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Family coats of arms were originally derived from personal ones, which then became extended in time to the whole family. In Scotland, family coats of arms are still personal ones and are mainly used by the head of the family. In heraldry, a person entitled to a coat of arms is an armiger, and their family would be armigerous. [citation needed]
[99] [102] King called him "that unique television star with a real spiritual life", [102] emphasizing the values of patience, reflection, and "silence in a noisy world". [ 99 ] King reported that despite Rogers' family's wealth, he cared little about making money, and lived frugally, especially as he and his wife grew older.
Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family (). [1] They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets or mad apple [2] (not to be confused with angel's trumpets, which are placed in the closely related genus Brugmansia).
[29] [32] In one comedy routine, used on the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, Martin claimed that his real name was "Gern Blanston". The riff took on a life of its own. There is a Gern Blanston website, and for a time a rock band took the moniker as its name. [33] Martin's show soon required full-sized stadiums for the audiences he was drawing.
This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers.
As a member of the Asteraceae, the dahlia has a flower head that is actually a composite (hence the older name Compositae) with both central disc florets and surrounding ray florets. Each floret is a flower in its own right, but is often incorrectly described as a petal. The modern name Asteraceae refers to the appearance of a star with ...
The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus used the common name maize as the species epithet in Zea mays. [17] The name maize is preferred in formal, scientific, and international usage as a common name because it refers specifically to this one grain, unlike corn, which has a complex variety of meanings that vary by context and geographic region. [18]
He was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 1990, [8] and received the top honor of "Most Beautiful People" in 1997. [9] He has been married to the actresses Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes. He adopted two children during his marriage to Kidman, and has a biological daughter with Holmes.