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A black armband is an armband that is coloured black to signify that the wearer is in mourning or wishes to identify with the commemoration of a family member or friend who has died. In sport, especially association football , cricket , and Australian rules football , players will often wear black armbands following the death of a former player ...
British Army officer in the First World War A man wearing a short navy blue–coloured trenchcoat (2018). A trench coat is a variety of coat made of waterproof heavy-duty fabric, [1] originally developed for British Army officers before the First World War, and becoming popular while used in the trenches, hence the name trench coat.
For women, the customs involved wearing heavy, concealing black clothing, and the use of heavy veils of black crêpe. The entire ensemble was colloquially known as "widow's weeds" (from the Old English wǣd , meaning "garment"), and would comprise either newly-created clothing, or overdyed clothing which the mourner already owned.
In colloquial Cantonese, trench coats are called Mark Gor Lau (literally, "Brother Mark's coat"). The fictional anti-hero Omar Little wears dusters both as outerwear and as a silk sleepwear coverup [7] in the HBO series, The Wire. [8] [9] The Tenth Doctor played by David Tennant wore a cinnamon brown duster coat on Doctor Who.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The .25-06 Remington was a wildcat cartridge for nearly half a century before being standardized by Remington in 1969. Its design was based on the .30-06 Springfield cartridge necked-down (case opening made narrower) to .257 caliber keeping a similar cartridge length of its parent case, thus being chambered in standard-length actions.
Kabosu, the dog that launched a thousand “doge” memes, has died, her owner announced Friday. The Japanese shiba inu “fell into a deep sleep” on Friday morning at 18 years of age, Atsuko ...
The trench coat inadvertently became the members' uniform after a mother of one of the members bought it as a present. [ 55 ] Investigation revealed that Harris and Klebold were only friends with one member of the group, Kristin Thiebault, and that most of the primary members of the Trench Coat Mafia had left the school by the time that Harris ...