In tropical Asia it refers to Thysanchaena maxima of the family Poaceae; a tall, <3m, grass which is indeed used for making brooms.
Broom-Hilda (a pun on Brünnhilde) is a witch with green skin, a wart on the end of her nose and long stringy hair.
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Thirteen episodes were produced, and the series ran for one season on NBC.
Certain cultivars of lilacs appear to be more susceptible, notably those of the Preston Lilac Series developed at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa Canada.
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Foulke, who was reputed to weigh more than 20 stone, left his dressing room unclothed and angrily pursued the referee, Mr. T. Kirkham, who took refuge in a broom cupboard.
The 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom saw the incident which led to the Curse of LaBonte.
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The 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom was the site of the infamous incident that led to the Curse of LaBonte.
The 1977 Air Canada Silver Broom was held from March 28 to April 3 at the Färjestads Ishall in Karlstad, Sweden.
The 1978 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship, was held from March 27 - April 2 at the Winnipeg Arena in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The 1985 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship, was held from March 25-31 at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland.
The song became more popular when Robert Archibald Smith paired it with the tune of "Low Down in the Broom" in his Scottish Minstrel book in 1821.
He was friendly with William Guybon Atherstone, who was also a keen geologist and fossil collector and who was present at the discovery of Paranthodon africanus Broom at the farm Dassieklip on the Bushmans River, about half-way between Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth.
The Seri refer to desert broom as cascol caaco, and make a decoction by cooking the twigs.
The path to reach the tableland from the coast, the path of La Cuesta, in those days was covered by thick vegetation that included Canarian pine, broom, beech, heather, palm trees, dragos, savin and other species, and so the accession up the hill was a dangerous undertaking.
In 1535, just before the Dissolution of the Monasteries the priory drew an income from lands and rents in Chillington and Horsebrook, both in Brewood parish, and in Bradley, Broom, Kidderminster, Albrighton, Dawley, and Tong: these were worth £11 1s.
Broom began studying the guitar at age 12, taking lessons in the American Folk music style.
It is also called brush-sided leatherjacket (Australia) or broom leatherjacket (Christmas Island).
Cytisus striatus, the Portuguese broom, a flowering plant species native to the Iberian Peninsula
Laughter A laugh or a throaty laugh, Example: The witch gave a cackle, then went away on her broom.
The capercaillie also uses other microhabitat types such as broom, meadow and heath selectively throughout the year (Quevedo et al. 2006b, p. 271).
When Porky calls Daffy over, and gives him a new broom as a present, Daffy throws his hat on the floor in disgust and quits the job.
However, Broom did not serve this second term, instead resigning as well, before the start of the Tenth Congress.
He moved with his family to Oakland, California, after his father's broom factory burned to the ground.
It superficially resembles Broom and usually grows to between 0.6 and 3 metres high.
Starting in October 1939, Schwede – or "Nero" as the Pomeranians nicknamed him – used this position to sweep Pomerania with an iron broom.
Subsequently many similar skulls were unearthed by prominent palaeontologists of the day, including Robert Broom, Alexander Galloway, William Pycraft, Sidney Haughton, Raymond Dart, and others.
The cave attracted scientific interest including George Busk from London who referring to the cave as "Genista" as a link to its discover as "Genisteae" is the Latin name of the shrub "Broom".
Busk was humorously referring to Genista as the Latin name of the Broom, a Mediterranean shrub, as a play of words with Brome.
Mick Broom was the development engineer/ test rider as part of the original development team of the Hesketh marque, and was based with the team in the old laundry at Easton Neston.
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In 2006, having been forced to leave Easton Neston after its sale by Lord Hesketh to Leon Max, and Max's intention to turn the stable block into a call centre for his Max Store clothing brand, Broom Engineering relocated to Turweston Aerodrome near Silverstone Circuit.
Broom based his description on a small skull found in the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone near Graaff-Reinet.
After a massive blight of Vassoura de Bruxa (Witch's broom) devastated the region's cocoa crops in the 1980s, Itacaré has depended mostly upon tourism.
John sold his 1972 Camaro Z28, purchased used pizza equipment for $1,600, and removed a broom closet in the rear of the business from which he sold pizzas.
Both Dart and Broom, as well as Charles Darwin (1809–1882), agreed that this new type of locomotion brought a remarkable advantage in comparison to other co-specifics, to rival animals or to the quarry.
In this version of events, Black Murdoch's brother-in-law was Macaulay of Loch Broom, and the 19th century antiquarian F. W. L. Thomas noted that within this version, this Macaulay appears to be a different individual than the constable of Eilean Donan Castle.
Leucoptera spartifoliella is a species of moth in family Lyonetiidae known by the common name Scotch broom twig miner.
Arthur E. Drumm — industrialist, inventor, industrial broom pioneer
According to Yigal Allon, Operation Broom had a "tremendous psychological impact" on the population of Safed and of the Hula Valley to the north.
Also, Tigger is cleaning the house with a broom (But he does this overtime which causes Rabbit to say "You're falling behind schedule!".) Before they can finish, however, Rabbit's relatives arrive two hours early ready to party.
Non-indigenous floral species include the sheep's burr, angled onion, lesser joyweed, broom spurge, common swamp wallaby grass, pointed centrolepis, common spikerush and small spikerush.
The larvae are well known for the self-generated foam nests, that can be observed in Spring in meadows (especially on Cuckoo Flowers, Cardamine pratensis and broom, Genista species).
Towards its eastern end, open steppe shrubs prevail (Senecio spp, Schinus molle, Nassauvia ulicina) with Adesmia boronioides and scanty broom sedge (Andropogon argenteus).
Room on the Broom has been translated into 21 languages and has won 6 book awards (Scottish, Sheffield, Stockport, Norfolk, Blue Peter and Mumsnet).
Other plants in the sparsely vegetated habitat include Pseudoroegneria spicata (bluebunch wheatgrass), Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass), Mimulus cusickii (Cusick's monkeyflower), Eriogonum vimineum (broom buckwheat), and Phacelia hastata (silverleaf phacelia).
American Hallowe'en composer Kristen Lawrence found two historical tunes associated with soul cakes as she was researching souling songs for her 2009 A Broom With A View album.
Taphrina wiesneri is a plant pathogen causing witch's broom formations on Cherry trees (Prunus & Cerasus sp).
Wile E. starts to fall and dials the Acme Flying Broom Customer Survive on his phone for help but gets a recording telling him all operators were busy.
Despite his family having lost both its broom factory and farm during the Great Depression, Bauer was able to work his way through school to earn both his B.S. (1934) and M.D. (1933) degrees from the University of Iowa.
As well as the villages of Thornton and Allerton, the ward includes the hamlets of Sandy Lane, Stony Lane, Broom Hill, School Green and Leaventhorpe.