Amber in Culture
Computers
- VT220 computer terminals were available with amber phosphors on their CRTs.
Criminal Behavior
- An AMBER Alert is a child abduction alert bulletin in the United States and Canada, as well as other countries, issued upon the suspected abduction of a child.
Interior design
- The original Amber Room in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg was a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. Due to its singular beauty, it was sometimes dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World.
Sports
- Amber is a color worn by English Football Clubs Hull City AFC, Bradford City AFC, Barnet FC and Cambridge United FC. The color is also worn by the Scottish football club Motherwell FC, as well as many other sports clubs around the world.
Transportation planning
- Amber is used in traffic lights and turn signals.
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Famous quotes containing the words amber and/or culture:
“Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother’s face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“... we’ve allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyond fifty, sixty, or seventy—all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics—many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)