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  2. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    Meiners did not include the Jews as Caucasians and ascribed them a "permanently degenerate nature". [16] Hannah Franzieka identified 19th-century writers who believed in the "Caucasian hypothesis" and noted that "Jean-Julien Virey and Louis Antoine Desmoulines were well-known supports of the idea that Europeans came from Mount Caucasus."

  3. Caucasian race - Wikipedia

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    The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, [a] Europid, or Europoid) [2] is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. [3] [4] [5] The Caucasian race was historically regarded as a biological taxon which, depending on which of the historical race classifications was being used, usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of ...

  4. The History of White People - Wikipedia

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    The History of White People is a 2010 book by Nell Irvin Painter, in which the author explores the idea of whiteness throughout history, beginning with ancient Greece and continuing through the beginning of scientific racism in early modern Europe to 19th- through 21st-century America.

  5. Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness - Wikipedia

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    The inhabitants of the north are not called by their color, because the people who established the conventional meanings of the words were themselves white. Thus whiteness was something usual and common to them, and they did not see anything sufficiently remarkable in it to cause them to use it as a specific term.

  6. Light skin - Wikipedia

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    The authors did not rule out the possibility that these European alleles were differentially selected in high-altitude populations due to unknown selective pressures. [ 83 ] Africans carrying Eurasian ancestry like the Toubou were shown to have signals at HERC2 rs1129038, a major contributor to blue eye color in Europeans, as well as a signal ...

  7. History of the Caucasus - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Caucasus region may be divided by geography into the history of the North Caucasus (Ciscaucasia), historically in the sphere of influence of Scythia and of Southern Russia (Eastern Europe), and that of the South Caucasus (Transcaucasia; Caucasian Albania, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) in the sphere of influence of Persia ...

  8. Color theory - Wikipedia

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    The split-primary palette is a color-wheel model that relies on misconceptions to attempt to explain the unsatisfactory results produced when mixing the traditional primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. Painters have long considered red, yellow, and blue to be primary colors.

  9. Blue - Wikipedia

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    The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called the Tyndall effect explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective. Blue has been an important colour in art and decoration since ancient times.