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gemstones
gemstones Gemstones are minerals esteemed for their qualities of beauty, durability, and rarity. Beauty is generally perceived as a good clear colour and transparency, as shown by fine emeralds or rubies. Beauty may also result from a play of colours or an attractive sheen, as in diamond and... Read more |
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colours
colours, the name by which the national flag flown by a ship at sea is known. ‘What colours does it fly?’ means what is its nationality? In British naval ships the colours are the jack flown on the jackstaff in the bows and the white ensign flown at the gaff when at sea or from an... Read more |
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colour blindness
colour blindness Some 8% of men exhibit a hereditary deficiency of colour perception, but so imprecise is our common coinage of words about colour that it was not until the eighteenth century that the existence of colour blindness was generally known — and only rather recently was it... Read more |
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characteristic
characteristic, the distinguishing qualities of a navigational light, whether from a lighthouse, lightship, light float, or lighted buoy, by which the navigator of a ship can easily identify it. In addition to their colours, white, red, yellow, or green, individual lights can be recognized by... Read more |
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primary colour
primary colour any of a group of colours from which all other colours can be obtained by mixing. The primary colours for pigments are red, blue, and yellow. The primary additive colours for light are red, green, and blue; the primary subtractive colours (which give the primary additive colours when... Read more |
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George MacBeth
MacBeth, George Mann (1932– ), poet, was a member of the Group during the 1950s and in the 1960s was associated with the vogue for poetry in performance. His early work was experimental and at times macabre and violent in its preoccupations; later collections show (in his own words)... Read more |
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Jens Ferdinand Willumsen
Willumsen, Jens Ferdinand (1863–1958). Danish painter, sculptor, architect, engraver, potter, writer, and collector. He was born in Copenhagen, where he studied at the Academy. In 1888–9 he visited Paris, and he was again in France between 1890 and 1894, abandoning his early... Read more |
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Reduction of Staphylococcus epidermidis adhesion to indwelling medical...
...by heparin and gentian violet surface preconditioning...important part of its normal microflora...catheter use.12 Its strong hydrophilic...normally used to colour wood, silk or paper...antimicrobial agent.15 Gentian violet ... |
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Boundless curiosity
...its curiosity about its own past and for the...to make a popular show. In this crowded...water has changed the colours, and the superb delicacy of the rose gentian, also suffering pigment...village of Pomeiooc with its ... |
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Co-operation emerges as the key message from Scotgrow
...expert, an award-winning gentian exporter and all at the Scotgrow...for simply being the original colour before plant growers decided...chairman of Scotgrow, trade show for an unsubsidised and usually...years ago to concentrate on gentians. Now more than ... |
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GARDENING: Cheer the chills with bright berries.(Features)
...with a wonderful show of colour. Try Orange Glow...think about indoor colour and outdoor cheer...more dramatic colours can be obtained...effectively with its evergreen leaves...which will give good shows of red ... |
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BRIGHT IDEAS.(Features)
...to achieve a good colour arrangement in the...combination of flower colours, crowded together...from the sizzling colour scheme. However...of true blue. The gentian sage, as it is also...blossom that makes its neighbours look anything...is ... |
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Writing on the waves
...chain of needles, the colour of vodka, yet another...gyroscope and I exclaim at its beauty. "Yes, but...species more." Dr Patrick Gentian is amused at my excitement...The small island is the colour of coral. Philip Baugh...Wednesday my logbook ... |
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What's hot, what's not...(Features)
...to present the Disney Show. Prices range from pounds...bottles. Choose from Gentian Hibiscus or Linden Blossom...radio by Roberts with its traditional wood cabinet...available in a choice of five colours. The latest in keeping with its Royal ... |
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Summer blues; Offset the fiery reds and yellows of the July and August garden...
...of the dominant flower colours early in the year, when...But as summer reaches its peak, another group of...blue plants comes into its own, and even on the...and flowers of a vivid gentian blue, while S. patens...leaves, they are real ... |
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Travelling: Travelling at its peak; Tim Ross heads for the Matterhorn and...
...the best part of a day to wind its way through the valleys and...prepared for such a breathtaking show. After a breakfast in the mountain...mountainside with flecks of intense colour - the reds of Alpine roses...yellows, and the deep blue of the gentian ... |
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Homes & Gardening; Every garden in Scotland should have snowdrops.(Features)
...blocks of hostas, rivers of gentians - we're always trying for...Galanthus nivalis, in both its single and double forms. They...that need an open spot to show them off. The flowers appear...that was a mistake, as the colour is too sombre for spring. I... |
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