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Young western hemlock growing as an epiphyte on an older tree in the Hoh Rainforest. The dominant species in the rainforest are Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla); some grow to tremendous size, reaching over 300 feet (91 m) in height and 23 ft (7.0 m) in diameter. [5]
Tree Pruning Manual for the City of Olympia Tree Program with John Duffield; re-issued as the National Park Service Tree Preservation Bulletin #4 (1961) The Savory Wild Mushroom with Daniel E. Stuntz (1962) University of Washington Press; A Field guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-Central North America with Roger Tory Peterson (1968)
It was a branch of the wild olive tree [2] Kallistefanos Elea [3] (also referred to as Elaia Kallistephanos) [4] that grew at Olympia, [5] intertwined to form a circle or a horse-shoe. The branches of the sacred wild-olive tree near the temple of Zeus were cut by a pais amphithales ( Ancient Greek : παῖς ἀμφιθαλής , a boy whose ...
Olympia (Modern Greek: Ολυμπία [oli(m)ˈbi.a]; Ancient Greek: Ὀλυμπία [olympí.aː]), officially Archaia Olympia (Greek: Αρχαία Ολυμπία lit. ' Ancient Olympia ' ), is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece , famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name.
Mount Olympus (/ oʊ ˈ l ɪ m p ə s, ə ˈ l ɪ m-/, [5] Greek: Όλυμπος, romanized: Ólympos, IPA: [ˈoli(m)bos]) is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria, about 80 km (50 mi) southwest from Thessaloniki. [6]
Olympias was the eldest daughter of Neoptolemus I, king of the Molossians, an ancient Illyrian tribe in Epirus, [7] and sister of Alexander I of Epirus.She also had a sister named Troas, who married their paternal uncle Arrybas of Epirus.
Olympia oysters and shucking knife for scale. Ostrea lurida, common name the Olympia oyster, after Olympia, Washington in the Puget Sound area, is a species of small, edible oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae. This species occurs on the northern Pacific coast of North America. Over the years the role of this edible species ...
The Olympia area's station on Amtrak's Coast Starlight line was located in East Olympia before it moved to Lacey in 1994. [2]Rural lands immediately southeast of the community were under consideration, beginning in 2022, for a proposed new airport to "help meet commercial and cargo demand" for Washington state.