Nascent Drama

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Byzantine empresses gave birth in the Purple Chamber of the palace of the Byzantine Emperors.

 

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Therefore, being named Porphyrogenitus ("born to the purple") marked a dynastic emperor as opposed to a general who won the throne by his effort.

 

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In China, the Chinese name of the Forbidden City literally means "purple forbidden city" 紫禁城 with first character 紫 meaning purple (even though the Chinese Emperor himself wore yellow, which was considered in China to be the imperial color).

 

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Pretty.

 

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^Ok you know that one screams for fotochop fuckery!

 

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Holocaust

 

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The purple triangle was a Nazi concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify several un-orthodox non-conformist religious groups known as Bibelforscher, mostly Jehovah’s Witnesses. [15]

 

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Literature

 

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Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, said, "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."

 

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As a result of its association with royalty and luxury, the term 'purple' is often used to describe pretentious or overly embellished literature.

 

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For example, a paragraph containing an excessive number of long and unusual words is called a purple passage (see Purple prose).

 

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Microbiology