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Bluebuck The Bluebuck or Blue Antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) is an extinct species of antelope, the first large African mammal to disappear in historic times. It is related to the Roan Antelope and Sable Antelope, but slightly smaller than either.
BlueBEEP BlueBEEP was a popular blue boxing computer program for MS-DOS written between 1993-1995 by a young German programmer known by the pseudonym Onkel Dittmeyer. Used correctly, it could be used to exploit vulnerabilities in the CCITT Signaling System No.
Bluecorner Bluecorner Cards Ltd is a British company providing prepaid payment cards aimed at under 18s and adults with poor credit ratings. The cards which last for 12 months are being provided as branded items in association with teenage magazines such as Smash Hits and Bliss and radio station Magic FM.
Bluedating Wireless dating, Widating or Bluedating (from Bluetooth) is a form of dating which makes use of mobile phone and Bluetooth technologies. Subscribers to the service enter details about themselves and about their ideal partner, as they would for other on-line dating services.
Bluedawn Bluedawn (hangul: 푸른ě벽; pronounced Pureun Saebyeok in Korean) is an indie folk rock duo from South Korea, whose members include Dawn (voice and acoustic guitar) and Ssoro (electric guitar and voice). The group has been active since the early 21st century and has released two albums.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph The Bluefield Daily Telegraph is seven-day morning daily newspaper based in Bluefield, West Virginia, and also covering surrounding communities in McDowell, Mercer and Monroe counties, West Virginia; and Bland, Buchanan, Giles and Tazewell counties, Virginia (including the city of Bluefield, Virginia).
Bluefield Orioles The Bluefield Orioles, a professional baseball team, is a minor league affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, representing the twin cities of Bluefield, West Virginia and Bluefield, Virginia. It plays in the Appalachian League, a Rookie League whose players are mostly newly-signed professionals.
Bluefields Bluefields (population of 57,256 in 2000) is the capital of the municipality of the same name, and of the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur) of southeastern Nicaragua, and was the capital of the former Zelaya department, which was divided into the North and South Atlantic Autonomous Regions. It is located on Bluefields Bay at the mouth of the Escondido River.
Bluefin gurnard The bluefin gurnard, Chelidonichthys brachyoptera, is a searobin of the family Triglidae, found in the western Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean being common around Australia and New Zealand at depths down to 200 m. Its length is up to 60 cm.
Bluefinned butterfish The bluefinned butterfish, Odax cyanoallix, a cale of the genus Odax, is found only around Three Kings Islands which is about 80 kilometres north of New Zealand, in shallow reef areas where there is abundant brown seaweed. Its length is between 20 and 35 cm.
Bluefish The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix ), called tailor in Australia,CAAB taxon report for Pomatomus saltatrix at the CSIRO is a species of popular marine game-fish found in all climates. It is the sole species of the Pomatomidae family.
Bluefish (text editor) Bluefish is an free software/open source text editor for POSIX-conforming operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Its use is suitable for many programming and markup languages, with particular focus on their use for web development.
Bluegate Fields Bluegate Fields (also known as Blue Gate Fields) was one of the worst slum areas that once existed just north of the old, East London docks during the Victorian era. Two streets in the area had actually been named Bluegate Fields at different times – present-day Dellow St.
Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas For her twelfth album, her first Christmas album, Patty Loveless, continues the bluegrass sounds of her previous Mountain Soul. The first half of Bluegrass & White Snow is mostly covers of well-known traditional Christmas tunes.
Bluegrass Community and Technical College Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC), located in Lexington, KY, is one of 16 two-year, open-admissions colleges of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). It was formed from the consolidation of two separate institutions: Lexington Community College and Central Kentucky Technical College.
Bluegrass music Bluegrass music is considered a form of American roots music with its own roots in English, Irish and Scottish traditional music. The name of the genre is derived from the Blue Grass Boys, the name of Bill Monroe's band.
