Students are nominated for Major and Club Colours by the member of staff in charge of the given activity to the Colours Committee.

-A cheerful companion for all who want to sing hit songs, write lyrics, or compose music ), and in 1972, shortly before her death, her autobiography Der Himmel hat viele Farben ( The Sky has many Colours ) appeared and topped the bestselling list of the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Historically, colour sergeants of British line regiments protected ensigns, the most junior officers who were responsible for carrying their battalions ' Colours ( flag or insignia ) to rally troops in battles.

* School Colours are given to a pupil who has represented School in his or her chosen sport.

On parade, the Colours always have an armed escort, the Colour Party, who would normally be non-commissioned officers.

At a ceremony outside the Town Hall the Regiment paraded two Guards of soldiers, who had recently returned from Iraq and the Colours of the 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment ( Duke of Wellington's ), led by the Kings Division Band, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Vallings, the Battalion Commanding officer.

As a general rule of thumb, Major Colours for sporting activities are gained by those who have successfully represented their senior team or age group team, in their respective sport throughout the season of the award, while demonstrating a high level of performance and an approach which is both dedicated and a fine example to their peers.

On 12 June, five regimental Colours were laid up in a ceremony at St George's Hall, Windsor Castle in the presence of HM King George V. ( The South Irish Horse who sent a Regimental engraving because the regiment chose to have its standard remain in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ).

The attention which " Colours " had received gained No-Man a recording contract with the high-profile independent label One Little Indian ( at the time, famous for The Shamen and Björk ) and management by Talk Talk's manager Keith Aspden ( who would stay with the band until 1994 ).

McCormack is the younger brother of Danny McCormack, ex-bassist in The Wildhearts, another British rock band who had already achieved commercial success, and with whom 3 Colours Red would play some of their first concerts.

Colours were not the only thing the newly formed club inherited, as Thomas Andreasen who had been with Stavnsholt BK was carried over in to the new Farum squad, Andreasen would go on to make a record 295 appearances, playing from the Denmark Series all the way to the Danish Superliga, until his departure from the club in 2007.

* Most Outstanding Sportsman ( MOS ) Trophy-This is the most prestigious award a sportsman can achieve at the school, awarded annually at the school Colours Night to a sportsman who has made outstanding achievements in his field of sports.

In 1952, the Unit was presented with its own Colours, in memory of those members of the Contingent who fell in battle during the Second World War.

Mitsuda and Procyon Studio have also produced more arranged albums, such as Sailing to the World and 2009's Colours of Light, a compilation album of vocal pieces Mitsuda has composed.

The colours are usually the " Troop Colours " which may have a particular historical significance to the troop or to the local community.

If new Colours have been consecrated on SAF day, they are usually included in the Trooping, but if otherwise, are Trooped on a separate day.

In the gallery hang Queen's Colours and Standards which have been replaced, along with standards of several disbanded squadrons ( most standards of disbanded squadrons hang in the rotunda of the RAF College Cranwell ).

* Yachtsmen to have lost their lives: Mike Bannister ( Winston Churchill, 1998 ), Glyn Charles ( Sword of Orion, 1998 ), Ray Crawford ( Billabong, 1988 ), John Dean ( Winston Churchill, 1998 ), Bruce Guy ( Business Post Naiad, 1998 ), Jim Lawler ( Winston Churchill, 1998 ), Wally Russell ( Yahoo II, 1984 ), John Sarney ( Inca, 1973 ), Phillip Skeggs ( Business Post Naiad, 1998 ), Peter Taylor ( BP Flying Colours, 1989 ) and Hugh ( Barry ) Vallance ( Zilvergeest III, 1975 )

The Queen's Colours and Regimental Colours are a very important symbol for a British Army regiment and for many regiments in the Commonwealth which have inherited the British Army's traditions.

His books have included Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada ( 1990 ) and None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948 ( 1983 ).

* Standard Colours: Units of the Spanish Army have a single colour based on the national flag.

These Colours have now been placed in a protective stand of drawers that will remain in the church.

Colours can vary and generally blend in with the color of the surrounding soil, but they usually have a beige, tan, or reddish dorsum with contrasting, wavy blotches of darker color.

Colours have included pink, during a period of sponsorship by the breast cancer awareness charity Breakthrough, the colours of a Friesian cow during a period of ' quasi-vandalism ', and purple during the SmokeFree Liverpool campaign.

He must have spent at least one term in residence, and must have earned a Full Blue, Half Blue or Second Team Colours ( in a full blue sport ) by representing the University against Oxford in a Varsity match.

" Colours have been added for illustrative purposes and have no other significance.

Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, Leonardo da Vinci, in the South Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; while his highly stippled watercolour drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, of which he had been elected a member in 1874.

In 2003, Blue Gender was released on American television as part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, though it had originally been planned for Toonami, and was thus edited to remove its graphic violence, nudity, and sex scenes ( however, its airing on Colours TV and Funimation Channel in the United States and G4techTV Canada in Canada were unedited and uncut ).

Ensign Wynter scrambled up onto the top of the second gate and fixed the 33rd Regiments Colours to show the Plateau had been taken.

The colonial American doctor John Mitchell took up a study of climate and race and wrote a book in 1744 called An Essay upon the Causes of the Different Colours of People in Different Climates in the book he claimed that the first race on earth had been a brown and reddish colour, he said " that an intermediate tawny colour found amongst Asiatics and Native Amerindians " had been the “ original complexion of mankind ” and that others races came about by the original race spending generations in different climates.

During this chaos, the Colour party of the regiment, whose Colours had been shot through, held their ground against the overwhelming Russian force, and safeguarded the Colours from the Russians, as well as helping to rally the regiment.

Scott was previously in Scott and The Antarctics ; Dyer had played in both The Surfcyders and Clockwork Shoppe ; Campbell, Mahon and Beech had worked together previously in The Mighty Avengers ; and Bernard had been a member of Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, whilst Britnel had worked with The Fortunes.

The Regiment had been without colours since the Colours of the Simcoe Foresters, presented in 1932, were laid-up in St. Thomas Anglican Church at Shanty Bay, Ontario, near Barrie, on 17 November 1946, when the Regiment was converted to Royal Canadian Artillery.

Colours were awarded for each major sport, as appropriate.

In addition to the Queen's and Regimental Colours, the third-the Assaye Colour, was originally awarded by the Governor General in Council in India on behalf of the British East India Company to the 74th Highland Regiment for distinguished service at the Battle of Assaye in India in 1803 while under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington.

Boys demonstrating outstanding achievement in Expressive Arts or Sport may be awarded ' School Colours ' and wear a red striped tie.

Despite having a large winter training squad, and many players representing the University over the summer months ( up to 50 players from the training squad and College level ) rarely are more than a total of 12 Blues and 12 Colours awarded across a season.

Although awarded to D Company, it is carried on the 6th Battalion's Colours and worn on the uniform of all members of the battalion.

In 1993, her novel, Fistful of Colours, was awarded the first Singapore Literature Prize.

In July 1956 ' School Colours ' were awarded for the first time in rugby and cricket.

Each year Full Colours and Half Colours are awarded to senior pupils for achievement in sporting or cultural pursuits.

Sporting achievements within the school are awarded by the presentation of " Colours ", first by a special tie and then a special blazer.