Yair Lapid: Political career: …Israel Resilience Party to form Blue and White, a list that included a powerhouse of well-known figures from Israel’s defense establishment. According to the alliance agreement, the post of prime minister would rotate between Gantz and Lapid. While Blue and White tied Netanyahu’s Likud with 35 seats, no coalition could…

Josef von Sternberg: Films with Dietrich: Der blaue Engel (1930; The Blue Angel), filmed simultaneously in German and in English, was a raw portrait of sexual degradation in which a distinguished professor (Jannings) is brought low by his obsession with the sultry nightclub singer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich in her breakthrough role).

Blue Angels, U.S. Navy fighter aircraft squadron that stages aerobatic performances at air shows and other events throughout the United States and around the world. The squadron, whose performances benefit public relations and recruitment, includes five U.S. Naval aviators and one U.S. Marine

crocidolite, a gray-blue to leek-green, fibrous form of the amphibole mineral riebeckite. It has a greater tensile strength than chrysotile asbestos but is much less heat-resistant, fusing to black glass at relatively low temperatures. The major commercial source is South Africa, where it occurs in

ash: Major species: …of eastern North America, the blue ash (F. quadrangulata) of the Midwest, and the Oregon ash (F. latifolia) of the Pacific Northwest furnish wood of comparable quality that is used for furniture, interior paneling, and barrels, among other purposes. The Mexican ash (F. uhdei), a broad-crowned tree that is widely…

tetralogy of Fallot, combination of congenital heart defects characterized by hypoxic spells (which include difficulty in breathing and alterations in consciousness), a change in the shape of the fingertips (digital clubbing), heart murmur, and cyanosis, a bluish discoloration of the skin that

Lana Del Rey: Later singles and albums: … came out in March, and Blue Banisters followed in October. Her next project, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023), explores new themes such as aging and grief. (Del Rey’s uncle died in 2016 while she was away on tour.) The album became her most critically…

Trinidad and Tobago: Relief and drainage: …spectacular of which are the Blue Basin Falls and the Maracas Falls, both 298 feet (91 metres) high. On the southern side of the range, foothills with an elevation of approximately 500 feet (150 metres) descend to the Northern Plain.

Alicia Vikander: …and the Green Knight, and Blue Bayou, in which she was cast as the American wife of a Korean American immigrant who is facing deportation. In 2022 Vikander starred in the TV miniseries Irma Vep, an adaptation of the 1996 movie; in the dramedy, she played an American actress who…

hornbeam: Major species: The American hornbeam (C. caroliniana) is also known as water beech and blue beech, the latter for its blue-gray bark. It seldom reaches 12 metres (39 feet), although some trees in the southern United States may grow to 18 metres (59 feet) tall. The smooth trunk…

The Blue Bird, play for children by Maurice Maeterlinck, published as L’Oiseau bleu in 1908. In a fairy-tale-like setting, Tyltyl and Mytyl, the son and daughter of a poor woodcutter, are sent out by the Fairy Bérylune to search the world for the Blue Bird of Happiness. After many adventures, they

colour blindness: Types of colour blindness: …blue-yellow colour blindness are known: tritanopia (blindness to blue, usually with the inability to distinguish between blue and yellow), which occurs when blue cones are absent; and tritanomaly (reduced sensitivity to blue), which arises from the abnormal function of blue cones.

theatre: The propagandist theatre: …of Moscow actors formed the Blue Blouses, a company named for the workers’ overalls its members wore as their basic costume. This group inspired the formation of other professional and amateur factory groups throughout the Soviet Union. Their work and methods set the standard for political theatre groups in other…

John Birch Society: …Book (1959; also published as The Blue Book of the John Birch Society), a transcript of Welch’s presentation at the organization’s founding meeting in 1958, outlines the nature and purposes of the society. Its headquarters are in Appleton, Wis.

unidentified flying object: Flying saucers and Project Blue Book: The first well-known UFO sighting occurred in 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane. Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand…

The Blue Book, annually revised publication listing notable persons in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States; those listed are considered leaders of the English-speaking world in the arts and sciences, business, government, and the professions. It is

blue butterfly, (subfamily Polyommatinae), any member of a group of insects in the widely distributed Lycaenidae family of common butterflies (order Lepidoptera). Adults are small and delicate, with a wingspan of 18 to 38 mm (0.75 inch to 1.5 inches). They are rapid fliers and are usually

cardinal flower: …siphilitica) is sometimes called the blue cardinal and has blue or whitish flowers.

