And the sky is blue, it says, because the sun produces white light which is made up of all the colours of the rainbow.
Less than a mile away, by the waterfront, multi-million dollar yachts idle in the marina, gleaming white, shaded from the sun by rows of white canvas awnings, the very picture of California dreaming.
Several iPads sit atop kiosks, spread out across the sun-drenched white room.
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Spots of yellow-white sun trembled in brown tree-shadows on the lake-edge.
The white sun was still cool and the animals were cautiously on the move: wildebeest were calving and zebras grazed, their brush-like tails swishing at clouds of pestering tsetse flies.
Outside of festival times, the quiet village offers a dose of understated Algarvian charm: sun-baked white houses feature Moorish design details, such as coloured bars around the doorways, while the petite central square is flanked by a lovely 16th-century church and a tiny cafe selling delicious homemade pastries, cakes and ice cream.
Perhaps the reason is that those who toiled all day in the fields became dark while the aristocratic elite, protected from the sun, remained pristine white.
This same Nobel prize winner also wants to paint roads and roofs white to reflect sun heat away from earth to reduce global warming.
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The floor is sprinkled with signs of the zodiac and bisected by a line of white marble onto which a sun ray falls each day at noon.
Big and dark and looking slightly weary, his white tusks flashing in the sun, the elephant walked towards our table with a steady gait, moving with a dogged, fatigued determination.
In a white-walled village where the sun made me squint, I went to see a doctor.
He doesn't see much sun in Widnes and has English rose-white skin.
In the sun, the surface of the sea flashes with white-capped waves.
The white Victorian terraces slumbered scruffily in the sun.
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You will have a Surreal view of the sun setting, with pink streaks in the sky, white houses clinging like barnacles to the darkening mountains and the sea turning to steel.
At first it looks more like a fat white and yellow fish swimming through a green sun-speckled ocean, as if it and the tree and the grass were occupants of a fantastical aquarium.
The Piazza della Signoria was a riot of sun-pinked Russians, American students, and cops in white thimble-shaped helmets.
At its potash facility, giant tractors scoop up mounds of glistening white mineral-rich brine dried by the desert sun.
White dwarves are no longer capable of the nuclear fusion that sustains our Sun and most other stars.
The "white parasol" at the top of the planet reflects energy from the Sun straight back out into space, helping to cool the Earth.
The sun still came through the same glass walls to make the same patterns on the then-ultrafashionable white linoleum floors.
The storm struck May 31 when the Chicago Sun-Times revealed that the Southside Catholic Conference, a league of 21 archdiocesan grammar schools, predominantly white, had voted to deny admission to St.
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"A Raisin in the Sun, " Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama about a black family that wants to move to a white neighborhood, doubtless came across as strongly political when it first opened on Broadway.
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It is the colour that stands out: a milky white marble with gold atop the domes and a vast marble courtyard that blinds you in the midday sun.
As you probably know by now, Mr. Norris's play is a variation on "A Raisin in the Sun, " Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play about the Youngers, a black family that moves to a white neighborhood in Chicago.
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The basic concept is the same as that underpinning the "white roads" idea -- the development of a technology that can reflect a proportion of the sun's radiation away from the earth's surface and back out into space, thereby cooling the atmosphere and slowing, or even reversing the damaging effects of global climate change.
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