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Bloomingdale's Bloomingdale's is a chain of upscale American department stores owned by Federated Department Stores, which is also the parent company of Macy's. Bloomingdale's has 36 stores nationwide, with annual sales of $1.
Bloomington (VIVA) Bloomington is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened on November 20, 2005, at the intersection of Bloomington Road and Yonge Street in Aurora/Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Bloomington Central Business District The Bloomington Central Business District is a historic district in the McLean County, Illinois city of Bloomington that has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1985. The Central Business district is roughly bordered by the downtown streets of Main, Front and Center.
Bloomington High School (Illinois) Bloomington High School is a public secondary school in Bloomington, Illinois which serves the public high school population in Bloomington School District 87. The Bloomington-Normal area has approximately 120,000 residents.
Bloomington Jefferson High School Thomas Jefferson Senior High School (more commonly known as Bloomington Jefferson High School or Jefferson High School) is one of two public high schools located in Bloomington, Minnesota (located on the city's west side). Named after former president Thomas Jefferson, it was opened in 1970School Built and Opened and was the third and final high school to be built in Bloomington.
Bloomington Playwrights Project In 1980, in Bloomington, Indiana, the Bloomington Playwrights Project (BPP) was founded by two MFA students at Indiana University Bloomington, Tom Moseman and Jim Leonard. They sought to create a venue more hospitable to local playwrights than the staid university, and the theater became a scrappy and lively space where shoestring productions came together very quickly for short but energetic runs.
Bloomington Viaduct The Bloomington Viaduct spans the Northern Branch of the Potomac River connecting Bloomington, Maryland to Mineral County, West Virginia. The sandstone railroad bridge features three full center arches, each with a 56 foot (17 m) span and a 28 foot (8.
Bloomington, Illinois Bloomington is a city in McLean County, Illinois, United States. A 2006 special census indicated that the population was 74,975 2006 Census, and it is predicted that the city's population will reach 100,000 by 2020.
Bloomington, Maryland Bloomington is an unincorporated town at the confluence of the North Branch Potomac River and Savage River in southeastern Garrett County, Maryland. It lies to the west of Luke on MD 135 (state highway 135) and is bounded to the northwest by Savage River State Forest.
Bloomington, Minnesota Bloomington is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, and a southern suburb of Minneapolis. As of 2005, it had a population of 84,347, making it the largest Twin Cities suburb, and the fifth largest city in the state5th Largest City, Bloomington - 5th Largest City in the State.
Bloomsburg Area School District The Bloomsburg Area School District is one of the 501 school districts of Pennsylvania. There are three elementary schools which are grades Kindergarten through 5th, the largest being Memorial Elementary, which has about 500 students, and W.
Bloomsburg, Ontario Bloomsburg is a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada which can be found on the old Ontario provincial Highway 24 that turns off from the "new" Ontario Provincial Highway 24 just 1.5 miles north of Simcoe.
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania Bloomsburg is a town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Wilkes Barre along the Susquehanna River. In 1900, the population of Bloomsburg stood at 6,170; in 1910, 7,413; and in 1940, 9,799.
Bloomsbury Gang The Bloomsbury gang, also known as the Bedford party, was a political party formed in the United Kingdom in 1765 by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford. The group took its name from Bloomsbury, a district of central London now in the Borough of Camden.
Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set or just "Bloomsbury", as its adherents would generally refer to it, was an English group of artists and scholars, of "Bohemian" disposition, that existed from around 1905 until around World War II.
Bloomsbury, London Bloomsbury is an area of central London in the London Borough of Camden. It is a largely residential area most notable for containing several of London's most famous academic institutions, including the University of London headquarters and some of its colleges, the British Museum, and formerly the British Library.
Bloomsday Bloomsday is a holiday observed annually on June 16 to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and commemorate the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The day is also a secular holiday in Ireland.
Blooper A blooper usually describes a short sequence of a film or video production which contains a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew. These bloopers, or outtakes as they are also called, are often the subject of television shows or are sometimes revealed during the credit sequence at the end of the movies.
BlooP and FlooP BLooP and FLooP are simple programming languages designed by Douglas Hofstadter to illustrate a point in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach. BLooP is a non-Turing-complete programming language that uses nested blocks but has limited looping powers.
