Blue amber — is amber exhibiting a rare coloration. It most commonly is found in the amber mines in the mountain ranges around Santiago, Dominican Republic. [cite web |url=http://ambarazul.com/wordpress/2006/09/ |title=Dominican Amber Mines: The Definitive… … Wikipedia
Blue Iguana — For the 1988 comedy film, see The Blue Iguana. Blue Iguana Conservation status … Wikipedia
Blue Seed — Infobox animanga/Header name = Blue Seed caption = Title screen ja name = 碧奇魂 ブルー シード ja name trans = Aokushimitama Burū Shīdo genre = Paranormal, Romance, ActionInfobox animanga/Manga title = author = Yuzo Takada publisher = flagicon|Japan… … Wikipedia
Powder glass beads — The earliest powder glass beads on record were discovered during archaeological excavations at Mapungubwe, in present day Zimbabwe, and dated to 970 1000 CE. In our time, the main area of powder glass bead manufacture is West Africa, most… … Wikipedia
Kiffa beads — are rare powder glass beads named after the Mauritanian city of Kiffa, where French ethnologist R.Mauny documented them first in 1949.cite journal| last = Mauny| first = R| title = Fabrication de perles de verre en Mauritanie| journal = Notes… … Wikipedia
Murano beads — are intricate glass beads influenced by Venetian glass artists. Since 1291, the Murano glassmakers have refined technologies such as crystalline glass, enamelled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold (aventurine), multicoloured glass… … Wikipedia
Han purple and Han blue — (also called Chinese purple and Chinese blue) are synthetic barium copper silicate pigments that were developed in China at least 2,000 years ago. Han purple and Han blue were used in ancient and imperial China from the Western Zhou period (1207… … Wikipedia
Han Purple and Han Blue — Infobox Color|title=Han Purple|textcolor=white hex=5218FA r= 82|g= 24|b=250 c= |m= |y= |k= h= 260|s= 97|v= 47 source= [http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.spacedaily.com/images/microscopic han purple sm.jpg… … Wikipedia
Buddhist prayer beads — Juzu Buddhist prayer beads are a traditional tool used to count the number of times a mantra is recited whilst meditating. They are similar to other forms of prayer beads used in various world religions; thus some call this tool the Buddhist… … Wikipedia
to be at one's beads — Bead Bead (b[=e]d), n. [OE. bede prayer, prayer bead, AS. bed, gebed, prayer; akin to D. bede, G. bitte, AS. biddan, to ask, bid, G. bitten to ask, and perh. to Gr. pei qein to persuade, L. fidere to trust. Beads are used by the Roman Catholics… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
