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Blue Kaffee Blue Kaffee (commonly referred to by the acronym BK and contracted by some to Bluekaffee) is a web-based community founded and operated in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It provides standard social community features, including a web-based journal system, a messaging system, and a set of web forums.
Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps The Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps are a Division I drum and bugle corps based in Denver, Colorado and founded in 1958, and are a member corps of Drum Corps International. They are known throughout the circuit for their moving interpretations of classical music, exceptional use of choreography and colorful hand-painted flags.
Blue laser Blue lasers have applications in many areas ranging from opto-electronic data storage at high-density to medical applications. Until the mid 1990s, blue lasers were large and expensive gas laser instruments which relied on population inversion in rare gas mixtures and needed high currents and strong cooling.
Blue law A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a type of law designed to enforce moral standards, particularly the observance of Sunday as a day of worship or rest. Most have been repealed or are simply unenforced, although prohibitions on the sale of alcoholic beverages, and occasionally almost all commerce, on Sundays are still enforced in some areas.
Blue Lady's War The Blue Lady's War is a fictional war set on the continent of Ansalon on the world of Krynn, as told in the Dragonlance novels, specifically the Dragonlance Legends. The war itself featured only one true battle; The Battle of Palanthas.
Blue Larkspur Blue Larkspur (1926-1947) was a bay colt, Kentucky bred thoroughbred race horse. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1957, awarded the 1929 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year, and ranks Number 100 in Blood-Horse magazine's top 100 U.
Blue Laws The Blue Laws of the Colony of Connecticut, as distinct from the generic term "blue law" that refers to any laws regulating activities on Sunday, were the initial statutes set up by the Gov. Theophilus Eaton with the assistance of the Rev.
Blue Legion The Blue Legion was officially called the Legión Española de Voluntarios was created from 1,500 pro-Fascist volunteers who remained behind at the Eastern Front, after most of the Spanish Blue Division had been repatriated in March of 1944, because El Caudillo Franco had started negotiations with the western Allies. It officially consisted of two battalions.
Blue Letter Bible The Blue Letter Bible Project is an initiative of Calvary Chapel members to create a Study Bible in both CD format and for the internet, primarily in support of the Calvary Chapel fellowship of churches. It was founded in November 1995.
Blue Lightning Blue Lightning is a pseudo-simulation computer game in which the player controls a military airplane. The game was one of the first games for the Atari Lynx, released in 1989 and was programmed by Epyx (who also developed the Lynx).
Blue Line (Chicago Transit Authority) The Blue Line (O'Hare-Congress & O'Hare-Douglas Services), consists of a 19.5 mile trunk line in the Chicago Transit Authority's rapid transit system which extends through Chicago's Loop from O'Hare International Airport at the far northwest end of the city, through downtown via the Milwaukee-Dearborn-Congress subway, and across the West Side with two branches at its southwest end, one to Forest Park (Congress) and the other to Cicero (Douglas).
Blue Line (Lebanon) The Blue Line is a border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel, including the occupied Golan Heights, published by the United Nations on 7 June 2000 for the purposes of determining whether Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon.
Blue Line (MBTA) The Blue Line is one of the four subway lines of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. It extends from Wonderland Station in Revere in the north to Bowdoin Street near Beacon Hill in Boston in the south.
Blue Line (New York State) The Blue Line is the term used in New York state for the boundaries of the Adirondack and Catskill parks, within which can be found the state's Forest Preserve. The state constitution requires that any property owned or acquired by the state in those parks "be forever kept as wild forest lands" and prohibits it from selling or transferring them in anyway (save amending that section of the constitution to allow specific transactions).
Blue Line (Washington Metro) The Blue Line of the Washington Metro consists of 27 subway stations from Franconia-Springfield to Largo Town Center. It has stations in Fairfax County, Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Prince George's County, Maryland.
Blue Line (Yokohama) The Yokohama Blue Line (ブルーライン) is a 40-km (22-mile) subway line in Yokohama, Japan, operated by Yokohama City Transportation Bureau. Line 3 transits from Azamino to Kannai, and Line 1 transits from Kannai to Shonandai.
Blue Lodges Blue Lodges were secret proslavery societies formed in western Missouri during 1854 to thwart Northern antislavery plans to make Kansas a free state under the Kansas-Nebraska Act. They not only promoted the migration of proslavery settlers to Kansas but occasionally crossed the border to participate in the election of proslavery members to the territorial government.
