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Purple haze refers to a state of mind induced by psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD. Wearing purple is a military slang expression in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. for an officer who is serving in a joint assignment with another service, such as an Army officer on assignment to the Navy. The officer is symbolically putting aside his or her ...
Tyrian purple (Ancient Greek: πορφύρα porphúra; Latin: purpura), also known as royal purple, imperial purple, or imperial dye, is a reddish-purple natural dye. The name Tyrian refers to Tyre, Lebanon , once Phoenicia .
Purple is one of the least used colors in vexillology and heraldry. Currently, the color appears in only four national flags: that of Dominica, Spain, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, and one co-official national flag, the Wiphala (co-official national flag of Bolivia ). However, it is also present in the flags of several administrative subdivisions ...
1. Chopard De Rigo Vision — $408,000. The no. 1 most expensive sunglasses in the world are the Chopard de Rigo Vision. Made by Chopard, a Swiss watchmaker and jeweler, this eyewear boasts 60 ...
A degree of uncertainty surrounds the origin of the English word "saffron". It might stem from the 12th-century Old French term safran, which comes from the Latin word safranum, from the Arabic (زَعْفَرَان, za'farān), which comes from the Persian word zarparān (زرپران) meaning "gold strung" (implying either the golden stamens of the flower or the golden colour it creates when ...
Pinning an AOL app to your Windows 10 Start menu is a simple task, follow the steps below. Open the Windows Start menu and click All apps. Locate the AOL app in the list. Right-click on the app name. A small menu will appear. Click Pin to Start to add this app to your Start menu.
Shortly after the suit was reported on by the Seattle Times, Microsoft confirmed it was updating the GWX software once again to add more explicit options for opting out of a free Windows 10 upgrade; the final notification was a full-screen pop-up window notifying users of the impending end of the free upgrade offer, and contained "Remind me ...
Despite the name, figures in this article only cover household wealth and exclude government wealth, which may be substantial, as in China, or negative, as in the UK or US, and so does not show total wealth.