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Deep Blue Sea

Director:Renny HarlinWriters:Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers and Wayne PowersWarner Bros.; 100 minutes; RRelease:7/99Cast:Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J, Samuel L. Jackson In Deep Blue…

Blue Nile

(Encyclopedia) Blue Nile, Arab. Bahr el Azraq, river, c.1,000 mi (1,600 km) long, the chief headstream of the Nile, rising in Lake Tana, NW Ethiopia, at an altitude of c.6,000 ft (1,800 m). It flows…

lapis lazuli

(Encyclopedia) lapis lazulilapis lazulilăpˈĭs lăzˈ&oobreve;lē [key], gem, deep blue, violet, or greenish blue in color and usually flecked with yellow iron pyrites. It is composed of lazurite, a…

Deep Rising

Director/Writer:Stephen SommersDirector of Photography:Howard AthertonEditors:Bob Ducsay and John WrightMusic:Jerry GoldsmithProduction Designer:Holger GrossProducers:Laurence Mark and John…

Deep Impact

Director:Mimi LederWriters:Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael TolkinDirector of Photography:Dietrich LohmannEditor:David RosenbloomMusic:James HornerProduction Designer:Leslie DilleyProducers:David…

Caño Cristales

(Encyclopedia) Caño Cristales, river, c.62 mi (100 km) long, central Colombia, rising in Serranía de la Macarena National Park and flowing SE to the Guayabero River. Also known as the “River of Five…

grape hyacinth

(Encyclopedia) grape hyacinth, any plant of the genus Muscari of the family Liliaceae (lily family), low plants with dense spikelike clusters of small, nodding flowers that are usually deep blue. Of…

Classics of Blues Literature

Blues and Gospel Records 1902-1942, J. Godrich and R.M.W. Dixon Blues Unlimited (magazine) Chicago Breakdown (Chicago Blues), Mike Rowe…

tang, in zoology

(Encyclopedia) tang, common name for certain members of the Acanthuridae, a family of mostly small, mainly reef-dwelling tropical fishes with compressed bodies and small mouths and teeth. Other…

Crater Lake National Park

(Encyclopedia) Crater Lake National Park, 183,224 acres (74,206 hectares), SW Oreg., in the Cascade Range; est. 1902. Crater Lake, 20 sq mi (52 sq km), lies in a huge pit that was created when the…