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), species of leaf beetle found throughout the far western United States. The milkweed beetle is a beautiful dark cobalt blue in color. The cobalt milkweed beetle feeds on milkweed and dogbane plants. It is a close relative of, and a bit shorter than,

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.

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

Lorenz Hart: Death and legacy: …subject of the 2025 film Blue Moon, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke as Hart.

Lorenz Hart: Death and legacy: …Still” (1927), “Lover” (1933), “Blue Moon” (1934; their only song not introduced in a stage or film production), “My Funny Valentine” (1937), “Falling in Love with Love” (1938), “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” (1939), and “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” (1940).

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.

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

Tabriz: Notable sites: The Blue Mosque, or Masjed-e Kabūd (1465–66), has long been renowned for the splendor 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…

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…

Maloti Mountains: …Maloti Mountains is properly the Front Range of the Maloti, sometimes called the Blue Mountains. It is a broad southwesterly spur from the Drakensberg Range near the northern tip of Lesotho and a few miles from its highest point, Mont aux-Sources. The Front Range is extended almost to Lesotho’s southwestern…

Blue Mountains, range in eastern Jamaica that extends for about 30 miles (50 km) from Stony Hill, 8 miles north of Kingston, eastward to the Caribbean Sea. The highest point in the range is Blue Mountain Peak (7,402 feet [2,256 metres]). The Blue Mountains are thickly covered with tree ferns. The

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

Blue Mountains: Blue Mountains National Park, a 1,035-square-mile (2,680-square-km) nature reserve centred on the Grose River valley, lies within the region. The mountains are named for their bluish colour, which apparently is caused by light rays diffusing through droplets of oil dispersed into the air by the…

Elton John: Superstardom and showmanship: …in 1976 with the album Blue Moves, his rock influences became less pronounced, and a more churchlike English pop style emerged in ballads such as “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word” (1976), which typifies the staid declamatory aura of his mature ballads. In the late 1970s and ’80s, as…

Andy Warhol: … (1963), My Hustler (1965), and Blue Movie (1969) are known for their inventive eroticism, plotless boredom, and inordinate length (up to 25 hours). Other movies include Poor Little Rich Girl (1965) and Lupe (1966), both of which featured Edie Sedgwick.

mussel: , the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis) are important as food in Europe and other parts of the world and are raised commercially. M. edulis, which attains lengths of up to 11 cm and is usually blue or purple, has been cultivated in Europe since the 13th century.…

Indigo Revolt, rebellion of peasant farmers in 1859–60 in the Bengal region of northeastern India against British indigo planters. The need for indigo, an important source of indigo dye, to feed the British cotton textile industry—whose tremendous growth had been spurred by the Industrial

American Broadcasting Company: Origins: …called the Red and the Blue networks. After the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declared in 1941 that no company could own more than one radio network, NBC in 1943 sold the less-lucrative Blue Network to Edward J. Noble, the millionaire maker of Life Savers candy, who initially renamed it the…

Joan Didion: Journalism, Play It as It Lays, screenplays, and memoirs: …visited tragedy and loss in Blue Nights (2011), a memoir in which she attempted to come to terms with the death of her daughter, who had died of pancreatitis and septic shock at age 39 in 2005.

Blue Nile River, headstream of the Nile River and source of almost 70 percent of its floodwater at Khartoum. It reputedly rises as the Abay from a spring 6,000 feet (1,800 meters) above sea level, near Lake Tana in northwestern Ethiopia. The river flows into and out of the lake, runs through a

jazz: West Africa in the American South: Gathering the musical elements of jazz: …blues scale, with its “blue notes”—the flatted third and seventh degrees. This scale is neither particularly African nor particularly European but acquired its peculiar modality from pitch inflections common to any number of West African languages and musical forms. In effect these highly expressive—and in African terms very meaningful—pitch…

Patricia Barber: In 1998 Blue Note purchased Premonition, and, when the label began distributing Barber’s albums, sales quickly rose. For her sixth album, Night Club (2000), Barber returned to interpreting familiar standard songs in her intimate yet dramatic style. The compact disc became a jazz best seller, spending eight…

