What is Orange?
- ORANGE (a bright reddish-yellow colour)
- name of the house of the Royal Dutch family of which I once was a loyal subject. Since the legal system in The Netherlands was and in part still is, based on Napoleonic laws (and perhaps soon to be Islamic Law), opting for another nationality was tantamount to treason or joining a foreign army, so that now, when travelling back to Holland or England, I immediately am treated as a suspect and end up in the long line-ups reserved for foreigners, space travellers and aliens, as well as persons of an undesired religious background or silly dress code
- colour of various Dutch national sports teams
- pennant flying on top of the Dutch flag
- colour incorporated in the flag of various nations (E.g. Ireland and India)
- colour connected with Irish ultra-protestant party
- a town on the Rhône in France, from which the Princes of Orange took title
- part of traffic light configuration sometimes referred to as amber or yellow and usually ignored
- colour of various flowers and fruit, including specifically of oranges, mandarins and carrots - although originally the latter were of course not orange,but purple . Their current appearance was cultivated by the Dutch in honour of the Royal House, founded by prince William I of Orange ("Guillaume Taciturne"), who, the Dutch children are taught in school, is the Father of the Fatherland. Aside from the fact that it sounds eerily like something that would have been used in Hollands neighbour to the east during the 1930s, it also reeks dangerously of a level of Nationalism the rest of the world accuses the United States of having cultivated and even exploited during the Bush years. On the Queens birthday people still chant : Oranje boven", which in German would have sounded suspiciously close to "Orange ûber Alles". Williams depiction as a pious and peace-loving Father of the Fatherland", as we were taught from Kindergarten, was actually grossly misleading, as he, not entirely dissimilar to a modern day Mafia boss, was one of the most powerful men in Europe in the late 16th and early 17th century, second only to his archrival, the catholic king Phillip II of Spain. If Spain had been Protestant, William would have opted for Catholicism (in fact, he was baptised a catholic). Religion in the hands of maniacal rulers, through the ages has been proven the most effective Weapon of Mass Destruction. And there you have it, the CIA will by now, no doubt have flagged this website
- literary magazine in Calgary, founded by students at the University of Calgary in the late twentieth century, offering works by aspiring and promising Calgary artists, writers and poets and in connexion with this magazine, orange is a word the uniqueness of which is still being argued by poets. I.e.: Is there a word that rhymes with orange; I guess it depends on how one defines rhyme
- object of a kings pursuit in Prokofievs opera Lamour des trois oranges";
- the name of a British website and mobile phone company;
- an American agent during the Vietnam war.
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