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And it's not like constitutional monarchs are risk-free, either: see, for example, the Shah of Iran in 1953.
> Well I didn't vote for him
to which I naturally replied
> You don't vote for kings!
and the next comment was an antimonarchist slamming me for being a royalist toady.
(To be precise: where is that accepted practice, rather than aberrant behaviour by some judges?)
Also, this isn't strictly accurate: the 19th century excludes 1800 but includes 1900.
But the UK is the most populous English-speaking country in Europe, and the second most populous in EMEA as a whole (after Nigeria), and the only English-speaking G7 member in the region. If an EMEA-based company is looking to do business with UK customers (which I don't doubt is a less enticing prospect than it was, thanks to Brexit), it would be advised to avoid associating itself with the word "cowboys" in anything other than a literal sense.
So a business owner who describes their operation as "more cowboys than drones" to a British audience may not be conveying quite the message they intend.
Many, but not any. No finite set of real primary colours can produce every perceivable colour. Some will always be out of gamut.
I can't find a link now, but allegedly the Crossrail project accidentally tunnelled into one of these.
That would be the centre of the City, but not necessarily of the city.
Well there was only the one movie.
Which is great until it blithely translates an ancient curse and initiates the apocalypse.
I say (and usually hear, from English speakers) "poker mon" (non-rhotically). Isn't that roughly correct, allowing for differences between English and Japanese vowels?
These correspond to the classic tinctures of heraldry: the "metals" or and argent (silver and gold, conventionally depicted as white and yellow), and the "colours" gules (red), vert (green), azure (blue), purpure (purple), and sable (black).
However, iirc, purpure as a colour in its own right was a later addition, and was originally just considered a variant of gules (mediaeval heraldry lacking Pantone numbers or rgb/cmyk specs -- as long as the chosen paint or fabric was recognisably green or yellow or whatever, it counted).
> Finally, yellow or gold knights were rare and blue knights nonexistent.
The nearest thing to a canonical version of the Arthurian romances in English is probably Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, which may be too late (c. 1470) to count as strictly mediaeval, but which does include a single example of a blue knight:
> So leave we Sir Gareth there with Sir Gringamore and his sisters, and turn we unto King Arthur, that at the next feast of Pentecost held his feast; and there came the Green Knight with fifty knights, and yielded them all unto King Arthur. And so there came the Red Knight his brother, and yielded him to King Arthur, and three score knights with him. Also there came the Blue Knight, brother to them, with an hundred knights, and yielded them unto King Arthur; and the Green Knight’s name was Pertolepe, and the Red Knight’s name was Perimones, and the Blue Knight’s name was Sir Persant of Inde[0].
-- Le Morte d'Arthur, book VII, chapter xxiii.
This same part of the Morte also features (briefly) a brown knight, a colour not discussed in the article.
[0] inde: dark blue; etymologically related to "indigo", both words being ultimately derived from the Latin indicum.
How does that work with variations in concert pitch? As I understand it, although the most common standard is to tune the A above middle C to 440 Hz, it's not universal.
Are the differences too small to matter? Or does music played on instruments tuned to a different standard sound "off"? Or are the other standards sufficiently rare that most musicians will never encounter them?