Bluegrass Miracle The "Bluegrass Miracle" refers to one of the most improbable finishes in NCAA college football history. It was a miraculous 74-yard game-winning touchdown pass by the #14 LSU Tigers with no time left on the clock against the Kentucky Wildcats on November 9, 2002 at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky.
BluegrassReport.org BluegrassReport.org is a Democratic Party-oriented political blog mostly covering Kentucky politics, especially with regards to the current Governor Ernie Fletcher (R), as well as state government in general and federal government officeholders representing the state.
Bluegray carpetshark The bluegray carpetshark, Heteroscyllium colcloughi, is a blind shark in the family Brachaeluridae, the only member of the genus Heteroscyllium, found in the subtropical southwest Pacific Ocean endemic to Australia, between latitudes 12° S to 29° S. It reaches a length of 76 cm.
BlueHippo Funding BlueHippo Funding, LLC is an installment credit company for customers with poor credit that offers personal computers, flat-screen televisions, and other high-tech items, typically priced far above market standards. The company has encountered several complaints with the Better Business Bureau; as a result, the Greater Maryland Better Business Bureau issued a consumer alert against the company within eight months of its founding.
Bluejacking Bluejacking is the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or laptop computers, sending a vCard which typically contains a message in the name field (i.e.
BlueLink BlueLink Information Network is, according the Aarhus Clearinghouse for Environmental Democracy (a program of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) a virtual network of Bulgarian environmental NGOs and offers free Internet-based services. It focuses on three areas: access to information, co-operation between NGOs and other sectors, and access to the new technologies of information in order to support sustainable development, democracy and civil society.
BlueLink Information Network BlueLink Information Network is a virtual network of Bulgarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) based in Sofia, Bulgaria, which offers a variety of internet-based services for NGOs and others interested in issues related to the environment, natural resources and sustainable development.
Bluemantle Pursuivant Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms in London. The office is reputed to have been created by King Henry V to serve the Order of the Garter, but there is no documentary evidence of this.
BlueMarine blueMarine is an opensource photograph management application, designed to support the whole workflow of a digital photographer. Being based on a modular structure, its functions can be expanded by writing plugins.
BlueMotion BlueMotion is a trade name (developed externally by Origin Brand Consultants) for fuel-efficient automobile models from Volkswagen. The company introduced the name in 2006 on the Polo BlueMotion, with BlueMotion versions of the Golf, Passat, and Touran planned.
Bluenose (postage stamp) The Bluenose is the nickname for a 50-cent definitive postage stamp issued by the Canadian Post Office on 8 January 1929 as part of the King George V "Scroll Issue”. Scott number is 158 with a perforation of 12.
BlueNC BlueNC is a progressive community website focused on North Carolina politics. Its front page blog is its central feature, and includes posts written by BlueNC regulars and posts promoted to the front page through group moderation.
Bluepill In the Matrix universe, a Bluepill and sometimes Blue Pill is a term that describes a human whose mind is unaware of the truth about the Matrix. The subject may be completely unaware since birth as a pod-born human, or at some point be presented with a choice and chose The Matrix.
Blueprint (language) Blueprint is a high-level visual specification language created to represent specifications for requirements, high-level designs, and detailed designs. The fundamental rationale for its creation is to express specifications in the most natural way possible for human readers.
Blueprint (magazine) [Design Your Life is a bimonthly women's interest magazine published by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia]. MSLO has announce that they intend to release 2 test issues in May and August [[2006, with an initial base circulation of 250,000, and plans to begin regular bimonthly publication in 2007.
Blueprint (novel) Blueprint : Blaupause is a German novel written by Charlotte Kerner and first published in 1999. The story involves a woman who clones herself in order to pass on her musical genius, only to find her clone-daughter turning against her when she learns the truth.
Blueprint 76 Blueprint 76 is a Detroit pop punk group started in 2002 by Royce Nunley after 8 years in The Suicide Machines. The band's original lineup consisted of Royce Nunley on lead vocals, Steve Toth on guitar and Joe Rielly on drums.
