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Blue balls Blue balls is a slang term for a temporary fluid congestion in the testicles and prostate region caused by prolonged sexual arousal in the human male. It is most commonly associated with adolescents but can occur in any sexually mature male.
Blue book exam A Blue Book exam is a type of test usually given in colleges in the United States where a professor gives an essay topic over which the student must write about during the exam period. Generally, the teacher will give advance warning on the possible essay topics and will then choose one, or let the student choose from the available ones on which topic to write about.
Blue box An early phreaking tool, the blue box is an electronic device that simulates a telephone operator's dialing console. It functions by replicating the tones used to switch long-distance calls and using them to route the user's own call, bypassing the normal switching mechanism.
Blue Ball In medieval heraldry, the blue ball ("bezant or roundel azure") was the heraldic charge of the house of (identification needed). Like many heraldic charges, it passed first to inn signs (pubs called the "Blue Ball" are found all over England) and then eventually to placenames.
Blue Ball Manipulator The Blue Ball Manipulator, also called the Blue Ball Machine, is a series of animations featuring tiny blue balls being passed around a variety of devices and situations. It has been likened to a Rube Goldberg machine.
Blue Ball, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Blue Ball is a unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania near 40°N 76°W. Blue Ball lies approximately 2 miles east-northeast of the town of New Holland, Pennsylvania at the intersection of US 322 and PA Route 23.
Blue Bayou Blue Bayou is the title of a song written by Americans Roy Orbison and Joe Melson and sung by Orbison. A ballad, it was released as a 45rpm single on the Monument Records label in August 1963 as the B-side to the rock song, Mean Woman Blues.
Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) Blue Beetle is Theodore (or Edward) "Ted" Kord, a fictional superhero in the DC Universe. This version of the character was created by Steve Ditko, and first appeared as a back-up feature in Captain Atom #83 (Nov.
Blue Belt The Blue Belt is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's fifth and innermost original "belt" in the Pittsburgh/Allegheny County Belt System, running a complete circumference of the city in 40 miles. The belt was originally set up in the 1940s though the current route was adjusted in the 1970s.
Blue Bird of Paradise The Blue Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea rudolphi is a medium-sized, up to 30cm long, black bird of paradise with a bluish white bill, dark brown iris, grey legs, broken white eye-ring and bright blue wings. The male is adorned with violet blue and cinnamon flank plumes and two long ribbon-like tail feathers.
Blue Blood Blue Blood is the name of the seminal magazine of counterculture erotica launched by Amelia G in 1992. Although Blue Blood is still going strong today, it also provided the blueprint for the modern gothic and alt erotica explosions on the web and in video today.
Blue Blood (album) Blue Blood is the second album by the Japanese band X Japan and was released on April 21, 1989 on CBS Sony. It contains re-recordings of tracks from the band's debut album Vanishing Vision, "Kurenai" and "Unfinished...
Blue Bloods The Blue Bloods was the name of a professional wrestling stable in World Championship Wrestling that consisted of "Lord" Steven Regal, "Earl" Robert Eaton, and "Squire" David Taylor, along with their butler Jeeves that operated in the late 90s.
Blue Boar Cafeterias Blue Boar Cafeterias is a chain of cafeteria restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky. Once a major presence in metro Louisville and still remembered for its old downtown location on Fourth Avenue near Broadway.
Blue Boar Quadrangle A quadrangle of Christ Church, Oxford, designed by Hidalgo Moya and Philip Powell, and built between 1965 and 1968, Blue Boar Quadrangle has been described as "One of the best buildings of its kind during the expansion of higher education." by Lord Andrew McIntosh, Minister for Culture, Media and Sport.
Blue Boat The Blue Boat is either the highest level boat representing the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge in the Universities' annual rowing clash on the River Thames: The Boat Race. "Blue" refers to the color of the traditional shirts worn by the participants.
Blue Bonnet The Blue Bonnet (Northiella haematogaster) is an Australian parrot, the only member of the genus Northiella. Its habitat includes open woodland, scrub, riverine forest, spinifex, and farmlands in the eastern half of the continent, with a smaller race being found in the Western Australian Nullarbor region.
Blue Book (United States Marine Corps) Blue Book is the commonly used name for a United States Marine Corps document officially known as Marine Corps Bulletin 1400 (MCBul 1400). MCBul 1400 serves to publish lineal precedence and seniority information on officers in the U.
Blue Box (container) A Blue Box container is a rigid plastic container used to hold recyclable materials. It was introduced in the recycling programs, often called the 'Blue Box program' in Ontario and British Columbia in the 1980s.
Blue Brainwash Blue Brain Wash is an odd soda created by the Skeleteens, a sort of experimental beverage company with ties to the punk and cyberpunk movements. Claiming on its label to “get rid of the garbage they’ve been dumping in your mind”, this drink is made with such outlandish ingredients as gotu kola, African capsicum, mad-dog weed, and more.
Blue Bridge (Oregon) The Blue Bridge is a curved pedestrian and bicycle bridge connecting the north and south halves of the Reed College campus. It is made of concrete and crosses the Reed College Canyon, sloping downwards from south to north; because of the unusual shape of the bridge, it received an award for architectural concrete design upon its completion.
Blue Bulls The Blue Bulls, for sponsorship reasons named Vodacom Blue Bulls, or more popularly by the club's Afrikaans name Die Blou Bulle, are a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament. They are governed by the Blue Bulls Rugby Union and are based at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, Gauteng province.
Blue Bulls Rugby Union The Blue Bulls Rugby Union is the governing body for rugby union in Pretoria, South Africa, two neighboring municipalities in Gauteng Province, and all of Limpopo Province. Its main representative team, known in South Africa by its sponsorship name of Vodacom Blue Bulls (Afrikaans: Vodacom Blou Bulle), competes in South Africa's main domestic rugby competition, the Currie Cup.
Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire also known as Law of Shotts, is a bus operator serving the area of Shotts in West Scotland, near Glasgow. It is a mainly local bus opeartor, with low frequency services, but the 701 is hourly.
Blue Bus of Staffordshire Blue Bus of Staffordshire, also known as Scraggs Motors as it is also known, is a bus operator serving the area of Staffordshire and the city of Stoke-on-Trent. It has a variety of servies, ranging from high frequcency urban services, to low frequency community services.
Blue catfish The blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, is one of the largest species of North American catfish. Blue catfish are distributed primarily in the Mississippi River drainage including the Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Arkansas rivers.
Blue corydoras The blue corydoras or Natterer's catfish, Corydoras nattereri, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in coastal rivers in South America, and is found in the Brazil from Espírito Santo to Paraná.
Blue crab The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus (from the Greek calli="beautiful", nectes="swimmer", and Latin sapidus="savory"), is a crustacean found in the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, which is the Maryland State Crustacean and the subject of an extensive fishery .
Blue Castello Blue Castello is a triple-cream blue cow's milk cheese from Denmark that was developed in the 1960's by the Tholstrup cheese company. The washed rind hosts various molds that add to the cheese's mildly spicy flavor.
Blue City Blue City was a thriller written in 1947 by Ross Macdonald, originally released under his real name, Kenneth Millar. It was generally considered Macdonald's first truly hard-boiled novel, a start along the road that was going to lead to many comparisons to Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.
Blue Cliff Record The Blue Cliff Record (Chinese: 《碧巖錄》 Bìyán Lù; Japanese: Hekiganroku) is a collection of Zen Buddhist koans originally compiled in China during the Song dynasty in 1125 (宋宣和七年) and then expanded into its present form by the Chan master Yuanwu Keqin (圜悟克勤 1063 – 1135).
Blue Coat Systems Blue Coat Systems is a maker of proxy server appliances used for WAN optimization, content filtering, remote access and web cache. In 2006, IDC named Blue Coat the market share leader in the secure content and application delivery marketProducts ==
Blue Collar Comedy Tour The Blue Collar Comedy Tour began in January 2000 when Jeff Foxworthy started touring with three of his comedian friends, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy. Foxworthy had already established himself as a well-known, Grammy-award winning stand-up comedian, best known for his jokes and stories about life as a redneck.
Blue Collar Computing Blue Collar Computing is a project at The Ohio Supercomputing Center on the campus of Ohio State University providing access to predominantly academic High Performance Computing for commercial enterprises for whom owning and operating their own supercomputer might not be cost-effective.
Blue Comet SPT Layzner is an anime series produced by Sunrise between 1985 and 1986. Its original creator was Ryousuke Takahashi of Armored Trooper Votoms fame who served as the writer and wrote the scripts for such shows as Panzer World Galient, Tetsuwan Atom, Zero Testor, Fang of the Sun Dougram, Cyborg 009, and Blue Gender.
