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  2. Mammillaria hahniana - Wikipedia

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    Mammillaria hahniana, the old lady cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to central Mexico. It grows to 25 cm (10 in) tall by 50 cm (20 in) broad. It grows to 25 cm (10 in) tall by 50 cm (20 in) broad.

  3. Miss Rumphius - Wikipedia

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    Miss Rumphius is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and originally published by the Viking Press in 1982. It features the life story of fictional Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful and found it in planting lupines in the wild. Miss Rumphius was inspired by a real-life ...

  4. Clementina's Cactus - Wikipedia

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    Clementina's Cactus is a 1982 children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, his last children's book before his death the next year. In Clementina's Cactus, Keats conveys a story without words. Clementina and her father encounter a single cactus while walking through the desert.

  5. Clip art - Wikipedia

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    Examples of computer clip art, from Openclipart. Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form.

  6. Cereus Blooms at Night - Wikipedia

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    The novel recounts the story of an old lady named Mala Ramchandin through the narrative of Tyler, a nurse at Paradise Alms House. Although the setting of the novel (the town of Paradise in the country Lantanacamara) is deliberately left ambiguous, it is thought to be patterned after the island of Trinidad , where Mootoo lived as a child. [ 2 ]

  7. Irasutoya - Wikipedia

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    A sign at a park featuring Irasutoya illustrations. In addition to typical clip art topics, unusual occupations such as nosmiologists, airport bird patrollers, and foresters are depicted, as are special machines like miso soup dispensers, centrifuges, transmission electron microscopes, obscure musical instruments (didgeridoo, zampoña, cor anglais), dinosaurs and other ancient creatures such ...

  8. Espostoa melanostele - Wikipedia

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    A cultivar, E. melanostele 'Peruvian old lady', is so-named because of its resemblance to an old lady (especially when flowering and fruiting). Hazards.

  9. Simms Taback - Wikipedia

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    Simms Taback (February 13, 1932 – December 25, 2011) was an American writer, graphic artist, and illustrator of more than 35 books.He won the 2000 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, and was a runner-up in 1998 for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.