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  2. Black Irish (folklore) - Wikipedia

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    The term "Black Irish" was initially used in the 19th and 20th centuries by Irish-Americans to describe people of Irish descent who have black or dark-coloured hair, blue or dark eyes, or otherwise dark colouring. [1] [2] This meaning is not used in modern Ireland, [3] where "Black Irish" refers to Irish people of African descent. [4]

  3. Earth tone - Wikipedia

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    The color palette of earth tone typically includes warm and muted shades of brown, green, gray, and beige. Other colors that may be included in the earth tone palette are muted shades of orange, red, and yellow. These colors are inspired by the colors of the earth and can be found in natural materials like clay, sandstone, and rusted metal ...

  4. History of optics - Wikipedia

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    Ibn al-Haytham's key achievement was twofold: first, to insist, against the opinion of Ptolemy, that vision occurred because of rays entering the eye; the second was to define the physical nature of the rays discussed by earlier geometrical optical writers, considering them as the forms of light and color. [16]

  5. Tincture (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    These are: gules, or red; sable, or black; azure, or blue; vert, or green; and purpure, or purple. Gules (Fr. gueules, Ger. Rot) [14] is of uncertain derivation; outside of the heraldic context, the modern French word refers to the mouth of an animal. [15] Sable (Ger. Schwarz) [1] is named for a type of marten, known for its dark, luxuriant fur ...

  6. Color in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    Black has less association with mourning than white in traditional Chinese culture. Formal black jackets and slacks have become associated with international professionalism. The I Ching regards black as Heaven's color. The saying "heaven and earth are black" was rooted in the observation that the northern sky was black.

  7. Prism cover test - Wikipedia

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    The prism cover test (PCT) is an objective measurement and the gold standard in measuring strabismus, i.e. ocular misalignment, or a deviation of the eye. [1] It is used by ophthalmologists and orthoptists in order to measure the vertical and horizontal deviation and includes both manifest and latent components. [1]

  8. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    For example, instead of blue as in humans, autosomal recessive eye color in the skink species Corucia zebrata is black, and the autosomal dominant color is yellow-green. [ 102 ] As the perception of color depends on viewing conditions (e.g., the amount and kind of illumination, as well as the hue of the surrounding environment), so does the ...

  9. List of software palettes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of software palettes used by computers. Systems that use a 4-bit or 8-bit pixel depth can display up to 16 or 256 colors simultaneously. Many personal computers in the early 1990s displayed at most 256 different colors, freely selected by software (either by the user or by a program) from their wider hardware's RGB color palette.