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  2. Turquoise (color) - Wikipedia

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    Turquoise (/ ˈ t ɜːr k (w) ɔɪ z / TUR-k(w)oyz) is a cyan color, based on the mineral of the same name.The word turquoise dates to the 17th century and is derived from the French turquois, meaning 'Turkish', because the mineral was first brought to Europe through Turkey from mines in the historical Khorasan province of Iran (Persia) and Afghanistan today.

  3. Pastel (color) - Wikipedia

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    Pastel (color) Pastels or pastel colors belong to a pale family of colors, which, when described in the HSV color space, have high value and low saturation. [ 1][ 2] They are named after an artistic medium made from pigment and solid binding agents, similar to crayons. Pastel sticks historically tended to have lower saturation than paints of ...

  4. Malay tricolour - Wikipedia

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    The tricolour is derived from the three important values of Malayness; Islam, Malay rulers and Malay culture. [1] The green is the traditional colour of Islam, a faith that has been the integral part of Malay culture. The yellow is the royal colour commonly associated with Malay sultans, and used to allude the allegiance of Malay people to ...

  5. Political colour - Wikipedia

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    This use is possibly entrenched, as many political organisations (for example, the website RedState) now use the term. Since the 2010s, some conservative parties such as the Liberal Democratic Partyof Japanand the People Power Partyof South Koreahave also adopted red as their political colour. Saffron.

  6. Tosca - Wikipedia

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    Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. . The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of It

  7. Songket - Wikipedia

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    Songket. Songket or sungkit is a tenun fabric that belongs to the brocade family of textiles of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is hand-woven in silk or cotton, and intricately patterned with gold or silver threads. [4] The metallic threads stand out against the background cloth to create a shimmering effect.

  8. Tosca (1953 EMI recording) - Wikipedia

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    The 1953 EMI recording of Giacomo Puccini 's Tosca conducted by Victor de Sabata, with Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano and Tito Gobbi, is considered by many opera critics to be one of the most notable opera recordings of the 1950s. It was recorded in August 1953 by the EMI subsidiary Columbia Records [1] and released to critical acclaim.

  9. No Hassle - Wikipedia

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    No Hassle is the fifth studio album by Austrian downtempo / trip-hop duo Tosca, released by Studio !K7 in 2009. The album was "conceived as a single seamless sea of sound." No Hassle includes no featured vocal tracks, and instead marks Tosca's return to vocal samples and the "use of the voice as an instrument" last heard on the 2000 album Suzuki.