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1820 in art

Publication of William Blake's prophetic book Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (colored engravings) is completed in London (commenced 1804).

2013 FIBA Asia Championship Group A

In a game that is colored by the killing of the Philippine Coast Guard to a Taiwanese fisherman at the waters near Batanes, and the subsequent withdrawal of invitation from the 2013 William Jones Cup by Taiwanese to the Philippines, which were defending champions, Chinese Taipei banked on Lu Cheng-ju and Lin Chih-chieh to defeat the Filipinos to win the group.

American Anti-Slavery Society

Agitation increased with the publication of David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829, Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 and Andrew Jackson's handling of the nullification crisis that same year.

Angus McKie

His illustrations often present highly detailed spacecraft against vividly colored backgrounds and high-tech constructions as demonstrated by his pioneering work on The Dome: Ground Zero for DC Comics imprint Helix in 1998.

Anita Bush

She founded the Anita Bush All-Colored Dramatic Stock Company in 1915, a pioneering black repertory theatre company that helped launch the careers of Charles Gilpin, Dooley Wilson, Evelyn Preer and others.

Bishop Ring

Bishop's Ring, a type of atmospheric effect that causes a colored halo around the sun

Black card

Centurion Card – black-colored American Express charge card

Color gel

A color gel or color filter (British spelling: colour gel or colour filter), also known as lighting gel or simply gel, is a transparent colored material that is used in theatre, event production, photography, videography and cinematography to color light and for color correction.

Cyan

Cyanotype, or blueprint, a monochrome photographic printing process that predates the use of the word cyan as a color, yields a deep cyan-blue colored print based on the Prussian blue pigment.

Dolly Varden trout

My grandmother, then a young girl of 15 or 16, had been reading Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge in which there appears a character named Dolly Varden; also the vogue in fashion for women at that time (middle 1870s) was called "Dolly Varden", a dress of sheer figured muslin worn over a bright-colored petticoat.

Equine coat color

Dun: Yellowish or tan coat with primitive markings, sometimes called "dun factors": a darker-colored mane and tail, a dorsal stripe along the back and occasionally faint horizontal zebra stripings on the upper legs and a possible transverse stripe across the withers.

Frank Grant

Grant also earned the nickname the "Colored Dunlap" in honor of the white Fred Dunlap, the major leagues' slickest fielding second baseman at the time.

Freedom Schools

Despite the Supreme Court's ruling of 1954 in the Brown v. Board of Education case striking down segregated school systems, in the mid-1960s Mississippi still maintained separate and unequal white and "colored" school systems.

Gargee'an

The origin of this act goes back to the birth of Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Hasan ibn Ali when the prophet's daughter Fatimah gave out colored sugar cubes to the people in celebration of her new born child on the 15th of Ramadan.

H. K. Edgerton

A former president of the Asheville, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), he is on the board of the Southern Legal Resource Center.

Haru Urara

Haru Urara, a fawn-colored mare, was foaled on February 27, 1996, on Nobuta Bokujo, Utafue, Mitsuishi, Hokkaido.

Hibernia Bank Building

The white tower atop the building remains a familiar part of the skyline, and during holidays is lit up with colored lights—red and green for Christmas and purple, green, and gold for New Orleans Mardi Gras.

House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute

The mansion comes with a platinum colored Mercedes-Benz 430 and, although Uncle Charles has told him not to drive the car or have people over, Jon Jon wastes no time in doing both; Jon Jon is not only having an "entertainment party", but he's auditioning his hip-hop band (IMx) for a record executive.

Huautla de Jiménez

People also visit the town to buy brightly colored hand-woven fabrics made by the native Mazatec women, and to consume the endemic entheogenic fungi, especially the Psilocybe mushrooms.

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb

Also in Anima: Age of the Robots, there is a minor character called Rif, also an orange-colored fox.

James Henry Emerton

Returning, he again engaged in drawing and prepared many of the colored plates in Eaton's Ferns of North America and also many in Packard's Monograph of the Geometridae.

John Holmes Jenkins

In 1971, Jenkins was instrumental in helping the FBI recover an extremely valuable portfolio of original colored engravings, John James Audubon's Birds of America, stolen from Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Magnesium hydroxide

The term milk of magnesia was first used for a white-colored, aqueous, mildly alkaline suspension of magnesium hydroxide formulated at about 8%w/v by Charles Henry Phillips in 1880 and sold under the brand name Phillips' Milk of Magnesia for medicinal usage.

Maximum Exposure

Use of Telestrator: Brainard often uses a yellow colored telestrator to highlight certain parts of videos.

Medicate

During the song's bridge, singer Davey Havok kisses the girl while guitarist Jade Puget lies bleeding on the floor, his blood colored gold through the use of digital effects.

