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  2. Flag of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Both flags use the same colors (green, white, and red), but the Mexican flag has darker shades of green and red (particularly green). Additionally, these flags present a different aspect ratio (proportions): the Italian flag aspect ratio is 2:3 (1 to 1.5), more squarish in shape, while the Mexican flag aspect ratio is 4:7 (1 to 1.75), a longer ...

  3. Shades of chartreuse - Wikipedia

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    Green-yellow is a mixture of the colors green and yellow. It is a web color. It is a light tint of chartreuse. "Green-yellow" is an official Crayola crayon color which was formulated in 1958. Green-yellow is near the center of the visible spectrum, and is very eye-catching. For this reason, many emergency vehicles and uniforms exhibit green-yellow.

  4. Blue–green distinction in language - Wikipedia

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    However, in Old Javanese birū could mean pale blue, grayish blue, greenish blue, or even turquoise, while hijo which means green, could also mean the blue-green color of clear water. Biru and ijo in Modern Javanese are cognates of Malay/Indonesian biru and hijau which both have the same meaning.

  5. Red in culture - Wikipedia

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    In many Asian countries, red is the traditional color for a wedding dress today, symbolizing joy and good fortune.. In India, brides traditionally wear a red sari, called the sari of blood, offered by their father, signifying that his duties as a father are transferred to the new husband, and as a symbol of his wish for her to have children.

  6. Traditional colors of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The traditional colors of Japan are a collection of colors traditionally used in Japanese art, literature, textiles such as kimono, ... Green tea-colored 130,75,53

  7. Green in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Green flags were adopted by Shi'ites in the early Islamic period, [8] although the most common Shi'a color was white, in symbolic opposition to Abbasid black. [9] [10] Thus in 817, when the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun adopted the Alid Ali al-Ridha a his heir-apparent, he also changed the dynastic color from black to green.

  8. Olympic symbols - Wikipedia

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    When used in its five-colour version, these colours shall be, from left to right, blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The rings are interlaced from left to right; the blue, black, and red rings are situated at the top, the yellow and green rings at the bottom in accordance with the following graphic reproduction. Designed by: Pierre de Coubertin

  9. Pan-African colours - Wikipedia

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    Pan-African colours is a term that may refer to two different sets of colours: . Green, yellow and red, the colours of the flag of Ethiopia, have come to represent the pan-Africanist ideology due to the country's history of having avoided being taken over by a colonial power.