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Blue Bell Creameries
Blue Bell Creameries: Brenham, Texas-based private ice cream maker founded 1907 as Brenham Creamery Company, renamed 1930; sold in 24 states via direct store delivery; Kruse family-owned with Sid Bass minority stake; 2015 listeria outbreak led to $19.35 million penalties.
Blue Bird (ブルーバード) (Ikimonogakari song)
Blue Bird (ブルーバード), Ikimonogakari's 10th single released July 9, 2008 on Epic Records Japan; written by Yoshiki Mizuno, third Naruto Shippuden opening (episodes 54–77), Oricon weekly No. 3, RIAJ million Chaku-Uta Full certification in 2011.
Blue Birthday (블루버스데이)
Blue Birthday (블루버스데이) is a 2021 South Korean Playlist web drama on Naver TV, 16 episodes, starring Red Velvet's Yeri and PENTAGON's Hongseok; Ha-rin burns her dead first love's photos to time-travel and finds his suicide was murder. Remade in Japan in 2023.
Blue Bloods season 14
Blue Bloods season 14 is the two-part final season of the CBS police procedural, airing February 16 to December 13, 2024 across 18 episodes, ending with "End of Tour" and leading to the spinoff Boston Blue.
Blue box
A blue box is an electronic device that emitted tones to seize long-distance trunks and place free calls, the primary tool of phone phreaking in the 1960s and 1970s.
Blue Box (ブルーボックス) (manga)
Blue Box (アオのハコ, Ao no Hako) is a sports-romance manga by Kouji Miura serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from April 2021 to 13 July 2026, 250 chapters and 28 volumes, following badminton player Taiki Inomata and basketball player Chinatsu Kano, adapted by Telecom Animation Film from 2024.
Blue Brain Project
Blue Brain Project: Swiss EPFL brain-simulation initiative led by Henry Markram, 2005–2024, using IBM and HPE supercomputers to digitally reconstruct rat and mouse neocortical microcircuits, culminating in the 2015 31,000-neuron reconstruction and a whole mouse brain model.
Blue carbon
Blue carbon is carbon captured and stored by ocean and coastal ecosystems, chiefly salt marshes, mangroves, and seagrass meadows, whose anaerobic soils sequester carbon up to ten times faster than tropical forests and support carbon markets.
Blue Cat
Blue Cat (Aoneko, 青猫) is a 1923 poetry collection by the Japanese poet Sakutarō Hagiwara, gathering 55 poems from 1917 to 1922 and marking the establishment of colloquial free verse in modern Japanese poetry.
Blue Cat Blues
Blue Cat Blues (1956) is the 103rd Tom and Jerry short by Hanna and Barbera, in which Jerry narrates Tom's decline after losing a female cat to the rich Butch, ending with both on railroad tracks; rarely aired on Cartoon Network due to suicide themes.
Blue Cheer
Blue Cheer: San Francisco power trio (Dickie Peterson, Leigh Stephens, Paul Whaley) formed 1966, named after Owsley LSD. Debut Vincebus Eruptum (1968, Billboard #11) and hit cover Summertime Blues made them proto-heavy metal pioneers; ended with Peterson's 2009 death.
Blue cheese
Blue cheese: mold-ripened cheese veined with Penicillium roqueforti, made from cow's, goat's, or ewe's milk; over 100 varieties including Roquefort and Gorgonzola, many EU-protected.
Blue cheese protein homologue
Blue cheese (Bchs) is the Drosophila homologue of mammalian ALFY, a 3,492-residue BEACH- and FYVE-domain protein that scaffolds ubiquitinated aggregates for autophagic degradation; its loss causes neurodegeneration.
Blue chip (stock market)
A blue chip is the stock of a large, long-established, well-financed company regarded as a sound investment, typically a market leader with stable earnings and a strong brand.
Blue Chips
Blue Chips is a 1994 American sports drama film directed by William Friedkin. It stars Nick Nolte as a coach who breaks NCAA rules by paying recruits.
Blue Christmas (song)
Blue Christmas, a 1948 Christmas song by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson, first recorded by Doye O'Dell, a country staple via Ernest Tubb, and best known from Elvis Presley's 1957 recording.
Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat Systems, also known as CacheFlow, was an American network security company known for its ProxySG proxy appliances; founded in 1996, it was acquired by Symantec in 2016.
Blue Collar Comedy Tour
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: 2000–2006 American package tour starring Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy; redneck-themed stand-up that grossed over $16.6 million and spawned three films and Blue Collar TV.
Blue cone monochromatism
Blue cone monochromatism (blue cone monochromacy, S-cone monochromatism) is a rare X-linked recessive retinal disorder caused by OPN1LW/OPN1MW mutations at Xq28 that inactivate red and green cones, leaving rods and blue cones, with nystagmus, photophobia, myopia, and acuity about 6/24 to 6/60.
Blue coral
Blue coral (Heliopora coerulea, Pallas 1766), Indo-Pacific reef-building octocoral, the only reef-building octocoral, with a distinctive blue aragonite skeleton, shallow reef-flat habitat, CITES Appendix II trade, and IUCN listings of VU (2017) and later LC.
Blue corn
Blue corn, blue maize, varieties of Zea mays with blue kernels from anthocyanins in the aleurone layer; grown by Hopi and Mexican landrace farmers, nixtamalized into tortillas, higher protein and antioxidants than white or yellow corn.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA): national federation of about 33 independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensees covering one in three Americans; grew from the 1929 Baylor Plan, licenses marks for exclusive service areas, settled a 2020 antitrust case.
Blue Crush
Blue Crush is a 2002 American sports drama film directed by John Stockwell and starring Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sanoe Lake as surfers on Oahu's North Shore.
Blue Current, Inc.
Blue Current, Inc. is a Hayward, California startup founded around 2014 that develops fully dry silicon solid-state batteries for mobility and stationary energy storage, with an Amazon-backed Series D extension in 2025.
Blue Danube (nuclear weapon)
Blue Danube was the first operational nuclear weapon of the United Kingdom, a free-fall plutonium implosion bomb based on the "Fat Man" design and stockpiled through the 1950s.
Blue Delta Capital
Blue Delta Capital is a growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 in Tysons, Virginia, investing exclusively in companies serving the US federal government market.
Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps
Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps, Concord, California World Class junior drum corps founded 1957 by Ann and Tony Odello; record 21 DCI World Championships (1976–2023), 99.650 record score in 2014, 2026 runner-up at 97.500.
Blue diaper syndrome
Blue diaper syndrome, also called Drummond syndrome, is a rare metabolic disorder present from birth in which poor tryptophan absorption causes diarrhea and blue-stained diapers.
Blue Division
Blue Division (División Azul, División Española de Voluntarios), Spanish volunteer infantry division in the Wehrmacht's 250th Division, fought at Leningrad 1941-43, about 50,000 men, withdrawn October 1943.
Blue Dog Coalition
Blue Dog Coalition, caucus of fiscally conservative and moderate House Democrats founded in 1995 after the 1994 midterms; named for George Rodrigue's blue dog paintings; peaked at 54 members, later about 10.