There are sixteen essays in `` Blue Skies, Brown Studies ''.

The Silver Sands are located on the East side of the village, and are one of Scotland's seven " Blue flag " awarded beaches, which denotes an exemplary standard of cleanliness, facilities, safety, environmental education and management.

Blue laws often prohibit an activity only during certain hours and there are usually exceptions to the prohibition of commerce, like grocery and drug stores.

The economics of breeding and raising Belgian Blue cattle are inconclusive because of complications experienced during parturition and metabolic demand for increased concentrated feeds.

The Toronto Blue Jays are the only team to have never played in the ALDS and are the last team to win the World Series under the old 4 division format.

Blue Cranes are birds of the dry grassy uplands, usually the pastured grasses of hills, valleys, and plains with a few scattered trees.

The Blue Crane is migratory, primarily altitudinal, but details are little known.

The primary causes of the sudden decline of the Blue Crane are human population growth, the conversion of grasslands into commercial tree plantations, and poisoning: deliberate ( to protect crops ) or accidental ( baits intended for other species, and as a side-effect of crop dusting ).

Blue whales are rorquals ( family Balaenopteridae ), a family that includes the humpback whale, the fin whale, Bryde's whale, the sei whale, and the minke whale.

Members of the 2012 U. S. Navy Blue Angels are:

Blue and black, and red and yellow, are played by the same player or pair.

Four of the characters in " Think Blue, Count Two " are called " Thirteen " in different languages: Tiga-belas ( both in Indonesian and Malay ), Trece ( Spanish ), Talatashar ( based on an Arabic dialect form < big > ثلاث عشر </ big >, thalāth ʿashar ) and Sh ' san ( based on Mandarin 十三, shísān, where the " í " is never pronounced ).

The team's helmets are also a unique silver with a tint of blue known as " Metallic Silver Blue " ( PMS 8240 C ) and have a blue / white / blue vertical stripe placed upon the center of the crown.

Blue eyes, partially blue eyes, or a blue eye and a brown eye are called " wall " coloring, and are considered a non-desirable trait in kennel club standards.

Dilute color dogs ( Blue, Isabella, and Cream ) are very susceptible to Color Dilution Alopecia, a skin disorder that can result in hair loss and extreme sensitivity to sun.

Specifically, the colors are " White ", " Old Glory Red ", and " Old Glory Blue ".

Blue 1, Blue 2, Red 3, and Yellow 6 are among the food colorings that have been linked to various health risks in animal models.

Parts of the canal are still used to transport cargo, but it is now primarily used as a tourist and recreational attraction, dubbed Sveriges blå band (" Sweden's Blue Ribbon ").

Harwich's teams are known as the Rough Riders, and their colors are Blue and Gold.

Haggis-maker MacSween conducted a taste-test which indicated that whisky is a proper accompaniment, and adds that lighter-bodied, tannic red wines, such as those made from the Barbera grape, are also suitable, as are strong, powerfully flavoured Belgian beers, such as Duvel and Chimay Blue.

The Airedale Terrier Club of America and the Kerry Blue Terrier Club of America have under consideration donating trophies to the boys or girls who win with their breeds in Junior Showmanship Competition at any Show.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.

But time and the investigations of subsequent explorers have shown that Abbadie was quite trustworthy as to his facts, though wrong in his contention — hotly contested by Beke — that the Blue Nile was the main stream.

Belgian Blue cattle have improved feed conversion ratio ( FCR ) due to lower feed intake compared to weight gain.

Since the Belgian Blue ’ s bone structure is the same as a normal cow, however holding a greater amount of muscle, causes them to have a greater meat to bone ratio.

, promised projects to restore the Green Line streetcar service to the Arborway in Jamaica Plain, to extend the Green Line beyond Lechmere, and to connect the Red and Blue subway lines have not been completed.

The downtown area through which the tunnels were to be dug was largely landfill, and included existing Red Line and Blue Line subway tunnels as well as innumerable pipes and utility lines that would have to be replaced or moved.

Blue Steel required up to seven hours of launch preparation, and was highly unreliable ; the Royal Air Force estimated in 1963 that half the missiles would fail to fire and would have to be dropped over their targets, contradicting their purpose of serving as standoff weapons.

