Blue giants are extremely luminous, reaching absolute magnitudes of − 5, − 6 ( which is anywhere from 9000 to 25, 000 times brighter than our sun ) and even higher.

Blue giants should not be confused with blue supergiants such as Rigel or ordinary hydrogen-fusing O to B stars such as Regulus which is a main sequence dwarf star.

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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.

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.

, 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.

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.

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

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.

The effluent was collected through two pipes and discharged to the Blue River through a surface drainage ditch.

Composed primarily by Sumner and Morris, " Prime 5 8 6 "/" Video 5 8 6 " was an early version of " 5 8 6 " that contained rhythm elements that would later surface on " Blue Monday " and " Ultraviolence ".

* The Blue Mine, a slate mine, with a funicular which goes 130 meters under the surface.

Pictures such as Apollo 8's Earthrise, which showed a crescent Earth peeking over the lunar surface, and Apollo 17s The Blue Marble, which for the first-time-ever showed a full circular earth, became iconic to the environmental movement.

Blue Mars takes its title from the stage of terraforming that has allowed atmospheric pressure and temperature to increase so that liquid water can exist on the planet's surface, forming rivers and seas.

The site is broken down into four Operable Units: the defoliated slope of Blue Mountain, the cinder banks, the soil in town, and the ground and surface water.

At the surface, the Blue Ridge consists of a mountainous to hilly region, the main component of which are the Blue Ridge Mountains that extend from Georgia to Pennsylvania.

S. caerulea, S. glauca ; Blue Elderberry, nō-kōm-hē-i ′- nē, Konkow language ); western North America ; dark blue-black berries with glaucous bloom on surface, giving them a sky-blue appearance )

), the surface is generally level, except in the South western part which is Rolling and somewhat stony-the stone are a Blue Flint-The Timber in the South West Part is mostly Sugar (?

Eliot Yard, located on the surface near Harvard, served East Boston Tunnel ( now Blue Line ) cars for a short time and Red Line cars until it was demolished in the 1970s.

Once on the surface, he and his team discover that the Blue have mysteriously vanished without a trace.

Other tapes recorded by a fan who followed Blue Ash to many of their gigs are rumored to exist, but have yet to surface on the collectors circuit.

The Blue Hill Observatory registered sustained winds of 121 mph ( 195 km / h ) and a peak gust of 186 mph ( 299 km / h ), which is the strongest hurricane-related surface wind gust ever recorded in the United States of America.

In the divide between the first and second systems, which is also the great watershed between the Atlantic slope and the Mississippi Valley, a singular anomaly is presented, for it is formed not by the lofty Smoky range, but by the Blue Ridge — not, therefore, at the crest of the great slope which the surface of the state presents, but on a line lower down.

* Jugemu (# 40 ) is a colossal underground monster appearing to be only a tiny twig with a single leaf on the surface in the video game Star Ocean: Blue Sphere.

During the Blue shift, researchers watched televised downlinks of live X-SAR moving images of surface and subsurface structures in the Namib Desert in South Africa to improve researchers ' understanding of radar backscatter.

The Blue Line separates from the Yellow Line in this tunnel and emerges on surface tracks that parallel Virginia Route 110 before entering a tunnel south of Rosslyn, where it merges with the Orange Line.

The Blue Line becomes a surface or elevated route with short tunnels parallel to Central Avenue from Addison Road – Seat Pleasant to its Eastern terminal at Largo Town Center, where it ends adjacent to the parking lots of " The Blvd " shopping center.

Blue subpixels are then rendered just as a diamond in the center of a pixel square, and the rest of the pixel surface is split in four parts as a checker board of red and green subpixels with smaller sizes.

Killian's attacks prompt the Black to surface and begin their own invasion, and the mass destruction and death prompt the Blue council to approach the human governments to offer peace before total war begins.

Blue Mussels are semi-sessile, have the ability to detach and reattach to a surface allowing the mollusk to reposition itself relative to the water position.

The actual Blue Danube warhead was proof-tested at the Marcoo ( surface ) and Kite ( air-drop ) nuclear trials sites in Maralinga, Australia, by a team of Australian, British and Canadian scientists in late 1956.

From the Little Blue River just west of the K-148 junction to the US-77 North junction just west of the Big Blue River at Marysville, US-36 is a four-lane divided surface highway.