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Quadroon. In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a quadroon or quarteron (in the United Kingdom, the term quarter-caste is used) was a person with one-quarter African / Aboriginal and three-quarters European ancestry. Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black (Latin root octo-, means "eight") and quintroon for ...
White 2. Pokémon Black Version 2[a] and Pokémon White Version 2[b] are 2012 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. Part of the fifth generation of the Pokémon video game series, the games are direct sequels to Pokémon Black and Pokémon White, being the first ...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles ' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has a widely recognized album cover that depicts several dozen celebrities and other images. The image was made by posing the Beatles in front of life-sized, black-and-white photographs pasted onto hardboard and hand-tinted.
Dog coat genetics. Dogs have a wide range of coat colors, patterns, textures and lengths. [1] Dog coat color is governed by how genes are passed from dogs to their puppies and how those genes are expressed in each dog. Dogs have about 19,000 genes in their genome [2] but only a handful affect the physical variations in their coats.
Europe covers about 10.18 million km 2 (3.93 million sq mi), or 2% of Earth's surface (6.8% of land area), making it the second-smallest continent (using the seven-continent model). Politically, Europe is divided into about fifty sovereign states , of which Russia is the largest and most populous , spanning 39% of the continent and comprising ...
Vladimir P. Demikhov was born on July 31, 1916, [4] into a family of Russian peasants living on a small farmstead in the northern part of Russia's Volgograd region. [5] His father, Peter Yakovlevich Demikhov was killed during the Russian Civil War when Demikhov was about three years old, [1] [5] so he and his brother and sister were raised by their mother, Domnika Alexandrovna, who managed to ...
e. The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [1][2] is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment ...
The party logo consists of the party name and a gull in red, white, and blue, which are the colors of the Dutch flag. [ 1 ] [ 157 ] The gull symbolises freedom or liberty. [ 157 ] [ 158 ] The gull had also been used as a symbol by the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands on propaganda posters and for their youth wing, but Wilders ...