Blue Condition Released in 1996, The Blue Condition album is Bobby Caldwell's covering of several old standards from several "old-school" crooners such as Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin. The final track, "Smile," was originally written by silent film great Charlie Chaplin.
Blue Corpse Blue Corpse is the fifteenth album by Jandek, and his second for 1987. Essentially a duet album with "Eddie," it addresses heartbreak and is considered by many to be the easiest point of entry into the Corwood catalog.
Blue Cow, New South Wales Blue Cow () is a winter-only ski resort village in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, in the Snowy River Shire. It is within the Kosciuszko National Park, and is administered by the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS).
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is the national trade organization that links 38 independent regional health insurance companies in the United States (including Puerto Rico). Based in Chicago, Illinois, it was formed in the 1982 merger of the Blue Cross Association and the National Association of Blue Shield Plans.
Blue Cruise Blue Cruise ("Mavi Yolculuk" in Turkish) is the term used for recreational boating tours along Turkey's spectacular southwestern coasts. The term has been introduced into the Turkish literature by a handful of Turkish writers of fame.
Blue dot triplefin The blue dot triplefin, Notoclinops caerulepunctus, is a fish in the genus Notoclinops, found around offshore islands and exposed headlands of the eastern side of Northland, and the Bay of Plenty, on the North Island of New Zealand from depths of a metre or so to about 30 m, most common in reef areas of broken rock. Its length is only up to about 5 cm and it is the smallest of the triplefins in New Zealand.
Blue Dacnis The Blue Dacnis or Turquoise Honeycreeper, Dacnis cayana, is a small passerine bird. This member of the tanager family is a resident breeder from Nicaragua to Panama, on Trinidad, and in South America south to Bolivia and northern Argentina.
Blue Danube (band) Blue Danube was an austrian band that has represented their country in Eurovision Song Contest 1980. The group has sung the entry Du isk musik (You are music), which told us about famous musicians and types of musics.
Blue Demon The Blue Demon (April 24, 1922 - December 16, 2000) was the stage name of the Mexican masked wrestler Alejandro Muñoz Moreno, who was widely considered to be one of the greatest Mexican wrestlers of his time. He was affectionately referred to as "Blue" by most of his fellow masked crime-fighters, known for his signature blue wrestling mask.
Blue Denim Blue Denim was a successful 1958 Broadway play by writer James Leo Herlihy, made the next year into a successful movie starring Brandon De Wilde and Carol Lynley (who had appeared in the stage version), and dealing with the issues of teenage pregnancy and (then-illegal) abortion. Macdonald Carey, Warren Berlinger and Roberta Shore appear as supporting characters.
Blue Devils (aerobatic team) The Blue Devils or the 410 (F) Squadron Aerobatic Team were a Canadian aerobatic team that flew the de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft from May 4, 1949 until August 1951. Initially started as a team of 4 by World War II flying ace Flight Lieutenant Don C.
Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps is a Division I drum and bugle corps based in Concord, California and founded in 1957 as a Drum and Bell corps, and is a member corps of Drum Corps International. The Blue Devils (sometimes just "the Devils", "Devs" or "BD") are the most successful corps of the DCI era, with a total of eleven world champion titles to their name over the four decades of DCI's existence.
Blue Diamond Growers Blue Diamond Growers is a California-based agricultural cooperative and marketing organization that specializes in almonds. Founded in 1910, the organization claims to be the world's largest "tree nut processing and marketing company".
Blue Diamond Prelude C&G The Blue Diamond Prelude (C&G) is a Group 3 Australian thoroughbred horse race held under set weight conditions, for 2 year old colts and geldings, over a distance of 1100m. It is held at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne.
Blue Diamond Stakes The Blue Diamond Stakes is a Group One thoroughbred horse race for two year olds, at set weights, run over 1200 metres at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The race is Victoria's richest two year old race, 2006 prizemoney was AUD$1,000,000.
Blue Diamonds The Blue Diamonds were a Dutch 1960's doo-wop duo best known for their chart topping single Ramona. Indonesian brothers Rudy de Wolff and Riem de Wolff founded the group shortly after immigrating to the Netherlands in 1949.