Henri Matisse: Riviera years of Henri Matisse: …burning—happily, merely in effigy—of his Blue Nude (1907). But middle age, growing affluence, an established international reputation, the disruptions of World War I, and a distaste for public commotion gradually combined to isolate him from the centers of avant-gardism. He began to winter on the French Riviera, and by the…

Michael McDonald: Career: He released the album Blue Obsession in 1997, which features the original song “All I Need” and his rendition of Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic “Ain’t That Peculiar” (which was cowritten by Smokey Robinson). He went on to release the tribute albums Motown (2003), Motown Two (2004), Soul Speak (2008),…

Sam Francis: Francis’s painting Blue on a Point (1958) exemplifies his lyrical and elegant approach during that period. His canvases typically present brilliant colours flowing in amorphous forms over unprimed canvas. He applied thinly textured paint with dripping and splashing techniques, creating areas of bright colour that formed powerful…

Blue Origin, the American aerospace company founded in 2000 by billionaire tech entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, was the first private company to successfully land a reusable rocket on a landing pad. Often in competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Blue Origin was—as of early 2026—the leader in space tourism,

Heavy Metal: Music: … (“Working in the Coal Mine”), Blue Öyster Cult (“Veteran of the Psychic Wars”), Donald Fagen (“True Companion”), Stevie Nicks (“Blue Lamp”), Sammy Hagar (“Heavy Metal”), and the Eagles guitarist Don Felder (“Heavy Metal [Takin’ a Ride]” and “All of You”), among others. Much of the music was licensed for the…

palo verde: Blue palo verde (Parkinsonia florida) is a bushy tree that grows up to 9 metres (30 feet) high. It is found in desert areas of southern California, Arizona, and northwestern Mexico, including the Baja California peninsula, and is a characteristic woody plant along washes in…

peacock: …species of peafowl are the blue, or Indian, peacock (Pavo cristatus), of India and Sri Lanka, and the green, or Javanese, peacock (P. muticus), found from Myanmar (Burma) to Java. The Congo peacock (Afropavo congensis), which inhabits the forested interior of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was discovered in…

blue penguin, (Eudyptula minor), species of penguin (order Sphenisciformes) characterized by its diminutive stature and pale blue to dark gray plumage. It is the smallest of all known penguin species, and it is the only species of the genus Eudyptula. There are, however, six subspecies: E. minor

Pablo Picasso: Blue Period of Pablo Picasso: Between 1901 and mid-1904, when blue was the predominant colour in his paintings, Picasso moved back and forth between Barcelona and Paris, taking material for his work from one place to the other. For example, his visits to the Women’s Prison…

children’s television: Children’s television in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan: …represented in the BBC’s hit Blue Peter (1958– ), the longest running children’s television program in the world, which long ago established itself as a British cultural institution. The show has a nonfiction magazine/entertainment format emphasizing exciting segments, such as craft making, celebrity interviews, and competitions. Its adventurous spirit and…

Blue Peter, (foaled 1936), English racehorse (Thoroughbred), unbeaten during the 1939 racing season when he won two of the events comprising the British Triple Crown: the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket and the Derby at Epsom Downs. The beginning of World War II deprived him of the chance to race

phlox: Major species: Blue phlox (P. divaricata) is a spring-flowering woodland perennial growing up to 45 cm (1.5 feet) with blue to white flower clusters. Perennial phlox (P. pilosa), about the same height, bears red-purple flowers on hairy plants in summer in upland woods and prairies of central…

blue-eyed grass: Blue pigroot (S. micranthum) is found throughout South and Central America and parts of Mexico and has naturalized elsewhere. Another South American species, the pale yellow-eyed grass, or Argentine blue-eyed grass (S. striatum), bears a spike up to 90 cm (35 inches) tall with clusters…

What does “black pill” refer to?: Those who pick the blue pill remain blissfully ignorant about the true ways of the world. Those who take the red pill see the truth about the Matrix, the technological system through which humans are exploited by robots, with all its unsettling and tragic elements, and understand their previously…

