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5 unusual facts about hue


Anarchism in Vietnam

He was convicted of treason and spent the rest of his life under house arrest in Huế.

InterWorld

The mudluff becomes attached to Joey after he saved it, and Joey names it "Hue".

Quang Le

Quang Lê was born in Vietnam, with family roots from Central Vietnam in the City of Huế.

He also sang, with singer Khanh Ly, performed a performance remembering the Massacre in Huế, called “Huế Mậu Thân”.

Trần Quốc Hoàn

During the late 1930s he was involved with the student movement in Huế and Hanoi, as well as various youth organizations.


15th Sustainment Brigade

After intense fighting in Hue, the division then moved to relieve US Marine Corps units besieged at the Khe Sanh combat base in Operation Pegasus through March 1968.

3rd Tank Battalion

They participated in combat actions against communist forces during the Tet Offensive of 1968, and during the re-taking of the city of Huế, and the siege of Khe Sanh during that same enemy offensive.

Alma-class ironclad

This was an attack by the French on the forts defending the mouth of the Perfume River, leading to the Vietnamese capital of Huế in an attempt to intimidate the Vietnamese government.

Battle of Huế

In the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket (based on Gustav Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers), the main characters are sent from Đà Nẵng to Huế to cover the fighting, and the majority of the Vietnam scenes take place during the battle.

Cubbon Park

Attara Kacheri, built in 1864 A.D during British rule, is a stone structure in an intense red hue, a two storied building with Corinthian columns in Gothic Style of architecture and is located at the entrance to the Park.

Darktable

Plugins related to hue and saturation include overexposed, to display pixels outside dynamic range; velvia, which mimics Velvia film colors by increasing saturation on lower saturated pixels more than on highly saturated pixels; channel mixer; color contrast; color correction, to modify the global saturation or to give a tint; color zones; color transfer; vibrance; and input/output/display color profile management.

Đỗ Thị Ninh

She is one of the generation of artists which emerged, aged then 45-55 in the early 1980s which included Đặng Thị Khuê (1946-), Đỗ Sơn (1943-, military artist), Lương Xuân Đoàn (1952-), Nguyễn Xuân Tiệp (1956-), Nguyễn Bảo Toàn (1950-) in Hanoi, Nguyễn Trung (1941), Đỗ Quang Em (1942-), Ca Lê Thắng (1949-), Đào Minh Tri (1949-), Nguyễn Thân (1948-) in Hồ Chí Minh City, Bửu Chi (1948-) and Hoàng Đăng Nhuận (1942-) in Huế.

Esplanade MRT Station

An artwork by the late Lim Mu Hue, titled A Piece of Ice-Clear Heart, is located on a large wall within the walkway within the station between Raffles City and Marina Square.

Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test

The final arrangement of the hue tiles represents the aptitude of the visual system in discerning differences in color hue.

Frank Perdue

Perdue Farms developed a specialized chicken-feed that included marigold blossoms, which imparted a characteristic golden yellow hue to the skins of his chickens.

Galangal

The rhizomes are used in various Asian cuisines (for example in Thai and Lao tom yum and tom kha gai soups, Vietnamese Huế cuisine (tré) and throughout Indonesian cuisine, for example, in soto).

Georges Hüe

Hüe's most successful work with the public was Dans l'ombre de la cathédrale, whose topical plot was driven by the conflicting ideals of socialism and Catholicism.

Great Blue Hill

The modern name for the hill was given by early European explorers who, while sailing along the coastline, noticed the bluish hue of the exposed granite faces when viewed from a distance (due to Riebeckite).

Huế Beer

Hue Brewery Ltd.'s headquarters are located at Nguyen Sinh Cung Street in the city of Huế, Thừa Thiên–Huế Province, on the Perfume River.

Hue de la Ferté

Hue de la Ferté (fl. 1220–35) was a French trouvère who wrote three serventois attacking the regency of Blanche of Castile during the minority of Louis IX.

