Why are Republicans Red and Democrats Blue?
Prior to the 2000 presidential election, there was no universally recognized color scheme to represent political parties in the US. Color-based schemes became widespread with the adoption of color television in the 1960s and nearly ubiquitous with the advent of color in newspapers. A three color scheme – red, white and blue, the colors of the U.S. flag – makes sense, and the third color, white, is useful in depicting maps showing states that are „undecided” in the polls and in election-night television coverage.
Why is Pink a Girl Color and Blue a Boy Color?
According to the website „Gender Specific Colors,” it would seem that assigning color to gender is mostly a 20th century trait. It would also seem that at one time, the color associations were reversed when color first came into use as a gender identifier. In fact, this reversal of what we consider „normal” was considered conventional, even in the early 20th century.
A sun …. blue?!
A very rare phenomenon known as a ‘blue sun.’ These have been observed from time to time around the world. The most recent widely accepted documentation of a blue sun occurred in September 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland.