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Blitz
, German for "lightning" or "very fast", may refer to:
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Armed conflict
- Blitzkrieg, the "very fast executed war", a strategy of World War 2 Germany.
- The Blitz, the German aerial attacks on Britain in WWII. The name Blitz
was subsequently applied to many individual bombing campaigns or attacks.
- *Baedeker Blitz, the German reprisal bombing of strategically unimportant, but picturesque, British cities.
- *Barrow Blitz
- *Belfast Blitz (1941)
- *Belfast Bomb Blitz (1972), better known as Bloody Friday. The Provisional IRA set off 22 bombs in Belfast, killing 9 people.
- *Birmingham Blitz
- *Bristol Blitz
- *Cardiff Blitz
- *Coventry Blitz
- *Clydebank Blitz
- *Greenock Blitz
- *Hull Blitz
- *Liverpool Blitz
- *Manchester Blitz
- *Plymouth Blitz
- *Rotterdam Blitz
- *Sheffield Blitz
- *Southampton Blitz
People
- Andy Blitz (1971-), writer, actor and comedian.
- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, American, thrash metal musician.
- David Blitz, philosopher.
- Maurice Blitz (1891 – 1975), Belgian Olympic water polo player.
- Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur) (1912 - 1990) - founder of Club Med.
- Gérard Blitz (sportsman) (1901 - 1979) - swimming and waterpolo Olympic medalist
- Jeffrey Blitz, American film director and screenwriter.
- Johnny Blitz, punk rock drummer.
- Julien Paul Blitz (1885–1951), a Belgian-American conductor.
- Phil Blitz, professional wrestler.
- Rayner Blitz (1968-), cricketer.
- Simon Blitz, British entrepreneur.
- Urban Blitz, British rock musician.
- Wilhelm Biltz (1877-1943), German chemist and scientific editor.
Computing
- Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language.
- BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College.
- Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing.
- Blitz QFD
Computer games
- Blue Wing Blitz
- Blitz (Computer Game), a bombing game for the Commodore PET.
- Blitz 1941, WW2 based, massively multiplayer, online, real-time strategy game.
- Blitz: The League, an American football game series developed by Midway Games after the National Football League signed an exclusive licensing deal with Electronic Arts.
- Cannonball Blitz
- Cray Blitz, chess program for the Cray supercomputer.
- London Blitz
(computer game), a 1983 strategy game for the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64.
- Goal Line Blitz, massively multiplayer, online, American football game.
- NFL Blitz, an American football game series developed by Midway Games.
- Blitz - The name of the ultraviolent sport in the game Deathrow for the Xbox.
- Blitz (Final Fantasy VI)
Sports
American football
- Blitz (NFL Mascot), the mascot of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks.
- Blitz (American football), a defensive maneuver in American football.
- Bakersfield Blitz, former arena football team.
- Corner Blitz, a group of Michigan State University supporters.
- Chicago Blitz, a USFL American football team.
- London Blitz (American football), a London-based American football team.
- Montreal Blitz, women's American football team.
- Plymouth Blitz (BCAFL), Plymouth University, American football team.
- Syracuse Blitz, former PIFL team.
- The Blitz (television), a TV show on ESPNEWS.
- Zone Blitz, a defensive maneuver in American football.
Other sports
- Blitz, a two-hand technique in semicontact fighting sports.
- Blitz, a Japanese tuning company which competes in the D1 Grand Prix.
- SV Blitz Breslau, former German soccer team.
- Utah Blitzz, former professional soccer team
Music
- Blitz (band), a British punk rock band
- Blitz
(album), 2009 KMFDM studio album
- The Blitz
(album), 1984 Krokus album
- The Blitz
(thebandwithnoname album), 2002 studio album
- Blitz (Brazilian band), a new wave Brazilian band from the 1980s
- Blitz (newspaper), a Portuguese music newspaper
- Blitz! (musical), a musical by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz
- The Ballroom Blitz, song first recorded by the band Sweet
- Gods of Blitz, German rock band
- WBZX, 99.7 "The Blitz", common call term used for the Columbus, OH radio station WBZX
- It's Blitz!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2009 album
Vehicles
- Arado Ar 234 Blitz
, a German, World War 2, jet bomber.
- Bedford Blitz, a truck manufactured by Bedford Vehicles.
- Bertone Blitz, a 1992 electric sports car.
- Opel Blitz, a German light truck built from 1930 to 1973.
- Blitz, nickname for both Ford and Chevrolet Canadian Military Pattern trucks made for use in WW2.
Toys and games
- Alpha Blitz, word game.
- Blitz chess, a chess game allowing only 5 minutes for each player.
- Blitz (game), card game.
- Dutch Blitz, card game.
- Blitz (Beanie Baby), American football themed, Beanie Baby; produced by Ty, Inc..
Fictional characters
- Blitz, the alter-ego of the character George in the web comic Bob and George.
- Blitz (character), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action/comedy cartoon Road Rovers
- Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon, Bowser and Blitz.
- Zorin Blitz, character from the Manga Hellsing.
Companies
- Blitz Games, British computer games company.
- Blitz Soft, a Romanian software company.
- Blitz Research, New Zealand software company.
Other
- All-Star Blitz, 1985, television game-show.
- Alpen Blitz, roller-coaster,
- Blitz, a 1980s night club in London, see Blitz Kids.
- Blitz
, the codename of the East German spy, Hüseyin Yildirim.
- Blitz (movement), a radical youth movement in Norway. They are often compared to the UK anarchists from the 1970's.
- Blitz (magazine), a weekly "what's on" magazine published by Arc @ UNSW at the University of New South Wales.
- Blitz Wolf, 1942, anti-German animation.
- Domestic Blitz, Australian television programme.
- Sportz Blitz, television sports program.
- The Weekly Blitz, a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper edited by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.
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