Meshach Browning

The same year Currier and Ives published a hand-colored lithograph of Tait’s black and white painting, thus immortalizing the incident.

Michel-Jean Cazabon

His parents, owners of a sugar plantation, were "free colored" immigrants from Martinique, who had come to Trinidad following the Cedula of Population of 1783.

Montiserrat Ameiva

The Redonda Ground Lizard is darkly colored, similar to the Sombrero Ameiva and Censky's Ameiva that also live on small and barren Caribbean islands.

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly

The box remained, sans words and colored in, when reprinted as part of the 12-page story in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), and reprinted as the original eight-page story in Marvel's The Invaders #20 (Sept. 1977).

Musselman High School

The original mascot chosen for Musselman High School was the "dragons" and the football team wore borrowed burgundy-colored uniforms from nearby Stonewall Jackson High School.

No. 1 in Heaven

Released in 1979 by Virgin Records (initial copies on colored vinyl) and later licensed to Elektra Records in the States, it renewed interest in the band after disappointing sales of albums like Big Beat and Introducing Sparks.

Pontlevoy

Each year his company issued a new series of brightly colored cards commemorating notable men (including Benjamin Franklin) with flowers and illustrations of fairy tales.

Prairie View Interscholastic League

The Texas Interscholastic League of Colored Schools (TILCS) was formed in 1920 by the Colored Teachers State Association of Texas and the Negro School Division of the State Department of Education.

Production of Caminho das Índias

Using the cities of Jaipur, Jodhpur and Mumbai as references, the art director built 42 shops and a complete temple in honor of the Hindu god Shiva, in addition to the façades and entries of a movie theater and the terracota-colored households of the four main Indian families of the story.

Rainbow Series

In the book entitled Applied Cryptography, security expert Bruce Schneier states of NCSC-TG-021 that he "can't even begin to describe the color of the cover" and that some of the books in this series have "hideously colored covers."

Réunion Kestrel

From reviewing the evidence, the bird was most probably the émerillon, with the pieds jaunes being either migrant falcons (the only species that might occur in the area, the Sooty Falcon, Eleonora's Falcon and the Peregrine Falcon, are larger than F. duboisi was, if not in overall length, then at least in wingspan) or the juveniles of the marsh harrier, which are distinctly colored and also have yellow feet.

Right and Left

Its design recalls that of Japanese art, and the composition resembles that of a colored engraving by John James Audubon.

Road transport

They were manually operated, and consisted of semaphores, flags or paddles, or in some cases colored electric lights, all modeled on railroad signals.

Robert H. Jackson United States Courthouse

The courthouse pavilion lobby contains monumental colored glass panels designed by Buffalo-area native Robert Mangold, a major figure in the geometric abstraction movement.

Shrimp plant

Justicia brandegeeana, which has salmon-colored bracts and 3 to 7.5 cm long elliptic leaves

Sonneborn Building

Designed by Theodore Wells Pietsch, it is a nine-story loft building constructed in 1905 of "fireproof" reinforced-concrete construction, faced in buff-colored brick, with a coursed ashlar foundation and stone trim.

Spirit level

These vials, common on most ordinary levels today, have a slightly curved glass tube which is incompletely filled with a liquid, usually a colored spirit or alcohol, leaving a bubble in the tube.

Tales from the Punchbowl

Players must "navigate from the helm of Captain Shiner's ferryboat through an enchanted liquid atmosphere to many strange and mysterious islands. Many experiences are to be had, all in a rose-colored waterworld filled with visuals reminiscent of Dalí and Bosch."

The Buckaroos

Known for their signature red, white and blue colored guitars and fiddles, the Buckaroos in 1966 became only the second country music band to appear at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

The Computer Museum, Boston

Possibly the first-ever digital image was acquired from Jet Propulsion Labs, consisting of hand-assembled colored strips of line-printer output from the Mariner 4 Mars probe (1965).

University of Minnesota Old Campus Historic District

The buff-colored sandstone is from quarries near Banning State Park, while the red sandstone is from the Fond du Lac formation.

Walter Scott Lenox

This is a ware of a rich, thin, ivory-colored porcelain of extremely high quality as manufactured in Belleek, Ireland.

Wax bullet

This practice goes back at least as far as Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, who used hollow wax bullets colored to resemble lead balls.

William Henry Harrison Hart

In 1897 Hart started the Hart Farm School and Junior Republic for Dependent Colored Boys on 700 acres of land along the Potomac River near Fort Washington, MD, that he purchased from Senator Evarts.

Yellville, Arkansas

Entertainment at Turkey Trot has ranged in recent years from famous acts like John Conlee, singer of "Rose Colored Glasses," and Jeannie Kendall from the Grammy-award winning group The Kendalls, to more local entertainment by area groups such as The Muddles, South 14, Joe Sasser and Friends, and Carnes McCormack.


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