These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their brilliant red colour an appropriate symbol for the blood spilled in the war.

Its references to the red poppies that grew over the graves of fallen soldiers resulted in the remembrance poppy becoming one of the world's most recognized memorial symbols for soldiers who have died in conflict.

The first stanza of the poem is printed above an illustration of a white cross amidst a field of red poppies while two cannons fire in the background.

alt = Painting of a soldier staring down at a white cross surrounded by red poppies.

alt = Several wreaths of artificial red poppies with black centres.

An unnamed photographer takes a picture of Europe's rulers-after handing two red poppies to the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg he takes their picture, ' assassinating ' them as the flash goes off.

One of Keats's changes emphasised by critics is the change in line 17 of " Drows'd with red poppies " to " Drows'd with the fume of poppies ", which emphasises the sense of smell instead of sight.

The RSA's commitment to veterans ' welfare is embodied in Poppy Day when red poppies are exchanged for donations to hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders to raise funds for the welfare of all veterans and in remembrance of New Zealand's war dead.

In 1933, during a period in which there was widespread fear of war in Europe, the Women's Co-operative Guild began the practice of distributing white poppies as an alternative to the red poppies distributed by the Royal British Legion in commemoration of servicemen who died in the First World War.

Image: Anzac poppies. JPG | A white poppy among red poppies placed on the Waitati cenotaph on Anzac Day, 2009

In Persian literature, red poppies, especially red corn poppy flowers, are considered the flower of love.

The island has been famous for its grapes, wines and red poppies for centuries.

Lautrec's portrait of her in full costume, her flame-red hair accentuated by two red poppies worn like plumes, boosted Lender's popularity considerably after it appeared in a Paris magazine.

The Legion organises a fund-raising drive each year in the weeks before Remembrance Sunday, during which artificial red poppies, meant to be worn on clothing, are offered to the public in return for a charitable donation.

Visitors enter the facility across a glass bridge above a field of 9, 000 red poppies, each one representing 1, 000 WWI combatant deaths.

This large oil on canvas, 59 x 104 inches, employed active and expressive brushstrokes to evoke the fiery cadmium red of poppies, a subject matter that was popular during that time among many painters.

They arrives at a field of red poppies, which grew throughout the wastelands of battles fought during the war, and which serves as a marker for the Ypres battle site.

Standing among the field of red poppies, Linus then turns and asks, " What have we learned, Charlie Brown?

Furthermore, sandwiches de miga are another type of bread products ; they are made only with thin layers of white bread ( generally referred to as crustless bread ) and stuffed with food items ranging from ham and cheese to other more sophisticated combinations such as raw ham, tomatoes, olives, hard boiled eggs, tuna, lettuce, red pepper, and the like.

The proportion of blood occupied by red blood cells is referred to as the hematocrit, and is normally about 45 %.

: Officially, the single is called a rouge ( French for " red ") but is often referred to as a single.

The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B ( popularly referred to as The Bowmar Brain ), measuring 5. 2 × 3. 0 × 1. 5 in ( 131 × 77 × 37 mm ), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for $ 240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first slimline pocket calculator measuring 5. 4 × 2. 2 × 0. 35 in ( 138 × 56 × 9 mm ) and weighing 2. 5 oz ( 70g ).

The national flag of the United States of America is often simply referred to as the American flag, consisting of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red ( top and bottom ) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton ( referred to specifically as the " union ") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars ( top and bottom ) alternating with rows of five stars.

( Esau referred to the dish as " that same red pottage ", giving rise to his nickname, (` Edom, meaning " Red ").

The Derby is frequently referred to as " The Run for the Roses ," because a lush blanket of 554 red roses is awarded to the Kentucky Derby winner each year.

A kipper is also sometimes referred to as a " red herring ", although particularly strong curing is required to produce a truly red kipper.

In California, Merlot can range from very fruity simple wines ( sometimes referred to by critics as a " red Chardonnay ") to more serious, barrel aged examples.

