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colours and eclipses
It contains an easy and accurate method for calculating eclipses, an essay on colour, in which three primary colours are recognized, a catalogue of 998 zodiacal stars, and a memoir, the earliest of any real value, on the proper motion of eighty stars, originally communicated to the Göttingen Royal Society in 1760.
This is why their pictures lack the all-penetrating light that eclipses colours and contours and gives rise to the " vibrism " peculiar to Impressionist painting.

colours and formations
With extra time to polish the title, several changes were made to the international release, including graphical cleanup ; the addition of white fences on cardboard courses ; Egg Blocks with colours matching the Yoshi in play ; new locations for some items ; a slightly different ending when the player finishes a course with only melons ; and additional secrets, including hidden coin formations that spell out letters.
Apart from the fantastic contrast of land colours and formations, tourists are attracted also by the strong aboriginal roots in the culture of Jujuy.
The pinnacle formations are best viewed in the early morning or late afternoon as the play of light brings out the colours and the extended shadows of the formations delivers a contrast that brings out their features.

colours and occur
Found in a wide variety of colours, more than 900 species of slime mold occur all over the world and feed on microorganisms that live in any type of dead plant material.
Cotton fibres occur naturally in colours of white, brown, green, and some mixing of these.
Noctilucent clouds are generally colourless or pale blue, although occasionally other colours including red and green occur.
The earliest use of the law appears to occur in Plato's dialogue Theaetetus ( 185a ), where Socrates attempts to establish that what we call " sounds " and " colours " are two different classes of thing.
However, other colours including spotted or solid, black, and brown, are known to occur.
In other words, whatever colours you use, at least one of those two possibilities will occur.

colours and near
: 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.
The colours of the arms are green and silver, because the name is derived from an old word describing a field ( green ) near a lake ( silver ).
At the nave near the chancel steps, old Regimental colours hang from the pillars.
The grass near the site, the same general area the cows fed in, started taking gray colours and became strangely brittle.
This design consists of two colours for the tiles, one for main wall tiles and another for trim tiles near the ceiling of the stations.
On 24 January, two French ships were sighted off the coast, causing Phillip to raise English colours near Sutherland Point.
The erudite abbot Felice Gualterio, of the noble family from Orvieto and younger brother of the conclavist Sebastiano Gualterio, in his treatise " The Conclavist " underscores that sentiment: " I wish my conclavist would transform himself, if it were possible, into the nature of a chameleon, as this animal takes on the quality of the colours of all things which he comes near to and so, speaking and dealing with humans, he would be able to satisfy everyone's nature ".
It was at this time, with the conversion of the unit to a Rifle Regiment, that the old colours of the 10th Madras were taken back to India ( rifle regiments do not carry colours ) and laid up at the Church of St. John in the fort at Vellore near to where the earliest predecessor of the 10th Madras Infantry had been raised in 1766.
The crest represents the colours of Liberec ( blue & white ) and the mountain Ještěd near Liberec with its famous television tower on top.
The ribbon of the Order is yellow with blue stripes near its borders ( i. e., the Swedish national colours ).
The Regiment had been without colours since the Colours of the Simcoe Foresters, presented in 1932, were laid-up in St. Thomas Anglican Church at Shanty Bay, Ontario, near Barrie, on 17 November 1946, when the Regiment was converted to Royal Canadian Artillery.

colours and them
First drawn to fungi because of their colours and evanescence in nature and her delight in painting them, her interest deepened after meeting Charles McIntosh, a revered naturalist and mycologist during a summer holiday in Perthshire in 1892.
Their pastel colours, tall fins and extensive chrome make them a favouriste subject for tourist photographs.
" 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.
This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji (" cutting word ") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.
" I desired a friend to draw with a pencil lines cross the image, or pillar of colours, where every one of the seven aforenamed colours was most full and brisk, and also where he judged the truest confines of them to be, whilst I held the paper so, that the said image might fall within a certain compass marked on it.
Montalcino is divided, like most medieval Tuscan cities, into quarters called contrade, Borghetto, Travaglio, Pianello and Ruga, each with their own colours, songs and separate drum rhythms to distinguish them.
Some have colours and paintings on them.
In Looks on the Past, he relates that the houses and churches were decorated with such shimmering colours that upon entering them, he felt that he was moving into a painting.
Grace wore MCC colours for the rest of his career, playing for them on an irregular basis until 1904, and their red and yellow hooped cap became as synonymous with him as his large black beard.
In the 20th century, Picasso and Matisse were among those who acknowledged a debt to the great classicist ; Matisse described him as the first painter " to use pure colours, outlining them without distorting them.
The two shields in the centre form the coat of arms of the Electorate of Saxony with the Saxon arms on the right, whose gold and black stripes recall the Ascanian rulers ' house colours with the Rautenkranz ( literally " lozenge wreath ", although it is no such thing, as can be seen at the Saxony article ) across them symbolizing the town's founder Duke Albrecht II since 1262, when it appeared in his arms.
Many of them were exceedingly elaborate, incorporating subtly shaded colours, silk and metallic embroidery threads, and using stitches such as Hungarian, Florentine, tent, cross, long-armed cross, two-sided Italian cross, rice, running, Holbein, Algerian eye and buttonhole stitches.
In these crystals, the strength of the dichroic effect varies strongly with the wavelength of the light, making them appear to have different colours when viewed with light having differing polarizations.
The club colours are black and white striped shirt with black shorts with claret and white trim, and black socks with white trim, though white socks are sometimes worn under some managers who consider them " lucky ".
He infuriated the French commanders by refusing them the " honours of war " ( the ceremonial right of a defeated garrison to retain their flags ); the Knight of Lévis burned the colours rather than surrendering them.
The net result was 256 colours, but only 16 of them could be assigned as desired, covering a range of the 4096 available colours.
He had been trying to surrender the colours, not defend them.
no body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colours of men, & that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence both in Africa & America.
From this evidence, some archaeologists have tried to reconstruct the paintings, excepting of course the colours of them.
The bright colours of this group of artists led to them being called Fauves (' Wild Beasts ').
Each company retained their own funnel colours, so it was easy to distinguish which ship belonged to which company even from a distance: Svea's funnels where white with a large black S on them, FÅA's were black with two white brands around the funnel, and Bore's were yellow with a blue / white cross.

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