“How did people refer to the colour orange before the discovery of the fruit?
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orange  \nc.1300, from O.Fr. orenge (12c.), from M.L. pomum de orenge, from It. arancia, originally narancia (Venetian naranza), alt. of Ar. naranj, from Pers. narang, from Skt. naranga-s "orange tree," of uncertain origin. Loss of initial n- probably due to confusion with definite article (e.g. une narange, una narancia), but perhaps infl. by Fr. or "gold." The tree's original range probably was northern India. The Persian orange, grown widely in southern Europe after its introduction in Italy 11c., was bitter; sweet oranges were brought to Europe 15c. from India by Portuguese traders and quickly displaced the bitter variety, but only Mod.Gk. still seems to distinguish the bitter (nerantzi) from the sweet (portokali "Portuguese") orange. Portuguese, Spanish, Arab, and Dutch sailors planted citrus trees along trade routes to prevent scurvy. On his second voyage in 1493, Christopher Columbus brought the seeds of oranges, lemons and citrons to Haiti and the Caribbean. Introduced in Florida (along with lemons) in 1513 by Sp. explorer Juan Ponce de Leon. Introduced to Hawaii 1792. Not used as the name of a color until 1542.
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Historically, the color purple has been associated with royalty and power, but did you know that the secret of its power lies in the glands of tiny shellfish creatures?\n\nI first heard about this on some History Channel special about a year ago.   And the following is from a web site that has the full history of the color purple:\n\n"The earliest archaeological evidence for the origins of purple dyes points to the Minoan civilization in Crete, about 1900 B.C. The ancient land of Canaan (its corresponding Greek name was Phoenicia, which means “land of the purple”) was the center of the ancient purple dye industry.\n\n“Tyrian Purple,” the purple dye of the ancients mentioned in texts dating back to about 1600 B.C., was produced from the mucus of the hypobranchial gland of various species of marine mollusks, notably Murex. It took some 12,000 shellfish to extract 1.5 grams of the pure dye. Legend credits its discovery to Herakles, or rather to his dog, whose mouth was stained purple from chewing on snails along the Levantine coast. King Phoenix received a purple-dyed robe from Herakles and decreed the rulers of Phoenicia should wear this color as a royal symbol."
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when I was able to tell someone why orange smarties tasted of orange.  it was something I had always wanted to know so in the end I wrote to the smarties people because I knew only smarties have the answer
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Popularly, the fruit has been identified as an apple (perhaps as a Latin pun of 'malus' sounding like 'evil' and 'apple'), although the Bible does not identify the fruit as an apple. Judaism teaches that the fruit may have been either grape, fig, wheat, or citron.\n\nIn the philosophical novel Ishmael, the story of eating the forbidden fruit is described as a metaphor for the loss of quality of life caused by the change from hunter-gatherer culture to an agriculture-based society.\n\nThe term "forbidden fruit" is a popular metaphor that describes any object of desire whose appeal is a direct result of the knowledge that it cannot or should not be obtained. The phrase comes from the Bible, where it is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. According to the narrative, as a result of eating this fruit, Adam and Eve lost their innocence, began to know good and evil, and were exiled from the garden where they were forced to adopt agriculture for a living. The concept of "knowing" good and evil can be best understood as being emotionally entangled with the struggle of determing the difference.
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Blue is for Japanese Kingdom Color. Same as Dutch wearing the  Orange.
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Vitamin C in the color orange
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WHAT was the original sin? “Sex,” many people will answer. They believe that the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden was a symbol of sexual relations and that Adam and Eve sinned by committing a sexual act.\n\nThe idea is not new. According to historian Elaine Pagels, “the claim that Adam and Eve’s sin was to engage in sexual intercourse” was “common among such [second-century] Christian teachers as Tatian the Syrian, who taught that the fruit of the tree of knowledge conveyed carnal knowledge.” Also, to Christendom’s Church (so-called Christians) Father Augustine of the fifth century C.E., sin had its beginnings in sexual desire on Adam’s part. In fact, Psychology Today said “Adam’s sin was carnal knowledge.”\n\nMany do not know that this interpretations flatly contradict the context of the Genesis account. The law in question is recorded at Genesis 2:16, 17: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”\nWas that really a veiled reference to sex? Well, as recorded at Genesis 1:27, 28, God commanded the man and the woman to “be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.” How were Adam and Eve to obey that command without having sexual relations? Are we really to suppose that God gave them a command and then sentenced them to death for trying to obey it?\n\nBesides, the Genesis account shows that Adam and Eve sinned separately, not simultaneously. Chapter 3, verse 6, makes it clear that Eve was seduced to eat of the fruit first and that “afterward she gave some also to her husband when with her and he began eating it.” So eating of the forbidden fruit would make an inept and farfetched symbol of sexual intercourse.\n\nWas it Knowledge:  What about the claim that the forbidden fruit was a symbol of all knowledge? Actually, both Adam and Eve had already taken in plenty of knowledge before they disobeyed the law at Genesis 2:16, 17. Their Creator, Jehovah himself, was directly involved in their education. For instance, he brought all animals and birds to the man for him to name them. (Genesis 2:19, 20) \nNo doubt Adam would have had to study each one carefully in order to give it an appropriate name. What an education in zoology! Eve, although created later, was also not ignorant. When questioned by the serpent, she showed that she had been educated in God’s law. She knew the difference between right and wrong, and she even knew the consequences of wrong actions.—Genesis 3:2, 3.\nInterpretation of original sin as either sex or knowledge is just that—human interpretation, nothing more. Its weakness is shown up by the question of the faithful man Joseph: “Do not interpretations belong to God?” (Genesis 40:8) The Bible is much easier to understand when we do not impose human ideas on it but, rather, let it interpret itself. \n\nWas It Disobedience?   By eating of that fruit, what were they doing? The New Catholic Encyclopedia timidly suggests: “It could have been, simply, an open defiance of God, an insolent refusal to obey Him.” Is that not what Genesis clearly says? Romans 5:19 confirms the point: “By one man’s disobedience many were made sinners.” (The New Jerusalem Bible) The original sin was an act of disobedience.\nA footnote in The New Jerusalem Bible puts it this way: “It [the knowledge of good and bad] is the power of deciding for himself what is good and what is evil and of acting accordingly, a claim to complete moral independence . . . The first sin was an attack on God’s sovereignty.” \n\nprerogative to set the standards for man as to what is approved or what is condemned. By refusing to obey God’s law, man was calling into question God’s very right to rule over him. Jehovah justly answered the challenge by allowing man to rule himself. Wouldn’t you agree that the results have been disastrous?
