It has been a tale of a friendship forged under the most unlikely of circumstances. African-American Jesse Owens and Aryan poster boy Luz Long went face to face when Nazi Germany hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin -- and allegedly became fast friends.
The bright red color of love known as crimson comes from an insect. Answer: The color crimson is a bright red with a tinge of blue. It's often considered the color of fresh blood (blood red). Dark crimson is close to maroon. Some shades of crimson and colors in the crimson range: 1  Crimson (Web color) | Hex #DC143C | RGB 220,20,60 | CMYK 0,200,160,34. 2  Alizarin crimson | Hex #E32636 | RGB 227,38,54.
Word Origin and History for crimson. n. early 15c., deep red color, from Old Spanish cremesin of or belonging to the kermes (the shield-louse insects from which a deep red dye was obtained), from Medieval Latin cremesinus (see kermes). For similar transfer of the dye word to generic use for red, cf.