Brunonia: Brunonia, commonly known as blue pincushion, is a perennial herb that grows 30 cm (1 foot) tall with spade-shaped leaves arranged in rosettes at the base of the stem. The plant produces heads of blue five-lobed flowers, and seeds are borne singly in small dry fruits.

pine: Major Eurasian pines: The Himalayan white pine (or blue pine, P. wallichiana) differs chiefly from the Italian stone pine in its longer cones and drooping glaucous foliage. It grows in parts of India, in Bhutan, and on some of Nepal’s ranges, where it attains large dimensions. The chir pine…

oyster: Popular varieties include the blue point and lynnhaven—forms of C. virginica (harvested, respectively, from the Blue Point, Long Island, and Lynnhaven Bay, Va., regions); as well as the colchester of Britain and the marennes of France. The colchester and marennes are forms of O. edulis.

mako shark, (genus Isurus), either of two species of swift, active, potentially dangerous sharks of the mackerel shark family, Lamnidae. The shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) is found in all tropical and temperate seas, and the longfin mako (I. paucus) is scattered worldwide in tropical seas. Mako

Blue Poles, mixed media painting on canvas created in 1952 by American Abstract Expressionist artist Jackson Pollock. It is one of the best known of the artist’s work and was painted on a canvas stretched on the floor of his studio. Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, the youngest of five sons. His

quail: …scaled, or blue, quail (Callipepla squamata). Grayish, with scaly markings and a white-tipped crest, it is the fastest quail afoot, with running speeds measured at 24 km (15 miles) per hour. The mountain, or plumed, quail (Oreortyx pictus), gray and reddish with a long straight plume, is perhaps the…

Native American: Boarding schools: …1966, while in Canada the Blue Quills First Nations College in Alberta was the first to achieve that status, in 1971.

racer: Blue racers are the central and western North American subspecies of C. constrictor; they are plain bluish, greenish blue, gray, or brownish, sometimes with yellow bellies. The eastern subspecies is called black snake; it is all black except for a patch of white on its…

ship: The Atlantic Ferry: …and Pacific—and in 1851 the Blue Riband (always a metaphorical rank rather than an actual trophy) given for the speediest crossing of the New York–Liverpool route passed from Cunard’s Acadia to the Collins Pacific, with the winning speed averaging 13 knots. The Collins Line, however, did not survive for long.…

Nike, Inc., is one of the largest and best-recognized global sports and athleticwear brands. Its extensive lineup includes its long-running Air Jordan, Air Force 1, and other “Air” models. Converse shoes and apparel (including those bearing the iconic Chuck Taylor All Stars logo) have also been a

Der Blaue Reiter, organization of artists based in Germany that contributed greatly to the development of abstract art. Neither a movement nor a school with a definite program, Der Blaue Reiter was a loosely knit organization of artists that organized group shows between 1911 and 1914. After

Blue Ridge, segment of the Appalachian Mountains in the United States. The mountains extend southwestward for 615 miles (990 km) from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, through parts of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, to Mount Oglethorpe, Georgia. The range, a relatively narrow ridge,

Blue Ridge, segment of the Appalachian Mountains in the United States. The mountains extend southwestward for 615 miles (990 km) from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, through parts of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, to Mount Oglethorpe, Georgia. The range, a relatively narrow ridge,

Blue Ridge Parkway, scenic motor route, extending 469 miles (755 km) primarily through the Blue Ridge segment of the Appalachian Mountains in the western portions of Virginia and North Carolina, U.S. It links Shenandoah National Park (northeast) with Great Smoky Mountains National Park (southwest)

Sam Mendes: Cabaret, The Blue Room, and American Beauty: …provocative rendition of David Hare’s The Blue Room.

Rosemary Clooney: …Strayhorn, she recorded the album Blue Rose; though not a popular success when it was released, it was later deemed a jazz classic.

runner: The blue runner (Caranx crysos) is a shiny, greenish or bluish fish of the Atlantic. Like others in the family, blue runners have deeply forked tails. They are popular game fish that reach lengths of 60 cm (2 feet).

salvia: Major species: Blue sage (S. farinacea) opens bright blue flowers after rains in the hills of southwestern North America. Possibly the best-known species is the garden annual scarlet sage (S. splendens) from Brazil, the blazing spikes of which contrast with dark green oval leaves.

