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Blue Planet III
Blue Planet III is a six-part BBC Studios Natural History Unit ocean documentary narrated by David Attenborough, airing on BBC One and iPlayer in autumn 2026, with a Hans Zimmer score, a 2027 US premiere, and episode themes spanning tropical to deep seas.
Blue plaque
Blue plaque: round ceramic marker on London buildings noting where notable people lived or worked; scheme begun 1866 by the Society of Arts, run by English Heritage since 1986, over 1,000 plaques.
Blue Point Capital Partners
Blue Point Capital Partners is a Cleveland-based private equity firm spun out of KeyCorp in 2000, making control investments in lower-middle-market manufacturing, services, and distribution companies.
Blue poison dart frog
Blue poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius 'azureus', formerly Dendrobates azureus), a bright blue Suriname and northern Brazil poison frog; poison comes from its ant diet, captive-bred frogs are non-toxic, and tadpoles eat siblings.
Blue Prince
Blue Prince (2025) is a roguelike puzzle adventure by Dogubomb, published by Raw Fury, released April 10, 2025 on PC, PS5, and Xbox. Players draft rooms from three choices in the 45-room Mt. Holly manor, which resets daily, seeking hidden Room 46.
Blue Prism
Blue Prism is a British enterprise software company for robotic process automation, founded in 2001, that coined the term RPA in 2012 and was acquired by SS&C Technologies in 2022.
Blue Protocol: Star Resonance
Blue Protocol: Star Resonance (星痕共鸣) is a free-to-play anime MMORPG by Tencent-backed Shanghai Bokura, published by A Plus Japan, reviving Bandai Namco's cancelled Blue Protocol IP; launched China July 2025, West October 9, 2025, PC/mobile, ~95k Steam peak then steep decline.
Blue Qur'an
The Blue Qur'an (al-Muṣḥaf al-Azraq) is a luxurious early Quranic manuscript written in gold Kufic calligraphy on indigo-dyed parchment, produced around the 9th or 10th century, probably in Qayrawan, Tunisia.
Blue Riband
The Blue Riband of the Atlantic was an unofficial award for the passenger liner with the fastest average speed on a transatlantic crossing, first recorded in 1838.
Blue ribbon
Blue ribbon: a blue ribbon marking first place or excellence, from the blue ribbon badge of England's Order of the Garter; also the adjective blue-ribbon for panels of selected quality.
Blue Ridge (TV series)
Blue Ridge: The Series is an American Appalachian crime drama based on the 2020 film Blue Ridge, starring Johnathon Schaech as Sheriff Justin Wise; two seasons (2024-2026) on Cowboy Way, INSP, and Prime Video.
Blue Ridge Capital (hedge fund)
Blue Ridge Capital was a New York-based hedge fund founded in 1996 by John Griffin, a former Tiger Management president, which managed up to $9 billion before closing in 2017.
Blue Ridge Mountains
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the Appalachian Highlands in the eastern United States, stretching from southeastern New York to Alabama and rising higher than any terrain east of the Mississippi River.
Blue Ridge Parkway
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a 469-mile National Park Service scenic road linking Shenandoah to Great Smoky Mountains national parks; begun in 1935, it is often called America's Favorite Drive.
Blue Road (푸른길) (TV series)
The Blue Road (푸른길), formerly titled Road, is a 2026 Netflix Korean-Japanese crime thriller, 8 episodes, directed by Han Jun-hee, adapted from Keishi Edogawa and Kwon Ka-ya's 2002 comic, starring Son Suk-ku, Eita Nagayama, Kim Shin-rok, Choi Sung-eun, and Jung Jae-young; released November 20, 2026.
Blue Robotics
Blue Robotics is an American marine robotics company headquartered in Torrance, California, founded in 2014 by Rusty Jehangir and partners, known for low-cost underwater thrusters, the BlueROV2 ROV, and the BlueBoat surface vessel.
Blue Rodeo
Blue Rodeo, Canadian country-rock band formed in Toronto in 1984 by Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor; debut album Outskirts (1987), hit Try, biggest seller Five Days in July (1993), 12 JUNO wins, Canadian Music Hall of Fame 2012, over four million albums sold.
Blue rose
A blue rose is a rose with blue or violet-blue color, impossible naturally because roses cannot make the pigment delphinidin; engineered versions were announced in 2004.
Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome
Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome, also called Bean syndrome, is a rare disorder causing multiple venous malformations in the skin and gastrointestinal tract, often with bleeding and anemia.
Blue Ruin
Blue Ruin (2013) is Jeremy Saulnier's American revenge thriller starring Macon Blair as Dwight, an inept drifter avenging his parents' murder. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won the FIPRESCI Prize, funded partly via Kickstarter, released 2014 by Radius TWC.
Blue sclera
Blue sclera (blue sclerae), ICD-11 LA11.0: a blue, gray, or purplish tint of the eye's white sclera from translucency letting the uvea show through. Causes include osteogenesis imperfecta, Marfan and Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, iron deficiency, and drugs such as minocycline.
Blue screen of death
The blue screen of death (BSOD), or stop error, is the screen Microsoft Windows displays when a kernel fault forces a halt, showing a stop code for diagnosis.
Blue shark
The blue shark (Prionace glauca) is a large, slender pelagic shark of open temperate and tropical oceans worldwide, recognized by vivid blue coloration and long pectoral fins.
Blue Shield International
Blue Shield International (BSI) is the international arm of the Blue Shield, an NGO founded in 1996 by ICA, ICOM, ICOMOS, and IFLA to protect cultural heritage in armed conflict and disasters, named for the 1954 Hague Convention's blue shield emblem, with ICRC, UNESCO, and NATO partnerships.
Blue Sky (1994 film)
Blue Sky (1994) is Tony Richardson's final film, a Cold War drama starring Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones as an Army couple at an Alabama nuclear testing base; shelved three years by Orion's bankruptcy, it won Lange her second Best Actress Oscar.
Blue Sky Studios
Blue Sky Studios was a Greenwich, Connecticut computer animation studio founded in 1987 by ex-MAGI staff, acquired by Fox in 1999 and Disney in 2019, producer of Ice Age, Rio, and Ferdinand, closed April 2021 with 450 layoffs. Distinct from the UK gift company of the same name.
Blue Slide Park
Blue Slide Park is Mac Miller's debut studio album, released November 8, 2011 on Rostrum Records. Named for a Pittsburgh playground, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 144,000 copies, the first independent debut album to do so since 1995.
Blue Spirit
Blue Spirit Catamaran is a small-group boat tour operator at Pasito Blanco harbor in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, running since 2014 with a maximum of 12 passengers.
Blue Spring (青い春)
Blue Spring (青い春, Aoi Haru) is a 2001 Japanese film by Toshiaki Toyoda, adapted from Taiyo Matsumoto's manga, starring Ryuhei Matsuda as delinquent Kujo in an 83-minute rooftop-game drama released June 29, 2002.
Blue spruce
Blue spruce (Picea pungens), also called Colorado blue spruce or silver spruce, is a slow-growing Rocky Mountain conifer native to Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, grown widely as an ornamental and Colorado's state tree.