Orange (thing)

Not enough people like the color orange. How many times have you heard people say "orange" as the answer to the question,"what's your favorite color?". Most people respond typically with blue or green or red. Thus, it seems that orange is an under appreciated color.

I decided to do a little research on the color orange. Here are some interesting facts found at http://www.umkc.edu/imc/orange.htm:

• July 12th is set aside by Protestants in Northern Ireland to celebrate Orange Day, a commemoration of William of Orange's victory at the Battle of Boyne in 1690.
• The Orangemen were members a secret society formed in the north of Ireland in 1795 to uphold the Protestant religion and control of Ireland.
• Orangeries were formerly common to the formal gardens of great estates
• Orange and lemons is a children's singing game in which the players take sides according to their answer to the question,"which will you have, oranges or lemons?"
• The orange blossom is the floral emblem of Florida.
• No word in the English language rhymes with "orange".
• U.S. War Plan Orange-3 was a contingency plan for a war in which the U.S. faced Japan as its sole enemy. The plan was one of the "color" war plans for projected conflicts in which the U.S. engaged a single enemy at one time. The plan originated in the early 1900s and underwent numerous revisions, with War Plan Orange-3 completed in 1938. It was based on the premise of a Japanese surprise attack and envisioned a primarily naval war. Elements of the Orange Plans were incorporated in the later Rainbow war plans.