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Color is important. It gives life to everything people do, think, and even say. In the days when color television sets were expensive, and the corner bar was in sole possession of one, the neighborhood center became the corner bar. Color sensation is a universal human experience. From the beginning of recorded history, references to color abound in connection with every aspect of human life.
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Orna, M.V. (2013). Introduction: Colors, Natural and Synthetic, in the Ancient World. In: The Chemical History of Color. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32642-4_1
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