However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

Special kits for away fixtures did not exist at the time and according to football association regulations the newcomers had to change their colours if two teams in the same league had identical uniforms.

Within minutes all three of his ship's masts had fallen, but the battle around Spartiate continued until 21: 00, when the badly wounded Emeriau ordered his colours struck.

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 ).

" Before Diderot ," Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, " I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours ; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius.

In describing this optical spectrum he acknowledged that the spectrum had a continuum of colors, but specifically named seven colors: " The originall or primary colours are Red, yellow, Green, Blew, & a violet purple ; together with Orang, Indico, & an indefinite varietie of intemediate gradations.

And this I did, partly because my own eyes are not very critical in distinguishing colours, partly because another, to whom I had not communicated my thoughts about this matter, could have nothing but his eyes to determine his fancy in making those marks.

The 1MB machine ( 128k of ROM, 128k of video RAM, 768k of system RAM ) promised graphics with 256 colours on-screen simultaneously, could handle 3 million pixels per second, output 8 channel stereo and had a blitter chip that allowed vertical and horizontal hardware scrolling.

Inside, all the cars featured sports seats, had the 360 mm ( 14 in ) steering wheel, with, as a final flourish, the cloth door panels colour-coded to match the detail colours.

The particular colours chosen have varied regionally, and have had totally different meanings in different areas and time periods.

The particular colours chosen have varied regionally, and have had totally different meanings in different areas and time periods.

The train carriages had a distinctive appearance, being liveried in the national colours of San Marino, blue and white layered horizontally ; the service offered first class and third class seats.

: From time to time a strange vehicle drew near to the place where they stood — such a vehicle as the lady at the window, in spite of a considerable acquaintance with human inventions, had never seen before: a huge, low, omnibus, painted in brilliant colours, and decorated apparently with jingling bells, attached to a species of groove in the pavement, through which it was dragged, with a great deal of rumbling, bouncing, and scratching, by a couple of remarkably small horses.

He kicked six goals in round 14 against Melbourne, and the next week, against West Coast, Carey kicked five goals and had a season high 18 disposals in his final game in North Melbourne colours matched up against long time adversary Glen Jakovich.

Her distinctive colours of blue with buff stripes were carried by horses such as Special Cargo, the winner of the 1984 Whitbread Gold Cup, and Devon Loch, which spectacularly halted just short of the winning post at the 1956 Grand National and whose jockey Dick Francis later had a successful career as the writer of racing-themed detective stories.

Other accounts suggested that, possibly in addition to Trollope's deception, York was fooled by some of John Neville of Raby's forces displaying false colours into thinking either that reinforcements sent by Warwick had arrived, or that the northern Nevilles under the Earl of Westmoreland, John Neville's older brother and the most senior peer in the family, were prepared to support him.

Korteling had been inspired by Johannes Vermeer and showed the young van Meegeren how Vermeer had manufactured and mixed his colours.

By the end of the year, the Silver City name ceased to be used as all aircraft had either been repainted in BUA colours or retired.

In 1894 the club adopted the black and white striped shirts, which had been used as the reserve team's colours.

By the time Santísima Trinidad had struck her colours to surrender, Pelayo and San Pablo, separated from de Córdoba's group during action, having been dispatched by the commander the day before, sailed in and bore down on Diadem and Excellent.

Essendon has long been associated with the colours red and black.

At this time, uniforms were ordered in the club colours, black with a red sash, and have been worn in every game from 1890 to today.

Any symbolism has been added later to the three colours, although the orange comes from the House of Orange-Nassau.

These are as standard, the same shape, type face and colours as those in the UK, however non-standard number plates have been permitted.

Though Baldung has been commonly called the Correggio of the north, his compositions are a curious medley of glaring and heterogeneous colours, in which pure black is contrasted with pale yellow, dirty grey, impure red and glowing green.

For much of Liverpool's history its home colours have been all red, but when the club was founded its kit was more like the contemporary Everton kit.

Black and gold — the colours of the Holy Roman Empire — have been the city's official colours since the time of Ludwig the Bavarian.

Certain colours of lighting have been associated with specific wrestlers ; for instance, blue lighting for Undertaker, green lighting for Triple H, D-Generation X, and Shane McMahon, red and orange lighting for Kane, multicoloured lighting for John Morrison, gold lighting for Goldust, pink lighting for Val Venis, and so forth.

Since sandstone beds often form highly visible cliffs and other topographic features, certain colours of sandstone have been strongly identified with certain regions.

The most popular colours of Africa have been assigned to the protea – green, gold, red and black.

Blue and gold have been retained as the official colours of the University of Victoria.

The city center is small, and most Late-Medieval and Renaissance buildings have been restored to their original pastel colours and wooden balconies.

* Colours Jumpers: Students who have been awarded full school colours in any sport are entitled to wear a white and blue cricket jumper instead of a regulation school black jumper.

The coat of arms of the County of Perth appears to have been granted for use on the colours and standards of the volunteer and militia units of the county raised at the end of the eighteenth century.

Although there have been other currencies predating the euro that were specifically designed in similar ways ( different sizes, colours, and ridges ) to aid the visually impaired, the introduction of the euro constitutes the first time that authorities have consulted associations representing the blind and visually impaired before the release of a currency.

He had been trying to surrender the colours, not defend them.

White and red have been the most common colours for Rangers alternate strips, though dark and light blue have also featured highly.

It has been proposed that the colours were those of the Jena Student's League, one of the radically minded Burschenschaften banned by Metternich in the Carlsbad Decrees.

The design and colours of the Swedish flag are believed to have been inspired by the present Coat of arms of Sweden of 1442, which is blue divided quarterly by a cross pattée of gold, and modelled on the Danish flag.

* Colour scheme, a set of colours chosen to be used together in some media

These colours were chosen for the senior team because they weren't associated with either of the two teams United were merged from.

The bright colours were chosen to aid the recognition of escaped prisoners.

The colours of yellow and black were chosen because they were the colours typically used by most large construction vehicles of the day.

The colours chosen by the Republic were red and white, the colours of the flag of Milan, and green, which was the colour of the uniform of the Milanese civic guard.

In 2003, after 206 years of service, the authentic colours of the Italian tricolour were specified by the government, but later amended after hot debate on the chosen shades.

Tlacotalpan was chosen as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 because the " urban layout and architecture of Tlacotalpan represent a fusion of Spanish and Caribbean traditions of exceptional importance and quality ... Its outstanding character lies in its townscape of wide streets, modest houses in an exuberant variety of styles and colours, and many mature trees in public and private open spaces.

The colours chosen for the Côte d ' Ivoire's flag were also used by Niger, with which the Côte d ' Ivoire had an alliance.

Ten representative battle honours were chosen for display on the regiment's colours:

The colours black, red and gold was deliberately chosen because they were the German national colours.

The flag was made with two blue stripes and a large blue Star of David in the center, the colours blue and white chosen from the design of the tallit.

With their official colours still Black, Teal green and rust red the alternate jersey was chosen to represent their secondary colour.

Interpreting the colours chosen for the national flag, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan explained the saffron colour denoted renunciation or disinterestedness of political leaders towards material gains in life.

Known as Sporting Club, US Phocéenne, and Football Club de Marseille in the first five years after their foundation, the club adopted the name Olympique de Marseille in 1899, in honor of the anniversary of Marseille's founding by Greeks from Phocaea some 25 centuries earlier, with the name Olympique, coming from ancient Olympic Games and the colours ( reversed flag of Greece ) chosen to represent the club.

* 8-planes providing up to 256 simultaneously displayed colours chosen from a truecolor palette.

This was attained by lighting, choice of film stock used and colours chosen for set decoration.

The colours were chosen as a combination of the two older clubs in Avellaneda – Racing ( light blue ) and Independiente ( red ).

Later when the colours of the stamps were being revised, the inks chosen were red-brown for the penny value and a new blue ink for the two pence value.

The two principal colours of nature in full contrast to each other were chosen as the Club colours: black and white.