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Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Nepenthes northiana / n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ˌ n ɔːr θ i ˈ ɑː n ə /, or Miss North's pitcher-plant, [4] is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Borneo, where it grows at elevations ranging from 0 to 500 m above sea level. The specific epithet northiana honours the English botanic illustrator Marianne North, who first depicted the species.
The Mariana Islands (/ ˌ m ær i ˈ ɑː n ə / MARR-ee-AH-nə; Chamorro: Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.
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Muli Strait (Malay: Selat Muli, formerly Salat Moeli), or Marianne Strait (colonial Dutch Straat Marianne), named after Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, is a strait in the Indonesian province of South Papua that separates the island of Yos Sudarso from coastal New Guinea to the east.
The allegorical personification of Italy (Italia turrita; lit. ' Turreted Italy ').The allegorical representation with the towers draws its origins from ancient Rome.The origin of the turreted woman is linked to the figure of Cybele, a deity of fertility of Anatolian origin, in whose representations she wears a wall crown.
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