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The new Prussian arms depicted a single black eagle, displayed in a more natural than heraldic style. While part of Nazi Germany, the free state's arms depicted a single black eagle, more stylized than before but not in a heraldic manner, with a swastika and the phrase Gott mit uns beginning in 1933.
The four colors of red, green, yellow, and blue are the first four colors (apart from black and white) distinguished by languages and are distinguished in all cultures with at least six color distinctions (the other two being black and white). [61] These colors roughly correspond to the sensitivities of the retinal ganglion cells.
The yoroi also had white silk and rainbow lacings, representing beauty and fortune. [1] The breastplate is decorated with a representation of the fire deity Fudo Myoo, accompanied by boy servants Kimkara and Cetaka, representing calmness and inner strength. [2] [1] There are believed to be less than 40 surviving specimens of o-yoroi. [2]
Man's Breastplate, Crow (Native American), 1880–1900, Brooklyn Museum Left Hand Bear, an Oglala Lakota chief, wearing a hair-pipe breastplate, Omaha, 1898. The hair-pipe breastplates of 19th-century Interior Plains people were made from the West Indian conch , brought to New York docks as ballast and then traded to Native Americans of the ...
Dō-maru with Black and White Lacing. Muromachi period, 15th century, Tokyo National Museum, Important Cultural Property Gusoku Type Armour With do-maru cuirass and white lacing, Edo period, 17th century, Tokyo National Museum. The predecessor of the dō was manufactured in Japan as early as the fourth century. [1]
The black uniform was increasingly seldom seen, eventually being worn only by part-time Allgemeine SS reservists. The last ceremonial event at which the black uniforms were worn "en masse" was the Berlin victory parade following the fall of France in June 1940. In 1942, Himmler ordered most of the black uniforms recalled and stripped of insignia.
The black double-headed eagle was retained, but without the four symbols of the emperor: the sword, the imperial orb, the sceptre and the crown. The eagle rested on a golden shield; above was a five-pointed golden star. On both sides the shield was flanked by three flags with the colors black-red-gold.
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