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"Two Colours" (Ukrainian: Два кольори, romanized: Dva kolory) is a 1964 song composed by Oleksandr Bilash, with lyrics by Dmytro Pavlychko. Though it was first performed by Anatoliy Mokrenko , it was neither recorded nor published until an October 1964 performance by Dmytro Hnatyuk .
The song has been used to teach children names of colours. [1] [2] Despite the name of the song, two of the seven colours mentioned ("red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue") – pink and purple – are not actually a colour of the rainbow (i.e. they are not spectral colors; pink is a variation of shade, and purple is the human brain's interpretation of mixed red/blue ...
When the color sergeant was shot down, this soldier grasped the flag, led the way to the parapet, and planted the colors thereon. When the troops fell back he brought off the flag, under a fierce fire in which he was twice severely wounded. The account of Sgt. Carney's action as it appeared in 'The United States Service Magazine, 1864:
In the Boy Scouts of America, [3] To The Colors is recommended for both raising and lowering the flag (preceded by Retreat in the evening as per the US Army protocol). The Boy Scouts of America offer a Bugling Merit Badge, [ 4 ] requiring a Scout to properly sound a choice of ten of fifteen named bugle calls, of which To the Colors is one.
The Grand Union Flag, also known as the Continental Colours, Congress Flag, Cambridge Flag, and First Navy Ensign. Byron DeLear has argued in favour of the conventional history based on a review of "eighteenth-century linguistic standards, contextual historical trends, and additional primary and secondary sources". [41]
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For the first half of the year, Doja Cat was surprisingly quiet (by her standards). However, in recent months, she released her first song in two years, announced a tour and got into a spat with ...
The painting was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City for $1 million in 1980 from art collectors Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine, to celebrate its 50th anniversary. [3] Since the early 1960s, Three Flags has been included in numerous exhibitions, and different kinds of books and magazine articles focused on art and ...