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Ulmus davidiana var. japonica 'JFS-Bieberich' (sold as Emerald Sunshine) is a Japanese Elm cultivar that was raised by the Sunshine Nursery, Oklahoma, from seed collected in China by proprietor Steve Bieberich. [1] Emerald Sunshine proved only moderately successful in the US National Elm Trial, averaging a survival rate of 70% overall. [2]
In paganism, the Sun was a source of life, giving warmth and illumination. It was the center of a popular cult among Romans, who would stand at dawn to catch the first rays of sunshine as they prayed. The celebration of the winter solstice (which influenced Christmas) was part of the Roman cult of the unconquered Sun (Sol Invictus).
The Branimir Inscription, c. 888. In 2005, it was archaeologically confirmed that the ethnonym Croatorum (half-preserved) is mentioned for the first time in a church inscription found in Bijaći near Trogir dated to the end of the 8th or early 9th century.
Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion.It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods: The first, Sol Indiges (Latin: the deified sun), was thought to have been unimportant, disappearing altogether at an early period.
A depiction of Máni, the personified Moon, and his sister Sól, the personified Sun, from Norse mythology (1895) by Lorenz Frølich.. The name "Sunday", the day of the Sun, is derived from Hellenistic astrology, where the seven planets – known in English as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon – each had an hour of the day assigned to them, and the planet which was ...
Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass (born 1955), American football player; Sunshine Logroño (born 1951), Puerto Rican actor; Sunshine Parker (1927–1999), American actor "Sunshine" Sonny Payne (1925–2018), American radio presenter
A sunset sunshower in the Mojave Desert A sunshower over Crater Mountain, Landers, California. A sunshower, or sun shower, is a meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the Sun is seen shining. [1]
The Sunshine Coast is a peri-urban region in South East Queensland, Australia. In 1967, it was defined as "the area contained in the [former] Shires of Landsborough , Maroochy and Noosa , but excluding Bribie Island ". [ 4 ]