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By Kintan Andanari The Straits Times (Singapore) When Siti Sakinah Zainal sits at the piano, fingers poised on its keys, she begins not by looking at the conductor’s purple baton, but by listening intently. She focuses on the sound of his slow, measured breath, amplified through his microphone. On cue, she starts Georges …
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by Dictionary Scoop You learn your colors before kindergarten, but how did they get their names? And what did we call “orange” first, was it the color or the fruit? Let’s explore the multi-hued history of how color names came to be! 1-Blue “Blue” comes from the Old French word bleu, which in …
They say the color purple speaks to royalty, nobility, luxury, power and ambition. In Kansas it’s the main color of Kansas State University. That’s the school that on football radio broadcasts, instead of out-of-town scores at halftime, they have interviews about their agriculture programs. Not sure why, but I really like that. …
by Kevin Burton One day years ago a girl working at a Wendy’s counter said to me “Oooo you have such beautiful purple eyes.” I can’t recall how I responded to that. I seem to remember that we went on for a bit, as a line formed behind me. We eventually got …
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