Wars of the Roses show their loyalty to the Lancastrian or Yorkist faction respectively. It is often suggested by literary critics that Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" has strong allegorical references to the conflict with York represented by the White Queen and Lancaster represented by the Red Queen. The Yorkist faction used the symbol of the white rose from early in the conflict, but the Lancastrian red rose was apparently introduced only after the victory of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth, when it was combined with the Yorkist white rose to form the Tudor rose, which symbolised the union of the
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky in producer Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studios, a converted Amish barn in Cassadaga, New York, through May the following year. Bassist Tim Nordwind described the process of the studio sessions as a midpoint between the slick production work done on "OK Go" and the emphasis on live takes with the recording of "Oh No". "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky"'s accompanying booklet presents the album as a concept based on an unnamed passage from "The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky" by General A.J. Pleasonton. The title of this