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  2. Blue in culture - Wikipedia

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    Blue in culture. Goblet from Mesopotamia, 1500–1300 BC glazed with Egyptian blue. This was the first synthetic blue, first made in about 2500 BC. The color blue has been important in culture, politics, art and fashion since ancient times. Blue was used in ancient Egypt for jewelry and ornament. [ 1] In the Renaissance, blue pigments were ...

  3. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism. Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [ 1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [ 2] The same color may have very different ...

  4. Blue - Wikipedia

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    Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. [ 2] It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength that's between approximately ...

  5. Light blue - Wikipedia

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    Light blue is a color or range of colors, typically a lightened shade with a hue between cyan and blue . The first use of "light blue" as a color term in English is in the year 1915. [ 2] In Russian and some other languages, there is no single word for blue, but rather different words for light blue ( голубой, goluboy) and dark blue ...

  6. Shades of blue - Wikipedia

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    The web color light blue is part of the X11 color system, with a hue code of 194. This color is closer to cyan than to blue. Variations of this color are known as sky blue, baby blue, or angel blue. The first recorded use of "light blue" as a color term in English is in the year 1915.

  7. Flag of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    The flag of the United Nations is a sky blue banner containing the United Nations ' emblem in the centre. The emblem on the flag is coloured white; it is a depiction of the world map in the azimuthal equidistant projection (centred on the North Pole ), which is surrounded by a pair of olive branches. The emblem was officially adopted on 7 ...

  8. Political colour - Wikipedia

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    In India, light blue is the colour associated with the Indian National Congress, a national centre-left party. Meanwhile, dark blue is associated with the Dalit Movement, represented by multiple parties: Republican Party of India (and its Athawale splinter), Bahujan Samaj Party, etc.

  9. Sky blue - Wikipedia

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    Very light greenish blue. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Sky blue refers to a collection of shades comparable to that of a clear daytime sky. [ 1 ] Typically it is a shade of cyan or light teal, though some iterations are closer to light blue. The term (as "sky blew") is attested from 1681. [ 1 ]