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  2. Olympic symbols - Wikipedia

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    The emblem selected to illustrate and represent the 1914 World Congress which was to place the final seal on the restoration of the Olympics began to appear on various preliminary documents: five rings linked at regular intervals, their various colors – blue, yellow, black, green and red – standing out against the white of the paper.

  3. Flag of Sicily - Wikipedia

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    Sicily; Trinacria [1]: Use: Civil and state flag: Proportion: 13:20 (as shown above), 2:3 or 3:5: Adopted: 4 January 2000 (): Design: Divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner; the upper triangle is red and the lower triangle is yellow; in the center is the Sicilian triskelion featuring the winged head of Medusa with three ears of wheat protruding from it.

  4. Xanthophyll - Wikipedia

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    For example, the yellow color of chicken egg yolks, fat, and skin comes from ingested xanthophylls—primarily lutein, which is added to chicken feed for this purpose. The yellow color of the macula lutea (literally, yellow spot) in the retina of the human eye results from the presence of lutein and zeaxanthin. Again, both these specific ...

  5. Arylide yellow - Wikipedia

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    Arylide yellow, also known as Hansa yellow and monoazo yellow, is a family of organic compounds used as pigments. They are primarily used as industrial colorants including plastics, building paints and inks. They are also used in artistic oil paints, acrylics and watercolors. These pigments are usually semi-transparent and range from orange ...

  6. Color blindness - Wikipedia

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    For denotative tasks (color naming), using the most common shades of colors. For example, green and yellow are colors of confusion in red–green CVD, but it is not common to mix forest green ( ) with bright yellow ( ). Mistakes by the color blind increase drastically when uncommon shades are used, e.g. neon green ( ) with dark yellow ( ).

  7. National colours of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Painting of Golden Wattle, by Ellis Rowan, a possible inspiration for the choice of colours.. The national colours of Australia are green and gold. [1] They were formally adopted by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir Ninian Stephen, on 19 April 1984 in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette; on advice from Prime Minister Bob Hawke.

  8. Flag of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    Artwork depicting the yellow-over-blue flag used by the UPR during the Ukrainian War of Independence, 1918 1920 publication featuring Ukraine's flag and coat of arms Ukrainian Galician Army troops with the blue and yellow flag, 1918. Both blue-yellow and yellow-blue flags were widely used during the Ukrainian struggle for independence in 1917.

  9. Awareness ribbon - Wikipedia

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    Yellow ribbon marking a tree. In the early 1970s, the song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" was released. Based on this song, Penney Laingen, wife of Iran hostage Bruce Laingen, was the first who used the ribbon as an awareness symbol. She tied yellow ribbons around trees to illustrate desire for her husband coming home.