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In the modern era, synthetic purple dyes became easier to obtain, and flags with the color purple began being used more commonly. In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic established a tricolor flag consisting of red, yellow and purple stripes as its national flag , seeing use in Spain until 1939 and by the Spanish Republican government in exile ...
Agent Purple and Orange were also used to clear brush in Canada. Agent Purple was chemically similar to the better-known Agent Orange, both of them were consisting of a mixture of the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T and in both cases the 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T constituted equal shares of the Agent. [1] The difference was in the form of 2,4,5-T.
Akinwale Oluwafolajimi Oluwatope Arobieke (born 15 July 1961), commonly known as Purple Aki, is a British man known for his criminal convictions for harassment.He has been convicted for touching and measuring the muscles of young men and asking them to squat his body weight.
Pyrausta ostrinalis, also called the scarce purple and gold, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1796 and is found in Europe and North Africa. The wingspan is 15–21 mm. It is very similar to Pyrausta purpuralis but ostrinalis has a narrower forewing and the yellow markings are paler. There are ...
Fabrics dyed in the current era from different species of sea snail. The colours in this photograph may not represent them precisely. Tyrian purple (Ancient Greek: πορφύρα porphúra; Latin: purpura), also known as royal purple, imperial purple, or imperial dye, is a reddish-purple natural dye.
Formed in early 1968 by Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, and Nick Simper, Deep Purple released their debut album, Shades of Deep Purple, in July of that year. The band has taken on many new members over the years, and Ian Paice is the last member from the original line-up still with the band.
Page from the Rossano Gospels A page of the 6th-century Codex Argenteus, in silver and gold ink on purple. Purple parchment or purple vellum refers to parchment dyed purple; codex purpureus refers to manuscripts written entirely or mostly on such parchment.
Grace King High School was a public high school located in Metairie, unincorporated Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. [2] It was a part of the Jefferson Parish Public Schools and served portions of Metairie and Kenner. [3] [4] [5]