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Pink Is for Battleships
A history of a decidedly unladylike color.
By Jude Stewart
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CREDIT: Photograph of Alexandra and Her Pink Things 2006 by JeongMee Yoon. © JeongMee Yoon. All rights reserved. -
Photograph of paper dolls from "Polly Pratt's Sister and Brother," CREDIT: Good Housekeeping, 1920, by Jo Paoletti, courtesy of the Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, N.Y. -
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The Right Honorable Louis Mountbatten, 1CREDIT: st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, admiral of the fleet of the British Royal Navy. Public domain. -
Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Model 11 "cherry blossom" rocket. Public domain. -
Photograph of 2008 Giro d'Italia winner Alberto Contador by Filippo Monteforte/Getty Images. -
"Distinguishing Marks for Protective Custody Prisoners." Homosexual men were designated with the inverted pink triangle (second column from right). Public domain. -
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The White House went pink on Oct. 7, 2008 to raise awareness about breast cancer. Public domain.
Click here to read a slide-show essay about the unlikely uses of pink.
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