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Blue wildebeest
Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), also called brindled gnu or white-bearded gnu, is a large African bovid antelope of eastern and southern Africa, famous for the 1.3-million-strong Serengeti–Mara migration; IUCN Least Concern, five subspecies, 118–270 kg.
Blue Wildebeest (site)
Blue Wildebeest (蓝角马) is a zoo enclosure in Longsha Zoological and Botanical Garden, Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China; OpenStreetMap node 13042316258 at 47.38°N, 123.94°E, named for the blue wildebeest antelope, distinct from same-named places in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Blue Yonder
Blue Yonder, formerly JDA Software until its 2020 rebrand, is an American supply chain management software company in Scottsdale, Arizona, serving more than 3,000 retailers and manufacturers, and wholly owned by Japan's Panasonic Holdings since 2021.
Blue Zoo Beijing
Blue Zoo Beijing, also known as Beijing Gongti Richina Underwater World, is an indoor aquarium beneath Beijing Workers' Stadium, the city's first seawater aquarium, built with New Zealand.
Blue-and-green landscape
Blue-and-green landscape, or qinglü shanshui, is a Chinese landscape painting genre using mineral azurite and malachite pigments, one of the two main modes of Chinese landscape painting.
Blue-and-yellow macaw
Blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), also blue-and-gold macaw: large Neotropical parrot, 81-86 cm, IUCN Least Concern, CITES Appendix II, ranging Panama to Paraguay, reintroduced to Trinidad.
Blue-collar worker
A blue-collar worker performs manual or technical labor, typically paid by the hour, in occupations such as construction, manufacturing, installation and repair, and transportation; the term dates to the 1920s.
Blue-eyed soul
Blue-eyed soul, or white soul, is rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists. Coined in the 1960s for The Righteous Brothers, it sparked radio airplay and authenticity debates.
Blue-footed booby
Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii), Piquero Camanay, a tropical eastern Pacific seabird whose bright blue feet signal quality in mutual courtship displays; socially monogamous with frequent extrapair copulations, siblicidal broods, and breeding strongly suppressed by El Niño warming.
Blue-green
Blue-green is a color about midway between blue and green in the spectrum, first recorded in English in 1850 to 1855, with darker shades called teal and lighter ones cyan.
Blue-green deployment
Blue-green deployment is a software release technique in which a new version runs in an identical parallel environment, and traffic switches over, giving near zero-downtime releases.
Blue-ringed octopus
Blue-ringed octopus, genus Hapalochlaena, small Indo-Pacific octopuses with iridescent blue warning rings carrying tetrodotoxin from symbiotic bacteria; four described species, no antidote, at least three human deaths.
Blue-tongued skink
Blue-tongued skinks (genus Tiliqua) are large Australian, New Guinean, and Indonesian skinks named for their blue defensive tongue display; T. scincoides is IUCN Least Concern, while the northern subspecies is EPBC Critically Endangered.
Blue-water navy
Blue-water navy: a fleet capable of operating across open oceans and deep waters, distinct from green-water (coastal) and brown-water (riverine) forces; the US Navy is the leading example, with China and India building such capability.
Blue–white screen
Blue–white screen: also called blue/white selection or α-complementation screening; a cloning technique in which lacZ disruption in E. coli turns recombinant colonies white on X-gal/IPTG plates while intact vectors stay blue.
Blue's Clues
Blue's Clues: American Nick Jr. preschool series (1996–2006, 143 episodes) by Kessler, Santomero, and Johnson; animated dog Blue leaves three paw-print clues for hosts Steve Burns, then Joe, in a research-based interactive format.
Blue's Clues & You!
Blue's Clues & You! is Nickelodeon's 2019 interactive preschool reboot of Blue's Clues, hosted by Joshua Dela Cruz as Josh, Blue's cousin-figure, with CG-animated Blue, a smartphone Handy Dandy Notebook, returning characters, and guest spots by Steve Burns and Donovan Patton.
BlueAnon
BlueAnon, a blend of blue and QAnon, is a term coined by conservatives for conspiracy theories attributed to liberals and Biden supporters, prominent from 2021 and peaking after the July 2024 Trump rally shooting.
Bluebeard
Bluebeard (La Barbe bleue), Perrault's 1697 fairy tale of a wife-murdering nobleman, ATU 312 Maiden Killer; forbidden chamber, blood-stained key, sister Anne, brothers' rescue, two moralités, and later retellings by Thackeray, Dickens, Brontë, and Atwood.
Bluebeard (1963 film)
Bluebeard, original French title Landru, is Claude Chabrol's 1963 French-Italian crime drama written with Françoise Sagan, starring Charles Denner as serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, who murdered wealthy women in World War I France; released 25 January 1963, 115 minutes, color, 1.66:1.
Bluebeard's Castle
Bluebeard's Castle (A kékszakállú herceg vára) is Béla Bartók's only opera, a 1911 one-act psychodrama with a Béla Balázs libretto, premiered Budapest 1918, in which Judith opens seven doors of Bluebeard's castle.
Bluebell Railway
The Bluebell Railway, also known as the Bluebell Line, is a heritage railway in Sussex, England, and the world's first preserved standard gauge passenger railway.
Bluebelle (ship)
Bluebelle was a 60-foot charter ketch based in Fort Lauderdale that sank in the Bahamas in November 1961 after her skipper, Julian Harvey, killed the Duperrault family; 11-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault survived.
Blueberry
Blueberry: fruit of Vaccinium shrubs, chiefly highbush V. corymbosum. Domesticated 1911-1916 by Coville and Elizabeth White at Whitesbog, NJ; needs acidic soil; US crop about 760-790 million pounds.
Blueberry River First Nations
Blueberry River First Nations is a Dane-zaa and Cree First Nation in northeastern British Columbia whose 2021 Yahey treaty victory led to a 2023 implementation agreement with the province.
Bluebird
Bluebirds (genus Sialia): Eastern, Western, and Mountain Bluebird, North American cavity-nesting thrushes. Insect and fruit eaters, dependent on nest cavities or nest boxes, monitored via bluebird trails and the Breeding Bird Survey.
Bluebird Ventures
Bluebird Ventures is a venture capital firm in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019 by Jeffrey W. Bird to invest in early-stage life sciences companies, with a $103.5 million fund.
Bluecore
Bluecore, formerly TriggerMail, Inc., is a New York retail marketing technology company founded in 2013 by Fayez Mohamood and serving over 400 brands before its 2026 acquisition by Insider One.
BlueCrest Capital Management
BlueCrest Capital Management is a British hedge fund founded in London in 2000 by Michael Platt and William Reeves, which returned all client money in 2015.
Bluecross Blueshield Venture Partners
BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners is a Chicago-based healthcare venture capital platform managing the Blue Venture Funds, capitalized by Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and managed by Sandbox Industries.