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2 unusual facts about Indigo


Hausa people

The Hausa were famous throughout the Middle Ages, they were often characterized by their Indigo blue dressing and emblems, they traditionally rode on fine Saharan Camels and Arabian Horses.

Indigo-banded Kingfisher

There are two subspecies, the nominate race, which occurs on Luzon, Polillo, Mindoro, Sibuyan and Ticao, and A. c. nigriostris, which is found in Panay, Negros and Cebu.


1997 in Japanese television

December 16-Denno Senshi Porygon,an episode of Pokémon,is aired on TV Tokyo in Japan.20 minutes in the episode, Ash Ketchum's Pikachu uses its Thunderbolt attack on vaccine missiles,causing red and blue strobe lights flashing rapidly.This gives 685 viewers (310 boys and 375 girls) seizures and causes Indigo League (The series of Pokémon) to go into hiatus until April 1998.

Afro Model Awards

Afro Model Awards have been held at the Lost theatre in 2011, the O2 Indigo in 2012 and in 2013 at the Monarch Hall of the Hilton Metropole Hotel, Edgware Road.

Aloft Hotels

Hotel Indigo was actually the first of these boutique hotel brands, with its first hotel opening in Atlanta as the Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown in 2004.

Anarkali

William Finch reached Lahore in February 1611 (only 11 years after the supposed death of Anarkali), to sell the indigo he had purchased at Bayana on behalf of the East India Company.

B. australis

Baptisia australis, the blue wild indigo or blue false indigo, a herbaceous perennial plant species native to North America

Canal Indigo

Canal Indigo PPV service consists of 11 standard definition channels and two high definition channels.

Chalatenango Department

Around 1790, Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet, Governor of El Salvador, found that the local indigenous population working in Chaletenango's indigo industry had declined greatly.

Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha

In Champaran, a district in state of Bihar, tens of thousands of landless serfs, indentured laborers and poor farmers were forced to grow indigo and other cash crops instead of the food crops which was necessary for their survival.

Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Four other Key Largo specialties: the Key Largo Woodrat, Key Largo Cotton Mouse, Schaus Swallowtail butterfly, Stock Island Treesnail are also listed as endangered, and the Eastern Indigo Snake is listed as threatened.

Dallas Hilton

In 2006 the hotel was converted to the Dallas Hotel Indigo, a boutique chain franchised by InterContinental Hotels Group.

Doudou Gouirand

Associated Improvisers Garrigues-Sahel, a stage project including traditional African musicians and French jazz improvisers in September 1999, led to the 2000 record project Les Racines du Ciel (BMG, May 2002), with the subsequent stage group "Indigo Song".

Hang Your Head

The other two B-sides are the soaring "Here on the Wind" and Ricky and Lorraine's gentle duet, "Indigo Sky", both of which contain imagery related to the biblical account of Adam and Eve.

I. australis

Indigofera australis, the Australian indigo, a leguminous shrub species

Indigo 91.9 FM

Indigo 91.9 FM is Bangalore and Goa’s only international music station, and is part of Indigo Music brand by Jupiter Capital, which is a Venture Development, Management and Investment Company owned by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, based in Bangalore, India.

Indigo children

According to research psychologist Russell Barkley, the New Age movement has yet to produce empirical evidence of the existence of indigo children, as the traits most commonly attributed to them were akin to the Forer effect (i.e., so vague they could describe nearly anyone).

Indigo FM

The coverage area for Indigo FM includes towns and villages in the South Lakes, North Lancashire & North Yorkshire area including: Kirkby Lonsdale, Ingleton, Sedbergh, Casterton, Barbon, Clapham, Bentham and Caton.

Indigo Vertigo

Indigo Vertigo is a 48-page graphic novella, written by KatieJane Garside and illustrated by Dogwitch creator, Daniel Schaffer.

Joey Pang

She has been involved in design projects including a collaborative range for Indigo Hong Kong producing 'tattooed furniture', the Hong Kong Dragon Boat logo re-design for the Hong Kong Tourism Board, calligraphy art for Legend Fighting Championship and the Hong Kong Parkour Association.

John James Fox

Fox has directed two music videos for The Indigo Road Featuring Heidi Jo Hines, daughter of Wings (band) guitarist Denny Laine.

Kiawah Island Golf Resort

He designed the course on former plantation lands that grew tomato and indigo.

Krishna Kumar Mitra

He was a Hindu Kayastha by birth and his father Guruprasad Mitra was a landholder who led an agitation against oppression by British indigo planters.