chaffinch: blue, chaffinch (F. teydea) is similar.

blue cheese, any of several cheeses marbled with bluish or greenish veins of mold. Important trademarked varieties include English Stilton, French Roquefort, and Italian Gorgonzola. Most blue cheeses are made from cow’s milk, but Roquefort is made from the milk of the ewe. Spores of species

blue chip, stock of a large, long-established, and well-financed company, regarded as a sound investment and usually selling at a high price relative to its earnings. Such companies are known for slow but stable growth in their earnings and dividends and are, therefore, favoured by conservative

William Friedkin: …success with the basketball drama Blue Chips (1994), which starred Nick Nolte and NBA star Shaquille O’Neal. However, his next film, Jade (1995), was almost universally panned. The over-the-top erotic thriller starred David Caruso as an assistant district attorney whose investigation into a high-profile murder begins to point toward his

charity school, type of English elementary school that emerged in the early 18th century to educate the children of the poor. They became the foundation of 19th-century English elementary education. Supported by private contributions and usually operated by a religious body, these schools clothed

Fabergé egg: …encrusted mechanical elephant) and the Blue Constellation Egg (glass shell resting on a base of rock crystals fashioned as clouds)—when the February Revolution occurred. Nicholas abdicated in March, and the eggs were never delivered. The House of Fabergé was soon seized by the revolutionary government, and Fabergé himself fled to…

cnidarian: Annotated classification: Order Helioporacea (Coenothecalia) Blue coral. Massive lobed calcareous skeleton. Tropical; 1 Caribbean and 1 Indo-West Pacific species. Order Pennatulacea Sea pens and sea pansies. Fleshy, always dimorphic, unbranched colonies, with 1 axial polyp and many lateral ones. Polyp-free peduncle burrows into soft sediments; polyp-bearing distal end of the…

blue crab, (genus Callinectes), any of a genus of crustaceans of the order Decapoda (phylum Arthropoda), particularly Callinectes sapidus and C. hastatus, common edible crabs of the western Atlantic coast that are prized as delicacies. Their usual habitat is muddy shores, bays, and estuaries. The

insurance: Group health insurance: , the Blue Cross–Blue Shield plans and health maintenance organizations [HMOs] in the United States), which resemble the above plans in most respects but are not operated by insurance companies. These plans often indemnify the hospital or the physician, on the basis of services performed, rather than…

The Blue Dahlia, American film noir, released in 1946, that featured the popular pairing of actors Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. The screenplay was written by novelist Raymond Chandler, who earned an Academy Award nomination. Johnny Morrison (played by Ladd) is a no-nonsense American navy veteran

The Blue Danube, Op. 314, waltz by Austrian composer Johann Strauss the Younger, created in 1867. The work epitomizes the symphonic richness and variety of Strauss’s dance music, which earned him acclaim as the “waltz king,” and it has become the best-known of his many dance pieces. The Blue Danube

bugloss: Viper’s bugloss (Echium vulgare), also known as blue devil or blue weed, has bright-blue flowers and grows to a height of about 90 cm (35 inches). It is a bristly European plant that has become naturalized in North America. Purple viper’s bugloss (E. plantagineum) is…

Mike Krzyzewski: while leading the Duke University Blue Devils to five national championships (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, and 2015) and 13 Final Four (championship semifinals) berths.

iminoglycinuria: …specific amino acids include the tryptophan malabsorption syndrome (or “blue diaper syndrome”), and the methionine malabsorption syndrome (or “oasthouse urine disease”). They are characterized by poor absorption of the amino acids tryptophan and methionine, respectively, from the small intestine. For other hereditary disorders of amino acid transport, see also cystinuria;…

discus fish: discus and S. aequifasciata) occur naturally in tributaries of the Amazon River in South America. Discus fish have an unusual form of parental care: the adults secrete a mucuslike substance onto their skin that provides nourishment for the young. Some reports indicate that both parents are involved…

