Hergé reached a watershed with The Blue Lotus, the fifth Tintin adventure.

As a result of this experience, Hergé strove in The Blue Lotus, and in subsequent Tintin adventures, to be meticulously accurate in depicting the places which Tintin visited.

As a token of appreciation he added a fictional " Chang Chong-Chen " to The Blue Lotus, a young Chinese boy who meets and befriends Tintin.

Published in Tintin magazine from September 1958 to November 1959, Tintin in Tibet sent Tintin to the Himalayas in search of Chang Chong-Chen, the Chinese boy he had befriended in The Blue Lotus.

In 1973 he visited Taiwan, accepting an invitation offered three decades before by the Kuomintang government, in appreciation of The Blue Lotus.

* The Blue Lotus, a Tintin book by Hergé

Paul Gravett has also noted that the use of detailed reference material and a picture archive, which Hergé implemented from The Blue Lotus onwards, was " a turning point ... in the maturing of the medium as a whole ".

* Rastapopoulos ( Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus );

* Dawson ( The Blue Lotus );

At the hotel, Tintin and Haddock see Alcazar talking with Dawson, whom Tintin recognises as the corrupt police chief of the international settlement in The Blue Lotus who he exposed and sent to prison guilty of mingling with opium dealers.

Di Gorgonzola ( who is actually Rastapopoulos, the leader of the international opium smugglers from Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus ) finds out from the Arab that Haddock has taken control of the ship, and sends a Type VII U-Boat to attack them.

In 1995, Lotus had over 4, 000 employees worldwide and IBM's acquisition of Lotus was greeted with apprehension by many Lotus employees, who feared that the corporate culture of " Big Blue " would smother their creativity.

The next morning, they arrive at the villa, where Castafiore introduces them to a number of her friends — the debutante Angelina Sordi, the corrupt industrialists Mr Gibbons ( from The Blue Lotus ) and Mr Trickler ( from The Broken Ear ), Emir Ben Kalish Ezab ( from Land of Black Gold ), Luigi Randazzo ( a singer ), and Ramó Nash.

A number of old acquaintances attend, such as Dawson ( The Blue Lotus ), the Bird brothers ( The Secret of the Unicorn ), and Carreidas ( Flight 714 ).

A breakthrough came in 1934, when the cartoonist was introduced to Zhang Chongren, a Chinese student, who explained Chinese politics, culture, language, art, and philosophy to him, which Hergé used to great effect in The Blue Lotus.

Even more striking is the fifth book, The Blue Lotus ( 1934 – 1935 ), set in China.

It then simply requires a border confrontation to be blown out of proportion in order to begin the conflict, much like the Mukden Incident shown in The Blue Lotus.

In other works, Hergé showed much sympathy for oppressed peoples, such as the Chinese in The Blue Lotus, the black African Muslims about to be traded as slaves in The Red Sea Sharks and the Gypsies of The Castafiore Emerald falsely accused of theft.

Big business was also shown as a cover for illegal activities: Rastapopoulos for example is a respected businessman who mixes with people in high places, but is also the leader of major smuggling operations: opium in The Blue Lotus and slaves in The Red Sea Sharks.

The villain in The Blue Lotus is Mitsuhirato, a Japanese man who owns a fashion shop and an opium den ( in a time and place where such dens were legal and considered legitimate ), which cover his activities as a drug smuggler and secret agent of Japan, who organizes the sabotage of a Chinese railway ( based on the real-life Mukden Incident ).

However the precise lines which characterize most of his work, is firmly in place from early on ( e. g.: The colored version of The Blue Lotus ( released in 1946 ) is based on the original black and white news paper version from 1934-35 and not redrawn ).

At the close of the newspaper run of Cigars of the Pharaoh, Hergé had mentioned that Tintin's next adventure ( The Blue Lotus ) would bring him to China.

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.

Blue ribbon for one dozen white eggs was taken by Nyberg.

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.