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Catharanthus roseus is an evergreen subshrub or herbaceous plant growing 1 m (39 in) tall. The leaves are oval to oblong, 2.5–9 cm (1.0–3.5 in) long and 1–3.5 cm (0.4–1.4 in) wide, glossy green, hairless, with a pale midrib and a short petiole 1–1.8 cm (0.4–0.7 in) long; they are arranged in opposite pairs.
Flies' graveyard and flies' cemetery are nicknames used in various parts of the United Kingdom for sweet pastries filled with currants or raisins, which are jokingly said to resemble dead flies. In Scotland , they are known as fly cakes , fruit slice or fruit squares and in Northern Ireland as currant squares .
An aggregate fruit or etaerio ( / ɛˈtɪərioʊ /) [ 1] is a fruit that develops from the merger of several ovaries that were separated in a single flower. [ 2] In contrast, a simple fruit develops from one ovary, and a multiple fruit develops from multiple flowers. In languages other than English, the meanings of "aggregate" and "multiple ...
The Graveyard Book. The Graveyard Book is a young adult novel written by the English author Neil Gaiman, simultaneously published in Britain and America in 2008. The Graveyard Book traces the story of the boy Nobody "Bod" Owens, who is adopted and reared by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard after his family is brutally murdered.
Remnants of an Army, depicting the British retreat from Kabul, presents imagery commonly associated with the sobriquet. [ 1] The graveyard of empires is a sobriquet often associated with Afghanistan. It originates from the several historical examples of foreign powers having been unable to achieve military victory in Afghanistan in the modern ...
The " Graveyard Poets ", also termed " Churchyard Poets ", [ 1] were a number of pre-Romantic poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms" [ 2] elicited by the presence of the graveyard. Moving beyond the elegy lamenting a single death, their purpose was rarely ...
Spacecraft cemetery. The spacecraft cemetery, known more formally as the South Pacific Ocean (ic) Uninhabited Area, [ 1][ 2] is a region in the southern Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand, [ 3] where spacecraft that have reached the end of their usefulness are routinely crashed. The area is roughly centered on "Point Nemo", the oceanic pole of ...
Jack Guy, CNN. July 22, 2024 at 6:53 AM. Theros Sailing Adventure/Facebook. A British-Canadian couple who were attempting to sail across the Atlantic have been found dead on an island off the east ...