The heraldic badge, referred to by the CHA as the mark of the Prime Ministership of Canada, consists of four red maple leaves joined at the stem on a white field (" Argent four maple leaves conjoined in cross at the stem Gules "); the augmentation has, so far, been granted either as a canton sinister or centred in the chief.

The three kinds of charge in QCD ( as opposed to one in quantum electrodynamics or QED ) are usually referred to as " color charge " by loose analogy to the three kinds of color ( red, green and blue ) perceived by humans.

The resulting tea bowls made by Chōjirō were initially referred to as " ima-yaki " (" contemporary ware ") and were also distinguished as Juraku-yaki, from the red clay ( Juraku ) that they employed.

Its most common variety is often referred to as white sambuca to differentiate it from other varieties that are deep blue in colour ( black sambuca ) or bright red ( red sambuca ).

Tennis is enjoyed by millions of recreational players and is also a hugely popular worldwide spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments ( also referred to as the " Majors "): the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open played also on hard courts.

Einstein later referred to his failure to predict the expansion of the universe from theory, before it was proven by observation of the cosmological red shift, as the " biggest blunder " of his life.

The spleen plays important roles in regard to red blood cells ( also referred to as erythrocytes ) and the immune system.

The Stone of Scone (;, ), also known as the Stone of Destiny and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone, is an oblong block of red sandstone, used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland and later the monarchs of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

In fact, the exclusively salt water dwelling red drum is often referred to as a red perch, even though by definition perch are freshwater fish.

In the United States and Canada, the common heatless species is referred to as " bell peppers ", " sweet peppers ", " red / green / etc.

According to George Bird Grinnell, the Dakota had referred to themselves and fellow Siouan-language bands as " white talkers ", and those of other language families, such as the Algonquian Cheyenne, as " red talkers " ( Šahíyena ).

In network branding, the red ribbon and sphere represented entertainment programming, the blue ribbon and cube represented news programming, and the green ribbon and cone referred to sports programming.

It had a red circle.

For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.

During the night, a phone company technician had deadened the bells and installed red blinkers on the phones.

The red glow from the cove had died out of the sky.

I look like an old man, compared '', and he had picked up his photograph with the red Christmas bow still on it.

And it so happened that adjacent to a couch on which she had taken refuge was a small table on which she noted a vase of red rosebuds ; ;

I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model `` a beautiful shade of red and then had her breathe on the canvas '', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity.

The red cells for the Rh antibody tests were used within 3 days after drawing except for the Af cells, which had been glycerolized and stored at -20-degrees-C for approximately 1 year.

The lavish use of presents had been effective in expanding the Indian trade of New France and Louisiana in the previous century, and the change in liberality aroused resentment in the minds of the red men.

A new red carpet had been laid for their coming, but I walked on it, too.

His eyes were threaded by little filaments of red as if tiny veins had burst and flooded blood into them.

The Abernathy furnace consumed fuel like a giant ravenous maw that had to be appeased by hurling tons of coal into its evil red depths, and no matter how much coal they put in the house remained cold.

One boy who rocked back and forth over his worn book had bright red hair and freckles.

Frogs have been caught on fish hooks baited with red flannel and green frogs ( Rana clamitans ) have been found to have stomachs full of elm seeds that they had seen floating past.

Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.

On March 30, 2010, a spokesman for the Egyptian Culture Ministry claimed it had unearthed a large red granite door in Luxor with inscriptions by User, a powerful adviser to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut who ruled between 1479 BC and 1458 BC, the longest of any woman.

Competing machines such as the Altair 8800 generally were programmed with front-mounted toggle switches and used indicator lights ( red LEDs, most commonly ) for output, and had to be extended with separate hardware to allow connection to a computer terminal or a teletypewriter machine.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

On December 18, 1907, Taylor announced that the club had officially adopted red as its new team color.

For 1908, the National League club returned to wearing red trim, but the American League team finally had an official nickname, and would remain the " Red Sox " for good.

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 ).