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  2. Flag of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Hitler added new symbolism to the colours, stating that "[t]he red expressed the social thought underlying the movement. White the national thought", and that the black swastika was an emblem of the "Aryan race" and "the ideal of creative work which is in itself and always will be anti-Semitic." [8]

  3. Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) - Wikipedia

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    Before painting Corpus Hypercubus, Dalí announced his intention to portray an exploding Christ using both classical painting techniques along with the motif of the cube, and he declared that "this painting will be the great metaphysical work of [his] summer". Juan de Herrera's Treatise on Cubic Forms was particularly influential to Dalí. [3]

  4. Tungsten - Wikipedia

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    Tungsten(IV) chloride, WCl 4, a black solid, which adopts a polymeric structure. Tungsten(V) chloride WCl 5, a black solid which adopts a dimeric structure. Tungsten(VI) chloride WCl 6, which contrasts with the instability of MoCl 6. Organotungsten compounds are numerous and also span a range of oxidation states.

  5. Horse symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.

  6. Saturn's hexagon - Wikipedia

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    Saturn imaged in 2021 through a 6" telescope, dimly showing the polar hexagon. Saturn's polar hexagon was discovered by David Godfrey in 1987 [14] from piecing together fly-by views from the 1981 Voyager mission, [15] [16] and was revisited in 2006 by the Cassini mission.

  7. Chromium - Wikipedia

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    The name of the element is derived from the Greek word χρῶμα, chrōma, meaning color, [10] because many chromium compounds are intensely colored. Industrial production of chromium proceeds from chromite ore (mostly FeCr 2 O 4 ) to produce ferrochromium , an iron-chromium alloy, by means of aluminothermic or silicothermic reactions .

  8. Blackballing - Wikipedia

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    Royal Philatelic Society London committee voting box 1880s that used black balls to allow a secret veto of candidates. The principle of such election rules in a club is that it is self-perpetuating to preserve the current ethos (and exclusivity) of the club, by ensuring that candidates are congenial to (almost) all the existing members; i.e., new members are elected by unanimous or near ...

  9. The Power of Three (Doctor Who) - Wikipedia

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    One day, billions of small black cubes appear across the globe. The Doctor arrives and he, Amy and Rory are taken to UNIT headquarters, where UNIT's head, Kate Stewart, explains that they have not been able to analyse the cubes' function. The Doctor waits with Amy and Rory for several days to monitor the situation, and gets to know Rory's ...