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  2. ROYGBIV - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton's color sequence (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) is kept alive today by several popular mnemonics.One is simply the nonsense word roygbiv, which is an acronym for the seven colors. [5]

  3. History of Crayola crayons - Wikipedia

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    The Munsell color wheel consisted of five "principal hues" (red, yellow, green, blue, and purple), and five "intermediate hues" (yellow red, green yellow, blue green, blue purple, and red purple). Each color was available in either "maximum chroma" or with "middle value and middle chroma."

  4. LGBTQ symbols - Wikipedia

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    [92] [93] The peaceful protest against the Examiner turned tumultuous and was later called "Friday of the Purple Hand" and "Bloody Friday of the Purple Hand". [ 92 ] [ 94 ] [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Examiner employees "dumped a barrel of printers' ink on the crowd from the roof of the newspaper building", according to glbtq.com . [ 97 ]

  5. Traditional colors of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Dyestalk red (lit. the color from dying with the stalk of the beni plant) 145,50,37 #913225 檜皮色: Hihada-iro: Cypress bark color 117,46,35 #752E23 宍色: Shishi-iro: Meat-color 249,144,111 #F9906F 洗朱: Araishu: Rinsed-out red 255,121,82 #FF7952 赤香色: Akakō-iro: Red incense-colored 240,127,94 #F07F5E ときがら茶: Tokigaracha

  6. Cochineal - Wikipedia

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    The cochineal (/ ˌ k ɒ tʃ ɪ ˈ n iː l, ˈ k ɒ tʃ ɪ n iː l / KOTCH-ih-NEEL, -⁠neel, US also / ˌ k oʊ tʃ ɪ ˈ n iː l, ˈ k oʊ tʃ ɪ n iː l / KOH-chih-; [1] Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived.

  7. Colour revolution - Wikipedia

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    the activities of radical public associations and groups using nationalist and religious extremist ideology, foreign and international non-governmental organizations, and financial and economic structures, and also individuals, focused on destroying the unity and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, destabilizing the domestic ...

  8. Amaranth (color) - Wikipedia

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    The color amaranth purple is displayed at right. This color is a representation of the color of purple amaranth flowers. [6] The common name purple aramanth applies to two species: Amaranthus blitum and Amaranthus cruentus. The first recorded use of amaranth purple as a color name in English was in 1912. [7]

  9. Lilac (color) - Wikipedia

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    This color was formulated for use in interior design, where a medium dark violet color is desired. The first recorded use of French lilac as a color name in the English language was in 1814. [5] The normalized color coordinates for french lilac are identical to pomp and power, first recorded as a color name in English in 1950. [6]