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BLR
BLR may refer to: * Base Lending Rate, in banking *Bad Lip Reading, a YouTube comedy channel *Bala Lake Railway, in North Wales * Belarus, whose ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code is BLR * BLR, IATA code for Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore, India ** Former IATA code for HAL Airport, the previous primary airport of Bangalore * Beta-lactam Ring Records, an independent record label * The Biggest Little Railway in the World, a 2017 temporary model railway in the Scottish Highlands * Blacklands Railroad, based in Texas * blr, ISO 639-3 code for the Blang language of Burma and China *Breech-loading rifle * Browning BLR, a hunting rifle *'' Blacklight: Retribution'', a first-person shooter game See also * BLRC (other) *Burkitt lymphoma receptor 1 (BLR1), also known as CXCR5 C-X-C chemokine receptor type 5 (CXC-R5) also known as CD185 (cluster of differentiation 185) or Burkitt lymphoma receptor 1 (BLR1) is a G protein-coupled seven transmembrane receptor for chemokine C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Base Lending Rate
The prime rate or prime lending rate is an interest rate used by banks, typically representing the rate at which they lend to their most creditworthy customers. Some variable interest rates may be expressed as a percentage above or below prime rate. Use in different banking systems United States and Canada Historically, in North American banking, the prime rate represented actual interest rate charged to borrowers, although this is no longer universally true. The prime rate varies little among banks and adjustments are generally made by banks at the same time, although this does not happen frequently. , the prime rate was 7.50% in the United States and 5.20% in Canada. In the United States, the prime rate runs approximately 300 basis points (or 3 percentage points) above the federal funds rate, which is the interest rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans made to fulfill reserve funding requirements. The federal funds rate plus a much smaller increment is frequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Lip Reading
Bad Lip Reading is a YouTube channel created and run by an anonymous producer who intentionally lip-reading, lip-reads video clips poorly, for comedic effect. ''Rolling Stone'' described the channel as "the breakout hit" of the 2012 United States presidential election, 2012 United States presidential cycle. As of March 2025, the channel had amassed 8.13 million subscribers and over one-and-a-half billion video views. Some of the channel's original songs are available on Spotify and Apple Music. Content In non-musical contexts, ''Bad Lip Reading'' involves taking scenes from movies, television shows, or real-life events such as sports or political gatherings, replacing all the audio with Foley (filmmaking), foley sound work and then dubbing over the clip with invented dialogue that is crafted exclusively to match the speakers' mouth movements, with no regard for accuracy or sensibility. The channel occasionally produces lip-readings of Music video, music videos, which have a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bala Lake Railway
The Bala Lake Railway ( Welsh: ''Rheilffordd Llyn Tegid'') is a narrow-gauge railway along the southern shore of Bala Lake in Gwynedd, North Wales. The line, which is long, is built on a section of the former standard-gauge Ruabon–Barmouth GWR route that closed in 1965. Another section of the former permanent way is used by the Llangollen Railway. The Bala Lake Railway, which runs on -gauge preserved rolling stock, is a member of the Great Little Trains of Wales. The railway now has the largest collection of historic narrow-gauge quarry locomotives built specifically for the Slate industry in Wales, slate industry in North Wales by the Hunslet Engine Company in Leeds. History Standard Gauge The narrow-gauge Bala Lake railway uses the permanent way of the former standard-gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), international gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, norm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of with a population of . The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, six regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city; it is administered separately as a city with special status. For most of the medieval period, the lands of modern-day Belarus was ruled by independent city-states such as the Principality of Polotsk. Around 1300 these lands came fully under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; this period lasted for 500 years until the Partitions of Poland, 1792-1795 partitions of Poland-Lithuania placed Belarus within the Belarusian history in the Russian Empire, Russian Empire for the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kempegowda International Airport
Kempegowda International Airport is an international airport serving Bengaluru, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Spread over , it is located about north of the city near the suburb of Devanahalli. It is owned and operated by Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL), a public–private consortium. The airport opened in May 2008 as an alternative to the increasingly congested HAL Airport, the original commercial airport serving the city. It is named after Kempe Gowda I, the founder of Bengaluru. Kempegowda International Airport became Karnataka's first fully solar powered airport, developed by CleanMax Solar. The airport is the third-busiest in India, behind the airports in Delhi and Mumbai. It is the 26th busiest airport in Asia and the 54th busiest airport in the world as of 2024. In FY2024-25, the airport handled over 41.87 million passengers and of cargo. The airport offers connecting flights to all six inhabited continents, and direct flights t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HAL Airport
HAL Airport is an airport that serves Bengaluru, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Located about 12 km east of the city centre, it has one runway and operates 24/7. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a state-owned defence company, owns the airfield and runs a testing facility in conjunction with the Indian Armed Forces. The airport also caters to non-scheduled civilian traffic, including general, business and VIP aviation. For over 60 years, it received all domestic and international flights to the city; the Airports Authority of India shut down its civil enclave, officially known as "Bangalore International Airport", upon the opening of the Kempegowda International Airport in Devanahalli in 2008. The airport commenced operations in January 1941 as the home of India's first aircraft factory, established by the company Hindustan Aircraft. The Allies employed the airfield during the Second World War, and by 1946 commercial flights had begun. Activity at the ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beta-lactam Ring Records
Beta-lactam Ring Records is an American independent record label founded by Chris McBeth in 2000.The label relocated from its founding city of Austin, Texas to Portland, Oregon in 2001. The aesthetic focus of the label is psychedelic and experimental music with a global roster of artists representing these genres including Legendary Pink Dots (including solo work by members of the band such as Edward Ka-Spel), Nurse with Wound, Current 93, Green Milk from the Planet Orange, LSD March, Volcano the Bear, Daniel Menche Daniel Menche (born December 4, 1969) is an American experimental musician and multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. Since 1989 he has recorded many albums that are categorized as electro-acoustic, noise music, dark ambient music, abst ..., Eyeless in Gaza, and Vas Deferens Organization. The label specializes in elaborately packaged releases including vinyl albums on 180 to 220 gram high quality vinyl, and cds with highly artistic sleeves and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Biggest Little Railway In The World
The Biggest Little Railway in the World (BLR) was a temporary 71 mile (114 km) 1.25 inches (32 mm) O scale, O-gauge model railway from Fort William, Highland, Fort William to the Inverness, City of Inverness, the two largest settlements in the Scottish Highlands. It has been described as a crackpot project to run a model train the length of the Great Glen Way by an army of madcap enthusiasts, geeks, and engineers in the best spirit of eccentric wikt:Britishness, Britishness. Project The project was headed by Dick Strawbridge, Order of the British Empire, MBE. It was backed by a television production with the same name as the railway. The production team and security staff were also needed to assist with the project. Project management The project took months of planning. It was described as an operation of fiendish complexity. Calls were made for the 56 volunteers determined to be needed for the project. There were planning meetings at the start of each day. So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
