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  2. Leather pride flag - Wikipedia

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    Represents leather subculture. Adopted. 1989; 35 years ago. ( 1989) Design. Nine equally sized horizontal stripes (from top to bottom: four of alternating black and royal blue, one white, and four of alternating royal blue and black) with a tilted red heart in the canton. Designed by. Tony DeBlase. The leather pride flag is a symbol of leather ...

  3. Black Sun (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Sun symbol. The Black Sun ( German: Schwarze Sonne) is a type of sun wheel (German: Sonnenrad) [ 1][ 2] symbol originating in Nazi Germany and later employed by neo-Nazis and other far-right individuals and groups. The symbol's design consists of twelve radial sig runes, similar to the symbols employed by the SS in their logo.

  4. Patent leather - Wikipedia

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    Riding boot from 1910–1920s. In general, patent leather is fine grain leather that is treated to give it a glossy appearance. An early reference to patent leather is in the 1793 British periodical The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, which notes, in an article entitled "Hand's patent leather", that "a gentleman of the name of Hand" in Birmingham, England, obtained a patent for ...

  5. EMR camouflage - Wikipedia

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    EMR is a single camouflage pattern, developed at 15 Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation as a universal pattern. Depending on the color, it can be adapted to a variety of terrain conditions with good camouflage properties. It's used as the main pattern of the Ratnik combat system.

  6. Black-figure pottery - Wikipedia

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    Heracles and Geryon on an Attic black-figured amphora with a thick layer of transparent gloss, c. 540 BCE, now in the Munich State Collection of Antiquities.. Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic (Ancient Greek: μελανόμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha), is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases.

  7. Leather - Wikipedia

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    Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay. The most common leathers come from cattle, sheep, goats, equine animals, buffalo, pigs and hogs, and aquatic animals such as seals and alligators. [ 1][ 2] Leather can be used to make a variety of ...

  8. Boiled leather - Wikipedia

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    Boiled leather, often referred to by its French translation, cuir bouilli ( French: [kɥiʁ buji] ), was a historical material common in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period and used for various purposes. It was leather that had been treated so that it became tough and rigid, as well as able to hold moulded decoration.

  9. Grayscale - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In digital photography, computer-generated imagery, and colorimetry, a greyscale (more common in Commonwealth English) or grayscale (more common in American English) image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an amount of light; that is, it carries only intensity information. Grayscale images, a ...