A story is told that he once painted his face green and rode through town on his bicycle in its honour ( and possibly under its influence ).

The race was won by " Williams " ( pseudonym of William Grover-Williams ) driving a Bugatti Type 35B painted dark green ( what would erroneously become referred to as British racing green ).

The buses used to be colour coded according to their routes, before being painted green.

The dome room has now been restored to its appearance during Jefferson's lifetime, with " Mars yellow " walls and a painted green floor.

Jefferson had the floorcloth painted a " true grass green " upon the recommendation of artist Gilbert Stuart, so that Jefferson's " essay in architecture " could invite the spirit of the outdoors into the house.

Taxis are available on every street and are easily recognized, being painted with a green body and white top, and the fare for a short trip is CF700.

Sited on the former Chapel Court Garden, it has been planted with flowers and herbs from the 16th century, and is complete by gilded heraldic beasts and bold green and white painted fences.

The external skin of the instrument section was painted in alternate strips of white and dark green to provide passive temperature control of the satellite.

What the journey did produce was Whistler's first three nocturnal paintings — which he termed " moonlights " and later re-titled as " nocturnes "— night scenes of the harbor painted with a blue or light green palette.

* Daisy the Diesel Rail-Car, diesel railcar, painted green with yellow lining from The Railway Series

The archaeologists also found frescos of former religions painted in red and green, some referred to agricultural and natural rain cycles.

The company's locomotives, many of which were built in the company's workshops at Swindon, were painted a Brunswick green colour while, for most of its existence, it used a two-tone " chocolate and cream " livery for its passenger coaches.

He did not get out of the castle as his hastily contrived German uniform ( made from a Polish army tunic and cap painted with scenery paint ) was rendered bright green under the prison searchlights.

It would be a godsend to see a fine man model painted in the studio with the bare walls, alongside of the smiling smirking goddesses of waxy complexion amidst the delicious arsenic green trees and gentle wax flowers & purling streams running melodious up & down the hills especially up.

The town is probably best known today for its green painted single-arched iron bridge over the Merrimack.

The grandstand, a classic 7 rows of green painted benches, was the site of games from May to August.

The wood on the original West Side School ( Proctor High School ) was painted Duluth Missabe and Northern green.

The green field made its appearance by 1619 in an armorial quarry painted by one of the Van Linge brothers.

Pullman cars were normally a dark " Pullman green ," although some were painted in the host railroad's colors.

The Nazis tried to bomb the site but could not find it as the roofs at the time were painted green, matching the surrounding grass-lands and making it very hard to spot from a plane.

During the Cold War some airfields painted their runways and taxiways green.

However, the following year strips and girders were painted dark green, the plates Burgundy red, while the wheels and gears remained brass.

The figures were also originally painted with bright pigments, variously coloured in pink, red, green, blue, black, brown, white and lilac.

In this country there's a war on every time the grass turns green.

I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

* Spetsofai: a stew of country sausage, green mild peppers, onions and wine.

Other apotropaic rites include, in some areas of the country, people washing their faces with the morning dew ( for good health ) and adorning the gates for good luck and abundance with green branches or with birch saplings ( for the houses with maiden girls ).

Bowling is also found in association with pubs in some parts of the country and the local team will play matches against teams invited from elsewhere on the pub's bowling green.

The Ministry of Environment has recently, however, come up a $ 50, 000 + plan to clean the whole area and transform the dump into a green space, along with other heaps in the country.

Some other foods and beverages commonly associated with the South are grits, country ham, hushpuppies, Southern styles of succotash, mint juleps, chicken fried steak, buttermilk biscuits ( may be served with gravy or sorghum ), pimento cheese, boiled or baked sweet potatoes, pit barbecue ( especially ribs ), fried catfish, fried green tomatoes, bread pudding, okra ( steamed, stewed, sauteed, or pickled ), butter beans, pinto beans, and black eyed peas.

was released with three different discs – country / acoustic ( green CD ), pop / rock ( red CD ), and world / dance ( blue CD ).

Olmsted not only created numerous city parks around the country, he also conceived of entire systems of parks and interconnecting parkways to connect certain cities to green spaces.

The population of Leinster is 2, 504, 814 according to the 2011 census, making it the most populous province in the country The traditional flag of Leinster features a golden harp on a green background.

In 1955, Minister of Housing Duncan Sandys encouraged local authorities around the country to consider protecting land around their towns and cities by the formal designation of clearly defined green belts.

The anonymous writer described the terrain the party was crossing: " No country that I have ever heard of bears any resemblance to it ; it seems like a vast sea filled with grass and green trees, and expressly intended as a retreat for the rascally Indian, from which the white man would never seek to drive them ".

Easternmost Czechoslovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia ( light green ) was annexed directly into the USSR, while the rest of the country would become the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

The main thrust of critics ' argument is that the appropriate response to overpopulation is not to recruit hundreds of thousands of additional settlers, and the answer to overdevelopment in the north is not to build up the last open spaces in the second most-densely crowded country in the developed world ; rather, what is required is an inclusive plan for the green vitalization of existing population centers in the Negev, investment in long-awaited service-provision in Bedouin villages, clean-up of its many toxic industries ( such as Ramat Hovav ), and the development of a viable economic plan focusing on creating job options for the unemployed rather than promoting an influx of new immigrants and creating jobs for them.

It is generally known that the white represents – the sky, the green – the forest and nature and the red – the blood of the people, referencing the strong bond of the nation through all the wars and revolutions that have shaken the country in the past.

Dennis wrote in the Australian vernacular with such works as The Sentimental Bloke, while McKellar wrote the iconic patriotic poem My Country which rejected prevailing fondness for England's " green and shaded lanes " and declared: " I love a sunburnt country ".

While the chá mate ( tea ) is made with the toasted leaves, the other drinks are made with green leaves, and are very popular in the south of the country.

With its ponds and manicured green areas, it has grown into one of the most beautiful parks in the country.

RCA also introduced record players to exclusively play the 45 rpm format in a heavy promotion, as well as issuing most of the 45's in colored vinyl ( as opposed to the standard black vinyl for records ) specific to the music genre: classical music was issued on red vinyl, country music on green vinyl, children's music on yellow vinyl, pop music on blue vinyl, etc.

Green Wellington boots, introduced by Hunters in 1955, gradually became a shorthand for " country life " and have been popularly thought to be typical not only of " country folk " but also of people who are really townies but wear " green wellies " because they want to be thought to be " country folk ", in the same way that they own Range Rovers or other 4x4 vehicles which are never driven off road.

The host Ingvild Bryn introduced the viewers to the ' blue room ', upon which a 3D scoreboard, views of the green room, the jury spokespersons and country graphics appeared.

The effectiveness of green belts differs depending on location and country.