Gabby Giffords: …she allied herself with the Blue Dog Coalition of fiscally conservative Democrats, she supported many of the economic policies of Pres. Barack Obama. While she was a vocal advocate of immigration reform—her congressional district bordered Mexico—she opposed a particularly stringent Arizona law enacted in 2010 that targeted illegal immigrants. Additionally,…

anseriform: Anatomy: The blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) has a rounded, expanded tip to the bill, which probably protects it when poking around sharp pebbles. The pochards have fewer lamellae and a narrower bill than the dabbling ducks. In the mergansers the lamellae have become toothlike projections in the…

duiker: …ranges from that of the blue duiker (C. monticola), one of the smallest antelopes, only 36 cm (14 inches) high at the shoulder and weighing about 5 kg (11 pounds), to that of the yellow-backed duiker (C. silvicultor), up to 87 cm (34 inches) high at the shoulder and weighing…

the Jayhawks: …on the band’s second album, Blue Earth (1989), released on the local Twin/Tone label. The Jayhawks began earning comparisons to the Byrds and country rock pioneers the Flying Burrito Brothers, partly because of Olson’s vocal resemblance to Gram Parsons, the Burritos’ front man. With Blue Earth, the Jayhawks became prime…

elderberry: Major species and uses: …species of elderberry include the blue, or Mexican, elder (S. caerulea), which grows to 15 metres (48 feet) and has deep blue or purple fruits; it is found in western North America. European red elder (S. racemosa), native from northern Europe to North China, has round clusters of scarlet berries…

ensign: …are entitled to fly the blue ensign. Certain other vessels, not of the Royal Navy but owned by the British government, also use the blue ensign.

Elton John: …to Frank Sinatra ballads (“Blue Eyes” [1982]) to 1950s rock and roll (“Crocodile Rock” [1972]) to Philadelphia soul (“Philadelphia Freedom” [1975]). He also demonstrated deeper musical ambitions in longer works such as “Burn Down the Mission” on Tumbleweed Connection (1971) and “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies

Willie Nelson: …featured the hit song “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” he became one of the most popular performers in country music as a whole. During this period he also established what would become a lifelong friendship with Pres. Jimmy Carter.

fescue: Blue fescue (F. glauca) has smooth silvery leaves and is commonly planted in ornamental borders. Red fescue (F. rubra) is used in lawn grass mixtures.

Iridaceae: Major genera and species: …Eurasia and North Africa; the blue flag (I. versicolor) occupies similar habitats in North America. Blackberry lily (I. domestica, formerly Belamcanda chinensis) is native to East Asia and is grown for its red-spotted orange flowers. Members of Iris also yield orrisroot (a substance used in the manufacture of perfumes, soaps,…

the blue flower, in literary works, a mystic symbol of longing. The lichtblaue Blume first appeared in a dream to the hero of Novalis’s fragmentary novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802), who associates it with the woman he loves from afar. The blue flower became a widely recognized symbol among the

Die Blaue Vier, successor group of Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider”; 1911–14), formed in 1924 in Germany by the Russian artists Alexey von Jawlensky and Wassily Kandinsky, the Swiss artist Paul Klee, and the American-born artist Lyonel Feininger. At the time of the group’s formation, Kandinsky,

Fritz Lang: Films of the 1950s: The Blue Gardenia (1953), featuring Anne Baxter as a woman accused of murdering a lecher (Raymond Burr), was a neatly plotted film noir, but it caused much less of a stir than Lang’s other film of 1953, The Big Heat. That film unleashed the raw…

supercomputer: Historical development: …2004 a prototype of IBM’s Blue Gene/L, with 8,192 processing nodes, reached a speed of about 36 TFLOPS, just exceeding the speed of the Earth Simulator. Following two doublings in the number of its processors, the ASCI Blue Gene/L, installed in 2005 at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., became…

snow goose: The lesser snow goose (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) breeds in the Arctic and usually migrates to California and Japan. The greater snow goose (C.c. atlantica) breeds in northwestern Greenland and nearby islands and winters on the east coast of the United States from Chesapeake Bay to North…

gourami: …red and blue; and the three-spot, or blue, gourami (Trichopodus trichopterus or Trichogaster trichopterus), a dark-spotted, silvery or blue species. The kissing gourami, or kissing fish (Helostoma temmincki), a greenish or pinkish white fish noted for its “kissing” activities, is a popular food fish and common in home aquariums.

grassland: Biota: …a short-grass steppe dominated by Bouteloua gracilis and Buchloe dactyloides; and to the east, to a tall-grass prairie with the bluestem grasses Andropogon gerardii and A. scoparium. Trees and shrubs were generally absent, but a large variety of herbaceous plants occurred with the grasses.

