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Seasonal Color Analysis

Find out how to choose the right colors to wear by Catherine McNiff Related Links Color Psychology QuizHistory of ColorColor: Psychology, Symbolism, and Interesting FactsWhat is Color?…

Hubble's law

(Encyclopedia) Hubble's law, in astronomy, statement that the distances between galaxies (see galaxy) or clusters of galaxies are continuously increasing and that therefore the universe is expanding…

Buchans

(Encyclopedia) Buchans, town, central Newfoundland, N.L., Canada, on Red Indian Lake. It has a large mine that yields lead, silver, zinc, and copper.

wine

(Encyclopedia) wine, alcoholic beverage made by the fermentation of the juice of the grape. Wine is so ancient that its origin is unknown. The earliest archaeological evidence of winemaking dates to…

minium

(Encyclopedia) minium: see red lead.

giant star

(Encyclopedia) giant star: see red giant.

Dole, Elizabeth Hanford

(Encyclopedia) Dole, Elizabeth Hanford, 1936–, American public official, b. Salisbury, N.C., B.A., Duke, 1958, J.D., Harvard, 1965; wife of Bob Dole. A Republican, she held several government…

color index

(Encyclopedia) color index, in astronomy, difference in an object's brightness as recorded between any two well-defined bands of the electromagnetic spectrum by using optical filters of different…