Blue Dog Democrat Blue Dog Democrats are conservative to moderate Democratic Party members of the United States House of RepresentativesBlue Dogs are an actual coalition of like-minded Democrats organized as the Blue Dog Coalition, rather than just an expression such as "Yellow dog Democrat]." Many members hail from conservative-leaning districts, where liberal Democrats and liberal values in general are a decided minority.
Blue Dog Records Blue Dog Records, although an independent record label, was affiliated to V2 and was active in the 1990s with a mostly indie roster of artists including The Crocketts, Daytona and Contempo. The London based label was based in an office above the original Barfly at The Falcon (pub), where many of the acts would showcase their new songs.
Blue Duck The Blue Duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchus) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is the only member of the genus Hymenolaimus, placed in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae after previously being considered part of the paraphyletic "perching duck" assemblage.
Blue energy Blue energy is the energy retrieved from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water with the use of reverse electro dialysis (RED) (or osmosis) with ion specific membranes. The waste product in this process is brackish water.
Blue Eagle The Blue Eagle, a blue-colored representation of the American "thunderbird," with outspread wings, was a symbol used in the United States by companies to show compliance with the National Industrial Recovery Act. It was proclaimed on July 20, 1933 as the symbol of industrial recovery by Hugh S.
Blue Eagles The Blue Eagles are one of three professional helicopter aerobatic teams in the world, the Royal Navy Black Cats and Sarang of the Indian Air Force being the other. The team was formed in the spring of 1968 by instructors at the British Army Air Corps centred at Middle Wallop who practised in their spare time.
Blue Eared Pheasant The Blue Eared Pheasant, Crossoptilon auritum is a large, up to 96cm long, dark blue-grey pheasant with velvet black crown, red bare facial skin, yellow iris, long white ear coverts behind the eyes and crimson legs. Its tail of twenty-four elongated bluish grey feathers is curved, loose and dark-tipped.
Blue Earth River The Blue Earth River is a tributary of the Minnesota River in an agricultural region of south-central Minnesota in the United States; it also drains a small portion of northern Iowa. Via the Minnesota, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.
Blue Evolution Blue Evolution is the title of a German comic series, designed by Marian Kretschmer and issued by the independent publishing company THENEXTART since 2004. It combines elements from classical comics with modern graphic design in a way that makes the series outstanding by German comic standards.
Blue Eyed Devils Blue Eyed Devils, formed in 1998, were an American neo-Nazi group from Delaware and featured several members of Nordic Thunder. Blue Eyed Devils disbanded in 2003, playing their last show in Switzerland, stating that the band had formed as a five-year project.
Blue fathead The blue fathead or cubehead, Cubiceps caeruleus, is a driftfish of the genus Cubiceps, found pelagically in the central and south Pacific and central and south Atlantic Oceans. Its length is between 15 and 25 centimetres.
Blue field entoptic phenomenon The blue field entoptic phenomenon or Scheerer's phenomenon is the appearance of tiny bright dots moving quickly along squiggly lines in the visual field, especially when looking into blue light (such as the sky).Scheerer R.
Blue Fairy The Blue Fairy is a fictional character in Carlo Collodi's classic novel Pinocchio. She repeatedly appears at critical moments in Pinocchio's wanderings to admonish the little wooden puppet to avoid bad or risky behavior.
Blue Fern (train) The Blue Ferns, an unofficial name, were temporary replacement locomotive-hauled carriage trains between Wellington and Auckland on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) in the North Island of New Zealand, in 1981-1984 and 1989-1990.
Blue Flame The Blue Flame was the high-performing, ultra high-speed, rocket-powered vehicle which achieved the world land speed record on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on October 28 1970. The Blue Flame was constructed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Reaction Dynamics, a company formed by Pete Farnsworth, Ray Dausman and Dick Keller who had developed hydrogen peroxide rocket dragsters.
Blue Future Filters Inc Blue Future Filters Inc. is an American water filter company that markets non-chemical and low-tech drinking water systems that are "economical, efficient, appropriate, and available to a wide variety of locations, peoples, and applications.
Blue giant In astronomy, a blue giant is a star with a spectral type of O or B (thus being noticeably blue in appearance) and a luminosity class of III (giant). In the standard Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, blue giants are found in the upper left corner, due to their high luminosity and early spectral type.
Blue grenadier The blue grenadier, hoki, blue hake, New Zealand whiptail, whiptail or whiptail hake, Macruronus novaezelandiae, is a merluccid hake of the genus Macruronus, found around southern Australia, and New Zealand, at depths of between 10 and 1,000 m. Its length is between 60 and 120 cm.
