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First used by the University of California, Berkeley in 1875, and officially adopted by the state in 1951, [4] blue represents the sky and gold represents the California Gold Rush. [5] The colors are defined by several different standards in law: [6] International Commission on Illumination: Blue: Y 0.063 x 0.204 y 0.165; Gold: Y 0.449 x 0.474 ...
In the modern era, synthetic purple dyes became easier to obtain, and flags with the color purple began being used more commonly. In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic established a tricolor flag consisting of red, yellow and purple stripes as its national flag , seeing use in Spain until 1939 and by the Spanish Republican government in exile ...
The gold disk in the center of the "C" represents not only the sunshine the state receives (which totals nearly 300 days annually), [11] but also gold and the gold mining industry in the state. The blue stripes represent the sky, and the white stripes represent both the peaks of the Rocky Mountains and silver, as well as the resulting mining ...
The five major colors of European heraldry (black, red, green, blue, and purple) are sorted next. Miscellaneous colors (murrey, tan, grey, and pink) are sorted last. Similar colors are grouped together to make navigation of this list practical.
Pink and blue shades represent same-gender attraction; orange and green stripes represent non-binary and gender non-conforming people; black and white stripes represent asexual, aromantic, and ...
The People's State of Bavaria was a short-lived socialist state in Bavaria from 1918 to 1919. 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic: The Bavarian or Munich Soviet Republic was a short-lived unrecognised socialist state in Bavaria during the German Revolution of 1918–19. 1919–1933 Free State of Bavaria: Bavarian state in the Weimar Republic. 1933–1945
Formats for license plate numbers are consistent within the state. For example, Delaware is able to use six-digit all-numeric serials because of its low population. Several states, particularly those with higher populations, use seven-character formats of three letters and four digits, including 1ABC234 in California, 1234ABC in Kansas and ABC-1234 (with or without a space or dash) in Georgia ...
Common design elements of flags include shapes such as stars, stripes, and crosses, layout elements such as including a canton (a rectangle with a distinct design, such as another national flag), and the overall shape of a flag, such as the aspect ratio of a rectangular flag (whether the flag is square or rectangle, and how wide it is) or the ...