Red, black and white are the three colours of the flag of Amsterdam.

Following the rapid change from a loose formation to a rigid line of battle both fleets raised their colours ; each British ship added additional Union Flags in its rigging in case its main flag was shot away.

** GuineaA poster for the French colonial empire titled: " Three colours, one flag, one empire " ( 1941 )

The flag of both Mecklenburg duchies is traditionally made of the colours blue, yellow and red.

The common model was coloured in the black-red-gold of the current German flag, with a variety of other colours also available.

Switzerland ( mainly Geneva ) is home to many international governmental and nongovernmental organisations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross ( whose flag is essentially the Swiss flag with colours reversed ).

The ubiquitous Red and Black Sandinista flag was used during the election process along with the pink as it was one of the colours of a campaign that finished its popular appearances with John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance and the Sandinista Hymn " fighting against Yanqui agressors, enemies of humanity.

The flag includes the three colours of the Armenian National flag.

An " attribute " consists of a foreground and a background colour, a brightness level ( normal or bright ) and a flashing " flag " which, when set, causes the two colours to swap at regular intervals.

Each GAA county has its own flag / colours ( and often a nickname too ), and county allegiances are taken quite seriously.

Leone also produced three comedies by actor / director Carlo Verdone, which were Fun Is Beautiful ( Un Sacco Bello, 1980 ), Bianco, Rosso e Verdone ( White, Red and Verdone – Verdone means " strong green " – a pun referring to the three colours of the Italian flag, the star and to director Verdone, 1981 ) and Troppo Forte ( Great !, 1986 ).

The combination of white and red ( argent and gules ) is a reference to the colours of the flag of Savoy.

The red flag introduced under Taraki was replaced in 1980, shortly after the Soviet intervention, to the more traditional colours black, red and green.

The modern coat of arms circa 1992 is the same, but the shield can be adorned with golden oak leaves tied with a ribbon with colours of the Russian national flag.

Coloured smoke trails may be emitted to emphasise the patterns flown and / or the colours of a national flag.

In 1970, the white-bordered Union Flag ceased to be the signal for a pilot, but references to it as national colours were not removed from the current Merchant Shipping Act and it was legally interpreted as a flag that could be flown on a merchant ship, as a jack if desired.

) Act 1993 and the consolidating Merchant Shipping Act 1995 which, in Section 4, Subsection 1, prohibits the use of any distinctive national colours or those used or resembling flags or pendants on Her Majesty's Ships, " except the Red Ensign, the Union flag ( commonly known as the Union Jack ) with a white border ", and some other exceptions permitted elsewhere in the Acts.

However, Section 2 regards the ' British flag ', and states that " The flag which every British ship is entitled to fly is the Red Ensign ( without any defacement or modification ) and, subject to ( a warrant from Her Majesty or from the Secretary of State, or an Order of Council from her Majesty regarding a defaced Red Ensign ), no other colours.

The colours and design of the cockade are the basis of the Tricolour flag, adopted in 1790.

The colours adopted by Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, which replaced a darker version of the flag.

The flag of Germany is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red, and gold.

His best religious scenes are intense, with their glistening lights and glowing colours sometimes verging on the expressionistic.

When debates polarise between techniques, the methods are often referred to by a colour code, based on the colours of the bindings of the two volumes from the first Oxford Conference, where the approaches were first distinguished.

These are colours associated with Venus as an evening and morning star.

These buses are often specially decorated in a livery matching the team colours.

Bowls were once only available coloured black or brown but they are now available in a variety of colours.

Provincial or national colours are often assigned in national and international competitions.

Different roasting times and temperatures are used to produce different colours of malt from the same grain.

The houses lining the Nive are examples of Basque architecture, with half-timbering and shutters in the national colours of red and green.

Colours can be achieved with special papers and different temperatures and heating rates for different colours ; these coloured sheets are not required in black-and-white output.

* Primary colours or first colours: The main croquet ball colours used which are blue, red, black and yellow ( in order of play ).

* They are generally associated with a mantra seed-syllable, and often with a variety of colours and deities.

They are responsible for the orange colour of the carrot, for which this class of chemicals is named, and for the colours of many other fruits and vegetables ( for example, sweet potatoes and orange cantaloupe melon ).

Carotenes are also responsible for the orange ( but not all of the yellow ) colours in dry foliage.

Chelsea's regular kit colours are royal blue shirts and shorts with white socks.

England's traditional home colours are white shirts, navy blue shorts and white socks.

Although England's first away kits were blue, England's traditional away colours are red shirts, white shorts and red socks.

Each of these art forms, and the criticism thereof, is primarily concerned with a sole creative force: the author of a novel ( not, for example, his editor or type-setter ), the composer of a piece of music ( though sometimes the performers are given credence, akin to actors in film today ), or the painter of a fresco ( not his assistants who mix the colours or often do some of the painting themselves ).

According to an article by the math historian Kenneth May, “ Maps utilizing only four colours are rare, and those that do usually require only three.

He says that if a figure be any how divided and the compartments differently coloured so that figures with any portion of common boundary line are differently coloured — four colours may be wanted but not more — the following is his case in which four colours are wanted.

* Colours: 8 colours ( TTL combinations of RGB primaries ) + 8 flashing versions of the same colours

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.

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 ).

* Secondary colours or second colours ; also known as alternate colours: The colours of the balls used in the second game played on the same court in double-banking: green, pink, brown and white ( in order of play ).

This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, did not go over well with many Essendon people ; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first ( although it played in the same colours ), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the Victorian Football Association.

A " blockbuster " or " roller " is a large piece, almost always done in a block shaped style, done simply to cover a large area solidly with two contrasting colours, sometimes with the whole purpose of blocking other writers from painting on the same wall.

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

They also demanded that the colour palette be expanded to 4096 colours, the same as that of the Amiga.

* Teams shall be of two or three riders wearing the same colours and number.

The same range of colours is also used extensively in publicity and on the TfL website.

Originally the conch is portrayed as being very vibrant and colourful, but as the novel progresses, its colours begin to fade, the same way society begins to fade on the island.

Colour guards in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth are also composed of the same members as in the American units, but tend to have a colour sergeant major behind the colours carrying a pace stick.

Holds come in different colours, those of the same colour often being used to denote a route, allowing routes of different difficulty levels to be overlaid on one another.

Abalone can be played by three people ( or more ) using the same board with fewer marbles, each in three different colours.

Both flags have the same design, an infinity symbol, but are different colours, either red or blue.

* The € 2 is of the same colours as the one-euro coin, but they are reversed: the perimeter is silver coloured whilst the interior is gold coloured.

The art or method of making from the same materials and by the same processes entirely new copperas, vitriol, and different sorts of dye or dying stuff, paints and colours, and also a composition for preserving the bottoms of all kinds of vessels and all wood required to be immersed in water, from worms, weeds, barnacles, and every other foulness which usually does or may adhere thereto.