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  2. Albert Harkness - Wikipedia

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    Albert Harkness (October 6, 1822 – May 27, 1907) was an American classical scholar and educator. He was professor of Greek at Brown University , and helped found the American Philological Association and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens .

  3. List of rose cultivars named after people - Wikipedia

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    John Davis (English explorer) John Franklin; John F. Kennedy (1965 — Boerner, USA) John Grooms (1993 — Beales, United Kingdom) John Hopper (1862 — Ward, United Kingdom) John S. Armstrong; John Ystumllyn Rose (2021 — Harkness, United Kingdom) Johnnie Walker (1982 — Fryer, United Kingdom) José Carréras (1998 — Poulsen, Denmark)

  4. List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous ...

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    When the common name of the organism in English derives from an indigenous language of the Americas, it is given first. In biological nomenclature , organisms receive scientific names , which are formally in Latin , but may be drawn from any language and many have incorporated words from indigenous language of the Americas.

  5. List of Latinised names - Wikipedia

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    The Complete Peerage (1913) states concerning the Latinization of English names: [15] "When a clerk had to render a name in a charter he usually sought for the nearest Latin equivalent, sometimes took a correct one, as "de Bello Campo" for "Beauchamp"; sometimes a grotesque one".

  6. Harkness, Albert - Wikipedia

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    From the sorting name: This is a redirect from the target's sort name; for example, it begins with the surname of a person whose article begins with their given name.. Two category sortkeys should be added to this rcat.

  7. List of citrus fruits - Wikipedia

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    Citrus bergamia, the bergamot orange, is a fragrant citrus fruit the size of an orange, with a yellow or green colour similar to a lime, depending on ripeness. Genetic research into the ancestral origins of extant citrus cultivars found bergamot orange to be a probable hybrid of lemon and bitter orange.

  8. Pomona (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Pomona (/ p ə ˈ m oʊ n ə / ⓘ, [1] Latin: [poːˈmoːna]) was a goddess of fruitful abundance and plenty in ancient Roman religion and myth. Her name comes from the Latin word pomum, "fruit", specifically orchard fruit. Pomona was said to be a wood nymph.

  9. Flacourtia indica - Wikipedia

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    Xylosma elliptica Tul. in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 5, 9: 343 (1868) Verlangia indica Neck. ex Raf. in Sylva Tellur.: 34 (1838) Flacourtia indica (known commonly as ramontchi , governor's plum and Indian plum ), is a species of flowering plant native to much of Africa and tropical and temperate parts of Asia.