Even as it deployed Blue Streak, a high-altitude weapon, that year the government decided that because of anti-aircraft missiles ' increasing effectiveness, V bombers would have to convert from high-altitude to low-altitude attacks.

Blue whales have twin blowholes shielded by a large splashguard.

Since 1946, the Blue Angels have flown for more than 260 million spectators.

There have been female and racial minority staff officers as official Blue Angel members, in support of the Blue Angels recruiting for the Navy and Marine Corps.

Rhyming slang terms for Jew have included " Chelsea Blue ", " Stick of Glue ", " Four by Two ", " Buckle my shoe ", and " Front Wheel Skid ", which is a more palatable form of the insulting term " Yid ", short for Yiddish, the language spoken by many Jewish immigrants to the UK in the early 20th century.

" For example, upon the defeat of Kasparov by Deep Blue, he commented that " It was a watershed event, but it doesn't have to do with computers becoming intelligent ".

The fanzine movement has even spread to the United States, where ice hockey fans in Chicago and St. Louis have produced several popular fanzines, including Blue Line Magazine and The Committed Indian for the Chicago Blackhawks, along with Game Night Revue and St Louis Game Time for the St. Louis Blues.

Blue 1 is used to color candy, soft drinks, and pastries and there has been some evidence that it may cause cancer in mice, but studies have not been replicated.

Fuller's ability as a songwriter manifested itself through the intervention of her friend, producer Hal Wallis ; Fuller had wanted to get an acting role in the Elvis Presley movie Blue Hawaii, which Wallis was producing, but instead he put her in touch with Hill & Range, the publisher that provided Presley with songs.

His Blue Nudes series feature prime examples of this technique he called " painting with scissors "; they demonstrate the ability to bring his eye for colour and geometry to a new medium of utter simplicity, but with playful and delightful power.

Rhapsody in Blue displays Gershwin ’ s gifts of both rhythmic invention and melodic inspiration, as well as his ability to write a piece with large-scale harmonic and melodic structure.

Three albums for Blue Note in the late fifties showcased Powell's ability as a composer, but his playing was far removed from the standard set by his earlier recordings for the label.

On January 30, 1956, Grant accepted the Blue Bombers head coaching position after impressing management with his ability to make adjustments on offense and defense as a player.

Due to its balanced statistics and ability to learn any move that comes from a Technical or Hidden Machine, Mew is regarded as one of the best Pokémon in Red, Blue, and Yellow.

Famed for their ability in both dancing and singing, Da Pump's debut came in 1997, with the song " Feelin Good-It's Paradise " and breaking through with " Rhapsody in Blue " ( and using the song as their entry on the " white " team during the 1998 Kōhaku Uta Gassen ).

The Blue Beetle's powers slowly increased over time with him eventually gaining the ability to fly and x-ray vision among other bizarre talents that changed from issue to issue at the whim of the writers.

He tells Aspen that she is a member of a race of aquatic humanoids called the Blue who possess the ability to control water.

The Luv Ya Blue era in Houston was due mostly to Campbell's running ability and Coach Bum Phillips ' " good ole boy " personality.

* Blue Infuser-Changes Mojo's color to blue, having the ability to destroy only blue cells.

Aes Sedai cannot switch Ajahs after being accepted into one ; however, when Leane Sharif, a former member of the Blue Ajah, was Stilled and then Healed, she was considered to have lost all titles and right along with the ability to channel.

Rayman's ability to shrink ( with the help of creatures called Flying Blue Elves ), and to slide on sheet music bars in Band Land or ice in the Blue Mountains, were absent on the Jaguar, only being added in later versions.

His ability to produce illusions resulted in surreal, 60's styled landscapes, and allowed " Moddie " to appear in several different forms ; even appearing stylized in the manner of God as he appeared in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, or becoming a round Blue Meanie-esque figure.

At the first of a May 1991 two-night stand at the Beacon Theatre in New York City — the first in that city after " Wicked Game " became a top 10 hit — Isaak's performance was characterized as " consummate showmanship ": performances " right on the edge of caricature " yet with the ability to " infuse the ballads " Wicked Game " and " Blue Spanish Sky " ... with a spine-tingling intensity.

Blue Light may have been a randomly generated code name, or may be a reference to American radar officer's slang, in which " to bluelight " can reportedly be used as a verb, meaning " to detect a contact with radar ," thus metaphorically suggesting the ability to discover the enemy's hiding place.