OranGe

Facts about ORange

2004-06-27T18:29:00.000+08:00

**July 12th is set aside by Protestants in Northern Ireland to celebrate Orange Day, a commemoration of William of Orange's victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

**The Orangemen were members of a secret society formed in the north of Ireland in 1795 to uphold the Protestant religion and control in Ireland.

**Orangeries were formerly common to the formal gardens of great estates.

**Oranges and lemons is a children's singing game in which the players take sides according to their answer to the question, "which will you have, oranges or lemons?"

**The orange blossom is the floral emblem of Florida.

**No word in the English language rhymes with "orange."

**U.S. War Plan Orange-3 was a contingency plan for a war in which the U.S. faced Japan as its sole enemy. The plan was one of the "color" war plans for projected conflicts in which the U.S. engaged a single enemy at one time. The plan originated in the early 1900s and underwent numerous revisions, with War Plan Orange-3 completed in 1938. It was based on the premise of a Japanese surprise attack and envisioned a primarily naval war. Elements of the Orange Plans were incorporated in the later Rainbow war plans.

With thanks to: http://www.umkc.edu/imc/orange.htm

MagiCal proPerties of OranGe

2004-06-27T18:27:00.000+08:00

The color orange is a projective color, as all art and creative activity is for the enjoyment and pleasure of others.

Orange gemstones are much rarer than the other colors.

The color orange stands for creativeness.

The orange stone has a portion of the power of red stones, but is more a creative subtle fire. They are used to promote creative illumination. They are related to your personal creative powers.

Wearing one of these orange stones will enhance your ability to tap in and direct your creative powers.

All orange stones are rare and hard to come by. There are more top quality artists in the world than orange gemstones (real gemstones, not synthetic).

With thanks to: http://www.seemall.com/gems/orange.html

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2004-06-27T18:12:00.000+08:00

Hi there,

Welcome to my world of OraNge!! The prettiest color in this world, which happens to be my favourite color..HaHa..

Hope you share my favourite and ORANGE to you..

Smile..