He seemed timid ( at first, ) wore nose glasses from which a black ribbon dangled, and was no bigger than a jockey.

The " Cogadh na Saoirse " medal, awarded since 1941 by the Irish government to IRA veterans of the War of Independence, bears a ribbon with two vertical stripes in black and tan.

This is achieved through the use of a four-colour ribbon mounted on a mechanism ( provided in an upgrade kit that replaces the standard black ribbon mechanism after installation ) that raises and lowers the ribbons as needed.

Four years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the Israeli team commemorated the massacre: when they entered the stadium at the Opening Ceremonies, their national flag was adorned with a black ribbon.

The Soroban was equipped with a two-color inked ribbon ( red and black ), and the interface allowed color selection.

Conservative and Reform Jews will usually wear a torn piece of black ribbon instead of a torn garment.

Upper image: Inmac ink ribbon Cartridge ( electronics ) | cartridge with black ink for Dot matrix printerLower image: Inked and folded, the ribbon is pulled into the cartridge by the roller mechanism to the left.

As the color ribbon was used in the printer, the black ink section would gradually contaminate the other 3 colors, changing the consistency of printouts over the life of the ribbon.

In the 1970s and 80s, school uniforms were usually white long-sleeved shirts and neckties with black slacks for boys, while short or long sleeved blouses with ribbon and blue pleated skirts for girls.

For example, to memorialize Queen lead-singer Freddie Mercury, there were many panels made, two of which were a solid white background with a blue and black guitar, and " Freddy Mercury " written down the sides in black, with the AIDS ribbon above his name ,< ref > Freddy Mercury AIDS quilt panel.

The ribbon for the 1813, 1870 and 1914 Iron Cross ( 2nd Class ) was black with two thin white bands, the colors of Prussia.

The non-combatant version of this award had the same medal, but the black and white colors on the ribbon were reversed.

The ribbon color for the 1939 EKII was black / white / red / white / black.

The ribbon of the medal ( 2nd class and Knight's Cross ) was different from the earlier Iron Crosses in that the color red was used in addition to the traditional black and white ( black and white were the colors of Prussia, while black, white, and red were the colors of Germany ).

United played in strips reminiscent of those worn by the 1958 team, numbered 1 – 11 with no advertising on the front or players ' names on the back, while City removed sponsors ' logos from their kit and the image of a small black ribbon was embroidered to the right shoulder ; both teams wore black armbands in tribute to the victims of the Munich disaster.

In the meeting of the society, Katipon wore a black hood with a triangle of white ribbon having the letters " Z. Ll.

Some schools handle a theme as dresscode, while others go for the traditional outfit: blue jeans, a black cotton jacket, a black hat ( with a red or blue ribbon ) and a whistle around the neck.

Twenty feet below the street level in the excavation of the new motel to be constructed on this site, a black coal-like deposit has been encountered.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

It has the same crystal structure as red phosphorus and black arsenic, it oxidizes in air and may ignite spontaneously.

" The black race of Africa are inferior to the white man in point of intellect – better calculated in physical structure to undergo drudgery and hardship – standing, as they do, many degrees lower in the scale of gradation that expresses the relative relation between God and all that he has created than the white man.

author Debra Dickerson has argued that the term " black " should refer strictly to the descendents of Africans brought to America as slaves, and not the sons and daughters of black immigrants who lack that ancestry.

" She has also rejected an immigrant designation for African-Americans and instead prefers the term " black " or " white " to denote the African and European U. S. founding populations.

This has justified the devaluation of black femininity and rape of black women which continues to this day.

The work which black women have been forced to perform, either in slavery or in a discriminatory work place, that would be non-gender conforming for white women has been used against black women as a proof of their emasculating behaviour.

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

More recently, British artist James Mylne has been creating photo-realistic artwork using mostly black ballpoints, sometimes with minimal mixed-media color.

The Spot-bellied Bobwhite looks very similar, but has no black facial coloration and lives in Central America.

The Rain Quail has a black breast, lives in Asia, and is larger.

After a black hole has formed it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings.

The no-hair theorem states that, once it achieves a stable condition after formation, a black hole has only three independent physical properties: mass, charge, and angular momentum.

This behavior is so puzzling that it has been called the black hole information loss paradox.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

It had been there 50 years or more and everybody in town, black and white, knew of it.

He had the black numerals on his arm, so he had been branded in a concentration camp.

He had almost given up when he realized that the dropping of his biwa into the icy jowls of the black Pacific was the memory for which he had been searching.

" Amazing Grace " is emblematic of several kinds of folk music styles, often used as the standard example to illustrate such musical techniques as lining out and call and response, that have been practiced in both black and white folk music.

Outraged at learning that black troops had been billeted in his house in Nashville, he nullified an arrangement by Gen. Sherman to allow an abandoned coastal strip in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida be allocated to freedmen for their agricultural use.

The western Sanhaja had been converted to Islam sometime in the 9th C. They were subsequently united in the 10th C., and with the zeal of neophyte converts launched several campaigns against the " Sudanese " ( pagan black peoples of sub-Saharan Africa ).

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

When Aegeus saw the black sails coming into Athens, he jumped into the sea and drowned, mistaken in his belief that his son had been slain.

The black beret had been offered to him by a soldier upon climbing into a tank to get a closer look at the front lines.

Although BJU admitted Asians and other ethnic groups from its inception, it did not enroll black students until 1971, eight years after the University of South Carolina and Clemson University had been integrated by court order.

The one-drop rule may have originated as a means of increasing the number of black slaves and been maintained as an attempt to keep the white race pure.

Because of this, it has been deemed controversial to label them black people.

Initially a synonym for " Satanic metal ", black metal has often been met with hostility from mainstream culture, mainly due to the misanthropic and anti-Christian views of many artists.

Some artists have also been linked to neo-Nazism, although most black metal fans and most prominent black metal artists shun Nazism and oppose its influence on the black metal subculture.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Cuba openly supported the black nationalist and Marxist-oriented Black Panther Party of the U. S. Many members found their way into Cuba for political asylum, where Cuba welcomed them after they had been convicted of crimes in the U. S.

A few amalgams have been studied: is black with a purple metallic lustre, while CsHg is golden-coloured, also with a metallic lustre.