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The term "dogwood winter", in colloquial use in the American Southeast, especially Appalachia, [38] is sometimes used to describe a cold snap in spring, presumably because farmers believed it was not safe to plant their crops until after the dogwoods blossomed. [39] Anne Morrow Lindbergh gives a vivid description of the dogwood tree in her poem ...
Legend" (Russian: Легенда, Legenda), Op. 54, No. 5 (also known as "The Crown of Roses" in some English-language sources) [1] is a composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Originally written in 1883 as a song for solo voice and piano, it was subsequently arranged by Tchaikovsky for solo voice and orchestra (1884), and then for ...
The origin of Knoxville's Dogwood Arts Festival and why we plant these trees by the thousands.
Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood, is a species of flowering tree in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America and northern Mexico. An endemic population once spanned from southernmost coastal Maine south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. [ 4 ]
By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY Posted 7/25/2006 10:06 PM ET ROWE, N.M. So where does an intense actor like Val Kilmer, known for disappearing into emotionally toxic roles such as Jim Morrison ...
Cad Goddeu (Middle Welsh: Kat Godeu, English: The Battle of the Trees) is a medieval Welsh poem preserved in the 14th-century manuscript known as the Book of Taliesin.The poem refers to a traditional story in which the legendary enchanter Gwydion animates the trees of the forest to fight as his army.
Cornus nuttallii, the Pacific dogwood, [1] [2] western dogwood, [3] or mountain dogwood, [2] is a species of dogwood tree native to western North America. The tree's name used by Hul'q'umi'num' -speaking nations is Kwi’txulhp .
From Rafinesque's personal notes and a family legend, this Dr. Ward was tentatively identified in 1954 as Dr John Russell Ward, a Kentucky physician who died in 1834, [4] but a potential Indiana candidate has been identified: Malthus A. Ward [5] (1794–1863, so not "late" in the sense of "deceased") who spent some of his early career in ...