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The first humans were black, if that's what you mean. Adam and Eve were Jewish, naturally.\n\n=p
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We don't know that your subjective experience of the color green is the same thing as my subjective experience, anymore than we can know if your experience of the taste salty is the same as mine.  What we can know is that, if we were to show pictures of the same object to a number of people, and asked them to identify its color, there would  be a great deal of agreement in the answers.  But it would not be 100%, because one person might consider a color between red and orange to be red, another would call it orange.  It's interesting to me, as someone who is red-green colorblind, to see people, usually ones with normal color vision, insist that there are rigid definitions of colors.  Like, they will insist that the colors of the rainbow are, precisely, red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet. (Roy-G-Biv, the physical science teachers call it.)\nIn fact, the potential frequencies of visible light, in other words the colors of the light, vary continuously from just above infrared to just below ultraviolet; there is no hard and fast definition of "yellow". And different cultures divide up that spectrum differently.\n\nGetting back to your question, I suppose scientists could do experiments with the chemical receptors that detect color in light.  People with normal color vision have three different kind of receptors, which are sensitive to three different colors of light.  (I only have two kinds of color receptors.)  It is the levels of excitation of each type of receptor that determines what color is being perceived.  That is why we can model any given color by mixing together just three colors, as in a TV set.  Scientist could probably determine if chemically these receptors were the same in various individuals; for all I know that research may have already been done.
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It was a grape. The grape fermented when picked, and produced a tiny bit of alcohol, this begant he breaking down of Eve's and eventually Adam's body. The trees of the garden of Eden are mentioned in the Bible, a fig (for the fig leaves), an olive (for the tree of life), leaving the grape the fruit they consumed.
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A form of muation a orange is known for could have made your body available.
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The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad was real fruit - but it symbolized God's right to determine what was good and what was bad - what was acceptable and what was unacceptable. It symbolized God's right as creator and universal ruler to set the standards for behavior.  Therefore, taking the fruit would mean one was challenging his universal sovereignty - his right to make this determination.  \n\nThat this fruit did not symbolize actual ability to determine right from wrong can be seen in the fact that they would already have to know how to determine right from wrong in order to stay away from the fruit.  In other words, God told them what would happen if they ate the fruit.  Therefore, this was disobedience.  They had to understand that in order to make a choice.  So the fruit was much more than simply knowing right from wrong.\n\nBut there is a chasm of difference between questioning God with a view to seeking understanding and challenging his universal sovereignty.
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The wearing of orange signifies anti-catholic protestant irish.   http://www.thebards.net/music/lyrics/The_Orange_And_Green.shtml
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The above answer is right. I've just found that out, and also that "pomelo" (the name for grapefruit in Spanish) comes from the Dutch name of a tree.\nThat's why I like this place!\n\n-----------\nHi, liketheshadowofamadsun (cool nickname), as a Spanish speaker myself, I assure you that we _do_ call grapefruits "pomelos". I was not aware that other languages also used the same word.
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From the outside, they look like a normal orange.  Cutting one open reveals the segments have a red colour.  It is just a colour variation.\n\nI assume the nutrient content is the same.  The red is not "blood" for example.  I wonder if it has extra anti- oxidant activity in the body, as many red / orange foods do.  These are good for health; they help slow aging, and reduce risk of cancers.
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lets see, first it seems you are referring to the result of mixing red and yellow\nthen I think of the color of joy, enthusiasm and creativity and promotes a general sense of wellness which is orange but I donno - thought I'd help interesting q - made me think - it was painful - brain is at rest LOL
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Because of a very simple reason. The Dutch Royal family is called van Oranje, Of Orange. A few hundred year ago there was a man called Willem van Oranje. He used all off his family fortune to free The Netherlands, ( Also called Holland because the two most important provinces are called North and South holland ). In that time Holland was occupied by Spain. After an 80 year war Holland was free. In this war Willem van Oranje was assasinated. The colors of their flag, are Red-White-Blue, but in the beginning this was, Orange-White-Bleu, due to their Royal Family's name.  Because the Dutch ruled the world and it's oceans in that time, many of the ships carried this flag. But with the sun burning on the orange all the time this turned red, eventually the Dutch decided to just change the orange into red. This is why the flag and the national color are not the same. So why the Dutch wear orange is because of a very old but important reason. Much older and much more meaningful then the colors of Italy or Australia.