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Purple is any of a group of colors intermediate between blue and red. On a chromaticity diagram, the straight line connecting the extreme spectral colors ( red and violet) is known as the line of purples (or purple boundary); it represents one limit of human color perception. The color magenta used in the CMYK printing process is on the line of purples, but most people associate the term "purple" with a somewhat bluer shade.
1 Symbolism
Purple sometimes symbolizes royalty, dating back to Roman times, when clothing dyed with Tyrian purple was limited to the upper classes. It was the favorite color of many kings and queens.
Byzantine empresses gave birth in the Purple Chamber of the palace of the Byzantine Emperors.
Thus being named Porphyrogenitus ("born to the purple") marked a dynastic emperor as opposed to a general who won the throne by his effort.
In the 1800's William Perkins invented mauve, a shade of purple, from coalCoal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by mining. It is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. It is composed primarily of carbon and hydrocarbons, along with assorted other elements, including sulfur. Often associated wi oil. It quickly became popular among all classes, and sparked major industrial development in the GermanThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east chemical industry.
In the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in militaryUnited States armed forces Military manpower Military age18 years of age Availabilitymales age 15-49: 70,819,436 (2001 est. Reaching military age annuallymales: 2,039,414 (2001 est. Military expenditures Dollar figure$399. 1 billion (FY2004 est. Percent o, purple refers to programs or assignments that are "joint", i.e. are not confined to a single service such as the ArmyAn army comprises all of a nation's land-based military forces or a specific large military force. Military land forces An army is a military organization. The word army can refer to any armed force, or more specifically a force primarily designed for lan or NavyA navy is the branch of the military that operates primarily on water. Most (but not all) armed forces make considerable distinction between the land-based warfare of an Army, the sea-based warfare of a Navy, and the air-based warfare of an Air Force ofte but apply to the entire defense establishment. Assignment to one or more joint billets is required for promotion to flag rank ( Rear AdmiralThe word admiral comes from the Arabic term amir-al-bahr meaning "commander of the seas. Crusaders learned the term during their encounters with the Arabs, perhaps as early as the 11th century. The Sicilians and later Genoese took the first two parts of t and higher) in the U.S. NavyThe United States Navy USN is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. Navy consists of slightly fewer than 300 ships and over 4,000 operational aircraft. It has over a half million men and women on active or ready re. Officers in joint billets are sometimes referred to as "wearing purple" (the phrase is purely metaphorical as there are no puple uniforms in the U.S. armed forces).
Purple as one of the liturgical colours in Christian symbolism can express sorrow and mourning.
In politics in the Netherlands, purple means a government coalition of right-liberals and socialists (symbolized by blue and red, respectively), as opposed to the more common coalitions of the Christian center-party with one of the other two. From 1994– 2002 there have been two purple cabinets—see also Politics of the Netherlands and Paars (the Dutch word for "purple").