Blue mackerel The blue mackerel, Japanese mackerel, Pacific mackerel, slimy mackerel, or spotted chub mackerel, Scomber australasicus, a fish of the genus Scomber, is found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific ocean, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Oman and the Gulf of Aden, in surface waters down to 200 m. Its length is between 30 and 55 cm, and weight over a kg.
Blue maomao The blue maomao, Scorpis violacea, is a sweep of the genus Scorpis, found around eastern Australia and northern New Zealand to depths of a few metres, over reef areas and off headlands. Its length is between 20 and 45 cm.
Blue moki The blue moki, Latridopsis ciliaris, is a trumpeter of the genus Latridopsis, found off southern Australia and New Zealand from shallow rocky or sandy areas at depths to 50 m. Its length is between 50 and 90 cm and it can weigh over 10 kg.
Blue Mafia Blue Mafia – Pejorative term used to describe a shadowy but powerful group within the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). The group, comprised of AFOSI senior ranking officers and non-commissioned officers, initially arose out of opposition to provisions in the House of Representatives’ Committee on National Security 1996 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, which ordered the civilianization of certain military positions of which the AFOSI was included.
Blue Magic (band) Blue Magic is an American R&B soul vocal quintet which was formed in Philadelphia in June 1973 when former Delfonic Randy Cain brought singer-songwriter Ted Mills in to do some writing with the Philly-based WMOT production company and a short time later, the group Shades of Blue, featuring Keith Beaton, Richard Pratt, Vernon Sawyer and his brother Wendell, came in for an audition. According to Marc Taylor, in his book A Touch of Classic Soul of the Early 1970's, although the group performed admirably, they lacked a standout lead singer and WMOT execs decided to put mills with the Shades of Love and renamed the group Blue Magic.
Blue Marlin corp. Blue Marlin Corp is a company based in San Francisco and was extablished in 1994. They started out making vintage baseball caps honoring the teams of the Negro, Latin and Minor Leagues from the early 20th Century.
Blue Martini Software Blue Martini Software (Blue Martini Software, Inc.) is a privately held software manufacturer and professional services provider based in San Mateo, California that sells and supports an eponymous e-commerce enterprise application that supports sales online, by phone, and at the point-of-purchase.
Blue Meanies (tribute band) The Blue Meanies is a Mexican tribute band which primarily plays the music of The Beatles. The band rose to fame in the Mexican beatle scene during 2004 because of their setlists, which include mainly obscure songs by The Beatles, both as a band and as solo artists.
Blue Mediterranean In International Relations, the term Blue Mediterranean refers to keystones of the power and stability of American security interests in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern regions, namely, Israel and Turkey.
Blue Mercedes Blue Mercedes is a pop music duo from London, England, made up of David Titlow and Duncan Millar. Titlow was infamous for wearing purple shorts with the words "Funk Ass" printed on them, whilst Millar played a large portable synth with double keyboards — they dubbed their musical style 'Street Latin Wolff'.
Blue Mesa Reservoir Blue Mesa Reservoir (elevation 7519 feet) is Colorado's largest body of water. Created by Blue Mesa Dam, Blue Mesa Reservoir is 36 miles long, has 96 miles of shoreline, and is the largest lake trout and Kokanee salmon fishery in the United States.
Blue Milk (fan film) Blue Milk is a fan film, directed by William Grammer, that made its worldwide debut on the internet on June 20, 2006, as a finalist in the 2006 Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards. In the short film, a young Princess Leia is the new spokes kid for Blue Milk.
Blue Monday (Fats Domino song) "Blue Monday" is a song, written by Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew in 1955. It was popularized in a recording by Domino in 1956, on Imperial Records (catalog # 5417), becoming one of the earliest rhythm and blues songs to make the Billboard magazine pop music charts.
Blue Monday (opera) Blue Monday (Opera a la Afro-American) was the original name of a one-act "Jazz opera" by George Gershwin, renamed 135th Street during a later production. The English libretto was written by Buddy de Sylva.
Blue Moon (beer) Blue Moon, a Belgian-Style white beer brewed by the Molson Coors Brewing Company, was launched in 1995. Originally called Bellyslide Belgian White, it was created by Keith Villa, a brewmaster at Coors Field's Sandlot Brewery (the onsite brewery owned by the Molson Coors Brewing Company).