Lactarius indigo

Hesler and Smith in their 1960 study of North American species of Lactarius defined L. indigo as the type species of subsection Caerulei, a group characterized by blue latex and a sticky, blue cap.

Lake pigment

After trade routes opened to the east, indigo was imported from India as a substitute for woad, and the cultivation of woad became uneconomical in Europe.

Mejnoun

Mejnoun is an album by the Algerian musician and composer Safy Boutella, that was released in 1992 on the Indigo record label.

Michael Patrick Cronan

He was one of the founders of the San Francisco Bay Area postmodern movement in graphic design that became known as the "Pacific Wave", and a recognized corporate identity designer, acknowledged for the naming and the identities of TiVo, Verio, the Indigo, Onyx and Crimson computer lines for Silicon Graphics (SGI) and naming Amazon Kindle.

Nanikhir

Linseed, sesame, indigo, china and kaun used to be grown, but have largely died out.

Nil Darpan

Nil Durpan (Bengali: নীল দর্পন।, The Mirror of Indigo; translated as Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror) is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859.

Otto Unverdorben

In 1826 at the age of 20, Unverdorben discovered aniline, which he obtained from the distillation of natural vegetable indigo.

Personals: College Girls Seeking...

The film was produced by independent studio Indigo Entertainment and distributed by Showtime Networks, which periodically airs the film on its TMC sister channel.

Petarded

It features the guest performances of LeVar Burton, Gary Cole, Barclay DeVeau, Indigo, Phil LaMarr, Cloris Leachman, Len Maxwell, Natasha Melnick, Nicole Sullivan, and Lisa Wilhoit, as well as several recurring voice actors for the series.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

In 2000, Orr, in conjunction with Libman, began a series of commissions for contemporary ballets inspired by American music, including such musicians as Indigo in Motion, Ray Brown, Stanley Turrentine, Lena Horne, Billy Strayhorn, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, and Cole Porter, with choreography of Kevin O'Day, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Dwight Rhoden, Derek Deane, Matjash Mrozewski, and Twyla Tharp.

Purple urine bag syndrome

This converts indoxyl sulfate in the urine into the red and blue colored compounds indirubin and indigo.

Red Hot + Indigo

Red Hot + Indigo is the 13th entry from the Red Hot AIDS benefit series of compilation albums produced by Paul Heck.

Saint-Domingue

The rows of freebooting grew bigger; plundering raids, like those of Vera Cruz in 1683 or of Campêche in 1686, became increasingly numerous, and Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, elder son of Jean Baptist Colbert and at the time Minister of the Navy, brought back some order by taking a great number of measures, including the creation of plantations of indigo and of cane sugar.

SGI Indigo

For use as a graphics workstation, the Indigo was equipped with a two-dimensional framebuffer or, for use as a 3d-graphics workstation, with the Elan graphics subsystem including one to four Geometry Engines (GEs).

Sir Nicholas Crispe, 1st Baronet

Like his father he was a substantial stockholder in the East India Company, and throughout his twenties he imported a wide variety of commodities, including cloves, indigo, silks, pepper, elephant tusks, calicoes, and shells.

Șurgani River

The Șurgani Rivers is a vector for the expansion of the indigo bush (Amorpha fructicosa), an invasive plant originary from North America, which was brought to the Buziaș area for decorative purposes.

Taking the piss

This was particularly the case for the dyeing items blue with indigo or more traditionally with woad, before synthetic dyes were invented or made commercially available.

Tausend und eine Nacht

The waltz's melodies were drawn from his first-ever operetta Indigo und die vierzig Räuber (Indigo and the Forty Thieves).

Tayum, Abra

At the beginning of the century, however, a powder dye from the Aniline Factories of Germany came into popular use among Ilocano weavers, causing the death of the indigo industry.

The Indigo Necklace

Against his will, he finds himself up against a serial murderer with experience in exotic poisons, and whose master plan somehow involves the titular Indigo necklace.

Thug Behram

Today the sinister Canova medallion, reputed to have been used in at least 65 murders, along with an aged hand-written document of 1831 supporting Behram's son Ali's continuance at an Indigo factory (Correspondence from the Quarter Master General’s office regarding the Indigo Factory in the Sepoy Lines at Vellore) are preserved in a private museum.

Virtway

Virtway has maintained collaborations through the Índigo Group with University of Oviedo and Stanford University in different research and development projects.

West Champaran district

During The British rule, the entire region surrounding Bettiah was extensively used for indigo plantation.

Xylindein

This pigment was firstly extracted in 1868 by Paul Thénard from wood and resembled indigo, so he called it xylindéine.


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