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  2. 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]

  3. 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.

  4. M&M's - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, the company ran the M&M's Color Campaign, a contest in which participants were given the choice of selecting purple, blue, or pink as the color of a new variety of M&M's. The announcement of the winning color (blue) was carried on most of the television networks' news programs, as well as the talk shows of David Letterman and Jay Leno ...

  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. 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 ...

  7. 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 ]

  8. Red-violet - Wikipedia

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    Eggplant is a dark purple [15] or purplish brown, [16] color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplant. [17] Another name for the color "eggplant" is aubergine [16] (the French and British English word for eggplant). The first recorded use of "eggplant" as a color name in English was in 1915. [18] Eggplants, or aubergines

  9. Maroon - Wikipedia

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    Maroon (US/UK / m ə ˈ r uː n / mə-ROON, [2] Australia / m ə ˈ r oʊ n / mə-ROHN [3]) is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut. [4] " Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown".