Blue ribbon () = winner

The usage came from The Blue Riband, a prize awarded for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by passenger liners — and prior to that from Cordon Bleu which referred to the blue ribbon worn by a particular order of knights.

The stripe dimensions of the ribbon are: 3 / 8 inch Old Glory Red 67156 ; 1 / 16 inch Ultramarine Blue 67118 ; 1 / 64 inch White 67101 ; 3 / 32 inch Ultramarine Blue ; 3 / 32 inch White ; center 3 / 32 inch Old Glory Red ; 3 / 32 inch White ; 3 / 32 inch Ultramarine Blue ; 1 / 64 inch White ; 1 / 16 inch Ultramarine Blue ; and 3 / 8 inch Old Glory Red.

If an Air Force member has the Combat Readiness Medal and does the Blue to Green program ( Air Force to Army transition ) they are still authorized to wear the medal, but unlike in the Air Force, it will be worn as the last medal / ribbon, but before any foreign awards.

The medal is suspended from an Old Glory Blue ribbon 1. 375 inches wide and consists of stripes of golden yellow, scarlet and white.

The ribbon is 1 inches wide and is composed of the following vertical stripes: 1 / 16 inch Ultramarine blue, 1 inch Golden yellow, and 1 / 16 inch Ultramarine Blue.

* Cordon bleu: " Blue ribbon " is a thinly pounded piece of meat stuffed with cheese and ham.

# Blue ribbon

# Blue ribbon

The ribbon is Sky Blue 20mm and White ( Silver ) 6mm.

The urban part of the city consists of a ribbon of close or contiguous towns which lie on the Main Western railway line ( served by CityRail's Blue Mountains services ) and Great Western Highway between Emu Plains ( a western suburb of Sydney ) and Lithgow.

About 70 % of the city's area is within the Blue Mountains National Park which lies north and south of the ribbon of towns.

Blue and gold, Alberta ’ s provincial colours are most prominent in the ribbon.

Also, its music program, student newspaper, and student yearbook all won Blue ribbon awards in 2006.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Blue Throat won't stand for this.

Blue Throat, who had ruled the town with his six-shooter for the last six months, certainly had no intention of relinquishing his profitable dictatorship.

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

In addition, Blue Cross coverage for all employees and their dependents was extended to provide the full cost of semi-private hospital accommodations.

In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters.

Advance publicity on the Los Angeles Blue Book does not mention names dropped as did the notices for the New York Social Register which made news last week.

Publisher Richardson has updated the Blue Book `` but it still remains the compact reference book used by so many for those ever-changing telephone numbers, addresses, other residences, club affiliations and marriages ''.

This somewhat cynical comment may be found in `` Blue Skies, Brown Studies '', a collection of travel essays by William Sansom, who would never consider staying home for long.

Songs and poetry often rely on ambiguous words for artistic effect, as in the song title " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue " ( where " blue " can refer to the color, or to sadness ).

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1951 – Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ( Leather Nun and Blue for Two )

Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ), one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture.

* Entry for Astoria in the Oregon Blue Book

image: The Earth seen from Apollo 17. jpg | Apollo 17 photo of the Earth as the spacecraft headed for the Moon ( now known as " The Blue Marble photo ").

Eckstein was traded from the Toronto Blue Jays for Minor League pitcher Chad Beck.

Blue Lightning, a game with After Burner-like graphics, was especially notable and featured in TV advertising for the console.

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

Alternative names for this breed include Belgian Blue-White ; Belgian White and Blue Pied ; Belgian White Blue ; Blue ; and Blue Belgian.

The Belgian Blue has a natural mutation in the myostatin gene which codes for the protein, myostatin (" myo " meaning muscle and " statin " meaning stop ).

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

Any posse riding down the street to demand Blue Throat's surrender would be wiped out with one deadly burst of fire.

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.

However, Hume admits that there is one objection to his account: the problem of " The Missing Shade of Blue ".

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.

The Blue Crane is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

The first Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron ( 1946 – 1947 ), assembled in front of one of their F6F Hellcat s ( l to r ): Lt. Al Taddeo, Solo ; Lt.

There is one bright planetary nebula in Centaurus, NGC 3918, also known as the Blue Planetary.

Two 1571 clones appeared, one from Oceanic and one from Blue Chip, but legal action from Commodore quickly drove them from the market.

Initially led by John Haslet, Delaware provided one of the premier regiments in the Continental Army, known as the " Delaware Blues " and nicknamed the " Blue Hen's Chicks.

The Blue Men play a short snippet of the show's theme song, and one dons Doraemon's beanie.

Paul Chambers ( who worked with Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue album ) achieved renown for being one of the first jazz bassists to play bebop solos with the bow.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

To this day, The Thin Blue Line is one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries ever made.

* In December 2001, the United States ' National Film Preservation Foundation announced that Morris's The Thin Blue Line would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, bringing the total at the time to 325.

Violet Blue, an author, described this website as becoming " the new ' tubgirl ' and goatse all in one disgusting moment of choco-poo-love " in a San Francisco Chronicle article.

She has three children, one from each husband: Wade Hampton Hamilton ( son to Charles Hamilton ), Ella Lorena Kennedy ( daughter to Frank Kennedy ) and Eugenie Victoria " Bonnie Blue " Butler ( daughter to Rhett Butler ).

Schmitt claims to have taken the photograph of the Earth known as The Blue Marble, one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence.

The Blue Mountains rise to these elevations from the coastal plain in the space of about, thus producing one of the steepest general gradients in the world.