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Syringa vulgaris is a large deciduous shrub or multi-stemmed small tree, growing to 6–7 m (20–23 ft) high. It produces secondary shoots from the base or roots, with stem diameters up to 20 cm (8 in), which in the course of decades may produce a small clonal thicket. [1]
Her mother, Minty, was Australian, and her father, Geoffrey, was an English architect and a co-founder of the architecture magazine Clip-Kit. [1] Geoffrey was diagnosed with kidney cancer when Katharine was a child, and later, when she was in graduate school in 2007, he died at age 59 of cancer as well as complications from alcoholism. [1] [3] [4]
When a slang-using garbage man comes in asking the professors' assistance for a quiz, Bertram realizes he is far behind the latest uses of slangs and ventures out to do some independent research and becomes interested in the slang vocabulary of nightclub performer Katherine "Sugarpuss" O'Shea.
Lilac (color), a light purple color typical of most lilac flowers; Lilac (restaurant), a Michelin-starred restaurant in Tampa, Florida; The Lilacs (Philadelphia), an 18th-century farmhouse in the United States; Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS), an online medicine and health sciences database
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When Rosemary resists dismissing Miss Smith, Philip tries another, more successful, tactic: He plays to Rosemary's jealousy and insecurity by telling her how pretty he thinks Miss Smith is. Rosemary retrieves three five-pound notes and, presumably, sends the girl away (a far cry from Rosemary's first vow to "look after" and "be frightfully nice ...
The lilac chaser is a visual illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion. [1] It consists of 12 lilac (or pink, rose, or magenta), blurred discs arranged in a circle (like the numbers on a clock), around a small black, central cross on a grey background. One of the discs disappears briefly (for about 0.1 seconds), then the next (about 0.125 ...
Havemeyer was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History [58] He and his brothers gave Havemeyer Hall for a School of Mines to Columbia University as a memorial for their father Frederick C. Havemeyer Jr. who studied at Columbia College from 1821 to 1823. [59] Havemeyer gave a school to the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut. [60]