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Laurel is a unisex given name. The name is of English origin from the Latin Lauras , referring to the laurel tree . Various names related to Laurel are Laura , Lauren , Lori , and Lorraine .
Laurel (English coin) The Laurel, a skyscraper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US; Laurel station (disambiguation), stations of the name Dudley Spencer House, also known as Laurel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Yanny or Laurel is an auditory illusion that became popular in May 2018, in which a short audio recording of speech can be heard as one of two words. [ 1 ] 53 percent of over 500,000 respondents to a Twitter poll reported hearing a man saying the word "Laurel", while 47 percent of people reported hearing a voice saying the name "Yanny". [ 2 ]
A laurel shrub Laurus nobilis in pot Laurus nobilis in bloom. The laurel is an evergreen shrub or small tree, variable in size and sometimes reaching 7–18 m (23–59 ft) tall. [4] The genus Laurus includes three accepted species, [6] whose diagnostic key characters often overlap. [7]
Apollo (already wearing a laurel wreath) and Daphne, Antakya Archaeological Museum Parthenius' tale was known to Pausanias , who recounted it in his Description of Greece (2nd century AD). According to him, Leucippus was a son of the prince of Pisa , whose attempts to woo her by open courtship all failed, as Daphne avoided all males. [ 16 ]
A Riverton man has received a 20-year prison term for fatally stabbing a man at a Mount Laurel hotel. Taylor Perkins, 30, was accused of killing 36-year-old Michael Jefferies of Mount Laurel ...
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Laurel is Judge McKelva's daughter, who is an only child. She is a widow who had been married to a man named Phil Hand. After his death, Laurel returned to her parents’ home because of her mother's sickness, before returning to Chicago, only to be brought back by her father's condition which is where the events in the novel begin.