Blueprint education Blueprint Education is a non-profit organization located in Phoenix, Arizona providing distance learning, curriculum design, and alternative education to students and schools in all 50 states and 20 countries around the world. Founded in 1969, Blueprint Education first offered correspondence learning to migrant worker families in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Blues The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. It evolved in the United States in the communities of former African slaves, from spirituals, praise songs, field hollers, shouts, and chants.
Blues (disambiguation) The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern. The word is also often used in musical contexts to refer to the twelve bar blues, a particular blues song form.
Blues (rugby team) The Blues, formerly the Auckland Blues, are a professional New Zealand rugby union team based in Auckland, New Zealand, and representing the Northland, North Harbour and Auckland unions. They compete in the Super 14 (formerly Super 12) competition, which they have won three times; 1996, 1997, and 2003.
Blues Brothers & Friends: Live from House of Blues Blues Brothers and Friends: Live from the House of Blues is a 1997 live album by The Blues Brothers. It was recorded at the opening of the House of Blues in Chicago and is the first recording to feature Zee Blues.
Blues Brothers 2000 Blues Brothers 2000 is a 1998 musical/comedy film and sequel to the highly successful 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Directed by John Landis, the film featured Dan Aykroyd and John Goodman, with cameos by many musicians.
Blues Brothers 2000 (video game) Blues Brothers 2000 was released by Virgin Interactive in October of 2000 in Europe, and by Titus Software in November of 2000 in North America. The game is a platformer, loosely based on the band and the film, similar in vein to a game like Gex 64.
Blues Brothers: Private Blues Brothers: Private is a book published in 1980, designed to help flesh out the universe in which The Blues Brothers (the first film) took place. Interestingly, it was written and designed by John Belushi's late wife, Judith Jacklin.
Blues dance Like Blues music, Blues dancing finds its origins in African rhythm and movement. It emerged from 19th century dances like the Cake walk, which was one of the earliest combinations of European and African dance traditions, just as Blues music emerged from work songs and gospel music, which were a combination of African and European musical traditions.
Blues harp Blues harp, properly called richter tuned harmonica and also known as 10-hole harmonica (in Asia), is the most widely known type of harmonica. In the United States and Europe, it is called a diatonic harmonica.
Blues in New Zealand The history of blues in New Zealand dates from the 1960s. The earliest blues influences on New Zealand musicians were indirect — not from the United States but from white British blues musicians: first the R&B styles of The Animals and The Rolling Stones, and later the blues-tinged rock of groups such as Led Zeppelin.
Blues in the Night "Blues in the Night" is a popular song which has become a pop standard. The score was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film, Hot Nocturne, retitled Blues in the Night to take advantage of the popularity of the song.
Blues Point Blues Point is a harbourside locality of North Sydney, Australia. Named after local mariner Billy Blue in the 1800s, Blues Point is at the very southern tip of the McMahons Point peninsula and has spectacular views of Sydney Harbour.
Blues Project The Blues Project was a short-lived rock and roll band from the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City that was formed in 1965 and split up in 1967. While their songs drew from a wide array of musical styles, they are most remembered as one of the earliest practitioners of psychedelic rock, as well as one of the world's first jam bands, along with the Grateful Dead.
Blues washboard The Blues Washboard is a musical instrument used in traditional blues music, starting in the late 1800s, when it was played by ex-slaves. It is a traditional instrument in playing the blues and has mainly been retired since the 1930s.
Blues-rock Blues-rock is a hybrid musical genre combining elements of the blues with rock and roll, with an emphasis on the electric guitar. It began to develop as a particular style in the mid-1960s in England and the United States through the work of bands such as Cream and The Rolling Stones, who experimented with music from the old bluesmen like Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters.
Bluescreen Bluescreen (known in television as chroma key) is a term for the filmmaking technique of using an evenly-lit monochromatic background for the purpose of replacing it with a different image or scene. The term also refers to the visual effect resulting from this technique as well as the colored screen itself (although it is often not blue: for example, with greenscreen).