Bill Monroe: Bill’s second band, the Blue Grass Boys (his first, called the Kentuckians, played together for only three months), auditioned for the Grand Ole Opry on radio station WSM in Nashville, Tenn., and became regular performers on that program in 1939.

August Kopisch: …rediscovered, with Ernst Fries, the Blue Grotto at Capri, which, though known in Roman times, had been forgotten for centuries. Upon his return to Germany he received a pension from the Prussian crown prince. An injury to his hand ended his career as a painter, and in 1847 he was…

kimberlite, a dark-coloured, heavy, often altered and brecciated (fragmented), intrusive igneous rock that contains diamonds in its rock matrix. It has a porphyritic texture, with large, often rounded crystals (phenocrysts) surrounded by a fine-grained matrix (groundmass). It is a mica peridotite,

grouse: …of evergreen forests is the blue grouse (Dendragapus obscurus), a big, dark bird, plainer and longer-tailed than the spruce grouse and heavier than the ruffed grouse.

John Banville: Fiction: The Blue Guitar (2015) relates the tale of a painter and thief who goes on the lam after an affair with his friend’s wife is discovered. In Mrs. Osmond (2017), Banville offered a sequel to Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1881). In 2022…

Norman Taurog: Elvis movies: …helmed three more Elvis films: Blue Hawaii (1961), with the signature tune “Can’t Help Falling in Love”; Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), which featured “Return to Sender”; and It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963), with Presley performing at the Seattle World’s Fair. Although they were box-office successes, critics derided the…

Australian Cattle Dog, breed of herding dog developed in the 19th century to work with cattle in the demanding conditions of the Australian Outback. It is called a heeler because it moves cattle by nipping at their feet; this trait was introduced to the breed from the dingo in its ancestry. It is

United Nations: Peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace building: …these missions, the so-called “Blue Helmets,” were allowed to use force only in self-defense. The missions were given and enjoyed the consent of the parties to the conflict and the support of the Security Council and the troop-contributing countries.

Belize Barrier Reef: …and Marine Reserve (established 1996), Blue Hole Natural Monument (1996), Half Moon Caye Natural Monument (1982), Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve (1993), South Water Caye Marine Reserve (1977), Laughing Bird Caye National Park (1991), and Sapodilla Marine Reserve (1996).

Franz Marc: …seen in works such as Blue Horses (1911), in which the powerfully simplified and rounded outlines of the horses are echoed in the rhythms of the landscape background, uniting both animals and setting into a vigorous and harmonious organic whole. In this painting, as in his other mature works, Marc…

The Blue Hotel, short story by Stephen Crane, published serially in Collier’s Weekly (Nov. 26–Dec. 3, 1898) and then in the collection The Monster and Other Stories (1899). The story was inspired by Crane’s travels to the American Southwest in 1895. Combining symbolic imagery with naturalistic

Carolyn Forché: Later poetry collections included Blue Hour (2003) and In the Lateness of the World (2020).

Antarctic meteorite: Such areas, called blue ice for their colour, have over just a few decades provided more than 35,000 individual meteorites ranging in size from thumbnail to basketball. Although many meteorites are paired (parts of the same original fall), the Antarctic collection still represents several thousand new samples, which…

Joan Miró: Mature work and international recognition: …a sea-blue surface, as in Blue II (1961). The whimsical or aggressive irony of his earlier work gave way to a quasi-religious meditation. In 1980, in conjunction with his being awarded Spain’s Gold Medal of Fine Arts, a plaza in Madrid was named in Miró’s honour.

RuPaul: …several films, including Crooklyn (1994), Blue in the Face (1995), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), and the drag-themed comedy To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995). In addition, in 1995 he appeared in the documentary Wigstock: The Movie, published an autobiography, Lettin It All Hang Out, and signed…

Battle of Fallen Timbers: Context: …thus ceded his command to Blue Jacket (Weyapiersenwah), a Shawnee chief. Under Blue Jacket’s direction, an Indian army of some 1,500 warriors positioned themselves ahead of the legion’s anticipated path so that they could ambush the Americans. They found a clearing covered in fallen trees from a recent tornado and…

oak: Major species and uses: Popular Asian ornamentals include the blue Japanese oak (Q. glauca), daimyo oak (Q. dentata), Japanese evergreen oak (Q. acuta), and sawtooth oak (Q. acutissima). The English oak (Q. robur), a timber tree native to Eurasia and northern Africa, is cultivated in other areas of the world as an ornamental.

