- A
ribbon or
riband is a thin band of material,
typically cloth but also
plastic or
sometimes metal, used
primarily as
decorative binding and tying. Cloth...
- The Blue
Riband (/
ˈrɪbənd/) is an
unofficial accolade given to the p****enger
liner crossing the
Atlantic Ocean in
regular service with the
record highest...
- The
riband wave (Idaea aversata) is a moth of the
family Geometridae. The
species was
first described by Carl
Linnaeus in his 1758 10th
edition of Systema...
- Look up Blue
Riband in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Blue
Riband is an
accolade given to the p****enger ship that held the
fastest record for transatlantic...
- OBE
badge and
riband (military division) CBE
badge and
riband (military division) When the
order was
founded in 1917, badges,
ribands and
stars were...
- Blue
Riband is a
chocolate biscuit currently produced by Nestlé. The bar was
launched in 1936 by Gray Dunn, one of Scotland's
major biscuit producers and...
-
Estonian Red
Cross have the same design. The blue
colour tone of the moiré
ribands belonging to the
decorations of all the
classes of the
Order of the Estonian...
- new
concepts emerged to deal with this threat.
Among them was the Blue
Riband radar,
which used a
dozen 8 MW
klystrons that
randomly changed frequencies...
-
planking (chesses) are
placed atop the
stringers to
provide a roadbed.
Ribands bolt the
planking to the stringers.
Later in the war, the
wooden planking...
-
explained that, "We don't
believe in
racing on the Atlantic, or in blue
ribands, or
trophies and the like."
Hales again changed the
rules so that the trophy...
