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Lady Liberty is a bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) located in Big Tree Park in Longwood, Florida. The tree is over 2,000 years old and stands 40 feet (12 m) from the former site of The Senator , a 3,500-year-old Bald Cypress that burned down on January 16, 2012. [ 1 ]
The Liberty Tree in Boston, illustrated in 1825. The Liberty Tree (1646–1775) was a famous elm tree that stood in Boston, Massachusetts near Boston Common in the years before the American Revolution. In 1765, Patriots in Boston staged the first act of defiance against the British government at the tree.
Chrysopogon zizanioides, commonly known as vetiver and khus, is a perennial bunchgrass of the family Poaceae.. Vetiver is most closely related to Sorghum while sharing many morphological characteristics with other fragrant grasses, such as lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus), citronella (Cymbopogon nardus, C. winterianus), and palmarosa (Cymbopogon martinii).
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A group gathered recently in front of the Colonial Courthouse in York to dedicate York's Liberty Tree, one of 67 planted across the state.
The tricolore cockade was created in July 1789. White (the royal color) was added to nationalise an earlier blue and red design. Cockades were widely worn by revolutionaries beginning in 1789. They now pinned the blue-and-red cockade of Paris onto the white cockade of the Ancien Régime - thus producing the original cockade of France.
Chrysopogon zizanioides is a directly related species of the perennial type grass that has been more widely adopted by farmers, especially in India. [2] However, the two forms of vetiver grass are very similar in their benefits and growing conditions; the largest difference is that Chrysopogon zizaniodes has been more widely studied and used, especially to create fragrances.
[3]: 5 Monochrome images are not direct renditions of their subjects, but are abstractions from reality, representing colors in shades of grey. In computer terms, this is often called greyscale. [5] Black-and-white photography is considered by some to add a more emotional touch to the subject, compared with the original colored photography. [6]