Champagne in Human Culture
Animal husbandry
- Champagne is a horse color used to describe some horses (see champagne gene).
Astronomy
- SN 2003fg was an aberrant type Ia supernova discovered in 2003 and described in the journal Nature on September 21 2006. It was nicknamed the Champagne Supernova after the 1996 song "Champagne Supernova" by the English rock band Oasis.
Merchandise
- Champagne is most often used to describe gemstones or paint finishes (such as for an automobile) in order to imply that one is purchasing a luxury product.
Music
- Champagne is a song by alternative/rock/raggae/hip-hop band 311, off their album From Chaos, released in 2001.
- Champagne Supernova is a single released in 1996 by the band Oasis.
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Famous quotes containing the words champagne, human and/or culture:
“I’m only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. I don’t like beer.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)