Fulton Ferry in the Financial District. It was the last horse car line in New York City, and was not replaced with a trolley or bus when it was abandoned in 1917.

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