Blue groper A blue groper is a member of two similar species of fish found in the coastal waters of southern Australia, distinguished by the bright blue colouring of the adult males. The Eastern blue groper (Achoerodus viridis) is found from Hervey Bay in southern Queensland to Wilson's Promontory in Victoria.
Blue Gemini Blue Gemini was a United States Air Force project first proposed in August 1962 for a series of seven flights of Gemini spacecraft to enable the Air Force to gain manned spaceflight experience prior to the launch of the Manned Orbital Development System, or MODS. The plan was to utilize off-the-shelf Gemini spacecraft.
Blue Gene Blue Gene is a computer architecture project designed to produce several next-generation supercomputers, designed to reach operating speeds in the petaflops range, and currently reaching sustained speeds over 360 teraflops. It is a cooperative project among IBM (particularly the Thomas J.
Blue Grass Army Depot Blue Grass Army Depot is a chemical weapon and standard munitions storage facility located at Richmond, Kentucky, operated by the United States Army It stores a small stockpile of chemical agents, comprising 523 tons of nerve agents GB (sarin) and VX, and mustard gas, or about two percent of the United States chemical weapons stockpile. As of 2003, destruction of the Blue Grass chemical weapons stockpile had been planned to be carried out by Bechtel Parsons using the technology known as neutralization followed by supercritical water oxidation.
Blue Green Orange Blue Green Orange is the third album by the Canadian alternative rock band I Mother Earth, released by Universal on July 13, 1999. Featuring album covers in blue, green, or orange, the album shipped Gold in Canada, a status it retains to this day.
Blue Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak (Passerina caerulea, formerly Guiraca caerulea)*, is a medium-sized seed-eating bird in the same family as the Northern Cardinal, "tropical" or New World buntings, and "cardinal-grosbeaks" or New World grosbeaks.
Blue Guitars Blue Guitars is a Blues album released by Chris Rea on October 14th 2005 consisting of eleven CDs, one DVD and a full colour book, including paintings by the artist, liner notes and song lyrics. The album is an ambitious project with the 137 songs recorded over the course of 1 1/2 years with a work schedule - according to Chris Rea himself - of twelve hours a day, seven days a week.
Blue Gum Blue Gum usually refers to the gum subspecies Eucalyptus globulus, however it may also refer to a number of other species of Eucalyptus in Australia. Confusingly, in Queensland it usually refers to Eucalyptus tereticornis, which is known elsewhere as Forest Red Gum.
Blue hour The blue hour comes from a French expression (l'heure bleue) which refers to the often magical hour experienced between the hours of daylight and darkness. It is also used to refer to the Paris immediately prior to World War I, which was considered to be a time of relative innocence before the horrors that were to follow.
Blue Harvest Blue Harvest was the title of the fictitious film ruse utilized to ensure secrecy and disguise the actual 1981–1983 production of the third installment of the Star Wars film series, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. The supposed film was alleged to be an upcoming horror film with the tag line "Horror Beyond Imagination.
Blue Heat: The Case of the Cover Girl Murders Blue Heat: The Case of the Cover Girl Murders was a 1997 American photo-realistic adventure game which included technology which eventually evolved into QuickTime VR. In Blue Heat, the player assumes the role of Holly Jacobson, an LAPD detective who must go undercover to catch a serial killer preying on the enticing cover girls of LA Erotica Magazine.
Blue Hen Stakes The Blue Hen Stakes is a hrace on the dirt for two-year-old fillies held in the fall of each year at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Delaware. A ungraded stakes event, it’s set at a distance of one and one-sixteenth mile and offers a purse of $100,000.
Blue Hills Regional Technical School Blue Hills Regional Technical School is a vocational secondary school located in Canton, Massachusetts, within Norfolk county. The school serves students of the Blue Hills Regional School District, comprising nine member towns:
Blue Hole (park) Blue Hole National Park is a national park located just off the Hummingbird Highway in Cayo District of Belize, near Belmopan, the capital city. It is over 500 acres (2 km²) in area, and contains two cave systems (St.
Blue Hole, NJ The Blue Hole is loacted in the Pinelands of Winslow Township, New Jersey. The Blue Hole is a body of water in the middle of woods that is clear blue and always freezing cold, even in the summer, with a very steep shoreline.
