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    Costly Colours, sometimes just called Costly, is an historical English card game for two players and a "fascinating relative of cribbage". The game "requires...
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    positions of players on the board. Both cribbage and its close relative costly colours are descended from the old English card game of noddy. Cribbage added...
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    probably also ancestral to the more-complicated 17th-century game of costly colours. The earliest reference to the game of Noddy in the Oxford English Dictionary...
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  • Boston Botifarra Bourré Bridge Cassino Cheat Clag Colonel Conquian Costly colours Court piece Cribbage Cucumber Cuttle Egyptian Ratscrew Femkort Forty-fives...
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    now extinct, but which generated the far more interesting games of Costly Colours and Cribbage. Players play in turn and add the values of the cards as...
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  • Basset Cribbage All fours Ruff and honours Whist French Ruff Five-cards Costly Colours Bone ace Putt Wit and reason The art of memory Plain dealing Queen Nazarene...
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    effective colours are red, yellow, black and white. The mathematical biologist John Maynard Smith discusses whether honest signalling must always be costly. He...
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    orange, red, purple, and brown. The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colours or autumn foliage in British English and fall colors, fall foliage, or...
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    time the use of madder dye and pigment were widespread, but they remained costly and time-consuming to produce. Alizarin crimson was a popular color Bob...
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    materials were obtained from bituminous coal. Synthetic dyes are often less costly and technically superior to natural dyes. Food colorants, synthetic Indigo...
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    expensive dyes such as saffron yellow or Tyrian purple. Not all dyes were costly, however, and most Romans wore colourful clothing. Clean, bright clothing...
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    green by overdyeing this blue wool with yellow weld or dyers' broom. Other colours like "Coventry blue" and "Kendal green" were linked to the dyers of different...
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    elongated body. Many dragonflies have brilliant iridescent or metallic colours produced by structural coloration, making them conspicuous in flight. An...
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  • Benetton: Warriors storm to home win after Italian indiscipline proves costly", The Offside Line, 29 Sep 2024 "Leinster stutter on way to bonus-point...
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    buildup in the secondary air injection system, resulting in an extremely costly and necessary repair—which often rears its head following the warranty period...
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    native Indonesian batik designs. They began to adapt their designs and colours to suit the tastes of the African market. They are industrially produced...
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    and the East India Company imported more. The design was copied from the costly silk and wool Kashmir shawls and adapted first for use on handlooms, and...
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    industrial power looms became available, and well-made velvet remains a fairly costly fabric. Velvet is difficult to clean because of its pile, but modern dry...
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    of Isfahan during the sixteenth century are famous for their elaborate colours and artistic design, and are treasured in museums and private collections...
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  • Football Clubs Association, as well as the Hellenic Football Federation. The colours of the club are golden/yellow, a dominant colour in the culture of Macedonia...
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    Edmund Evans, and mostly relied on using several woodblocks with different colours. Hand-colouring also remained important. For example, elements of the official...
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  • Since then, all the Fokker 100s have livery in red-white-silver grey colours, with the Swiss cross on the tailfin. In October 2010, the Swiss news media...
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    where its encouraging performance convinced Enzo to continue the company's costly Grand Prix racing programme.: 9  Ferrari's first victory in an F1 series...
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    production run of 15–25 cars was planned, but the project was deemed too costly and only one was built. It is currently owned by Phillip Sarofim. The Bulldog...
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    like in any modern video game, to achieve special effects. Tedious and costly, this method is only used in a small fraction of movies produced worldwide...
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    thousands of Iznik tiles and painted floral motifs in predominantly blue colours, which give the mosque its popular name. The mosque's külliye (religious...
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    Bira maintained a respectable results tally in British events, the more costly international races were largely a disaster. After the war, Bira returned...
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    devoted himself to developing it for almost forty years. The garden proved costly to run and in 1947, Majorelle opened the garden to the public with an admission...
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  • Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Gamla Ullevi. The club colours are blue and white, colours shared both with the sports society which the club originated...
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  • to the LOI First Division for the 2024 season. The club's traditional colours are green and white with red trim, and the crest is a variant of the Cork...
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