Blue Moon (game) Blue Moon is Reiner Knizia's take on the Collectible Card Game mania, published by Kosmos/Fantasy Flight. It is a fixed-deck card game for 2 players and resembles the well known Magic: The Gathering (by Richard Garfield), although game mechanics are quite different.
Blue Moon of Kentucky "Blue Moon of Kentucky" is a bluegrass song, written by Bill Monroe in 1947 and recorded by his band, The Blue Grass Boys. The song has since been recorded by Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Ronnie Hawkins, LeAnn Rimes, Paul McCartney, Boxcar Willie, Carl Perkins, Ray Charles and others.
Blue Moon Odom John "Blue Moon" Odom (born May 29, 1945, in Macon, Georgia) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. For most of his 13-year career, he played for the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics and Atlanta Braves.
Blue Moon Tavern The Blue Moon is a tavern located on the west edge of the University District, Seattle, Washington, that has been visited by many counterculture icons over the years. It opened in April 1934, soon after the repeal of Prohibition in December 1933, as the first and still-extant tavern in the U-District.
Blue Mosque, Yerevan The Blue Mosque (Azeri: Göy məscid; Armenian: Կապույտ մզկիթ – Kapuyt Mzkit or Գյոյ-ջամի – Gyoy Jami) is a mosque in Yerevan, Armenia. It was built in 1766 during the reign of Huseyn Ali, the khan of Erivan (therefore is often referred to as "the mosque of Huseyn Ali") and was one of Yerevan's 8 mosques prior to Sovietization.
Blue Mountain (band) Blue Mountain is the name of a band formed in 1993 in Oxford, Mississippi (USA) by husband and wife duo Cary Hudson (guitar and vocals) and Laurie Stirratt (bass and harmony vocals),who is notably the twin sister of John Stirratt, the bass player for the like-minded American band Wilco. After the dissolution of their former Los Angelos band, The Hilltops, the couple relocated to Oxford and joined by drummer Matt Brennan began gigging and recording roots rock.
Blue Mountain (Montana) Blue Mountain is the western landmark of the city of Missoula and is a popular recreational destination for folfing (disc golf) hiking, off-road motorcycling, horse riding, shooting and hunting. The mountain is generally covered with pine trees, with sufficient numbers of Blue Spruce to give the mountain a blue appearance in good sunlight.
Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania) Blue Mountain is a ridge that forms the eastern (southeastern) edge of the Appalachian mountain range in Pennsylvania. It cuts across the eastern half of the state from New Jersey to Maryland, providing a distinct boundary between a number of Pennsylvania's geographical and cultural regions.
Blue Mountain Community College Blue Mountain Community College is a two-year college located in Pendleton, Oregon, United States, and serves Umatilla and Morrow counties. It was established in 1965 and currently offers Associate of Arts degrees and transfer degrees to four-year colleges.
Blue Mountain Ski Area Blue Mountain is a ski resort in Eastern Pennsylvania located on the Blue Mountain north of the Lehigh Valley in the southern most part of The Poconos. Blue Mountain has a summit elevation of 1,600 feet and vertical elevation change of 1,082 ft.
Blue Mountains The Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, are situated approximately 100 kilometres west of Sydney. They are a range of sandstone geological structures that reach to at least 1190 metres AHD (in the Lithgow area).
Blue Mountains (Oregon) The Blue Mountains are a mountain range located largely in northeastern Oregon and stretching into southeastern Washington in the United States. The range has an area of 4,060 square miles (10,520 square kilometers), stretching east and southeast of Pendleton, Oregon to the Snake River along the Oregon-Idaho border.
Blue Mountains railway line, New South Wales The Blue Mountains Line is in the intercity region of Sydney's CityRail services, serving the Blue Mountains region to the far west of Sydney, including its primary centre of Katoomba, and to as far west as Lithgow. This line is also used by CountryLink and Indian Pacific services as part of longer journeys to far-western New South Wales and interstate, respectively.
Blue Murder (TV series) Blue Murder is a gritty crime-drama featuring gripping new stories that reflect the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make today's headlines. The Blue Murder squad members are an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some of the city's most complicated and riveting crimes.
Blue note In jazz and blues, blue notes are notes sung or played at a lower pitch than those of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is less than a semitone, but this varies among performers.
Blue Night Network The Blue Night Network is the overnight public transit service operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Since 1987 it has consisted of a basic grid of about 20 bus and streetcar routes, distributed so that almost all of the city is within 2 km of at least one route.
