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  2. Tyrian purple - Wikipedia

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    Tyrian purple (Ancient Greek: πορφύρα porphúra; Latin: purpura), also known as royal purple, imperial purple, or imperial dye, is a reddish-purple natural dye. The name Tyrian refers to Tyre, Lebanon, once Phoenicia.

  3. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    The color royal purple is a tone of purple that is bluer than the ancient Tyrian purple. The first recorded use of royal purple as a color name in English was in 1661. In 1990, royal purple was formulated as one of the Crayola crayon colors.

  4. Delonix regia - Wikipedia

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    Delonix regia var. genuina Stehlé. Poinciana regia Hook. Poinciana regia Bojer [2] Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae native to Madagascar. It is noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of orange-red flowers over summer.

  5. Mourning - Wikipedia

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    Mourning is the expression [2] of an experience that is the consequence of an event in life involving loss, [3] causing grief, [2] occurring as a result of someone's death, specifically someone who was loved, [3] although loss from death is not exclusively the cause of all experience of grief. [4] The word is used to describe a complex of ...

  6. Military colours, standards and guidons - Wikipedia

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    The National Color is never dipped in salute, but remains vertical at all times, while the organizational colours and any guidons are dipped as necessary. When the National Color is not cased, all persons salute the Colors. The finial is a nickel or chrome-plated spearhead, though the Navy uses different finials on occasion.

  7. List of Pakistani flags - Wikipedia

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    Flag of the Barabri Party Pakistan. 1945–Present. Flag of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and its branches ( Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam – Fazl ) A flag with five black stripes and four white stripes. 1996–Present. Flag of Jamote Qaumi Movement. A vertical tricolor of blue, red and green, with a white crescent and star on the ...

  8. Black - Wikipedia

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    Source. HTML/CSS [1] B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Black is a color that results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. [2] It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. [3]

  9. Tulasi in Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    The Tulasi with dark green or purple leaves and purple stem is called Shyama-Tulasi ("dark Tulasi") or Krishna-Tulsi ("dark Tulasi"); Krishna is also a prominent avatar of Vishnu. This variety is considered especially sacred to Krishna, as its purple color is similar to Krishna's dark complexion.

  10. Purpure - Wikipedia

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    Purpure. p., pu., purp. In heraldry, purpure ( / ˈpɜːrpjʊər /) is a tincture, equivalent to the colour purple, and is one of the five main or most usually used colours (as opposed to metals ). It may be portrayed in engravings by a series of parallel lines at a 45-degree angle running from upper right to lower left from the point of view ...

  11. Purple - Wikipedia

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    B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments.