The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.

Small amounts of defects or impurities ( about one per million of lattice atoms ) color diamond blue ( boron ), yellow ( nitrogen ), brown ( lattice defects ), green ( radiation exposure ), purple, pink, orange or red.

A set A of real numbers ( blue balls ), a set of upper bounds of A ( red diamond and balls ), and the smallest such upper bound, that is, the supremum of A ( red diamond ).

As colored diamond expert Stephen Hofer points out, blue diamonds similar to the Hope can be shown by colorimetric measurements to be grayer ( lower in saturation ) than blue sapphires.

In 1996, the Gemological Institute of America's Gem Trade Lab examined the diamond and, using their proprietary scale, graded it fancy deep grayish blue.

The Hope Diamond contains trace amount of boron atoms intermixed with the carbon structure, which results in the blue color of the diamond, according to the Smithsonian.

Tavernier's book, the Six Voyages ( French: Le Six Voyages de ...), contains sketches of several large diamonds that he sold to Louis XIV in possibly 1668 or 1669 ; while the blue diamond is shown among these, Tavernier mentions the mines at " Gani " Kollur as a source of colored diamonds, but made no direct mention of the stone.

Historian Richard Kurin builds a highly speculative case for 1653 as the year of acquisition, but the most that can be said with certainty is that Tavernier obtained the blue diamond during one of his five voyages to India between the years 1640 and 1667.

Another report suggested that in 1669, Tavernier sold this large blue diamond along with approximately one thousand other diamonds to King Louis XIV of France for 220, 000 livres, the equivalent of 147 kilograms of pure gold.

Caroline's nephew, Duke Karl Friedrich, was later known to possess a blue diamond which was widely thought to be another piece of the French Blue.

" In either case, the blue diamond was not retained by the British royal family.

* Naturally blue diamond, which includes a trace of boron that acts as a dopant.

With his new status, the King ordered new regalia to be made, which included the Wittelsbach Diamond, an oval Old Mine cut blue diamond.

In 1958 millions of visitors came to Brussels for the World Exhibition, which included the jewellery display which included a large blue diamond.

When he opened the package he found a dark blue diamond, which is among the rarest and most valuable of gems.

With the assistance of his son, Jacques Komkommer, he identified the diamond as the ' lost ' blue diamond.

Its original Golden Fleece ornament can be seen today in the Treasury of the Residenz Palace in Munich, a blue glass replica of the Wittelsbach in place of where the diamond was set.

One consisted of a five-pointed white star on a blue background similar to the canton of the current Chilean flag, while the second had a white eight-pointed star centered on a blue diamond with border zigzagged over a black background.

He turned and looked at them with clear blue eyes, immaculate eyes.

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

Travelers entering from the desert were confounded by what must have seemed an illusion: a great garden filled with nightingales and roses, cut by canals and terraced promenades, studded with water tanks of turquoise tile in which were reflected the glistening blue curves of a hundred domes.

Somehow I think that Watson paid more attention to me than he otherwise might have because his foe, Colonel Van Hamm, wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot blue pencil.

He had a small mouth with deep furrows on either side, a large flat nose, and penetrating blue eyes.

It had begun with the blue jay feather.

But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.

Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.

above him the deep blue sky glittered with stars.

He was seeing, somehow, the face of a young boy, the boy Simms Purdew must once have been, a boy with sorrel hair, and blue eyes dancing with gaiety, and the boy mouth grinning trustfully among the freckles.

she had on her Easter suit, blue, with lavender binding.

Inside, the walls are covered with blue and white tile, the floor with red and cream carpets.

Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.

If you are dreaming of a blue, shimmering pool right outside your living room windows, close your eyes firmly and fill in the picture with lots and lots of children, damp towels, squashed tubes of suntan oil and semi-inflated plastic toys.

The video signal is amplified and then switched, in synchronism with the three ultraviolet light sources which are sequenced by the rotating mirror so that during one-twentieth of a second only one wavelength, corresponding to red, green, or blue, is seen.

Five milliamperes/cell were applied for 18 hr, after which the strips were stained with bromphenol blue and densitometry was carried out using a Spinco Analytrol.

O'Banion was a complex and frightening man, whose bright blue eyes stared with a kind of frozen candour into others'.

Wiry and burr-headed, with steel blue eyes and a chest splattered with medals, Chandler is the epitome of the old-time trooper.

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 ).

Arnason and Gullberg describe the genetic distance between a blue and a fin as about the same as that between a human and a gorilla.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

Two of the most notable differences are that the balls are always played in the same sequence ( blue, red, black, yellow ) throughout the game, and that a ball's " deadness " on other balls is carried over from turn to turn until the ball has been " cleared " by scoring its next hoop.

To the windward side this red and blue so infected three or four rows as to communicate the same color unto them ; and part of ye fifth and some of ye sixth.

In 1964 the Cowboys opted for a simpler look ( adopting essentially the team's current uniform ) by changing their jersey / socks to one solid color with three horizontal stripes on the sleeves ; the white jersey featured royal blue stripes with a narrow black border, the royal blue jersey white stripes with the same black outline.

The latter condition has misled some to believe that Bowie has different coloured eyes, when in reality both irises are the same blue colour.

The Rue Mosnier Decked with Flags depicts red, white, and blue pennants covering buildings on either side of the street ; another painting of the same title features a one-legged man walking with crutches.

These same visible lines, accompanied by the emission lines of trivalent europium and trivalent terbium, and further accompanied by the emission continuum of divalent europium in the blue region, comprise the more discontinuous light emission of the modern trichromatic phosphor systems used in many compact fluorescent lamp and traditional lamps where better color rendition is a goal.

Xylene cyanol and Bromophenol blue are common dyes found in loading buffers ; they run about the same speed as DNA fragments that are 5000 bp and 300 bp in length respectively, but the precise position varies with percentage of the gel.

Even the same gemstone can occur in many different colors: sapphires show different shades of blue and pink and " fancy sapphires " exhibit a whole range of other colors from yellow to orange-pink, the latter called " Padparadscha sapphire ".

* Eugenie Victoria " Bonnie Blue " Butler: Scarlett and Rhett's beloved, pretty, strong-willed daughter, as Irish in looks and temper as Gerald O ' Hara, with the same blue eyes.

However, the NFL considers the Texans and Colts to be separate teams, although many of those teams shared the same colors of blue and white.

The same indigo dye is contained in the woad plant, Isatis tinctoria, for a long time the main source of blue dye in Europe.

Color LCD systems use the same technique, with color filters used to generate red, green, and blue pixels.

These were essentially the same as the 1970 uniforms but with blue and yellow piping on the sleeves and collar.

Also a change was made that same year to the Patriots uniforms, changing their primary colors from their traditional red and white to blue and silver, and introducing a new logo.

A special grade of the medal, known as the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, has a larger execution of the same medal design worn as a star on the left chest along with a sash over the right shoulder, with its rosette ( blue with white edge, bearing the central disc of the medal at its center ) resting on the left hip.

The yellow and blue jerseys, the same colors found on Philadelphia's city flag, are based on those worn by the Philadelphia Eagles in the team's inaugural season, and were the same colors used by the former Frankford Yellow Jackets franchise prior to their suspension of operations in 1931.

Pink, blue, champagne, green, black and even purple saltwater pearls can be encountered, but to collect enough of these rare colors to form a complete string of the same size and same shade can take years.