BLUE ROSE
Blue Roses natura
lly does not exist for roses lacks a gene to produce delphinidin, the primary plant pigment that produces true blue flowers, fake blue roses were traditionally created by dyeing white roses. This is why blue roses traditionally signify mystery or attaining the impossible. They are believed to be able to grant the owner youth or grant wishes.
Blue Roses natura
lly does not exist for roses lacks a gene to produce delphinidin, the primary plant pigment that produces true blue flowers, fake blue roses were traditionally created by dyeing white roses. This is why blue roses traditionally signify mystery or attaining the impossible. They are believed to be able to grant the owner youth or grant wishes.Blue Roses have been bred by conventional hybridization methods, but the results, such as "Blue Moon" are more accurately described as lilac in color. However, after 13 years of joint research by an Australian company Florigene, and Japanese company Suntory, a blue rose was created in 2004 using genetic engineering. The delphinidin gene was cloned from the petunia and inserted into a mauve-blend rose, the Old Garden Rose 'Cardinal de Richelieu' (a Rosa gallica). However, since the pigment cyanidin was still present, the rose was more dark burgundy than true blue. Further work on the rose using RNAi technology to depress the production of cyanidin produced a very dark mauve plant, with only trace amounts of cyanidin.
ONCE IN A BLUE MOON
The term
Blue Moon is commonly used metaphorically to describe the rarity of an event, as in the idiomatic expression "once in a blue moon."
A blue moon is a full moon that is not timed to the regular monthly pattern. Most years have twelve full moons which occurs approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days. The extra days accumulate, so that every two or three years (on an average about every 2.7154 years) there is an extra full moon. This extra moon is called a "blue moon."
THE BLUES
The blues were b
orn in the North Mississippi Delta following the Civil War, for many years it was only recorded by memory and relayed only live and in person. Influenced by African roots, field hollers, ballads, church music and rhythmic dance tunes called jump-ups it evolved into a music for singers who would engage in call-and-response with the guitar. It's 12-bar, bent-note melody is the anthem of a race, bonding itself together with cries of shared self victimization. Bad luck and trouble are always present in the Blues, and always the result of others, pressing upon unfortunate and down trodden poor souls, yearning to be free from life's troubles. Relentless rhythms repeat the chant of sorrow, and the pity of a lost soul manny times over. The blues have strongly influenced almost all popular music including jazz, country and rock and roll and still continues to help shape music worldwide. The term "the blues" refers to the "the blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in Goerge Colman's one-act farce Blue Devils in 1798. Though the use of the phrase in African American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition. In lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood.
BABY BLUE
The use of the
color blue for baby boys is traced in very early times, for it was then commonly believed that evil spirits hovered over nurseries waiting fo a chance to enter the bodies of young children. It was also believed that demons could be vanquished by the color blue for it wasthe color of the heavens. Since it was important then to protect male babies for they are the tribe's future hunters and warriors, it became the custom to dress them in blue to repel any demonic spirits lurking about. Baby girls were later assigned the color pink, the color of the rose.
BLUE JEANS
Blue jeans origin
ated in the Italian port of Genoa and were much used by sailors who found the strong cotton cloth the ideal wear at sea. It is incorrect to call them denim jeans, because the original denim came from the French town of Nimes; de means 'from' or 'of' and the twilled serge cloth known as serge de Nimes came to be called denim.
ONCE IN A BLUE MOON
The term
Blue Moon is commonly used metaphorically to describe the rarity of an event, as in the idiomatic expression "once in a blue moon."A blue moon is a full moon that is not timed to the regular monthly pattern. Most years have twelve full moons which occurs approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days. The extra days accumulate, so that every two or three years (on an average about every 2.7154 years) there is an extra full moon. This extra moon is called a "blue moon."
THE BLUES
The blues were b
orn in the North Mississippi Delta following the Civil War, for many years it was only recorded by memory and relayed only live and in person. Influenced by African roots, field hollers, ballads, church music and rhythmic dance tunes called jump-ups it evolved into a music for singers who would engage in call-and-response with the guitar. It's 12-bar, bent-note melody is the anthem of a race, bonding itself together with cries of shared self victimization. Bad luck and trouble are always present in the Blues, and always the result of others, pressing upon unfortunate and down trodden poor souls, yearning to be free from life's troubles. Relentless rhythms repeat the chant of sorrow, and the pity of a lost soul manny times over. The blues have strongly influenced almost all popular music including jazz, country and rock and roll and still continues to help shape music worldwide. The term "the blues" refers to the "the blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in Goerge Colman's one-act farce Blue Devils in 1798. Though the use of the phrase in African American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition. In lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood.BABY BLUE
The use of the
color blue for baby boys is traced in very early times, for it was then commonly believed that evil spirits hovered over nurseries waiting fo a chance to enter the bodies of young children. It was also believed that demons could be vanquished by the color blue for it wasthe color of the heavens. Since it was important then to protect male babies for they are the tribe's future hunters and warriors, it became the custom to dress them in blue to repel any demonic spirits lurking about. Baby girls were later assigned the color pink, the color of the rose.BLUE JEANS
Blue jeans origin
ated in the Italian port of Genoa and were much used by sailors who found the strong cotton cloth the ideal wear at sea. It is incorrect to call them denim jeans, because the original denim came from the French town of Nimes; de means 'from' or 'of' and the twilled serge cloth known as serge de Nimes came to be called denim.Do you like this article? Share It!
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