May
30
Flower Box City
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Flower Box City is the nickname of the city of Neosho, Missouri, USA. In 1955 the town applied for and received a $5,000 grant from The New York Community Trust for a civic beautification project. Local companies provided lumber at cost, and Junior Chamber of Commerce members formed an assembly line to build more than […]
May
28
Compound fruit
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A compound fruit is one that develops from several ovaries in either a single flower or multiple flowers. Conversely, a simple fruit develops from one ovary.
Compound fruits may be aggregate fruits, in which one flower contains several ovaries which each develop into a small fruit. These small fruits are joined tightly together to make a […]
May
20
Dinah Jams
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Dinah Jams is a 1954 album by vocalist, Dinah Washington.
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Barnes & Noble.com - Pop-Up Photo Album by Umbra: Home & Office Barnes & Noble.com, Pop-Up Photo Album, Umbra, Home & […]
May
12
Flower girl
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A flower girl is a participant in a wedding procession.
Traditionally, her responsibility is to walk in front of the bride, either to:
Spread flower petals on the floor before the bride
Carry a bouquet of flowers
Carry a bouquet of flowers or bunch of thornless roses, which they pass out to the guests as they […]
May
11
Garage Flower
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Garage Flower may refer to:
Garage Flower (album), an album by The Stone Roses
Garage Flower (band), a Finnish power-pop band
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May
10
Blush Response
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Blush Response is a synth pop band based in Los Angeles, California, USA.
They are best known as the band that split from Brandon Flowers in 2001 when he declined to relocate to Los Angeles with them. Flowers did not sing for the band - instead he played the keyboard. Flowers went on to be one […]
May
10
Umbels
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Umbels is a flower cluster having stalked flowers arranged singly along an elongated unbranched axis, as in the lily of the valley, in which all the individual flower stalks arise in a cluster at the top of the peduncle and are of about equal length.
Giant Flower Makes Big Stink—For a Limited Time The Amorphophallus titanum, […]
May
9
Lady Yan
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Lady Yan was Lu Bu’s principle wife. She bore only one daughter which was to be wed to Yuan Shu’s, the self proclaimed emperor’s, son. She was supportive of Lu Bu choice by allowing the marriage which her sense was because Yuan Shu was seen by her as the future emperor. After Lu Bu’s execution, […]
May
9
Feather cloak
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The Feather Cloak was made in the early 2nd century BC. It was a garment of great price and value to the Romans because it was thought to grant special powers.
Evidence of the use of bird feathers to adorn articles of clothing can be found in early inhabitants ranging across the globe.
Elaborate feather cloaks were […]
May
8
Flower Box City
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Flower Box City is the nickname of the city of Neosho, Missouri, USA. In 1955 the town applied for and received a $5,000 grant from The New York Community Trust for a civic beautification project. Local companies provided lumber at cost, and Junior Chamber of Commerce members formed an assembly line to build more than […]
May
7
The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit’s Flower is an EP released by the Elephant 6 band of Montreal.
Track listing
All songs by Kevin Barnes except where noted.
“You Are an Airplane” – 4:24
“The Inner Light” – 3:23
“When a Man Is in Love with a Man” – 2:21
“If I Faltered Slightly Twice” – 2:27
“Disguises” (Pete Townshend) […]
May
7
Catkin
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Catkins, or aments, are slim, cylindrical flower clusters, wind-pollinated (anemophilous) and with inconspicous or no petals. They contain many unisexual flowers, arranged closely along a central stem which is often drooping. They can be found in many plant families, including Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Moraceae, and Salicaceae.
In some plants only the male flowers form catkins, […]
May
6
Nick Kent
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Nick Kent (born December 24 1951) is a British rock critic and musician.
Along with such writers as Paul Morley, Charles Shaar Murray and Danny Baker, Nick Kent was seen as one of the most important and influential music journalists of the 1970s. He wrote for the British music publication New Musical Express, moving to Melody […]
May
5
William Simpson
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William Simpson may refer to:
William Dunlap Simpson, Governor of South Carolina from February 26, 1879
William Gayley Simpson
William Simpson (artist) (1823–1899)
William Hood Simpson, US general who commanded the US Ninth Army in Europe in World War II
William Simpson (judge), a former Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
William Simpson (soccer), late Canadian soccer […]
May
5
Scolymus hispanicus
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Scolymus hispanicus (Common Golden Thistle or Spanish Oyster Thistle) is a flowering plant in the genus Scolymus in the family Asteraceae, native to southern and western Europe, north to northwestern France.
It is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant growing to 80 cm tall, with spiny stems and leaves. The flowerheads are bright yellow to […]
May
1
Leucopogon verticillatus
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Leucopogon verticillatus, or Tassel flower, is the tallest epacrid in Western Australia. Its striking form and similarity to bamboo made it the first Western Australia export to Japan, where it is used in flower arrangement.
The leaves form whorls around the stalk separated by gaps of 3–6 cm. The leaves are a light green […]