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The photograph, entitled Afghan Girl, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and her eyes staring directly into the camera, was named "the most recognized photograph" in the magazine's history, and the cover is one of National Geographic's best known. [12]
While most Circassian tribes were famous for abundance of fair or dark blond and red hair combined with greyish-blue or green eyes, [23] many also had the pairing of very dark hair with very light complexions, a typical feature of peoples of the Caucasus. [24]
Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله; born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman who became internationally recognized as the 12-year-old subject in Afghan Girl, a 1984 portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June 1985 issue of National Geographic.
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Red or ginger hair may come in different shades, from strawberry blond to auburn. [1] With only 2% of the world's population having red hair, [2] red is the rarest natural hair-coloration. [1] The list includes people who have dyed their red hair into another color or whose red hair has gone grey with age, but not people who have dyed their ...
A smaller red-hair day festival is held since 2013 by the UK's Anti-Bullying Alliance in London, with the aim of instilling pride in having red-hair. [89] Since 2014, a red-hair event is held in Israel, at Kibbutz Gezer (Carrot), for the local Israeli red hair community, [90] including both Ashkenazi and Mizrahi red-heads. [91]
A Uyghur child in Kashgar, China's Xinjiang region, with auburn hair. Auburn hair is a human hair color, a variety of red hair, most commonly described as reddish-brown in color. Auburn hair ranges in shades from medium to dark. It can be found with a wide array of skin tones and eye colors.
The Fischer–Saller scale, named after Eugen Fischer and Karl Saller is used in physical anthropology and medicine to determine the shades of hair color. The scale uses the following designations: A (very light blond), B to E (light blond), F to L (), M to O (dark blond), P to T (light brown to brown), U to Y (dark brown to black) and Roman numerals I to IV and V to VI (red-blond).