Blue Nile The Blue Nile (Amharic: ዓባይ; transliterated: abay; Arabic: النيل الأزرق; transliterated: an-Nīl al-Āzraq) is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. The river is called the Abay in Ethiopia and the al-Bahr al-Āzraq in Sudan.
Blue Nile (state) Blue Nile (Arabic: النيل الأزرق; transliterated: an-Nyl al-Azraq; called Al Wustá during 1991—1994) is one of the 26 wilayat (states) of Sudan. It has an area of 45,844 km² and an estimated population of approximately 600,000 (2000).
Blue Nile Falls The Blue Nile Falls are a waterfall on the Blue Nile river in Ethiopia. They are known as Tis Issat in Amharic, and are situated on the upper course of the river, about 30 kilometers downstream from the town of Bahir Dar and Lake Tana.
Blue Note Records Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939, which was run by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff for many years, and is currently owned by the EMI Group. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues.
Blue November Storms Blue November Storms is a horror novella by author Brian Freeman about the end of the world. Published as a signed Limited Edition hardcover by Cemetery Dance Publications, the book sold out within a few months of being published.
Blue Oak School Blue Oak School is an independent school in Napa, California. The building was originally built in 1909, and called the Washington Primary School, in the 1950's, it became the Napa County Offices, and it was renivated in 2002 and renamed Blue Oak School by Lisa Cort and Tracy Schuler wife of Barry Schuler) (they are still currently on the board of trustees and their children attend the school).
Blue Orange Publishing Blue Orange Publishing is a dissonant literary book-publishing enterprise based in London, England and with offices in Canada, the United States, Ireland and Albania, whose members include Richard Rathwell, author of the novels The Bush: Hank the Aid Detective and Red the Nile, Blue the Hills. Other parters have included or include Kim Austin, Catherine Madill, Avis Pitso, the Albanian poet Ali Carcani (known as the 'Limon Poet'), and Selena Slind.
Blue Orchid "Blue Orchid" is a rock song by the The White Stripes from their album, Get Behind Me Satan, released as a single in 2005. The song, though basic and riff-driven like much of The White Stripes material, was noticeably different from any of their previous recordings, with a bizarre disco flavor in Jack White's mannered falsetto vocals and Meg White's insistent drum beats underscoring the huge, metallic, processed guitar riffs.
Blue Orchids Blue Orchids are a British Post-punk band formed in Manchester, England in 1979, when Martin Bramah decided to quit the The Fall having recording that band's debut album Live At The Witch Trials. Bramah teamed up with keyboardist Una Baines, also an ex-Fall member, guitarist Rick Goldstraw, bassist Steve Toyne and drummer Joe Kin.
Blue Origin Goddard Blue Origin Goddard is the name of the first development vehicle in the Blue Origin New Shepard program, which flew for the first time on November 13, 2006. The vehicle is a subscale demonstrator and flew at a 285 ft altitude during its initial flight.
Blue Origin New Shepard The Blue Origin New Shepard reusable launch vehicle is a manned rocket which is being developed by Blue Origin, a company owned by Amazon.com founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos, as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.
Blue Oval News Blue Oval News is an independent web site devoted to news, commentary, and speculation about Ford Motor Company. It was started in 1998 by Warner Robert, who was involved in a high profile lawsuit his posting of information on the web from Ford internal documents.
Blue pages A blue pages is a telephone directory listing of government agencies and other official entities, along with specific offices, departments, or bureaus located wherein. In the United States, the blue pages will include state, federal, and local offices, including service districts such as school districts, port authorities, public utility providers, parks districts, fire districts, and the like.
Blue plaque In the United Kingdom, a blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event. These are often blue-glazed earthenware or resin discs, 19 inches (48 cm) in diameter, with a white border and white text, placed on the exterior of buildings or other permanent structures.
Blue Panorama Airlines Blue Panorama Airlines is an airline based in Rome, Italy, but the most important base is Malpensa Airport. It is a private airline operating scheduled and charter flights from Italy to various international destinations.
Blue Panther Blue Panther is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. The "Blue" part of his ring name is an homage to AnĂ­bal, a wrestler he looked up to growing up who wore a blue mask.
Blue Peacock Blue Peacock—dubbed the "chicken-powered nuclear bomb"—was the codename of a British project in the 1950s with the goal to store a number of ten-kiloton nuclear mines in Germany, to be placed at target locations on the North German Plain in the case of war. The mines would have been detonated by wire or an eight-day timer.
