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    "The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian...
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  • Blue Danube may refer to: "The Blue Danube", a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II The Blue Danube (1926 film), a German silent film directed by Frederic...
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  • Blue Danube was the first operational British nuclear weapon. It also went by a variety of other names, including Smallboy, the Mk.1 Atom Bomb, Special...
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    The Danube (/ˈdæn.juːb/ DAN-yoob; see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia. It flows through Central and...
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  • Blue Danube Radio (BDR) was an English-language radio station broadcast by the Österreichischer Rundfunk (English: Austrian Broadcasting; a.k.a. ORF)...
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  • classical pieces resurgences in popularity, such as Johann Strauss II's 1866 Blue Danube Waltz, Richard Strauss' symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, and György...
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    the 1870s was known as "Meissen". Today, a Japanese version called "Blue Danube" is well-known and featured amongst tableware patterns. While the design...
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  • Blue Danube is the fifth studio album by Azalia Snail, released in 1995 by Normal Records. All tracks are written by Azalia Snail Adapted from Blue Danube...
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  • The Blue Danube is a 1932 British romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Brigitte Helm, Joseph Schildkraut and Desmond Jeans. Its plot,...
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    near Linz, the third-largest city in Austria. It was also known as the Blue Danube Airport until 2019. Air traffic used to take place at the Südbahnhofmarkt...
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    The Blue Danube is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film starring Leatrice Joy. Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was...
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  • (Valiant/Blue Danube Trials) Flight RAF was reformed at RAF Wittering on 3 August 1954 as a Vickers Valiant unit to integrate the Blue Danube nuclear weapon...
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    pronunciation: [ˈeːɐ̯stə ˈdoːnaʊ​ˌdampf​ˌʃɪffaːɐ̯ts​ɡəˌzɛlʃaft], literally First-Danube-Steamboat-Shipping Company) or DDSG was a shipping company founded in 1829...
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    19th century. Some of Johann Strauss's most famous works include "The Blue Danube", "Kaiser-Walzer" (Emperor Waltz), "Tales from the Vienna Woods", "Frühlingsstimmen"...
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    weapon, Blue Danube. Electrical power was supplied by duplicated ram-air turbines located behind the twin air intakes in the flat nose. The earlier Blue Danube...
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  • Valses nobles et sentimentales for piano and La valse for orchestra. "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II remains the most famous waltz ever composed. Other...
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    atomic bomb when a Blue Danube was exploded over Maralinga, South Australia during Operation Buffalo. About fifty-eight Blue Danube bombs were produced...
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  • ten-kiloton nuclear mine, later renamed Blue Peacock, using the Blue Danube physics package. Blue Bunny, flight suit ("Suit, Flyers, Electrically Heated, Type...
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  • significant improvement over Blue Danube was the electrical system for the bomb firing mechanism and the radar altimeter fuse. Blue Danube had used 6 volt lead–acid...
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  • the event of Soviet invasion from the east. Blue Peacock was designed after the free-falling Blue Danube and weighed 7.2 long tons (7,300 kg). A total...
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  • On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314 Die Fledermaus Overture Roses From the South Waltz, Op. 388 On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314 Vienna...
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  • 1995, during a year abroad, she began working for FUNtastic Show on Blue Danube Radio, in Vienna. In the year abroad, she had work placements with Reuters...
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    var. typicum Ageratum houstonianum f. versicolor The cultivars 'Blue Danube' and 'Blue Horizon' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of...
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    tests, each with a different purpose. The UK's first nuclear weapon, Blue Danube, was large and cumbersome, being 7.3 metres (24 ft) long and 1.5 metres...
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    Vulcan initially carried Britain's first nuclear weapon, the Blue Danube gravity bomb. Blue Danube was a low-kiloton yield fission bomb designed before the...
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    'Colorwheel', which is white, turning purple over time, and 'Blue Danube', which has a blue flower head with a white center. More unusual cultivars include...
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    or RA-115-01 as examples) Blue Steel Yellow Sun productionised air-delivered thermonuclear bomb casing. Warheads Blue Danube Fission weapon. Red Snow for...
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    performing "Sag ihr, ich lass sie grüßen" in Naples (1965) Postcard for Blue Danube in The Hague (1980) Tie Break performing "Du bist" in Istanbul (2004)...
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  • the end of the 19th century, for example in Johann Strauss II’s "The Blue Danube" waltz. Richard Taruskin sees Strauss’s use of the added sixth chord...
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    (January 9, 1969), "Saturday Night In Venice" (September 25, 1969), "The Blue, Blue Danube" (October 30, 1969), "Payoff In The Piazza" (November 13, 1969) and...
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