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  2. List of flags containing the color purple - Wikipedia

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    Used as the co-official national flag; see Wiphala: Dominica [5] 3 November 1978: As purple sisserou parrot, a national symbol (see flag of Dominica) El Salvador [6] 27 May 1912: As part of the rainbow in the coat of arms (see flag of El Salvador) Nicaragua: 27 August 1971: As part of the rainbow in the coat of arms (see flag of Nicaragua ...

  3. Superman logo - Wikipedia

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    Bizarro's symbol is a reversed purple and yellow version. The inverted symbol, first seen in 52, means "resurrection" in Kryptonian. Jor-El sports a white symbol on his black clothing, as well as a black symbol on his white clothing in the 1978 Superman movie.

  4. Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness - Wikipedia

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    Rabbi Ishmael said: 'The Jews—may I be like an expiatory sacrifice for them [an expression of love]—are like the boxwood tree [eshkeroae], neither black nor white, but in between.'"2 This statement records a second-century (R. Ishmael) perception that the skin color of Jews is midway between black and white.3 More precisely it is light ...

  5. Rainbow - Wikipedia

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    Over most of the disc, scattered light at all wavelengths overlaps, resulting in white light which brightens the sky. At the edge, the wavelength dependence of the scattering gives rise to the rainbow. [5] The light of a primary rainbow arc is 96% polarised tangential to the arc. [6] The light of the second arc is 90% polarised.

  6. Visible spectrum - Wikipedia

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    An example of this phenomenon is when clean air scatters blue light more than red light, and so the midday sky appears blue (apart from the area around the Sun which appears white because the light is not scattered as much). The optical window is also referred to as the "visible window" because it overlaps the human visible response spectrum.

  7. Black Skin, White Masks - Wikipedia

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    Black Skin, White Masks (French: Peau noire, masques blancs) is a 1952 book by philosopher-psychiatrist Frantz Fanon.The book is written in the style of autoethnography, with Fanon sharing his own experiences while presenting a historical critique of the effects of racism and dehumanization, inherent in situations of colonial domination, on the human psyche.

  8. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks Symbol Unicode name of the symbol [a] Similar glyphs or concepts See also ́: Acute (accent) Apostrophe, Grave, Circumflex Aldus leaf: Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index: Fleuron: ≈: Almost equal to: Tilde, Double hyphen: Approximation, Glossary of mathematical symbols, Double tilde & Ampersand: plus sign

  9. Symbols of Islam - Wikipedia

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    In later generations, the Muslim leaders continued to use a simple black, white, or green flag with no markings, writings, or symbolism on it. The Umayyads fought under white and green banners. The Abbasids chose black (blue) and fought with black banners. The Fatimids used a green standard, as well as white.