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“The Chinese who mine cobalt mines in the Congo are now whipping Congolese workers with impunity. A video of this went viral, but no action group or government reacted to it.”

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Book:The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba

Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba

“As there are six kinds of metals, so I have also shown with reliable experiments... that there are also six kinds of half-metals: a new half-metal, namely Cobalt regulus in addition to Mercury, Bismuth, Zinc, and the reguluses of Antimony and Arsenic.”

Science Experiments Chemistry Metals Mercury Arsenic Zinc Cobalt

Author:Georg Brandt

“Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.”

Sky Color Wall Red Opposites Harmony Extremes Brilliant Soil Harsh Orange Crude Slopes Tiles Greenery Cobalt

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.”

Black Sea Sky Color Flower Blue Substance Merit Minerals Tiles Turquoise Sapphires Cobalt

Author:Eleanor Perenyi

“Colored leather is my favorite. To me, there's nothing more fun than wearing a cobalt blue leather skirt or a fuchsia leather jacket.”

Fun Blue My Favorite Jackets Leather Skirts Leather Jackets Cobalt

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I used to be a huge fan of Heavy Metal magazine growing up, and I was exposed to Cobalt there and fell in love with the character and the world. I've tried to track it down and pursue it myself to make a movie out of it. Also I felt like the thing that's cool about Cobalt is it does have a culty kind of underground quality to it that I really like.”

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Author:Zack Snyder

“Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill revealed a shade or tint that occured in no other. The nearest was cobalt blue, another was saffron yellow, then came crimson red, then indigo, apple green, sky blue, orange, peach, mauve, turquoise blue, lilac, moss green, ruby red, burnt umber, Indian yellow, vermillion, lapis lazuli, and so on from horizon to horizon. And between the hill, separating color from color, flowed streams of gold and silver sand.”

Saws Sky Color Red Gold Blue Green Hills Indian Streams Apples Sand Silver Horizon Shade Yellow Orange Moss Separating Peaches Crimson Rubies Gold And Silver Lilac Indigo Turquoise Saffron Cobalt

Author:Michael Ende

“my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings”

“I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun.”

Knows Needs Ideas Shows Seems Turns Black Dark Sun Week Sky Color Blue Mood No Idea Noon Azure Indigo Realm Of Possibility Periwinkle I Need Him Cobalt

Author:David Levithan

“I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.”

Different Bigs Would Be Numbers Elements Gold Ugly Cards Odd Silver Chemistry Hung Ninety Labs Good Words Gold And Silver Perfectly Good Aluminum Decimals Abbreviations Cobalt

Author:Sylvia Plath

“There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there are other people—” Unable to resist the temptation, he ran a feather-light caress down the curve of her cheek with one leather-sheathed knuckle. The cobalt depths of her eyes flickered with response, but she said nothing, heeding his every word. “—people we meet in a day, and instantly, it feels as though we’ve known them all our lives.”

People Knows Feels Said Light Eye Known Our Lives Response Depth Temptation Ran Cheeks Her Eyes Curves Feathers Leather Caress Knuckles Cobalt

Author:Gaelen Foley

“Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.”

Wells Economy Divine Color Fine Red Green Wine Rounds Warm Atmosphere Lively Emeralds Cobalt Emerald Green

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.”

Ifs Way Want Years Art Sometimes Reason Running Hair Blue Cooking Very Good Wander Cooks Islands Running Away Punk Baths Punk Rock Want To Be Happy Rockers French Cooking Cobalt

Author:Julie Powell

“Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced.... Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure.”