Bloor (GO Station) Bloor GO Station is a railway station on GO Transit's Georgetown railway line, located in Toronto at 1456 Bloor Street West, between Lansdowne Avenue and Dundas Street West. It provides a connection to the Toronto Transit Commission's Bloor-Danforth subway line via their nearby Dundas West station.
Bloor Street United Church Bloor Street United Church is a United Church of Canada church located at 300 Bloor Street West in downtown Toronto, near the intersection with Huron Street. The church is just north of the University of Toronto, and between the Spadina and St.
Bloorcourt Village Bloorcourt Village is an area of Toronto in the city's west end, situated along Bloor Street West. It takes its name from the intersection at the approximate centre of the district, Bloor Street and Dovercourt Road.
Bloordale Village Bloordale Village is a neighbourhood located in Toronto, Ontario. Founded as a Business Improvement Area in 1976, it covers the area along Bloor Street from the intersections at Lansdowne Avenue and Dufferin Street.
Bloque Nacionalista Galego The Bloque Nacionalista Galego (Galician Nationalist Bloc), BNG, is a nationalist political organisation in Galicia in Spain, founded in 1982. Ideologically, the BNG defends the Galician language and the autonomy of the Parliament of Galicia.
Blore Blore is a small village and parish, on an acclivity above Dovedale, three and a half miles NW of Ashbourne, including the hamlet of Swinscoe, one mile to the south, and a part of the parochial chapelry of Calton. Blore parish, exclusive of the portion of Calton, contains about 2000 acres and 273 souls.
Blore with Swinscoe Blore with Swinscoe is a civil parish NW of Ashbourne, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England, on the edge of the Peak District National Park. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 123.
Blossfeldia liliputiana Blossfeldia liliputiana is a species of cactus, native to South America in northwestern Argentina (Jujuy, Salta, and Catamarca Provinces) and southern Bolivia (PotosĂ­ Department). It grows at 1200-3500 m altitude in the Andes, typically growing in rock crevices, often close to waterfalls.
Blossius Gaius Blossius (2nd century BC) was, according to Plutarch, a philosopher and student of the Stoic philosopher Antipater of Tarsus, from the city of Cumae in Campania, Italy, who (along with the Greek rhetorician, Diophanes) instigated Roman tribune Tiberius Gracchus to pursue a land reform movement on behalf of the plebs. Tiberius was accused by his political opponents of attempting to provoke a popular uprising, and have himself crowned King.
Blossius Aemilius Dracontius Blossius Aemilius Dracontius of Carthage (according to the early tradition, of Spanish origin), Christian poet, flourished in the latter part of the 5th century. He belonged to a family of land proprietors, and practised as an advocate in his native place.
Blossom Blossom is a term given to the flowers of stone fruit trees (Genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely but for a short period of time. Blossoms are either pink or white depending on the species or variety.
Blossom end rot Blossom end rot is a nutrient deficiency affecting several garden plants, including eggplant, tomato, and peppers. The disease starts as sunken, dry decaying areas start at the blossom end of the fruit, furthest away from the stem.
Blossom Music Center Blossom Music Center, located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, is the summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra and also hosts a full summer schedule of popular music acts and symphonic performances. For symphonic concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra, American conductor Jahja Ling served as Blossom Festival Director from 2000 through the 2005 season.
Blossom Rock Credited as Blossom Rock and Marie Blake, Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald (August 21, 1895 - January 14, 1978) was an American actress and the older sister of late actress/singer Jeanette MacDonald. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Blossom Seeley Blossom Seeley (born Minnie Guyer, July 16, 1891 in San Francisco, California, USA - died April 17, 1974 in New York City) one half of the legendary Vaudeville team of Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields. Their lives were made into a famous movie, Somebody Loves Me (1952) with Betty Hutton and Ralph Meeker.