Woody Allen: 2000 and beyond: …locale for Allen’s next film, Blue Jasmine (2013), which starred Cate Blanchett as the wife of an unscrupulous investment banker (Baldwin). After her wealth disappears, she moves in with her blue-collar sister. Reminiscent of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Blue Jasmine took Allen’s work in a new direction as…

blue jay, (Cyanocitta cristata), large North American member of the bird family Corvidae known for its primarily blue plumage, large feather head crest, and raucous call. The blue jay is found in coniferous and deciduous forests east of the Rocky Mountains in both the United States and southern

Louise Erdrich: Her The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year (1995) is a meditation on her experience of pregnancy, motherhood, and writing. In 2015 Erdrich was a recipient of the U.S. Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

Toronto Blue Jays, Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays play in the American League (AL) and are the only franchise in Major League Baseball that plays in a city not in the United States. The team has won two AL pennants and two World Series titles (1992, 1993). The

Philadelphia Phillies, American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia that plays in the National League (NL). The Phillies have won eight NL pennants and two World Series titles (1980 and 2008) and are the oldest continuously run, single-name, single-city franchise in American

jeans, trousers originally designed in the United States by Levi Strauss in the mid-19th century as durable work clothes, with the seams and other points of stress reinforced with small copper rivets. They were eventually adopted by workingmen throughout the United States and then worldwide. Jeans

red sprites and blue jets: blue jets, flashes of light that occur above thunderstorms and that are associated with normal lightning in the thundercloud below.

Koko Nor, lake, Qinghai province, west-central China. The largest mountain lake without a river outlet in Central Asia, it is located in a depression of the Qilian Mountains, its surface at an elevation of about 10,500 feet (3,200 metres) above sea level. The length of the lake approaches 65 miles

Maya Lin: …as in 2×4 Landscape and Blue Lake Pass (both 2006), and she considered bodies of water in such works as the sculpture Silver Ontario(2012–13) and the site-specific installation A River Is a Drawing (2018). In Madison Square Park, New York, Lin planted a temporary grove of dead Atlantic white cedars…

Viktor Pelevin: …awards, including Siny fonar (1991; The Blue Lantern and Other Stories) and Problema vervolka v sredney polose (1994; A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories, also published as The Sacred Book of the Werewolf), both of which won a Russian Booker Prize. Not only were his works wildly…

Vladimir Sorokin: …words, with Goluboe salo (1999; Blue Lard). The book became widely known for its graphic sexual scenes between clones of former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Joseph Stalin (portrayed as homosexual lovers), which, though whimsical and absurd, resulted in Sorokin’s prosecution by the Russian government for the dissemination of pornography.…

Edward Riley Bradley: …acquiring such outstanding horses as Blue Larkspur—whom Bradley and his trainer Dick Thompson considered his best horse, despite the animal’s losing the Derby in 1929 on a muddy track—Bimelech, Bridal Flower, Bazaar, Black Helen, and Bagenbaggage, in addition to the four who won the Kentucky Derby: Behave Yourself (1921); Bubbling…

blue law, in U.S. history, a law forbidding certain secular activities on Sunday. The name may derive from Samuel A. Peters’s General History of Connecticut (1781), which purported to list the stiff Sabbath regulations at New Haven, Connecticut; the work was printed on blue paper. A more probable

Blue light is a category of visible light with a wavelength roughly between 380 and 500 nanometers (nm). Blue light is perceived as the color blue, though it may also be present in light perceived as another color, particularly white light. Blue light can be divided into two subcategories:

Cassandra Wilson: Her Blue Light ’til Dawn (1993) sold more than 400,000 copies. New Moon Daughter (1995) sold more than 650,000 copies and earned Wilson the 1997 Grammy Award for best jazz vocal performance. She also toured as a featured vocalist in Wynton Marsalis’s epic cantata about slavery,…

Ingrid Betancourt: …novel, La Ligne bleue (2014; The Blue Line), was a love story set during the Argentine Dirty War.

ling: elongata) and the blue ling (M. dypterygia, or M. byrkelange).

lotus: The blue lotus (N. caerulea) was the dominant lotus in Egyptian art. The sacred lotus of the Hindus is an aquatic plant (Nelumbo nucifera) with white or delicate pink flowers; the lotus of eastern North America is Nelumbo pentapetala, a similar plant with yellow blossoms (see…

marlin: The blue marlin (Makaira nigricans), found worldwide, is a very large fish, sometimes attaining a weight of 450 kg (1,000 pounds) or more. It is deep blue with a silvery belly and is often barred with lighter vertical stripes. The black marlin (Istiompax indica) grows as…

Lou Reed: …in raw guitar rock on The Blue Mask (1982), addressing his fears, ghosts, and joys with riveting frankness. No longer bedeviled by his addictions, Reed adopted a more-serious if less-daring tone on his recordings, peaking with three releases that were less concept albums than song cycles: New York (1989), about…

Peter Matthiessen: Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark (1971) sheds light on a predator about which little is known. The Snow Leopard (1978), set in remote regions of Nepal, won both the National Book Award for nonfiction and the American Book Award.

cobalt milkweed beetle, (Chrysochus cobaltinus), member of the insect subfamily Eumolpinae of the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae (order Coleoptera). The milkweed beetle is a beautiful dark cobalt blue in colour. It is a close relative of, and a bit shorter than, the dogbane beetle, and it is

ageratum: The common garden ageratum (A. houstonianum), also known as floss flower and blue mink, is frequently cultivated as an ornamental annual. Several dwarf varieties are commonly used as edging plants.

mockingbird: …America to Patagonia, and the blue mockingbird (Melanotis) inhabits much of Mexico. The Galapagos mockingbird (Nesomimus) has various races or subspecies on the different islands, showing an adaptive radiation similar to, but not as extreme as, that found in the Galapagos finch.

Mel Tormé: “Blue Moon,” which he sang in Words and Music, became his first solo hit and one of his signature tunes. In 1949 Capitol Records chose Tormé’s California Suite for its first long-playing album, and in 1954 he recorded Mel Tormé at the Crescendo, his first…

blue moon, the second full moon in a calendar month. The period from one full moon to another is about 29 12 days, so when two occur in the same month, the first of these full moons is always on the first or second day of the month. February, which has only 28 days (29 days in leap years), can

Creedence Clearwater Revival: …1997 with the Grammy Award-winning Blue Moon Swamp. Creedence Clearwater Revival was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Tabrīz: The Blue Mosque, or Masjed-e Kabūd (1465–66), has long been renowned for the splendour of its blue tile decoration. The citadel, or Ark, which was built before 1322 on the site of a collapsed mosque, is remarkable for its simplicity, its size, and the excellent condition…

Blue Mosque, 17th-century mosque that is one of the most magnificent structures of the Ottoman Empire, set next to the Byzantine Hippodrome and across from the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey. Known for having six minarets (rather than the standard four) and for its many domes and semidomes, the

Wassily Kandinsky: Munich period: In Blue Mountain (1908–09) the evolution toward nonrepresentation is already clearly underway; the forms are schematic, the colours nonnaturalistic, and the general effect that of a dream landscape. In Landscape with Tower (1909) similar tendencies are evident, together with the beginning of what might be called…

Blue Mountains: …point in the range is Blue Mountain Peak (7,402 feet [2,256 metres]). The Blue Mountains are thickly covered with tree ferns. The slopes facing the trade winds receive an average of 200 inches (5,000 mm) of rain annually, resulting in much topsoil erosion and a network of streams. Winter temperatures…

Blue Mountains, section of the Great Dividing Range, eastern New South Wales, Australia. The range comprises a well-dissected sandstone plateau that rises from an eastern escarpment (1,200–1,800 feet [370–550 metres]) to 3,871 feet (1,180 metres) in a western scarp at Bird Rock. Its slopes are

Blue Mountains, range curving northeastward for 190 mi (310 km) from central Oregon to southeastern Washington, U.S. The range reaches a width of 68 mi and an average elevation of about 6,500 ft (2,000 m); it comprises an uplifted, warped, and dissected lava plateau, above which rise several higher