Blue Pearl Blue Pearl was a techno and house music duo consisting of American female singer Durga McBroom and British musician Martin Youth. Although they only charted two songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, both tracks are considered classic examples of early house music and they are still remixed and played in nightclubs today.
Blue Peter badge A Blue Peter badge is a much coveted award for Blue Peter viewers, given to people on the children's television programme for either being on the show or achieving something. Ordinarily the badge provides the wearer with free entry to many British attractions, particularly museums.
Blue Peter Summer Expedition The Blue Peter Summer Expedition is a yearly tradition in which the presenters of the British programme Blue Peter go to a foreign country and experience the culture and film special reports from that country, which are broadcast over several weeks in September and October. The first expedition was in 1965 and they have gone somewhere every year after that, apart from 1986.
Blue Pig A 16th century pub in Grantham on Vine Street, near Watergate. One of the most famous pubs in town, the other being the Beehive on Castlegate, which is one of only very few pubs in the UK with a living sign outside.
Blue Pill (malware) Blue Pill is the codename for a somewhat controversial rootkit based on virtualization technology that targets Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. Blue Pill uses AMD Pacifica virtualization technology, but reportedly could be ported to use Intel VT.
Blue Pine The Blue Pine (Pinus wallichiana) is a pine native to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from eastern Afghanistan east to Yunnan in southwest China. It grows at high altitudes in mountain valleys at altitudes of 1800-4300 m (rarely as low as 1200 m), and is a tree from 30-50 m in height.
Blue Poles Blue Poles is an abstract painting from 1952 by the American artist Jackson Pollock, more properly known as Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952. It is similar to other drip paintings by Pollock, with the addition of eight large vertical blue "poles" placed over the top.
Blue Police The Blue Police, more correctly translated as The Navy-Blue Police (, name originating from the colour of their uniforms) was the popular name of the collaborationist Polish police in the General Government during the Second World War. It was created by Nazi-Germany as an auxiliary paramilitary unit in order to keep law and order in occupied Poland.
Blue Pottery of Jaipur The art of making blue glaze pottery came to Rajasthan via Kashmir, their entry point into India. This particular art form has been named as blue pottery because of the eye-catching Persian blue dye used to color the clay.
Blue ribbon jury Blue Ribbon Juries are a juries selected from prominent, well-educated citizens, sometimes to investigate a particular problem such as civic corruption. Use of blue ribbon juries in criminal cases violates the right to have a jury of one's peers.
Blue ring angelfish The bluering angelfish, Pomacanthus annularis, is an angelfish of the family Pomacanthidae, found in the Indo-West Pacific oceans from East Africa, throughout Indonesia and New Guinea to New Caledonia, north to southern Japan.
Blue rinse A blue rinse is a dilute hair dye used to reduce the yellowed (or translucent, showing scalp colour) appearance of greying hair on older women. The blue rinse supposedly makes yellow-white hair appear blue-white, but an inexpertly applied blue rinse will leave a distinctly unnatural tinge behind.
Blue rinse brigade The Blue rinse brigade is a somewhat pejorative term used, particularly in the United Kingdom, to describe elderly middle-class ladies usually of a conservative socio-political persuasion. This group is usually characterised as forming the backbone of local branches of the Conservative Party, who consequently tend to disapprove of female or non-white candidates for elections which results in the predominance of middle-class male white candidates put forward by the party, to the despair of recent party leaders such as Michael Howard and David CameronEnd of the Blue Rinse Brigade,The Scotsman, 22 July 2002 (accessed19 January,2007)
Blue roof A blue roof is a rooftop waterplay area in which water runoff is used to irrigate a green roof, or to cool the roof of a building on hot days, in order to eliminate or at least reduce the HVAC load placed on mechanical refrigeration equipment.
Blue runner The blue runner (Caranx crysos) is a fish found along the coastlines of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly in the inland waters of the east coast of North America and the west coast of Africa. The fish has a rounded body shape and can grow to up to 70cm long and weigh more than 5kg.
Blue Range The Blue Range () is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies, located on the Continental Divide in Banff National Park, Canada. The range is named for the blue appearance of the range when seen from a distance.
Blue Range Wilderness Blue Range Wilderness, along with Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Gila Wilderness, is part of Gila National Forest. It is located on the western border of New Mexico where it adjoins the Blue Range Primitive Area of Arizona and west of U.
