`` My usual palette consists of top-quality colors: alizarin crimson, orange, raw sienna, raw umber, burnt sienna, sepia, cerulean blue, cobalt blue, French ultramarine blue, Winsor green, Hooker's green 2, cadmium yellow pale, yellow ochre, Payne's gray, charcoal gray, Davy's gray, and ivory black ''.

The declaration of independence by the 13 British colonies of North America, and the victory of the French Revolution of 1789, influenced early Cuban liberation movements, as did the successful revolt of black slaves in Haiti in 1791.

These masks were named because they resembled French priests ' winter hoods, being black on the outside and white on the inside.

His illustrations were strongly influenced by French and German black and white art.

The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.

Some spices used then, but no longer today in French cuisine are cubebs, long pepper ( both from vines similar to black pepper ), grains of paradise, and galengale.

With the French intent on reconquest and re-enslavement of the colony's black population, the war became a bloody struggle of atrocity and attrition.

' In his desperation, he turned to increasingly wanton acts of brutality ; the French burned alive, hanged, drowned, and tortured black prisoners, reviving such practices as burying blacks in piles of insects and boiling them in cauldrons of molasses.

Rochambeau's brutal tactics helped unite black, mulatto, and mestizo soldiers against the French.

At the same time, many in the growing black professional classes departed from the traditional veneration of Haiti's French cultural heritage and emphasized the nation's African roots, most notably ethnologist Jean Price-Mars and the journal Les Griots, edited by Dr. François Duvalier.

But yellow fever and the fierce resistance of black revolutionaries destroyed the French army in what became the only successful slave revolt in history, and it withdrew its surviving troops in November 1803.

Another concern was whether it was proper to grant citizenship to the French, Spanish, and free black people living in New Orleans, as the treaty would dictate.

The band appeared on French television with Salvador Dalí, who splashed black paint on them during a performance of their second single " Rainbow Chaser.

The seeds of two species of Fagopyrum, known as buckwheat ( sarrasin in French ), provide grain ( its dark flour is known as blé noir ( black wheat ) in France ).

The Rosetta Stone is listed as " a stone of black granite, bearing three inscriptions ... found at Rosetta ", in a contemporary catalogue of the artifacts discovered by the French expedition and surrendered to British troops in 1801.

After this discovery, French Jews erected a large monument in the center of the square — a large, black and white globe featuring a prominent Hebrew letter, Shin ( ש ) ( presumably for " Shlomo ", Rashi's name ).

Conflict between the British and the black Caribs continued until 1796, when General Abercrombie crushed a revolt fomented by the French radical Victor Hugues.

Swiss importers added a little artisanal circuit, with specific IC, for France L norm, tuner became multistandard, but VCR record French broadcasts, on air, in MESECAM, the tapes are played in black and white on SECAM players, and SECAM tapes played B / W in these modified tuner VCR.

Coffin Bread ( 棺材板 guāncáibǎn ) is similar to French Toast or bread bowl soups, but filled with savory fillings, such as black pepper beef or curried chicken.

Although he does not appear in Patriot Games, it is later revealed that he was the CIA's liaison with a French black ops unit involved in the campaign against the ULA.

* August 28 – Mathieu Luis becomes the first black member to join the French Parliament as a representative of Guadaloupe.

* June 21 – In Montreal, New France, a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is tortured then hanged by the French authorities for allegedly setting a fire that destroyed part of the city.

Formation of fleets: British ships are black, French ships are white.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

The malleability and acoustic properties of brass have made it the metal of choice for musical instruments such as the trombone, tuba, trumpet, cornet, euphonium, tenor horn, and French horn which are collectively known as the brass within an orchestra.

These may include a tire patch kit ( which, in turn, may contain any combination of a hand pump or CO < sub > 2 </ sub > Pump, tire levers, spare tubes, self-adhesive patches, or tube-patching material, an adhesive, a piece of sandpaper or a metal grater ( for roughing the tube surface to be patched ), and sometimes even a block of French chalk.

French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran actually carried out the separation of gadolinium metal from gadolinia, in 1886.

The word graal, as it is earliest spelled, comes from Old French graal or greal, cognate with Old Provençal grazal and Old Catalan gresal, meaning " a cup or bowl of earth, wood, or metal " ( or other various types of vessels in Southern French dialects ).

The image on the front of the British jar shows a " marmite " (), a French term for a large, covered earthenware or metal cooking pot.

The product took its name from the " marmite " (), a French term for a large, covered earthenware or metal cooking pot.

During the reign of Ranavalona I, early attempts at industrialization took place from 1835 under the direction of the French Jean Laborde ( a survivor of a shipwreck off the east coast ), producing soap, porcelain, metal tools and firearms ( rifles, cannons, etc.

The original German guillotines resembled the French Berger 1872 model, but they eventually evolved into more specialised machines largely built of metal with a much heavier blade enabling shorter uprights to be used.

A washboard ( left ) and a piano player A washboard and player The washboard and frottoir ( from Cajun French " frotter ", to rub ) are used as a percussion instrument, employing the ribbed metal surface of the cleaning device as a rhythm instrument.

French, who had thrown a metal cymbal at Cotton, ran after him yelling that he too wanted to come.

Full metal jacket bullets were first used as standard ammunition in 1886, for the French Mle 1886 Lebel rifle.

* French Celtic black metal band Aes Dana's 2001 full-length album is called La Chasse Sauvage (" The Wild Hunt "), and the first track carries the same name.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorini ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

In German, a carillon is also called a Glockenspiel ; while in French, the true glockenspiel ( a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal bars ) is often called a carillon.

A few hours later, as Dayan was on the roof of the building using binoculars to scan enemy Vichy French positions on the other side of the river, they were struck by a French rifle bullet fired by a marksman from several hundred yards away, propelling metal and glass fragments into his left eye and causing it severe damage.

In French heraldry, the colour is usually excluded from the common colours as well as considered " ambiguous " ( could be either colour or metal ), and Finnish heraldry restricts its use to certain additaments.

* Eva ( album ), an album by French metal band Malmonde

A portcullis ( from the French or gliding door ) is a latticed grille made of wood, metal or a combination of the two.

Many authorities say that the French word " cliché " comes from the sound made when the molten stereotyping metal is poured onto the matrix to make a printing plate, including the statement that it is a variant of cliquer, " to click ", though some express doubt.

* French metal band Watcha dedicated a song on the album " Phenix " called " Dimebag ".

The French black metal band Peste Noire used a fragment of the Song of Roland as lyrics for their song ' La Fin del Secle '.

:* Karelia ( heavy metal band ), a French heavy metal band