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  2. Rainbow Books - Wikipedia

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    Orange is a reference to the fact that red and yellow mix to orange. This correlates with the fact that CD-R and CD-RW are capable of audio ("Red") and data ("Yellow"); although other colors (other CD standards) that do not mix are capable of being burned onto the physical medium. Orange Book also introduced the standard for multisession writing.

  3. ROYGBIV - Wikipedia

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    ROYGBIV is an acronym for the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. When making an artificial rainbow, glass prism is used, but the colors of "ROY-G-BIV" are inverted to VIB-G-YOR". There are several mnemonics that can be used for remembering this color sequence, such ...

  4. Rainbow Series - Wikipedia

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    A complete set of the US DoD Rainbow Series computer security documents. The Rainbow Series (sometimes known as the Rainbow Books) is a series of computer security standards and guidelines published by the United States government in the 1980s and 1990s. They were originally published by the U.S. Department of Defense Computer Security Center ...

  5. Rainbow - Wikipedia

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    The Rainbow Goblins. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-27759-1. Graham, Lanier F., ed. (1976). The Rainbow Book. Berkeley, California: Shambhala Publications and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. (Large format handbook for the Summer 1976 exhibition The Rainbow Art Show which took place primarily at the De Young Museum but also at other ...

  6. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the ...

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    for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a 1976 work by Ntozake Shange. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form which Shange coined the word choreopoem to describe. [ 5] It tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and ...

  7. United States color-coded war plans - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the Joint Planning Board developed a new series of "Rainbow" plans [8] [9] —the term being a logical extension of the previous "color" plans. Rainbow 1 was a plan for a defensive war to protect the United States and the Western Hemisphere north of ten degrees [south] latitude. In such a war, the United States was assumed to be ...

  8. Color theory - Wikipedia

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    Color theory, or more specifically traditional color theory, is the historical body of knowledge describing the behavior of colors, namely in color mixing, color contrast effects, color harmony, color schemes and color symbolism. [ 1] Modern color theory is generally referred to as Color science. While there is no clear distinction in scope ...

  9. Rainbows in culture - Wikipedia

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    The rainbow has found a place in the mythological systems of many cultures. It is sometimes personified as a deity, such as the Greco-Roman messenger goddess Iris, or the Aboriginal Australian Rainbow Serpent . In Albanian folk beliefs the rainbow is regarded as the belt of the goddess Prende, and oral legend has it that anyone who jumps over ...