Blueschist Blueschist (IPA: ) is a rock that forms by the metamorphism of basalt and rocks with similar composition at high pressures and low temperatures, approximately corresponding to a depth of 15 to 30 kilometers and 200 to ~500 degrees Celsius.
Bluesmobile The Bluesmobile is a 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan that was prominently featured in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers . In the film, it is described as a used Mount Prospect, Illinois police car that replaced a Cadillac, which Elwood Blues traded for a microphone.
Bluesnarfing Bluesnarfing is the unauthorized access of information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection, often between phones, desktops, laptops, and PDAs. This allows access to a calendar, contact list, emails and text messages.
Bluesniping Bluesniping has emerged as a method for Bluesnarfing, or simply identifying Bluetooth-enabled devices, at longer ranges than normally possible. According to Wired Magazine, this method surfaced at the Black Hat Briefings and DEF CON hacker conferences of 2004 where it was shown on the G4techTV show The Screen Savers.
Bluespace Between 2000 and 2002, IBM partnered with Steelcase, the office furniture manufacturer and did some very thorough research on the software, hardware and ergonomic aspects of the cubicle of the future (or the office of the future) under the name "BlueSpace". They produced several prototypes of this hi-tech multi screened workspace and even exhibited one at Walt Disney World.
Bluespotted corydoras The bluespotted corydoras, blacksail corydoras, blackspotted corydoras, dotted corydoras, Guiana cat, or Guiana corydoras, Corydoras melanistius, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the coastal rivers of French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname.
Bluespotted ribbontail ray The bluespotted ribbontail ray, Taeniura lymma, is a stingray of the family Dasyatidae, found around coral reefs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Solomon Islands north to southern Japan and south to northern Australia, between latitudes 32° N and 30° S.
Bluestack Mountains The Bluestack Mountains (Na Cruacha Gorma in Irish) are the major mountain range in the south of County Donegal in western Ulster, Republic of Ireland. They provide an almost impassable barrier between the south of the county, such as Donegal Town and Ballyshannon, and the towns to the north and west such as Dungloe and Letterkenny.
Bluestein's FFT algorithm Bluestein's FFT algorithm (1968), commonly called the chirp z-transform algorithm (1969), is a fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm that computes the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of arbitrary sizes (including prime sizes) by re-expressing the DFT as a convolution. (The other algorithm for FFTs of prime sizes, Rader's algorithm, also works by rewriting the DFT as a convolution.
Bluestocking The Bluestocking society was an informal women's social and educational movement that came into being in England in the mid-eighteenth century in imitation of a similar - though more formal - movement in France.
Bluestockings (bookstore) Bluestockings is an infoshop (activist bookstore and café) in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. According to its website, the store actively supports "movements that challenge hierarchy and all systems of oppression.
Bluestone National Scenic River The Bluestone National Scenic River protects a portion of the Bluestone River in southern West Virginia. Little of the park is accessible via roads; one must travel via the river, trails from Bluestone State Park, or an aerial tramway from Pipestem Resort State Park.
Bluestone River The Bluestone River is a tributary of the New River, 77 mi (124 km) long, in southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia in the United States.Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry Via the New, Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Bluestreak (comics) Bluestreak (Blue Kelso) is a fictional character who appeared in the Marvel Comics series A-Next. Though not related to Quicksilver, her powers and costume certainly invoke him, in the same way many of the MC2 universe characters resemble those of Earth-616.
Bluesville Bluesville is the only Blues channel on XM Satellite Radio. Bluesville, one of the original 71 music channels from XM Radio's launch, plays a mix of traditional blues, modern blues, rockin' blues and soul or "finger-poppin'" blues.
Bluesville Records Bluesville Records is a subsidiary of Prestige Records, launched in the 1960s with the primary purpose of documenting the work of the older classic bluesmen passed over by the changing audience. Such bluesmen as Roosevelt Sykes recorded on this label.
