The Dutch Royal House is the House of Orange-Nassau, whose fortunes have been closely tied to those of the Netherlands since the 15th century. Since that time, the Oranges have made a major contribution to the government as stadholders, kings and queens.
Other influential oranges:
- American Indians associate the color orange with kinship.
- Orange is the Netherlands' national color, dating back to the Dutch War of Independence and the rebel Prince of Orange.
- In Ireland, the use of orange dates from the reign of William of Orange, the Protestant English king and a Dutch stadholder.
- In China and Japan, orange is used to symbolize happiness and love.
- Orange County, California
- Orange, CA
- Orange, NJ
Religious & mythological associations with orange
- Orange is representative of "gluttony" in Christianity.
Interesting information about orange
- Orange is the color that means "high" in the color-coded threat system established by the US presidential order in March 2002. This system quickly informs law enforcement agencies when intelligence indicates a change in the terrorist threat facing the United States.
- In the United States Army, orange is the color of the United States Army Signal Corps.
- Safety orange is a color used to set things apart from their surroundings. Safety orange is the color usually used in the United States for traffic cones, stanchions, barrels, and other construction zone marking devices. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that certain construction equipment must be painted safety orange.
- Agent Orange, an herbicide named after the color of its containers, was used in a systematic herbicidal program organized by the US military that ran from 1961 through 1971 in Vietnam. At the time, this program was meant to deny food and jungle cover to Vietnamese liberation forces, but the chemical remained in the water and soil decades later. Dioxin, the toxic compound in Agent Orange, has been shown to cause cancer, birth defects, and organ dysfunction.
