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  • Thumbnail for Order of the Garter
    The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348. The most senior order of knighthood in the British...
    61 KB (6,074 words) - 21:52, 9 May 2024
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    A garter is an article of clothing comprising a narrow band of fabric fastened about the leg to keep up stockings. In the eighteenth to twentieth centuries...
    18 KB (2,218 words) - 12:47, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard
    (168 tonnes, 369,600 lbs), including the tender. It is painted LNER garter blue with red wheels and steel rims. Mallard is now part of the National Collection...
    31 KB (3,832 words) - 15:24, 7 May 2024
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    Garter snake is the common name for small to medium-sized snakes belonging to the genus Thamnophis in the family Colubridae. Native to North and Central...
    29 KB (2,128 words) - 05:07, 11 January 2024
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    Common garter snakes come in a wide range of colors, including green, blue, yellow, gold, red, orange, brown, and black. The common garter snake is...
    28 KB (2,825 words) - 05:26, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for LNER Class A4 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley
    throughout its career. It was released to traffic on 30 October 1937 in LNER Garter Blue. New numbers and letters for the tender in stainless steel were added...
    17 KB (2,192 words) - 17:39, 8 May 2024
  • painted silver it was given a two-tone blue livery, garter blue on the lower panels and the lighter Marlborough blue above. The colours were chosen from...
    5 KB (585 words) - 15:55, 8 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for LNER Class A4 4464 Bittern
    When released to traffic on 18 December 1937, Bittern was wearing the garter blue livery that was standard for LNER A4 Pacific locomotives at that time...
    23 KB (2,813 words) - 12:12, 31 January 2024
  • rim of the medal is the inscription "GEORGE VI QVEEN ELIZABETH". The garter-blue ribbon is 1.25 inches (32 mm) wide, with a 3 millimetres wide white band...
    5 KB (429 words) - 23:57, 23 January 2024
  • Azzurro, an Italian lager made by Peroni Order of the Garter Blue ribbon (disambiguation) Blue Ribbon Award (disambiguation) Cordon Bleu (disambiguation)...
    935 bytes (149 words) - 12:43, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for LNER Class A4 4489 Dominion of Canada
    'NE'. Dominion of Canada regained its LNER garter blue livery on 20 November 1947. British Railways dark blue with black and white lining was applied on...
    16 KB (2,133 words) - 09:37, 25 October 2023
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    (24 January 2023). "Steam locomotive 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley unveiled in blue livery". RailAdvent. Retrieved 4 August 2023. "LNER 4-6-2 'Sir Nigel Gresley'...
    41 KB (3,294 words) - 15:40, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Queen's Royal Hussars
    Regimental Colours The colours are as follows:  Garter Blue: The primary colour of the regiment is garter blue. This dates from when the Queen Consort's Regiment...
    27 KB (2,756 words) - 12:48, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for LNER Class A4 4488 Union of South Africa
    Green livery on 17 April 1937, but was renamed and repainted into LNER Garter Blue to operate The Coronation. It eventually carried the name Osprey in the...
    16 KB (2,001 words) - 09:40, 25 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for San Francisco garter snake
    The San Francisco garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) is a slender multi-colored subspecies of the common garter snake. Designated as an endangered...
    14 KB (1,691 words) - 05:28, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower
    September 1937, locomotive 4496 was named Golden Shuttle and painted in LNER garter blue with stainless steel trim on the base of the valances and tender. The...
    16 KB (1,839 words) - 09:40, 25 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Honi soit qui mal y pense
    chivalric Order of the Garter, the highest of all British knighthoods, except in Scotland. King Edward III founded the Order of the Garter around the time of...
    24 KB (2,481 words) - 11:18, 29 April 2024
  • in four lines, flanked by laurel sprigs. The 32 mm wide ribbon is of "Garter" blue, with a central stripe of pearl grey, within which is a narrow stripe...
    14 KB (1,669 words) - 22:35, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for LNER Class A4 4902 Seagull
    31 October 1946, garter blue with no valances as of 5 December 1947, renumbered as 60033 on 10 April 1948, British Railways dark blue on 10 November 1950...
    5 KB (613 words) - 15:32, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for California red-sided garter snake
    existing subspecies taxonomy. Most California red-sided garter snakes have a pattern of blue stripes on a black and red background. Their average total...
    7 KB (844 words) - 19:03, 25 February 2023
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