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Patterns were embroidered on hanbok to represent the wishes of the wearer. Peonies on a wedding dress, represented a wish for honor and wealth. Lotus flowers symbolized a hope for nobility, and bats and pomegranates showed the desire for children. Dragons, phoenixes, cranes and tigers were only for royalty and high-ranking officials. [66]
Twilight is depicted in the first three seasons as a light purple unicorn with purple eyes and a pink and purple streaked indigo-blue mane and tail and as a winged unicorn after "Magical Mystery Cure". Twilight is the most intellectual member of the group who leads them during their adventures and helps resolve her friends' differences.
For example, green sometimes represents prairies or forests, blue can represent lakes and rivers, and yellow might stand for various crops. [127] In the Scottish Register of Tartans (and the databases before it), colour inspiration notes are often recorded by a tartan's designer.
The Purple Heart (PH) is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after 5 April 1917, ...
The King's flag is in yellow, the color of Monday, the day of his birth.It always has a symbol in the middle. There are a variety of symbols, [1] but recently most king's flags have different symbols, such as the symbol marking King Bhumibol's 80th birthday or the one commemorating the 60th anniversary of King Bhumibol's accession to the throne.
The reason why royalty used the Murex dye as opposed to indigo, which looked the same, was because indigo faded. However, once they figured out how to make indigo endure, they stopped using H. trunculus because indigo was much cheaper. That is when people stopped using it for its dye entirely.
A depiction of a phoenix by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1806). The phoenix is an immortal bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. While it is part of Greek mythology, it has analogs in many cultures, such as Egyptian and Persian mythology.
The monarchy of New Zealand [n 1] is the constitutional system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of New Zealand. [3] The current monarch, King Charles III, acceded to the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on 8 September 2022 in the United Kingdom. [4]