Dipsacales: Dipsacus clade: Devil’s bit (Succisa pratensis), a blue-flowered perennial, grows wild in European meadows. Its leaves are entire or slightly lobed and oval to narrow in shape.

nudibranch: …in warm seas are the blue sea slug (Glaucus marina, or G. atlanticus) and the doridacean nudibranchs such as Doris and Glossodoris. See gastropod.

Fabergé egg: The Blue Serpent Clock (1895) featured a rotating dial that wrapped around the top of the egg; the head of a serpent pointed to the hour. The Orange Tree (1911; also called Bay Tree), one of the larger pieces, had an egg that was more than…

blue shark, (Prionace glauca), shark of the family Carcharhinidae found in tropical and temperate oceans. The blue shark is noted for its attractive deep-blue colouring contrasting with a pure-white belly. It is a slim shark, with a pointed snout, saw-edged teeth, and long, slim pectoral fins. Most

blue sheep, (genus Pseudois), either of two species of sheeplike mammals, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), that inhabit upland slopes in a wide range throughout China, from Inner Mongolia to the Himalayas. Despite their name, blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur) are neither blue nor sheep. As

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…

Cassandra Wilson: Her third album, Blue Skies (1988), was more traditional; a collection of mostly jazz standards, it became her first popular success.

Mark Sandrich: …began working on the musical Blue Skies (1946) with Astaire and Crosby. During production, however, Sandrich died of a heart attack; Stuart Heisler completed the film.

Tony Richardson: Richardson’s final film, the drama Blue Sky (1994), for which Jessica Lange earned an Oscar, was released three years after his death from complications of AIDS.

blue sky law, any of various U.S. state laws designed to regulate sales practices associated with securities (e.g., stocks and bonds). The term blue sky law originated from concerns that fraudulent securities offerings were so brazen and commonplace that issuers would sell building lots in the blue

Mac Miller: Blue Slide Park: …dropped his debut studio album, Blue Slide Park, named for a playground in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park. On the one hand, the album achieved groundbreaking commercial success for an independent debut album. On the other hand, it received scathing critical reviews; Pitchfork called Miller “crushingly bland” and gave the album a…

Verbenaceae: …Asian species, is exemplified by blue spirea, or bluebeard (C. incana), an oval-leaved shrub up to 1.5 metres tall with clusters of bright blue flowers in the autumn. Other tropical plants such as the Chinese hat plant (Holmskioldia sanguinea) and species of pigeon berry, or golden dewdrop (Duranta), and glory-bower…

spruce: Major species: The blue spruce, or Colorado spruce (P. pungens), has a similar range and is used as an ornamental because of its bluish leaves and symmetrical growth habit. The Norway spruce (P. abies), an important timber and ornamental tree native to northern Europe, is used in reforestation…

Kathryn Bigelow: Rise in Hollywood: Near Dark, Blue Steel, and Strange Days: She described Blue Steel (1989), which she cowrote and directed, as a “woman’s action film.” The crime drama starred Jamie Lee Curtis as a policewoman who is stalked by a serial killer. Bigelow’s next film, Point Break (1991), centers on an FBI agent (played by Keanu Reeves)…

blue straggler star, star of bluish colour (and thus hot) that is found in old star clusters and that appears to be lagging behind most of the other stars in the cluster in its evolution toward a cooler, reddish state. Blue stragglers tend to be strongly concentrated toward the centre of the

roller coaster: Expansion in the United States: The Fireball (formerly the Blue Streak) was hyped as the fastest coaster ever built, but the Chicago park’s claim that it reached speeds of 100 miles (160 km) per hour was likely exaggerated by almost 35 percent. The Chicago building code limited track height to 72…