Blossom Toes Brian Godding (guitar, vocals, keyboards) (born 19 August 1945, in Wales), Jim Cregan (guitar, vocals) (born James Cregan, 9 March 1946, in Yeovil, Somerset), Brian Belshaw (bass, vocals) (born 25 February 1944, in Wigan, Lancashire) and Kevin Westlake (drums) (born Kevin Patrick Westlake, 5 March 1947, in Ireland died 29 September 2004) were initially known as the Ingoes, but became Blossom Toes in 1967 upon the launch of manager Giorgio Gomelsky's Marmalade label (a subsidiary of Polydor).
Blossom Valley, San Jose, California Blossom Valley is a neighborhood in the southern region of San Jose, California northeast of the Los Capitancillos Ridge that separates it from Almaden Valley. It is located east of Cambrian and northeast of Almaden neighborhoods.
Blossom-headed Parakeet The Blossom-headed Parakeet (Psittacula roseata) is a parrot which is a resident breeder in northeast India eastwards into Southeast Asia. It undergoes local movements, driven mainly by the availability of the fruit and blossoms which make up its diet.
Blossoms in the Dust Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 film which tells the story of Edna Gladney who takes it upon herself to help orphaned children to find homes, despite the opposition of the "good" citizens who think that illegitimate children are beneath their interest. It stars Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt and Fay Holden.
Blossum Gainsborough Blossum Gainsborough is a fictional character in the 'Chosen By Destiny' series. At first, Blossum is thought to be like Ashley - whiny and show-offy, but get to know her and Blossum turns out to be a kind, gentle and funny young woman.
Blosxom Blosxom (pronounced like "blossom") is an Open Source weblogging tool respective simple content management system, initially written by Rael Dornfest and now maintained by a group of developers around the Blosxom Yahoo! Group and The Unofficial Blosxom User Group [http://blosxom.
Blot (biology) In molecular biology and genetics, a blot is a method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier (for example, a nitrocellulose PVDF or nylon membrane). In many instances, this is done after a gel electrophoresis, transferring the molecules from the gel onto the blotting membrane, and other times adding the samples directly onto the membrane.
Blot-Sweyn Blot-Sven or Sweyn the Sacrificer (king c. 1080Blot-Sven, an article in Nordisk familjebok) was a Swedish king, who replaced his Christian brother-in-law Inge as the king of Sweden, when Inge had refused to administer the blĂłts (pagan sacrifices) at the Temple at Uppsala.
Blotchy swell shark The blotchy swell shark, Cephaloscyllium umbratile, is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the subtropical western Pacific Ocean from Japan to the South China Sea, possibly to Papua New Guinea, at depths of between 20 and 200 m. It grows to about 1.
Blotto games Blotto games (or Colonel Blotto games) constitute a class of two-person zero-sum games in which the players are tasked to simultaneously distribute limited resources over several objects, with the gain (or payoff) being equal to the sum of the gains on the individual objects.
Bloubergstrand, Cape Town Bloubergstrand (IPA: ) is a suburb of Cape Town located on the shores of Table Bay, about 25km to the north of the city centre. Its name in Afrikaans means "blue mountain beach" after Blouberg, a hill not far inland from the coast.
Bloukrans Bridge The Bloukrans Bridge is an arch bridge located in Nature's Valley, Western Cape, South Africa. The construction, which was completed in 1984, stands at height of 216m above the Bloukrans River, making it the highest single span arch bridge in the world.
Blount Report The Blount Report is the popular name given to the part of the 1894 House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee Report regarding the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The report "first officially identified the United States' complicity in the lawless overthrow of the lawful, peaceful government of Hawaii.
Blow (film) Blow is a 2001 drama film about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme (who later died of a cocaine-related heart attack). David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million With the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay.
Blow fill seal Blow fill seal technology was originally developed in Europe in the 1930's and was introduced in the United States in the 1960's, but has just recently become more prevalent as it is now considered the superior form of aseptic processing by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the packaging of pharmaceutical and healthcare products.
Blow football Blow football is a children's game, popular in the United Kingdom where the object is to blow through some kind of pipe causing a small lightweight ball to pass through the opponent's goal, as in other forms of Football.
Blow molding Blow molding or blow moulding (see spelling differences) is a manufacturing process by which hollow plastic parts are formed. In general, there are three main types of blow molding; Extrusion Blow Molding, Injection Blow Molding, and Stretch Blow Molding.
