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Painted Ladies in the Lower Haight, San Francisco, California. During World War I and World War II many of these houses were painted battleship gray with war-surplus Navy paint. [citation needed] Another sixteen thousand were demolished. Many others had the Victorian décor stripped off or covered with tarpaper, brick, stucco, or aluminum siding.
Painted lady butterflies have a visual system that resembles that of a honey bee. Adult V. cardui eyes contain ultraviolet, blue, and green opsins. [40] Unlike other butterflies, such as the monarch or red postman butterflies, painted ladies lack red receptors, which means that they are not sensitive to red light. [41]
"Painted Ladies" is a hit song recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Thomas.It was released in 1973 as a single from his first solo album, Ian Thomas.The song reached #4 on the Canadian charts [1] and peaked at #34 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the week of January 12, 1974.
Painted Lady is a 1997 murder mystery drama starring Helen Mirren, involving art theft. It co-starred Franco Nero, Karl Geary and Iain Glen, and was directed by Julian Jarrold. The role was created specifically for Mirren, as a means for her to try something a bit different from her Inspector Tennison character on the popular Prime Suspect series.
The Painted lady (V. cardui) is a large butterfly (wing span 5–9 cm (2.0–3.5 in)) identified by the black and white corners of its mainly deep orange, black-spotted wings. It has five white spots in the black forewing tips and while the orange areas may be pale here and there, there are no clean white dots in them.
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
Painted Ladies, first published in 2010, is the 39th book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. Spenser investigates the theft of a famous painting from the Hammond Museum . [ 1 ]
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