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Unterm Birnbaum (English: Under the Pear Tree) is a novella [1] written in 1885 by Theodor Fontane.It is a crime story in which the reader knows from the outset who commits a murder and why.
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The Pear Tree of the story refers to the Eurasian Perera ("pear" in Portuguese) family, whose viewpoint the story takes.The younger generation of the Perera family moves from Singapore to a Eurasian colony near Bahau, where Augustine "Gus" Perera, a young man of twenty-one, is recruited by a group of British-backed Chinese communists fighting a guerrilla war against the Japanese invaders.
The annual RHS Show Cardiff has been held in Bute Park since 2005. Between 1981 and 2019, the park hosted an annual Guy Fawkes Night firework display, named Sparks in the Park in its later years. The event was organised by Cardiff's local branch of Round Table and profits were distributed to charity. The event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 ...
The Cubbington Pear Tree was a wild pear tree located near Cubbington in Warwickshire, England. Around 250 years old, it was the second largest wild pear tree in the country and a noted local landmark. In 2015 the tree was voted England's Tree of the Year. A Parliamentary petition was launched in September 2020 to save the tree from being cut ...
In the early 20th century, Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick, a botanist and author of The Pears of New York—a 1921 monograph belonging to a series of publications on fruits, "all of which have become classic references on the fruit cultivars of the period" [9] —confirmed that the Endicott Pear Tree had not been grafted, [2] as was suggested in an 1837 article about the tree in Mr. Hovey's Magazine.
The story is titled "Planting a Pear-tree" in Giles' 1880 publication; [4] Giles later retitled it "The Wonderful Pear Tree" in his 1911 anthology Chinese Fairy Tales which features eight Liaozhai stories including "The Painted Skin" and "Stealing Peaches". [5] Subsequent translators have titled the story "Growing Pears" [6] and "Sowing Pears ...