Blow Out (TV series) Blow Out is a reality television series that first premiered on the Bravo cable television network in 2004, with a second season broadcasting in 2005. The first season revolved around the construction and launch of Jonathan Salon in Beverly Hills, an upscale Los Angeles hair salon.
Blow up (professional wrestling) Blowing up or a blow up is when a wrestler gets either winded, fatigued or exhausted when they are in or starting a match. The Ultimate Warrior was known for blowing up on the entrance ramp prior to his matches due to his energetic, sprinting entrances.
Blow Up the Outside World "Blow Up The Outside World" is a song by grunge band Soundgarden, it's the sixth track of their 1996 final album Down On The Upside. The Band released "Blow Up the Outside World" as a single in the fall of 1996, the third single from Down on the Upside (after Pretty Noose and Burden in My Hand).
Blow Your House Down Blow Your House Down is a second work of fiction (and the first novel) by Pat Barker. Published in 1984, the novel follows the lives of a number of prostitutes working in a northern English city at a time when a serial killer of prostitutes is haunting the area.
Blowback (arms) Blowback is a system in which automatic or semi-automatic firearms operate through the energy created by combustion in the chamber and bore acting directly on the bolt face through the cartridge. Other operating systems are recoil operation, gas-actuated, gatling and chain.
Blowback (intelligence) Blowback is a term now broadly used in espionage to describe the unintended consequences of covert operations. Because the public generally is unaware of secret operations, the consequences transpire as a surprise, apparently random and without cause, and blowback results.
Blowdart A blowdart is a pipe based weapon still employed by some indigenous peoples of the South East Asia, Amazon and Guiana regions of South America to hunt. The darts are usually dipped in curare poison in order to paralyze the target.
Blowdown stack In chemical engineering a blowdown stack is a vertical stack or chimney into which the contents of a chemical or petroleum process unit are emptied in case of an operational emergency, for example in the event of overpressure in a refining vessel. A blowdown stack can be used to compliment a flare stack or as an alternative.
Blowdryer A blowdryer, also frequently called a hair dryer, is an electromechanical device designed to blow cool or hot air over wet or damp hair, in order to accelerate the evaporation of water particles and dry the hair. The usage of blowdryers also allows to better control the shape of the hair in the process of styling, by accelerating and controlling the formation of temporary hydrogen bonds inside the hair.
Blower Door A blower door is a device for testing the airtightness of a building. A blower door consists of a calibrated fan for measuring an air flow rate and a pressure sensing device to measure the pressure created by the fan flow.
Blowering Power Station, New South Wales Blowering Power Station is one of several hydroelectric power stations in the Snowy Mountains Scheme, New South Wales, Australia. Blowering has one turbo generator, with a generating capacity of 80 MW of electricity.
Blowfish (cipher) In cryptography, Blowfish is a keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier and included in a large number of cipher suites and encryption products. While no effective cryptanalysis of Blowfish has been found to date, more attention is now given to block ciphers with a larger block size, such as AES or Twofish.
Blowfly's Punk Rock Party Blowfly's Punk Rock Party is the 2006 album by Blowfly and his second release for Jello Biafra's label Alternative Tentacles. On this album numerous classics of the punk rock genre by artists such as The Ramones and The Dead Kennedys are given the trademark Blowfly sex parody treatment, as well as several originally non-punk rock songs parodied in punk style and several original songs.
Blowhole (geology) In geology, a blowhole is a cavity formed in the ground at the inland end of a sea cave. When waves enter the mouth of the cave they will be funneled up towards the blowhole, which can result in quite spectacular splashes if the geometry and state of the weather is appropriate.
Blowin' Away Blowin' Away was a 1977 album by Joan Baez, her first after switching from A&M Records to CBS Records. The album veered more toward mainstream pop than any album Baez had recorded up to that point, though many critics at the time pointed out that she seemed not entirely comfortable with her "new sound".
Blowing a raspberry Blowing a raspberry or making a Bronx cheer is to make a noise made to signify derision (and/or silliness), made by sticking out the tongue between the lips and blowing to make a sound reminiscent of flatulence. In the terminology of phonetics, this sound does not appear to have an official name, but might be characterized as a linguolabial trill or, in a terminology favored by comedian George Carlin, a "bilabial fricative.
