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Cornflower blue, a shade of azure, is a shade of light blue with relatively little green compared to blue. Cornflowers have been used and prized historically for their blue pigment. This hue was one of the favorites of Johannes Vermeer.
The first carré d’Hermès was made in 1937. Since the late 1930’s, over 1,500 different versions have been made, and Hermès tends to work with a number of different artists every season.
In 1669, two priests decided to build a chapel in a 500 years old oak tree made hollow by a lightning bolt. The priests built a small altar to the Virgin Mary. Later on, a second chapel and a staircase were added.
The Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found.
Culatello is a refined variety of prosciutto, made from heavier pigs, cut to a fraction of the normal prosciutto and aged, and may be cured with wine, with Culatello di Zibello having PDO status.
Homer Lusk Collyer and Langley Collyer were two American brothers who became famous because of their snobbish nature, filth in their homes, and compulsive hoarding. For decades, neighborhood rumors swirled around the rarely seen, unemployed men and their home at 2078 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of 128th Street), in Manhattan, where they obsessively collected newspapers, books, furniture, musical instruments, and many other items, with booby traps set up in corridors and doorways to protect against intruders.
Chefchaouen is a Moroccan city noted for its buildings in shades of blue.
Gia Carangi was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. After she became addicted to heroin, Carangi's modeling career rapidly declined. She later became infected with HIV and died at the age of 26. Her death was not widely publicized and few people in the fashion industry knew of it.
Cherenkov radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through an insulator at a constant speed greater than the speed of light in that medium.
Geraldine Chaplin is an actress and the fourth child of Charlie Chaplin.