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Bewitching blooms from the Far East - Flowers - GARDENA  Empress Josephine of France lead the trend for camellias and to this day it is the ... Lady of the Camellias' triggered a boom in camellias in France in the 19th century. ... not entirely blameless in spreading the global reputation of this exotic flower. The plant was named after the Jesuit missionary Camel, who described its...
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Official State Flowers and Trees: Their Unique Stories by Glynda Joy ...  May 28, 2014 ... For over a century, each state has adopted a flower and tree as symbols for its ... the title of state flower, even though camellias were not native to Alabama. ... a Moravian botanist and Jesuit missionary who travelled to Asia and studied ... a famous nineteenth century French courtesan, Madeline du Plessis.
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The Mad Logophile: Eponyms - Daily Kos  Apr 12, 2009 ... Here, we explore words; their origins, evolution, usage. ... named by French chef Adolf Duglr for the well-known 19th-century courtesan/actress ... Moravian Jesuit missionary George Josef Kamel lent his name to the camellia ... The gardenia (one of my favorites) is not named after the garden but Alexander...
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click here - French Adventures  From here we will be a short walk to St. Peter's Basilica, to marvel at ... tour of Caravaggio's Rome: 3 hours walking tour through Rome 17th century center home ... in the Borghese collection, culminate in Bernini's version of David, seen here. ... in which he maintained correspondence with hundreds of Jesuit missionaries in...
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Asia - Historical Novels  Historical novels are no recent invention in Asia, where people enjoyed them as early as the ... Jesuit missionaries from Portugal reached Japan in the sixteenth century, but their .... Robert Elegant, Mandarin, set in nineteenth century China. ... Duncan Jepson, All the Flowers in Shanghai (2012), about a woman forced into...
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Behind the Name: French Names  The meaning of this name is not known for certain. ... French feminine diminutive of ALFONSO. .... French feminine form of BERNARD. Saint Bernadette was a young woman from Lourdes in France who claimed to have seen visions ..... bishop Saint Firmin (or Fermin) of Amiens who is especially venerated in Navarre, Spain.
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St. Francis Xavier - NNDB.com  San Francisco de Xavier, Jesuit missionary and saint, commonly known in English as St. Francis Xavier and also called the "Apostle of the Indies. ... de Xavier (Latin Xaverius) rather than Francisco Xavier, as Xavier is originally a place name. ... After visiting Amboyna, the Moluccas and other isles of the Malay archipelago,...
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Cuttings;Roses That Thrive in Heat, Cold and Urban Blight - The ...  May 19, 1996 ... It's an odd name for the old rose that flourishes even in the grueling heat ... He suggested Jardin de Bagatelle, a fragrant, creamy hybrid tea, ... Ernest Wilson, one of history's greatest plant hunters, spent a great ... One is Elina, also known as Peaudouce (French for soft skin). .... Cooking  Restaurant Search.
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Saintpaulia (African Violet) Gardening Tips | The Flowering Garden  African Violet or Saintpaulia ionantha is one of the most popular houseplants. ... The African Violet, as its name suggests, comes from Africa, to be exact, from the ... John Kirk and Reverend W.E. Taylor were among the first Westerners to discover it, ... In 1892, Baron Walter von Saint Paul Hilaire, the district commissioner of...
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Jeopary Questions page 1341 - LITERARY INSPIRATIONS ...  OF "LOVE": It's not a vixen's mitten, it's a traditional herb used in medicines & also known as figwort  TUNNEL: Traveling under the Alps, the Great St. Bernard...
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Full text of "Final report of investigations among the Indians of the ...  The orthography of Indian names which I have adopted is not that adopted by ..... the eye embraces at once pine-clad crests, 1 Opimtia arborescens, for instance, ... medicinal herbs and shrubs, far 1 Corypha. I found it with oak in many places, ..... their crops, whereas at the caves they grew corn and squashes by means of...
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Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms. 1899. leo sobre ... - Pinterest  Paul Gauguin. Woman with a Flower, 1891.One of his first Maori portraits. In NoaNoa he wrote of his fascination with exotic women, and his difficulties in...
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Saint Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Confessor. December 3 ...  From those and other sources is the life of St. Francis Xavier elegantly compiled ... of these later ages, whom Urban VIII. justly styled the apostle of the Indies. ...... God, they were not able to express his name, but that the Portuguese called him...
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Tulipa, a flower of the ages | Brighton Blog | Rochester Democrat ...  Apr 17, 2012 ... Such a simple beauty but not always so simple as history tells it. ... Tulip, in Latin, tulipa, was named for the Turkish word for turban, tulbend, ... to Europe from Persia and Turkey, first cultivated by the Turks as early at 1000 AD. ... A huge trade began in tulips and the bulbs were sold in Holland and parts of...
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All Saints' Day - Wikipedia  In France, and throughout the Francophone world, the day is known as La Toussaint. Flowers (especially Chrysanthemums), or wreaths called 'couronnes de...
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Pope Francis Is a Jesuit: Seven Things You Need to Know About the ...  Mar 14, 2013 ... A breakdown of what you need to know about Jesuits. ... Also known as God's Marines or The Company, the order of priests and brothers ... If the Jesuits are smarty-pants Catholics with a poverty vow, why hasn't there ... Look at its nameJesuit was originally a derisive term for those one who used too...
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For the thousandth time, it's NOT a palm - Dave's Garden  Sep 12, 2008 ... But it is important to know what is a palm and what is NOT one, as most ... in the world do NOT have common names (though the folks at Davesgarden are .... called Sago palms (the Metroxylons), called such because one can derive ... to many varieties of Cordyline, a succulent-like tree in the Agave family.
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International Peace Garden - Google+  Vallarta Botanical Gardens to House Mexico's Int'l Peace Garden ..... The reality is that Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala) did not create Prophet Adam (Alaihis ...... Iblis used to come to it and kick it with his foot, whereupon it made sounds. ...... the last century opposed Eugene Debs, and where the CIA agent Jay Lovestone could...
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azchillis  The 'Columbian Exchange' gave the 'Old World' new wealth, drugs, foods and the ... Spices', pepper so, imagine his delight when one of the plants he discovered actually ... in a fleshy pod or capsule gave it its botanical genus name, capiscum. ... is named after the capital of French Guyana; chilli is an altered form of Chile,...
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The History of Christmas - Revelations  Dec 21, 2007 ... Mount Sinai was reputedly named after the semitic lunar deity Sin. ...... The flowers were brought to the United States by physician, statesman and botanist Joel Roberts ... In Mexico the poinsettia is called "flower of the Holy Night". .... spread to several central American countries as well as to the Philippines.
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The Story of Christmas - Scientific Psychic  In modern America, the advertisements of Christmas merchandise start in late ... afraid of marrying Mary and that the son which would be born should be named Jesus. .... but in many Latin American countries, it is the three wise men and not Santa ... are called "Flor de Noche Buena" which means "Flower of the Holy Night",...