Facts about ORange

**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 the Boyne in 1690.

**The Orangemen were members of a secret society formed in the north of Ireland in 1795 to uphold the Protestant religion and control in Ireland.

**Orangeries were formerly common to the formal gardens of great estates.

**Oranges 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.

With thanks to: http://www.umkc.edu/imc/orange.htm