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The United States is divided into five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, or PADDs. These were created during World War II under the Petroleum Administration for War to help organize the allocation of fuels derived from petroleum products, including gasoline and diesel (or "distillate") fuel.
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch: [ˈpitər kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈmɔndrijaːn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian (/ p iː t ˈ m ɒ n d r i ɑː n /, US also /-ˈ m ɔː n-/, Dutch: [pit ˈmɔndrijɑn]), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
Paddington 2 is a 2017 live-action animated comedy film directed by Paul King and written by King and Simon Farnaby.Based on the stories of Paddington Bear, created by Michael Bond (to whom the film is also dedicated, Bond having died that year), it is the sequel to Paddington (2014), and is produced by Heyday Films and StudioCanal UK.
Paddington Bear (though his name is just Paddington; the "Bear" simply serves to confirm his species) is a fictional character in British children's literature.He first appeared on 13 October 1958 in the children's book A Bear Called Paddington by British author Michael Bond.
The origin of this term is equally uncertain. The name Black Maria is common for race horses – cf. Black Maria (horse) – beginning with an 1832 appearance in Niles Weekly Register (October 10) and then again in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (1841). [6] The OED lists the first usage in 1835. [7]
Black 'n Blue, a glam metal band; Black and Blue Festival, an annual circuit party held in Montreal; Black and Blue, a 1989 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical; Black and Blue a 1980 video of a concert tour co-headlining Black Sabbath and Blue Öyster Cult
The Ancient Greeks sometimes used the same word to name different colors, if they had the same intensity. Kuanos could mean both dark blue and black. [11] The Ancient Romans had two words for black: ater was a flat, dull black, while niger was a brilliant, saturated black.
The Romans had many words for varieties of blue, including caeruleus, caesius, glaucus, cyaneus, lividus, venetus, aerius, and ferreus, but two words, both of foreign origin, became the most enduring; blavus, from the Germanic word blau, which eventually became bleu or blue; and azureus, from the Arabic word lazaward, which became azure.