Blowing up In mathematics, blowing up is a type of geometric modification, particularly applied in algebraic geometry, where it is essential in birational geometry. At a point Z that is being 'blown up' (the metaphor is inflation of a balloon, rather than explosion), Z is replaced by the whole space of tangent directions at Z (which, more formally, can be defined as the projective space constructed from the tangent space at Z).
Blown flap Blown flaps are a powered aerodynamic high-lift device on the wings of certain aircraft to improve the low-speed lift during takeoff and landing. The process is sometimes called a boundary layer control system (BLCS).
Blownapart Bastards Blownapart Bastards were a crust punk band of the early-to-mid 1990s from Greensboro, NC. In an era of Born Against, Econochrist, and Rorschach, Blownapart Bastards had a similar sound to these bands with at least as much to say.
Blowout (well drilling) A blowout is the uncontrolled release of a formation fluid, usually gas, from a well being drilled, typically for petroleum production. A blowout is caused when a combination of well control systems fail—primarily drilling mud hydrostatics and blow-out preventers (BOPs)—and formation pore pressure is greater than the wellbore pressure at depth.
Blowout preventer A blowout preventer (BOP) is a large valve that encases an oil well at surface. During drilling, the valve may be closed if overpressure from an oil reservoir causes formation fluids such as oil and natural gas to back up within the wellbore and threaten the rig.
Blowpipe (tool) The Blowpipe is a narrow tube by means of which a stream or jet of air or a specific gas or gas mix can be directed onto a flame to concentrate or increase heat. Jewelers and glassmakers have used the blowpipe since ancient times, with the blast being powered by the user's lungs.
Blowpipe missile The Shorts Blowpipe is a man-portable surface-to-air missile (MANPADS) which was in use with the British Army and Royal Marines from 1968. It was superseded by an interim design, Javelin, and later the greatly improved Starstreak missile.
Blowzabella Blowzabella are an English band who play hurdy-gurdies, bagpipes, melodeons and an array of acoustic instruments to produce an inimitable, driving drone-based sound influenced by British and European traditional dance music.
Bloxham Bloxham is a village located in Oxfordshire on the edge of the Cotswolds in the central part of England. It is three miles from the market town of Banbury, on the main route linking Banbury with the smaller market town of Chipping Norton.
Bloxham School Bloxham School is an independent co-educational day and boarding school located in the village of Bloxham, three miles from the town of Banbury in England. It was founded in 1860 by the Reverend Philip Reginald Egerton and has since become a member of the Woodard Corporation.
Blu Greenberg Blu Greenberg (born 1936) is an American writer specializing in Modern Orthodox Judaism and women's issues. She is the author of On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition (1981) and Black Bread: Poems, After the Holocaust (1994).
Blu Mankuma Blu Mankuma is an African-American actor born in Seattle, Washington but currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has appeared in numerous Canadian and American productions that are filmed in Canada.
Blu-express Blu-Express is an Italian low cost airline, and a trademark of Blue Panorama Airlines. Blue Panorama Airlines, with Distal & Itr, represents one of the principal airline transport groups in Italy and Europe.
Blu-ray Disc Founders The Blu-ray Disc Founders (BDF) group was a collection of technology firms working together to develop and support the Blu-ray Disc. The Blu-ray bandwagon grew progressively; announcements in 2004 included Hewlett Packard and Dell, which declared support for the standard on January 12, 2004, and TDK on March 19, 2004.
Blubberhouses Blubberhouses is a small village located in the Washburn Valley in the borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, a county in the north of England. It is situated to the south of the Yorkshire Dales national park, and to the north of a Roman road and Fewston Reservoir.
Bludenz Bludenz is a city in the state of Vorarlberg in Austria. It is a cozy little town embedded in mountains at the meeting point of five different valleys, the Klostertal, the Montafon, the Walgau, the Brandnertal and the GroĂź Walsertal.
Bludger Bludger is a derogatory slang term for a lazy individual, particularly one who is perceived to receive undeserved welfare or material benefits. "Dole bludger" is a related term in common usage, specifically used to refer to a longterm unemployed person who draws "the dole", or state unemployment benefit.