Blue Horde The Blue Horde (, , Turkish:Gök Ordu/Orda) was one of the khanates (within the Mongol Empire) formed around 1227,Far East Kingdoms after the death of Genghis Khan and subsequent division of his empire. It was the eastern constituent part of the Golden Horde (the western part was the White Horde).
Blue Hussars The Blue Hussars, officially called the Mounted Escort, was the ceremonial army troop that escorted the President of Ireland on state occasions, most famously to and from presidential inaugurations between 1938, when the first president took office, and 1948 when they were disbanded. The name Blue Hussars is sometimes used to refer to their successors, the motorcycle unit (2 Cavalry Squadron) of the Cavalry Corps that has provided presidential escorts since 1948.
Blue cheese Blue cheese is a general classification of cow's milk, sheep's milk, or goat's milk cheeses that has had Penicillium cultures added so that the final product is spotted or veined throughout with blue or blue-green mold. Some blue cheeses are injected with spores before the curds form and others have spores mixed in with the curds after they form.
Blue Cheer Blue Cheer were a San Francisco-based rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s, who helped to pioneer heavy metal music. Original personnel were singer/bassist Dickie Peterson, guitarist Leigh Stephens, and drummer Paul Whaley.
Blue ice (aircraft) Blue ice in the context of aviation refers to ice formed by leaks in commercial aircraft lavatory waste tanks, a concoction of human waste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude. The name comes from the blue color of the disinfectant, and as a sardonic reference to the Blue Ice line of products used for cooling ice chests and similar applications.
Blue ice runway A blue ice runway is a runway constructed in Antarctic areas with no net annual snow accumulation, so that the resultant ice surface is capable of supporting aircraft landings using wheels instead of skis. They are intended to make transferring materials to research stations simpler, since wheeled aircraft can carry much heavier loads than those which are ski-equipped.
Blue in Green "Blue In Green" is the third track on the the essential 1959 Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue. One of the two ballads on the LP (the other being "Flamenco Sketches"), "Blue In Green"'s melody is very modal, incorporating the presence of the dorian, mixolydian, and lydian modes.
Blue in Judaism Because blue is the color of the sky and sea, it has often symbolized divinity, as well as height and depth. It can also represent equilibrium, since its hue suggests a shade midway between white and black, day and night.
Blue Impulse , or 11 Squadron, is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Originally formed in 1960 as a team of 6 F-86 Sabres, the team switched to the Mitsubishi T-2 in 1980 and then the Kawasaki T-4 in 1995.
Blue Is the Colour Blue Is the Colour, released October 1996, is The Beautiful South's sixth album following the two singles "Pretenders to the Throne" and "Dream a Little Dream", which never featured on any album until the release of the second greatest hits Solid Bronze in 2001. It was named after a pub in Sheffield.
Blue Jacaranda The Blue Jacaranda, more often known simply as the "Jacaranda", is a sub-tropical tree native to South America that has been widely planted elsewhere because of its beautiful and long-lasting blue flowers. Older sources give it the systematic name Jacaranda acutifolia, but it is nowadays more usually classified as Jacaranda mimosifolia.
Blue Jay The Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is a North American jay, a bird with predominantly lavender-blue to mid-blue feathering from the top of the head to midway down the back. There is a pronounced crest on the head.
Blue Jay (comics) Blue Jay (real name: Jay Abrams) is a DC Comics superhero and a former member of the Champions of Angor, also known as the Justifiers. He has the ability to shrink to seven inches tall and grow blue wings which allow him to fly.
Blue Juice Blue Juice is a British film directed by Carl Prechezer and starring Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta Jones, Ewan McGregor and Steven Mackintosh. It follows JC (Pertwee) as he attempts to reconcile his surfer lifestyle and loser friends with the pressure to grow up from his girlfriend (Jones).
Blue Jupiter Blue Jupiter is an a capella pop-funk singing group. They won Oreo's "Milk's Favorite Jingle Contest" hosted by American Idol's Randy Jackson, can be heard on the radio nationwide performing their funky-pop version of the classic Oreo Jingle.
Blue knifefish The blue knifefish, Labracoglossa nitida, is a sea chub of the genus Labracoglossa, found off eastern Australia, and around the offshore islands of the east coast of Northland on the North Island of New Zealand, to depths of 20 m. Its length is between 15 and 20 cm.
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