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Blue Horde
The Blue Horde, or Kök Orda, was the eastern Left Wing of the Mongol Jochid Ulus, generally identified with the appanage of Orda, Jochi's eldest son, centered at Signaq.
Blue Horns
The Blue Horns (Georgian: Tsisperqantselebi) were a group of Georgian symbolist poets founded in Kutaisi in 1915, led by Paolo Iashvili, the first symbolist group in Georgian literature.
Blue Horses
Blue Horses (Georgian: Lurja Tskhenebi) is a symbolist poem by the Georgian poet Galaktion Tabidze, written in 1915 and published in 1916 in the journal Tsisperi Qantsebi.
Blue hour
The blue hour (heure bleue) is the twilight period when the Sun is 4 to 8 degrees below the horizon and the sky turns deep blue, before sunrise and after sunset.
Blue House
Cheongwadae (청와대), the Blue House, was South Korea's presidential office and residence in Seoul from 1948 to 2022, named for its 150,000 blue roof tiles; opened to the public in 2022, closed again in 2025.
Blue House raid
Blue House raid (1·21 사태): failed January 21, 1968 attempt by 31 North Korean Unit 124 commandos to assassinate President Park Chung Hee at Cheongwadae in Seoul; 28 killed, Kim Shin-jo captured, followed two days later by the USS Pueblo seizure.
Blue Impulse (ブルーインパルス)
Blue Impulse (ブルーインパルス) is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, flying six Kawasaki T-4 jets from Matsushima Base and known for drawing the Olympic rings at the 1964 and 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
Blue infrastructure
Blue infrastructure: the water network (rivers, canals, ponds, lakes, wetlands, floodplains, water treatment facilities) planned for flood prevention, cooling, and ecosystem services; also called blue-green infrastructure (BGI) or GBI when combined with green infrastructure.
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2), 2013 French drama by Abdellatif Kechiche adapted from Julie Maroh's graphic novel; won the 2013 Palme d'Or shared with actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, amid controversy over its sex scenes and set conditions.
Blue Island (album)
Blue Island is Ravyn Lenae's third studio album, released August 7, 2026 on Atlantic. Named for her Illinois hometown, the 14-track Dahi-produced record spans pop, R&B, and rock, scoring 73 on Metacritic.
Blue Ivy Carter
Blue Ivy Carter (born 2012), daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, is an American singer, dancer, and voice actor; youngest BET Award winner (2020), Grammy winner for "Brown Skin Girl" (2021), and dancer on the Renaissance and Cowboy Carter tours.
Blue Jam
Blue Jam: Chris Morris's ambient, surreal dark comedy radio series on BBC Radio 1, three series 1997–1999 in early-morning slots; Sony Gold winner, adapted into Channel 4's Jam (2000).
Blue Jasmine
Blue Jasmine (2013) is Woody Allen's drama starring Cate Blanchett as a fallen New York socialite living with her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) in San Francisco; it parallels A Streetcar Named Desire and the Madoff scandal, and won Blanchett the 2014 Best Actress Oscar.
Blue Java banana
Blue Java banana, also called Ice Cream banana or Ney Mannan, is an ABB-group Musa acuminata × balbisiana cultivar from Java with silvery blue-green unripe peel that turns yellow, creamy flesh, and cold tolerance.
Blue jay
Blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata), a crested corvid of eastern North America from southern Canada to Texas and Florida; omnivorous acorn cacher, partial migrant, IUCN Least Concern, global population about 17 million.
Blue Jay (film)
Blue Jay (2016) is a black-and-white romantic drama directed by Alex Lehmann, written by and starring Mark Duplass with Sarah Paulson, about reunited high school sweethearts; first Duplass brothers Netflix film, premiered at TIFF 2016. Not the 2016 Michael Ciulla thriller of the same name.
Blue Jean
Blue Jean (2022) is Georgia Oakley's debut British drama, starring Rosy McEwen as a closeted lesbian PE teacher in 1988 Newcastle under Section 28. It won the Venice People's Choice Award, four BIFAs, and a BAFTA nomination, grossing $741,644 worldwide.
Blue Juice
Blue Juice (1995) is a British Cornish surf comedy-drama directed by Carl Prechezer, starring Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Ewan McGregor; Film4 production, UK release September 15, 1995, US gross $4,535.
Blue Lacy
Blue Lacy (Lacy Dog, Lacy Game Dog), a medium-sized Texas working dog breed developed from about 1858 by the Lacy brothers of Burnet County from greyhound, scenthound, and coyote or wolf stock; official State Dog Breed of Texas since 2005.
Blue Lagoon (geothermal spa)
Blue Lagoon (Bláa lónið), geothermal spa on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula formed in 1976 from Svartsengi power plant effluent; silica-rich 37 °C seawater-freshwater mix, company founded 1992, repeatedly disrupted by eruptions since 2023.
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening is a 2012 Lifetime TV movie, a modern teen retelling of Stacpoole's 1908 novel, starring Indiana Evans and Brenton Thwaites as students stranded on a Caribbean island; Metascore 51, IMDb 5.3/10.
Blue Lake
Blue Lake (Ramsar site 800, 1996) is a 28 m deep glacial cirque lake in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, one of four on mainland Australia, with Hedley Tarn, a dimictic regime, and threatened alpine species.
Blue Lake Capital (蓝湖资本)
Blue Lake Capital (蓝湖资本) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Ray Hu that invests in enterprise software and advanced manufacturing start-ups in China.
Blue Lantern Corps
Blue Lantern Corps: DC Comics ring-wielders powered by hope, created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, debuting in Green Lantern Vol. 4 #25 (January 2008). Founded by exiled Guardians Ganthet and Sayd on Odym; famous for supercharging green rings but needing a Green Lantern nearby to reach full power.
Blue Lard
Blue Lard is a 1999 postmodernist novel by Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin, about clones of Russian writers and a hunted substance called blue lard.
Blue large-amplitude pulsator
A blue large-amplitude pulsator (BLAP) is a rare, hot, subluminous pulsating star announced in 2017 from OGLE survey data, pulsating over a few minutes to about an hour.
Blue laser imaging
Blue laser imaging (BLI) is an image-enhanced endoscopy technique launched by Fujifilm in 2012 that uses 410 nm laser light to highlight superficial microvessels in the digestive tract.
Blue law
Blue laws, also called Sunday Closing Laws or Lord's Day Acts, are US state statutes restricting Sunday commerce such as alcohol sales, car dealerships, and hunting; upheld as secular rest laws in McGowan v. Maryland (1961) and still enforced in many states.
Blue laws in the United States
Blue laws, also called Sunday closing laws, are US statutes restricting Sunday activity, most commonly alcohol sales, car sales, and hunting, with the first adopted in Virginia in 1610.
Blue light spectrum
Blue light is the short-wavelength, high-energy 400 to 500 nm band of visible light, affecting sleep cycles through retinal melanopsin cells and defining blue light hazard at high intensities.