According to informal tradition, O stars are called " blue ", B " blue-white ", A stars " white ", F stars " yellow-white ", G stars " yellow ", K stars " orange ", and M stars " red ", even though the actual star colors perceived by an observer may deviate from these colors depending on visual conditions and individual stars observed.

According to Max Boot's book War Made New ( 2006, pg 122 ), sometime between 1803 and 1809, the Prussian General Staff developed war games, with staff officers moving metal pieces around on a game table ( with blue pieces representing their forces and red pieces those of the enemy ), using dice rolls to indicate random chance and with a referee scoring the results.

According to Smithsonian curator Dr. Jeffrey Post, the element boron may be responsible for causing the blue color of the stones after tests using infrared light measured a chemical spectrum of the gems.

According to flag designer Spring Davis, the blue represents the town and the University of North Carolina ( whose colors are Carolina blue and white ); the green represents " environmental awareness "; and the " townscape " in the inverted chevron represents " a sense of home, friends, and community.

According to the late historian Mary McRae of Homosassa, Inverness got its name from a lonely Scotsman, far away from his home, who gazed upon the blue waters of the Native American-named Tsala Apopka Lake and thought the area looked like the headlands and lochs of Inverness, Scotland, deserving the name Inverness.

According to the biblical commandment, a blue ( Hebrew תכלת, tekhelet, tək · ā '· leth ) thread ( Hebrew פתיל " pəthiyl ") known as " tekhelet " itself, is included in the tzitzit.

According to the national constitution, the flag is a tricolour of horizontal bands of green, white and blue and measures six units by nine units.

According to chancellor and chronicler Pero López de Ayala, he had a pale complexion, with blue eyes and very light blond hair ; he was tall ( 1 ' 83 m .) and muscular.

According to Cotton Incorporated, " Neil Diamond might have been right when he named his 1979 # 1 hit ' Forever in Blue Jeans ': 81 % of women are planning their next jeans purchase to be some shade of blue.

According to the live-action series, The Tick is 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 230 pounds ( 6 inches and 170 pounds less than his dimensions in the comic ), and has blue hair and eyes.

According to Lavery, " Thinking that royal blue might be an appropriate colour, I mixed it on the palette, and taking a brush he applied it to the Garter ribbon.

According to popular tradition, the nine stripes represent the nine syllables of the phrase " Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος " (" Freedom or Death "), the five blue stripes for the syllables " Έλευθερία " and the four white stripes " ή Θάνατος ".

According to some texts " he had the beauty of his mother and the eyes of his father ", which were blue, while in other Túrin is said to have inherited the grey eyes of his mother.

According to media reports, a blue and white porcelain jar produced in Jingdezhen during the Yuan Dynasty was auctioned for the equivalent of RMB 230, 000, 000 yuan in London, UK on July 12, 2005.

According to Al-Muwatta, he was tall, heavyset, imposing of stature, very fair, with white hair and beard but bald, with a huge beard and blue eyes.

According to the Stilton Cheesemaker's Association, the first Englishman to market blue Stilton cheese was Cooper Thornhill, owner of the Bell Inn on the Great North Road, in the village of Stilton, Huntingdonshire.

According to the minutes of the New Jersey General Assembly for March 11, 1896, the date in which the Assembly officially approved the flag as the state emblem, the buff color is due indirectly to George Washington, who had ordered on October 2, 1779, that the uniform coats of the New Jersey Continental Line be dark ( Jersey ) blue, with buff facings.

According to tales, as the tricolor of Serbia was faded by sunlight the blue became lighter and when Nicholas I saw it, he liked it and decided to keep it.

According to Leinster Leader, Saturday, 11 April 1903, Britain had to choose a different colour to its usual national colours of red, white and blue, as these had already been taken by Italy, Germany and France respectively.

According to Frost, the appearance of blond hair and blue eyes in some northern European women made them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for scarce males.

According to the New York Stock Exchange, a blue chip is stock in a corporation with a national reputation for quality, reliability and the ability to operate profitably in good times and bad.

According to The Washington Post, the phrases red states and blue states were coined by Tim Russert, although in that same article Russert states that he wasn't the first to use the terminology.

According to the official description, the flag should have a fringe of yellow silk and should have a blue and white silk cord attached at the spearhead.

According to a study published in 2010 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, the reliability of a simple six-point Likert scale for self-assessment of pruritus ( itching ) by patients was validated in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

According to a plaque at Samuel S. Lewis State Park, which overlooks Wrightsville and the Susquehanna River, Wrightsville was George Washington's first choice as location of the capital of the United States.

According to astronomer Frank Drake, there were many negative reactions to the plaque because the human beings were displayed naked.

According to a plaque underneath a painting of Hobson donated to Cambridge Guildhall, Hobson had an extensive stable of some 40 horses.

According to legend, undergraduates who rub the plaque the night before their chemistry exam will do well.

According to popular local folklore and the inscription on the plaque at the tree's base, in the 1830s, Stephen F. Austin, the leader of the Austin Colony, met local Native Americans in the grove to negotiate and sign Texas ' first boundary treaty after two children and a local judge had been killed in raids.

According to the blue plaque on the wall outside Plymouth House (), the house is believed to have been formerly part of the monastery, perhaps functioning as a halled house for some time in the fifteenth century.

According to the blue plaque on the Court House (), it was formerly known as Ivy house when it was a town house from the 16th century.

According to the blue plaque on the building ( also known as " The Old School ") (), it was built around 1450 by John Raglan ( Herbert ) and was then owned by Robert Raglan, from a family who had significant power in the area at the time and held many local administrative posts as stewards and priests.

According to the plaque next to the arch, it is the largest such single-span archway in the world.

According to a plaque on a wall in the park, " Kerry Park given to the City in 1927 by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sperry Kerry, Sr., so that all who stop here may enjoy this view.

According to a plaque in the church of modern day Barthomley, there was indeed a siege of the church during the Civil War.

According to the plaque set at the foot of the sign, it is thought to be the first internally illuminated road sign in the country.

According to a plaque on the wall at the Surrey ( Guildford ) restaurant, " Legend has it that the name Triple-O was part of the shorthand language of the carhops: guests could choose from mayonnaise and relish, and the order slips were printed with three X's and three O's.

According to the plaque on the bridge, Edwin Thatcher was the chief engineer for the bridge.

According to Stew Thornley's 2006 book, a plaque that had once been affixed to the grocery store is now reinstated, at the TCF Bank branch building.

According to a plaque at the bottom of the tower, the tower was built in 1938.

According to a plaque inside the castle, the avenue served as the baseline for the Württemberg land survey of 1820 and measures exactly 40, 118. 718 Paris feet or 13, 032. 14 meters.

According to the information plaque, the plants are believed to have been brought here by the Knights Templar in the Middle Ages for the production of saffron.

According to the plaque, the building was used by the 5th, 6th and 8th Legislatures who served in 1855, 1856, and 1858 respectively.

According to a plaque in St Andrews, Scotland, the dollar sign was first cast into type at a foundry in Philadelphia, United States in 1797 by the Scottish immigrant John Baine.

According to a plaque which accompanies it, the statue was donated to the Bancroft Gardens in Stratford-upon-Avon by Alfred Bullard in 1932.

According to the sign, the plaque was erected by Boy Scout Troop 249 in remembrance of David Greenberg ( age 12 ), Mike Early ( age 16 ), and Michael J. Lanoue ( age 13 ).