Blue (Blue Gender) The Blue are an insect-like race of creatures in the anime, Blue Gender. They are the evolved form of the "B-cell" that infected a number of humans and after scientists experimented with the "B-cells" on modern animals, the injection of the cells mutated them and the infected animals mated with non-infected ones, allowing evolution to take its course.
Blue (duo) Blue were a late 1980s pop duo signed to the Arista Records label. Comprising Dean Collinson and Brian Teasdale (known as Red), the band are known for being the writers of Sonia's 1993 Eurovision entry Better The Devil You Know.
Blue (Flashlight Brown album) Blue is the fifth release from Flashlight Brown. The album was intended to be their second release from Hollywood Records but weeks before the release of the album, the band left the label for undisclosed reasons.
Blue (Music TV) Blue is a 24hr music video channel that broadcasts exclusively for Greeks abroad and is owned by Antenna Group. Blue features the best music content including video clips from Greece's hottest artists, concerts, exclusive interviews and other special programming.
Blue (Pokémon) Blue, known as in the Japanese versions and FireRed and LeafGreen, is a name used to refer to two related, but distinct, fictional characters in the Pokémon franchise, both of them the antagonists of the media in which they appear. The character Gary Oak in the anime is the counterpart of Blue.
Blue and Green Lines (Cleveland) The Blue and Green Lines are the light rail component of the RTA Rapid Transit, a rail transit system in greater Cleveland, Ohio. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority numbers them as Routes 67X and 67AX.
Blue and white (porcelain) Blue and white wares: white pottery and porcelain wares decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration is commonly applied by hand, by stencilling or by transfer-printing, though other methods of application have also been used.
Blue ant The blue ant (Diamma bicolor, also known as the blue-ant) is, despite its name and its appearance, not an ant at all, but rather a species of large solitary parasitic wasp sometimes known as a flower wasp. It is a native of south and southeast Australia, including the Australian states of Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
Blue antimora The blue antimora or violet cod, Antimora rostrata, is a morid cod of the genus Antimora, found on the continental shelf of all oceans except the north Pacific, at depths of between 350 and 3,000 m. Its length is between 40 and 75 cm.
Blue Air Blue Air is a low-cost airline based in Bucharest, Romania, that started operation in 2004. Its main base is Aurel Vlaicu International Airport, Bucharest's second airport, also known as Bucharest Băneasa (BBU).
Blue Angel (band) Blue Angel was the band that featured Cyndi Lauper before her rise to fame as a solo singer. The lineup also included John Turi on keyboard instrument and saxophone, Arthur "Rockin' A" Nelson (guitar), Lee Brovitz (bass guitar) and Johnny Morelli (drums).
Blue Angels The United States Navy's Blue Angels (or Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron), formed in 1946, is the world's first officially sanctioned military aerial demonstration team. The United States Air Force has its own demonstration squadron, the Thunderbirds, which began operations in 1953.
Blue Anchor railway station Blue Anchor railway station is a station on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway in Somerset, United Kingdom. It is situated in the seaside village of Blue Anchor and houses the museum of the West Somerset Steam Railway Trust.
Blue Ash Blue Ash is a tree, Fraxinus quadrangulata, that is native to the east-central United States, from westernmost Pennsylvania south and west to eastern Oklahoma, and also just into southernmost Ontario in Canada. It is typically found over calcareous substrates such as limestone, growing on dry limestone slopes and in moist valley soils, at elevations of 120-600 m.
Blue Ă–yster Cult Blue Ă–yster Cult is an American rock band formed in 1967 and still active in 2007. The group is probably best known for three songs: The 1976 single "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" from the album Agents of Fortune (featured in the cult movie Halloween, and in the TV movie The Stand based on Stephen King's novel of the same name); the 1981 single "Burnin' for You" from the album Fire of Unknown Origin and "Godzilla" (1977) from Spectres.
Blue bag A blue bag is a blue colored, semi-transparent bag for waste, mandated for use in some localities for refuse or for certain specific types of refuse: the distinguishing color serves to assist in recycling programs. Typically, it would be used for glass, plastic or polyethelyne content.

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