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Blue Square Alliance Against Hate
Blue Square Alliance Against Hate (BSA), formerly the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, is Robert Kraft's 2019-founded 501(c)(3) nonprofit fighting antisemitism via the Blue Square symbol, Super Bowl ads, the Gillette Stadium Command Center, and the semiannual U.S. Antisemitism Landscape Survey.
Blue Star (film)
Blue Star is a 2024 Tamil sports drama, also called Blue Star (2024), directed by debutant S. Jayakumar with Ashok Selvan and Shanthnu Bhagyaraj as rival Arakkonam cricket captains; a Pa Ranjith-produced anti-caste film released 25 January 2024.
Blue Star Optical Domain
蓝星光域, known in English as Laser Link or Blue Star Optical Domain, is a Shanghai startup founded in 2021 that builds laser communication terminals for satellites and airborne platforms.
Blue Steel (1990 film)
Blue Steel is a 1990 American police thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Jamie Lee Curtis as a rookie officer hunting a murderous commodities broker played by Ron Silver.
Blue Stockings Society
The Blue Stockings Society was an informal English social and educational movement of the mid-1700s, centered on mixed-gender literary salons hosted by Elizabeth Montagu and other women.
Blue Story
Blue Story is a 2019 British crime drama, Rapman's feature debut adapted from his YouTube series, about two south London friends in a postcode gang war. It was briefly banned by Vue and Showcase cinemas after a 2019 Birmingham brawl, yet earned £2.9m and a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Blue straggler
A blue straggler, or blue straggler star, is a star in old clusters that appears anomalously young, formed by binary mass transfer or stellar collisions.
Blue Streak (film)
Blue Streak is a 1999 American action comedy film starring Martin Lawrence as a jewel thief who poses as a police detective to recover a hidden diamond.
Blue Stream Gas Pipeline
The Blue Stream gas pipeline is a 1,213-kilometer Russian pipeline carrying gas to Türkiye under the Black Sea, commissioned in 2002 with 16 billion cubic meters yearly capacity.
Blue Strips
"Blue Strips" (also "Blue Strips (Remix)") is a 2025 trap-country-pop song by Jessie Murph, released April 11, 2025 on Columbia; a revenge-themed hit that peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was remixed with Sexyy Red.
Blue Suede Shoes
"Blue Suede Shoes" is a 1955 rock-and-roll song written and first recorded by Carl Perkins at Sun Records, released January 1, 1956; it became Sun's first million-seller and a pop, country, and R&B crossover hit, famously covered by Elvis Presley in 1956.
Blue supergiant
A blue supergiant is an evolved, luminous, massive star of spectral type B or A that has left the main sequence and burns fuel briefly before becoming a red supergiant.
Blue Swede
Blue Swede (Blåblus) was a Swedish pop/rock band formed 1973 in Stockholm, fronted by Björn Skifs. Its cover of "Hooked on a Feeling" topped the Billboard Hot 100 on 6 April 1974, the first Swedish act to do so, and later featured in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Blue Thermal (ブルーサーマル -青凪大学体育会航空部-)
Blue Thermal (ブルーサーマル -青凪大学体育会航空部-) is a 2022 Japanese anime film directed by Masaki Tachibana, adapted from Kana Ozawa's gliding manga, animated by Telecom Animation Film, released by Toei on March 4, 2022.
Blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence OLEDs
Blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) OLEDs are blue-emitting OLEDs whose emitters convert triplet excitons to light by reverse intersystem crossing, reaching 100 percent exciton harvesting in principle.
Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder is a 1983 John Badham action thriller starring Roy Scheider as an LAPD pilot testing an armed surveillance helicopter, with a $30 million budget, an ABC spin-off series in 1984, and a 79% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Blue Torch Credit
Blue Torch Credit, also known as Blue Torch Capital, is a New York private credit firm founded by Kevin Genda in 2017, specializing in middle market special situations lending.
Blue Train (album)
Blue Train is John Coltrane's 1957 hard bop album, his second as leader and only one for Blue Note (BLP 1577), recorded at Van Gelder's Hackensack studio with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones.
Blue Train (South Africa)
The Blue Train is a South African luxury passenger train operated by the state-owned Transnet, running between Pretoria and Cape Town in about 27 hours over roughly 1,600 km.
Blue Valentine (film)
Blue Valentine is a 2010 American drama film directed by Derek Cianfrance, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a married couple whose relationship is falling apart.
Blue Valentine (Nmixx album)
Blue Valentine is the first full-length album by South Korean girl group Nmixx (엔믹스), released October 13, 2025 by JYP Entertainment; 12 tracks, 34 minutes, MIXX POP genre-blending, title track of the same name, MIXX Ver. edition October 17.
Blue Velvet (film)
Blue Velvet is David Lynch's 1986 American neo-noir mystery drama starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, in which a severed ear found in a field leads a student into a small town's violent underworld; made for $7 million by De Laurentiis with Lynch's final cut.
Blue wall of silence
Blue wall of silence, also called the blue code or code of silence: the informal police norm against reporting fellow officers' misconduct, documented from Westley's surveys to the Mollen Commission, with cross-national variation and reporting channels.
Blue Water Bridge
The Blue Water Bridge is a twin-span international bridge over the St. Clair River connecting Port Huron, Michigan, and Point Edward, Ontario, with spans opened in 1938 and 1997.
Blue Water energy center
The Blue Water energy center is a 1,150 MW combined-cycle natural gas power station in St. Clair County, Michigan, owned by DTE Electric and operating since 2022.
Blue Waters
Blue Waters was a sustained-petascale supercomputer operated by NCSA at the University of Illinois from 2013 to 2021, funded by the NSF and delivering 42 billion core-hours to researchers.
Blue whale
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), largest animal ever known, up to 29.5 m measured (33 m reported), 180 t; krill specialist lunge feeder; Endangered; 10,000–25,000 remain after whaling killed over 300,000 in the Southern Hemisphere.
Blue Whale Challenge
Blue Whale Challenge, also called the Blue Whale game or suicide game, is an internet urban legend from Russian VKontakte groups (2015-2016) about a 50-task self-harm game ending in suicide; investigations found no app, platform, or verified deaths, making it a moral panic.
Blue whale penis
Blue whale penis: the copulatory organ of Balaenoptera musculus, up to 3 m long, the largest of any animal. Fibroelastic, internally housed, muscle-controlled via pelvic bones; mating never documented.
Blue White Red
Blue White Red is a 1998 debut novel by Congolese-French writer Alain Mabanckou about a young Congolese man's disillusioning experience of illegal immigration in Paris.