The blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales ( called Mysticeti ).

There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda ( also known as the pygmy blue whale ) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

The blue whale is usually classified as one of eight species in the genus Balaenoptera ; one authority places it in a separate monotypic genus, Sibbaldus, but this is not accepted elsewhere.

DNA sequencing analysis indicates that the blue whale is phylogenetically closer to the sei whale ( Balaenoptera borealis ) and Bryde's whale ( Balaenoptera brydei ) than to other Balaenoptera species, and closer to the humpback whale ( Megaptera ) and the gray whale ( Eschrichtius ) than to the minke whales ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis ).

Researchers working off Fiji believe they photographed a hybrid humpback / blue whale.

The first published description of the blue whale comes from Robert Sibbald's Phalainologia Nova ( 1694 ).

In September 1692, Sibbald found a blue whale that had stranded in the Firth of Forth — a male 78-feet-long — which had " black, horny plates " and " two large apertures approaching a pyramid in shape ".

Other common names for the blue whale have included Sibbald's rorqual ( after Sibbald, who first described the species ), the great blue whale and the great northern rorqual.

The first known usage of the term blue whale was in Melville's Moby-Dick, which only mentions it in passing and does not specifically attribute it to the species in question.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.

The attorney general has advised local police that it is their duty to enforce the blue laws.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

The ideal grade is called " Deep Siberian " and has a primary purple hue of around 75 – 80 %, with 15 – 20 % blue and ( depending on the light source ) red secondary hues.

Other forms of agate include Lake Superior agate, carnelian agate ( exhibiting reddish hues ), Botswana agate, blue lace agate, plume agates, moss agate, tube agate ( with visible flow channels or pinhole-sized ' tubes '), fortification agate ( which exhibit little or no banding structure ), fire agate ( which has internal flash or ' fire ', the result of a layer of clear agate over a layer of hydrothermally-deposited hematite ), Mexican crazy-lace agate, which often exhibits a brightly colored, complexly banded pattern ( also called Rodeo Agate and Rosetta Stone depending on who owned the mine at the time ).

It has a short stem bearing a tuft of long, narrow, arching leaves 10 – 35 cm long and 1 – 2 cm broad, and a central flower stalk 25 – 60 cm tall, ending in an umbel of 20-30 white, or bright blue, funnel-shaped flowers, each flower 2. 5 – 5 cm diameter.

In this thought-experiment, he asks us to imagine a man who has experienced every shade of blue except for one ( see Fig.

He predicts that this man will be able to divine the color of this particular shade of blue, despite the fact that he has never experienced it.

For example, PAC expression in certain neurons has been shown to alter the grooming behavior in fruit flies exposed to blue light.

Prussian blue has been recently added to the acrylic colors.

Moreover, although Reverend Peters claimed that the term blue law was originally used by Puritan colonists, his work has since been found to be unreliable.

In any event, Peters never asserted that the blue laws were originally printed on blue paper, and this has come to be regarded as an example of false etymology.

Paramus in Bergen County, where three of the four major malls are located, has even more restrictive blue laws than the county itself, banning all type of work on Sundays except in grocery stores, restaurants, and other entertainment venues.

A green flash was added to the socks, which from 1938 became a green turnover ( although on blue socks thus eliminating red from the kit ), and that has remained a feature of the strip ever since.

The yellow particles leave 5 blue trails of random motion and one of them has a red velocity vector.

Demolition of the site's landmark blue gasometer in 1996, and the subsequent cleanup operation, has created the largest brownfield site in Europe.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

The male is torpedo-shaped, with gold stripes between the blue stripes ; the female has a larger, whitish belly and silver stripes instead of gold.

The flag has a white field, with a red Latin cross inside a blue canton.

The road sign for a state route has a blue background and the route's designation in white.

* Nepeta grandiflora ( Giant Catmint or Caucasus Catmint ) is lusher than true catnip and has dark green leaves and dark blue, almost purple flowers.

He was a beautiful boy, really, with finely-spun blonde hair and a smooth and still effeminate face, and his eyelashes were long and dark and brushlike, and his eyes were blue.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

He was last seen in blue jeans, dark shoes, and white long sleeve shirt.

The same indigo dye is contained in the woad plant, Isatis tinctoria, for a long time the main source of blue dye in Europe.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

Both species have very long ( approximately 35 centimetres ), flexible, blue tongues that they use to strip leaves and buds from trees.

( not the Canary Islands, as long accepted ) as suggested by the location of the six dots labelled the " FORTUNATA " islands near the left extreme of the blue sea of Ptolemy's map here reproduced.

In open syllables, it commonly represents ( as in blue ) or (" long U " as in mule ).

When Sophie, Countess of Wessex was granted arms, the sinister supporter assigned was a blue wyvern, described by the College of Arms as " an heraldic beast which has long been associated with Wessex ".

The blue wildebeest migrates over long distances in the winter, whereas the black wildebeest does not.

Nowadays, uniforms are frequently blue, orange, red or green, and shorts are replaced by long pants in areas where the culture calls for modesty, and in winter weather.

In the 2000s ( decade ), midnight blue once again became popular, lapel facings were sometimes reduced to wide edging and long ties were often substituted for the iconic bow-tie.

Goethe's novel was published in 1774 and not long after young men began to mimic the character Werther by dressing in yellow pants and blue jackets.

In the visible spectrum, blue and green are at the short end of light's visible wavelengths, whereas red and yellow are at the long end.

These are often called blue, green, and red cones but more accurately are short, medium, and long wavelength sensitive cone subgroups.

The long air channels are molded into the top of the tank and the blue label seals the channels into long tubes.

Spotty, originally called Jasper, is a short character who dones a blue collared jersey and an abnormally long striped tie.

The effect is pronounced on the right side of the building's roof, where a long blue streak is visible.

Boys ' uniforms often consist of light-colored shirt, usually blue or white, and dark long trousers or shorts.

**** Navy blue long trousers

*** White baju kurung ( a long tunic that covers the arms ) over long navy blue skirt