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“Why is the sky blue?” This may be the first question about color, but the legends and lore of colors takes us all over the world and to many obscure and fascinating places. Do you know about “Indian Yellow: an obsolete lake of euxanthic acid made in India by heating the urine of cows fed on mango leaves” or “Emerald – the most brilliant of greens, now universally rejected because it is a dangerous poison. Sold as an insecticide.” What does a cochineal beetle look like? Where in Afghanistan are ultramarine mines?