BlueSanct Records BlueSanct Records is a record label located in Bloomington, Indiana and run by Michael (Mkl) Anderson, who records experimental music as Drekka and also sings for Bloomington death-punk outfit Turn Pale. Artists include Elephant Micah, Drekka, Static Films and Justin Vollmar.
BlueSky Software BlueSky Software or BlueSky Software Corporation was an American software company situated in California formed in 1988 and had a successful run for 12 years before closing down in March of 2001, when parent company Interplay was in financial trouble.
BlueStreet Radiance BlueStreet Radiance is a Progressive Jazz band based out of Encinitas, California. The band contains four members: Nicholas England (Alto Saxophone), Phil Lorey (Bass Guitar), Alex Lowell (Keyboards) and Tyler Olson (Drums).
Bluethroat The Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica), is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It, and similar small European species, are often called chats.
Bluetongue Central Coast Stadium Bluetongue Central Coast Stadium (formerly known as Northpower Stadium and Central Coast Express Advocate Stadium) is a sports venue on Grahame Park in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Originally designed to be the home stadium for the North Sydney Bears rugby league team, the stadium is now home to the Central Coast Mariners football club.
Bluetongue disease Bluetongue disease (also called catarrhal fever) is a non-contagious, arthropod-borne viral disease of ruminants, mainly sheep and less frequently of cattle, goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries and antelope. There are no reports of human transmission.
Bluetooth Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs). Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital cameras and video game consoles via a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency.
Bluetooth File Exchange Bluetooth File Exchange is a utility that comes with the Mac OS X] [[operating system, used to exchange files to or from a Bluetooth-enabled device. For example, it could be used to send an image to a Bluetooth cell phone, or to receive an image or other document from a PDA with Bluetooth.
Bluetooth Special Interest Group The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. Founded in 1998, it is a privately held trade association headquartered in Bellevue, Washington with Mike Foley presently its Executive Director.
BlueTec BlueTec is DaimlerChrysler's name for its two nitrogen oxide (NOx) reducing systems, for use in their Diesel automobile engines. One is a urea catalyst called AdBlue, the other is called DeNOx and uses an oxidising catalytic converter and particulate filter combined with other NOx reducing systems.
Bluevale Collegiate Institute Bluevale Collegiate Institute is a public high school in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Run by the Waterloo Region District School Board, Bluevale is the largest high school in Waterloo with approximately 1,450 students (2005-06) and teaches grades 9-12.
BlueVoda BlueVoda full name BlueVoda Website Builder is a HTML editor and website builder and works and acts as a website builder designed to hide the code of web building. It is offered as a free download but requires a VodaHost account to publish the website to.
Bluewash Bluewash is a disparaging term used to describe a partnership between the United Nations and a corporation which has agreed to abide by the United Nations' Global Compact. The compact outlines nine principles which promote environmentally sustainable practices, fair labor practices (including access to trade unions and abolition of slave and child labor), and human rights.
Bluey (Australian cattle dog) Bluey (June 7, 1910 - November 14, 1939) was the name of an Australian Cattle Dog owned by Les Hall of Rochester, Victoria, Australia which holds the Guinness World Record as being the longest recorded living dog in history at an age of 29 years, five months and 153 days.
Bluff (Pittsburgh) The Bluff or Uptown is an area in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the south and east of the city's downtown area. It is bordered in the north by the Hill District and just a short trip across the river is the city's South Side which is home to a flourishing residential community and business district.
Bluff (Prison Break episode) "Bluff" is the eighteenth episode of the television series Prison Break, written by Nick Santora and Karyn Usher, and directed by Jace Alexander. It was first broadcast on April 17, 2006 in the United States.
Bluff Island Bluff Island, indigneously known as Sha Tong Hau Shan (沙ĺˇĺŹŁĺ±±), also known as Ung Kong (甕缸), is an island in Port Shelter, south of Sai Kung Peninsula of Hong Kong. It is an important area for corals and other marine life.
Bluff Park, Long Beach, California Bluff Park is a small, upscale neighborhood in Long Beach, California. There is a bluff along much of the beach in Long Beach, and on one stretch, there is the narrow Bluff Park from which the neighborhood gets its name.
