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  2. Blue men of the Minch - Wikipedia

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    Mackenzie's explanation of the legend of the blue men was based partly on research into the Annals of Ireland and goes back to the times of Harald Fairhair, the first Norse king, and his battles against the Vikings. The Scottish Gaelic term fir ghorma, meaning "blue men", [25] [26] is the descriptor for a black man according to Dwelly. [27]

  3. Kala pani (taboo) - Wikipedia

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    The kala pani (lit.black water) represents the proscription of the over reaching seas in Hinduism. [1] According to this prohibition, crossing the seas to foreign lands causes the loss of one's social respectability, as well as the putrefaction of one’s cultural character and posterity.

  4. Black Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Black Sea deluge is a hypothesized catastrophic rise in the level of the Black Sea c. 5600 BC due to waters from the Mediterranean Sea breaching a sill in the Bosporus Strait. The hypothesis was headlined when The New York Times published it in December 1996, shortly before it was published in an academic journal . [ 89 ]

  5. Seas with color names - Wikipedia

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    The Black Sea is one of the four seas named in English after common color terms. The Black Sea lies between Asia and Europe. It is surrounded by six countries; Romania and Bulgaria in the west, Georgia and Russia in the east, Ukraine in the north and Turkey in the south. [citation needed] The name of the “Black Sea” is due to the dark color ...

  6. Black people in ancient Roman history - Wikipedia

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    A young toga-clad man of letters holding a scroll. In classical antiquity, Greek and Roman writers were acquainted with people of every skin tone from very pale (associated with populations from Scythia) to very dark (associated with populations from sub-Saharan Africa . People described with words meaning "black", or as Aethiopes, are ...

  7. Seven Seas - Wikipedia

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    The fifth sea is called Salahit and is very large and filled with wonders. The sixth sea is called Kardanj; it is very rainy. The seventh sea is called the sea of Sanji, also known as Kanjli. It is the sea of China; one is driven by the south wind until one reaches a freshwater bay, along which are fortified places and cities, until one reaches ...

  8. Why is it called Black Friday? Here's the real history behind ...

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    The higher-ups were apparently so unhappy with the state of the project that they almost canceled it, leading many involved in the movie to refer to the day as "Black Friday." Show comments ...

  9. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    He blessed Ham and his sons, (making them) black like the raven [שחורים כעורב], and he gave them as an inheritance the coast of the sea. He blessed Japheth and his sons, (making) them entirely white [ כלם לבני ], and he gave them for an inheritance the desert and its fields" (trans. Gerald Friedlander 1916, p. 172f.