IKB

International Klein Blue, a deep blue hue first mixed and patented by the French artist Yves Klein

Jean-Louis Anselin

He also engraved portraits of Cardinal de Bouillon; Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux; Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (the last for an edition of his works published in 1795), plus a smaller portrait of Rousseau; a small profile of Cicero after Moreau; and both drew and engraved a portrait of Hue de Miroménil (keeper of the seal and deputy to the Chancellor of France (Minister of Justice) from 1774 to 1787).

Lab color space

Though color management software, such as that built into image editing applications, will pick the closest in-gamut approximation, changing lightness, chroma, and sometimes hue in the process, author Dan Margulis claims that this access to imaginary colors is useful, going between several steps in the manipulation of a picture.

MOS Technology VIC-II

On PAL C64s, the PAL delay line in the monitor or TV which averages the color hue, but not the brightness, of consecutive screen lines can be used to create seven nonstandard colors by alternating screen lines showing two colors of identical brightness.

O.C. Fisher Reservoir

Due to the 2011 drought affecting Texas, the water had taken on a reddish hue, caused by bacteria of the Chromatiaceae, which were thriving in the oxygen-deprived water.

Ocean Dream Diamond

The Ocean Dream is the first and one of the only natural diamonds known to the GIA to possess a blue-green hue (besides the Ocean Paradise Diamond owned by the Nahshonov Group, found in Brazil in 2012), making it one of the rarest diamonds in the world.

Ocean Paradise Diamond

The Ocean Paradise is the second and one of the only natural diamonds known to the GIA to possess a blue-green hue (the first being the Ocean Dream Diamond owned by the Cora Diamond Corp., found in Central Africa), making it one of the rarest diamonds in the world.

Patrol Craft Fast

Two boats, PCF-14 and PCF-76, were lost in rough seas at the mouth of the Cua Viet River near the DMZ, and a third, PCF-77, was lost in a rescue effort during a monsoon at the mouth of the Perfume River on the approach to Huế.

Perfume River

The Perfume River is featured in the 1987 war film Full Metal Jacket; the action in the second half of the film occurs around the city of Huế and the Perfume River.

Phạm Thị Huệ

In 2001 Huệ was selected to represent Vietnam in several cultural exchange programs, including a traditional music festival in Thailand and a cultural exchange program between the Malmö Academy of Music and the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

Saint John of Las Vegas

The film, directed and written for the screen by Hue Rhodes (based on a story by Dante Alighieri) and produced by Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, and Spike Lee, follows an ex-gambler as he takes a road trip with his new partner, an auto insurance fraud debunker, to investigate a fraud, while meeting a series of offbeat characters, including a carnival's human torch, a paraplegic stripper, and a nude militant, along the way.

Sharon Exley

In 2012, with her partner and husband, Peter Exley, she was awarded the Benjamin Moore HUE Award for exceptional use of color in commercial architecture.

Sindhu Kingdom

The steeds consisting of the best of the Kamvoja breed as also of those born in the country of the Rivers, and of those belonging to Aratta and Mahi and Sindhu, and of those of Vanayu also that were white in hue, and lastly those of hilly countries were the different types of horse employed in this war (6:91).

Strandbad Wannsee

For the Strandbad Wannsee, preferred material for facades is yellow clinker, the bricks lending the complex its characteristic hue.

Street Without Joy

Street Without Joy or La Rue Sans Joie was the name given by troops of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps to the stretch of Route 1 from Huế to Quảng Trị during the First Indochina War.

Thiên Y A Na

The most famous of these temples are the Thiên Y A Na temple located in Huế, along the left bank of the Perfume River(Sông Hương) and the Pô Nagar Temple near modern Nha Trang.

Trịnh Sâm

With the Nguyễn army divided and weak, the Trịnh army captured Phú Xuân (modern-day Huế) in February 1775.


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