Bluff View, Dallas, Texas Bluff View is a neighborhood in north Dallas, Texas (USA). It is bounded by Lovers Lane on the south, Midway Road on the west, Northwest Highway ( SH Loop 12) on the north, and Inwood Road and the Devonshire neighborhood on the east.
Bluff, New Zealand Bluff (almost always referred to locally as "The Bluff") is a town and seaport in the Southland region, on the southern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is the southern-most town in New Zealand and, despite Stewart Island/Rakiura being further to the south, is colloquially used to refer to the southern extremity of the country (particularly in such phrases as "from Cape Reinga to The Bluff").
Bluffton University Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio) is a four-year educational institution affiliated with Mennonite Church USA. The university also offers the following graduate degrees: Master of Business Administration, Master of Arts in Organizational Management, and Master of Arts in Education.
Blufr Launched on July 2, 2006, blufr is an online trivia game in which players have to decide if the statements – called blufs – are true or false. After they choose their answer by clicking on "way" or "no way," the correct answer is displayed, along with links to relevant topics in Answers.
Bluing (fabric) Bluing, laundry blue, or washing blue is a household product used to improve the appearance of textiles, especially white fabrics. Used during laundering, it adds a trace of blue dye (often synthetic ultramarine, sometimes Prussian blue) to the fabric.
Bluing (steel) Bluing is a passivation process in which steel is partially protected against rust, and is named after the blue-black appearance of the resulting protective finish. True gun bluing is an electrochemical conversion coating resulting from an oxidizing chemical reaction with iron on the surface selectively forming magnetite (Fe3O4), the black oxide of iron, which occupies the same volume as normal iron.
Bluke Bluke or "Blook" is an easy-to-learn trick-taking card game known to parts of the East Coast and the Midwest and possibly other parts of the United States of America. The game features use of the Jokers, which are sometimes referred to in casinos as the "Blooks".
Blum axioms In computational complexity theory the Blum axioms or Blum complexity axioms are axioms which specify desirable properties of complexity measures on the set of computable functions. The axioms were first defined by Manuel Blum in 1967.
Blum-Goldwasser cryptosystem The Blum-Goldwasser (BG) cryptosystem is an asymmetric key encryption algorithm proposed by Manuel Blum and Shafi Goldwasser in 1984. Blum-Goldwasser is a probabilistic, semantically secure cryptosystem with a constant-size ciphertext expansion.
Blum-Viollette proposal The Blum-Viollette proposal takes its name from Maurice Viollette, who acted as the French premier and governor-general of Algeria, which was the subject of the proposed legislation. The proposal was introduced to the Popular Front government of France in 1938, and aimed to address the issue of longstanding French colonialism in Algeria.
Bluma Zeigarnik Bluma Wulfovna Zeigarnik (Russian: Блюма Đ’Ńльфовна Зейгарник) 9 November, 1900 â’ 24 February, 1988) was a Soviet psychologist and psychiatrist who discovered the Zeigarnik effect and established experimental patopsychology as a separate discipline.
Blumarine Blumarine is a fashion company that was created in 1977 in the town of Carpi in Italy by Anna Molinari and her husband Gianpolo Tarabini. The late designer Franco Moschino also helped the company develop a "look" of edgy romanticism This look has been continued by Molinari, who remains the company's chief designer.
Blumfeld Blumfeld is an indie-pop band from Hamburg, Germany, which arose from the bands "Arm", "Laut" und "Der schwarze Kanal". The name of the band was coined by the main character of the short story "Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle" by Franz Kafka.
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor (Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle) is an incomplete story by Franz Kafka. Probably written in the beginning of 1915, it first appeared in Beschreibung eines Kampfes (Description of a Struggle).
Blumlein Pair Blumlein Pair is the name for a stereo recording technique invented by Alan Blumlein for the creation of recordings that — upon replaying through headphones or loudspeakers — recreate the spatial characteristics of the recorded signal.
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