Blue Ranger Blue Ranger is a title given to several Power Rangers characters. While the original Blue Ranger was a serious team member and represented "the smart one", subsequent Blue Rangers have been pushed to the position of "comic relief".
Blue Raven Theatre Blue Raven Theatre is a semi-professional theatrical company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company was founded on April 1st, 2006 by Christian Tobin a Toronto director/actor/singer-song writer who has been involved in entertainment for several years.
Blue Rhino Blue Rhino was founded in 1994 by Billy Prim, a North Carolina businessman, with the goal of building a national brand of propane tank exchange that would capitalize on the growth in gas grill sales and year-round grilling. At the time, propane tank exchange was viewed as a commodity and a large number of consumers got their tanks filled by various vendors.
Blue Ribbon Blue Ribbon is a chain of 5 highly rated upscale restaurants in New York City that have a cult following from locals and chefs alike. Founded by Bruce and Eric Bromberg, their original location in SoHo, Manhattan, quickly became a premier destination for national and international food and wine into the late night hours (open from 4 PM to 4 AM).
Blue Ribbon (software house) Blue Ribbon was a budget computer software publishing label/brand from the early 1980s through to the 1990s. They primarily released cheap or budget games for the BBC Microcomputer and Acorn Electron computers.
Blue Ribbon campaign (Fiji) The controversial legislation proposed by the Fijian government to establish a Reconciliation and Unity Commission has the strong support of Prime Minister Qarase, Attorney General Qoriniasi Bale, and other members of the ruling coalition. It has been warmly welcomed by imprisoned coup instigator George Speight.
Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook The Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook is an annual publication which includes preseason previews of every NCAA Division I men's college basketball team in the United States. Created in 1981 by future Boston Celtics general manager Chris Wallace,"Celtics to Introduce New GM".
Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign The Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Freedom of Speech, Press and Association, or Blue Ribbon Campaign for short, is an online campaign for free speech on the Internet orchestrated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Web site owners are encouraged to place images of blue ribbons on their sites and link to EFF's campaign, to help spread the awareness of the threats to unrestricted speech.
Blue Ridge and Atlantic Railroad Chartered in 1887, the Blue Ridge and Atlantic Railroad purchased the Cornelia and Tallulah Falls Railroad in an attempt to connect Savannah, GA to Knoxville, TN. It went bankrupt in about 1892 and in 1898 its properties became part of the newly formed Tallulah Falls Railway.
Blue Ridge Community and Technical College Blue Ridge Community and Technical College is a two-year college located in Martinsburg, in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Formerly known as the Community and Technical College of Shepherd, it was part of Shepherd College until March 2005, when it was accredited as an independent institution.
Blue Ridge Mountains The Blue Ridge is a mountain chain in the eastern United States, part of the Appalachian Mountains, forming their eastern front from Georgia to Pennsylvania. The mountains are well known for their bluish color when seen from a distance.
Blue Ridge Paper Company From its corporate headquarters and original manufacturing base in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Blue Ridge Paper Products makes a wide range of paper, board, and packaging products. Its paper products include envelope, covering kraft, forms, offset, and specialty papers.
Blue Ridge Parkway The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty. It runs for 469 miles (755 km) through the famous Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains.
Blue Ridge Railway Trail The Blue Ridge Railway Trail is a gravel biking, hiking and horseback riding trail built on the right-of-way of the former Virginia Blue Ridge Railway in Nelson County, Virginia. The first 2 miles of the 7 mile trail has been completed between Piney River and Rose Mill.
Blue Ridge Rifles In June 1861, the city of Dahlonega sent their second group of volunteers, the Blue Ridge Rifles to the Civil War front under the command of Joseph Hamilton. The unit was organized as Company E, Phillip’s Legion Infantry.
Blue Ridge Scenic Railway The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway is a short heritage railway in northern Georgia. Based in Blue Ridge, Georgia, it follows the former Marietta and North Georgia Railroad line along the Toccoa River north to McCaysville, Georgia, and its twin city of Copperhill, Tennessee.
Blue River (Missouri) The Blue River is a stream that flows through Johnson County, Kansas and Jackson County, Missouri in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The river rises in Johnson County near the border of the states of Kansas and Missouri.
Blue Rock State Park Blue Rock State Park is located in Muskingum County, Ohio and is surrounded by the 4573 acre Blue Rock State Forest. Facilities and activities available include camping, nature trails, picnic areas, and hunting in the surrounding state forest.

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