Carl Perkins: …break came in 1956 with “Blue Suede Shoes,” which he wrote after observing a dancer taking pains to preserve his new footwear. The song made the Top Five on the pop, country, and rhythm-and-blues charts, an unprecedented feat. En route to New York City to perform on national television, Carl…

Howard Nemerov: …Poems and Two Plays (1962), Blue Swallows (1967), Gnomes and Occasions (1973), The Western Approaches (1975), Sentences (1980), Inside the Onion (1984), and War Stories (1987). As a social critic, he produced powerfully satiric poems.

tanager: …eight species of Thraupis, the blue, or blue-gray, tanager (Thraupis episcopus, sometimes virens) is common from Mexico to Peru and is introduced in Florida.

Leroy Anderson: …composer of “Sleigh Ride,” “Blue Tango,” and other popular light orchestral music with memorable, optimistic melodies and often unusual percussion effects.

animal social behavior: Social interactions involving sex: …example, female blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) that accept copulations with males in addition to their mates have faster-growing offspring, suggesting genetic benefits of extra-pair mating. In red-winged blackbirds, the females not only benefit through increased offspring performance, but they are allowed access to food on the extra-pair male’s territory.…

toadflax: …in the genus Nuttallanthus, including blue, or old-field, toadflax (N. canadensis, formerly L. canadensis), a delicate light blue flowering plant found throughout North America.

South Africa: Railways and roads: The luxurious Blue Train—which primarily runs the 1,000 miles (1,600 km) between Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Cape Town—and the surviving steam-operated services are popular tourist attractions.

John Coltrane: …of a high quality, particularly Blue Train (1957), perhaps the best recorded example of his early hard bop style (see bebop). Recordings from the end of the decade, such as Giant Steps (1959) and My Favorite Things (1960), offer dramatic evidence of his developing virtuosity. Nearly all of the many…

Ruskin Bond: Adaptations and accolades: …Vishal Bharadwaj adapted Bond’s novella The Blue Umbrella (1974) into a film of the same name in 2005. Bharadwaj later created 7 Khoon Maaf (2011; “Seven Murders Forgiven”), based on the short story “Susanna’s Seven Husbands” (2011), with Bond making a cameo in the movie. India’s public service broadcaster Doordarshan…

Ryan Gosling: Half Nelson, The Big Short, and La La Land: …Williams in the romantic drama Blue Valentine (2010) before appearing in the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) alongside fellow A-listers Steve Carell, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, and Marisa Tomei. That same year Gosling played a stunt driver who runs afoul of a group of gangsters after a robbery gone…

Vanda: The bluish-flowered blue vanda (V. coerulea) and the dark-spotted V. tricolor are other well-known species.

Curtis Bernhardt: 1950s and ’60s: …Bogart as a gunrunner, while The Blue Veil (1951) was a soap opera of a high order, centring on a nurse (Jane Wyman) who sets aside her own desires to serve a variety of patients over a lifetime; this nearly forgotten role earned Wyman an Academy Award nomination. The Merry…

David Lynch: Lynch conceived, wrote, and directed Blue Velvet (1986), an unsettling and surreal mystery that was widely regarded as a masterpiece and earned him another Oscar nomination for best director. He came to wide popular notice, however, with the deeply strange television mystery/soap opera Twin Peaks (1990–91), which he created with…

verbena: The blue vervain (V. hastata) reaches a height of 1.5 metres (5 feet) and produces spikes of blue to purple flowers. The Eurasian species V. officinalis, the herb of the cross, was once considered a medicinal plant.

Caacupé: …celebrate the festival of the Blue Virgin of the Miracles, whose shrine stands on Caacupé’s central plaza. The National Agronomic Institute, created in 1943, operates a large experimental farm in Caacupé to research crops. The town also manufactures tiles. Caacupé can be reached by paved highway from Asunción. Pop. (2002)…

copper: Principal compounds: Cupric sulfate is a salt formed by treating cupric oxide with sulfuric acid. It forms as large, bright blue crystals containing five molecules of water (CuSO4∙5H2O) and is known in commerce as blue vitriol. The anhydrous salt is produced by heating the hydrate to 150…

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…