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unusual facts about Celery


DistrictBuilder

The software was built using open source technologies that include Django, GeoServer, Celery, jQuery, PostgreSQL and PostGIS and can be hosted in different environments such as Amazon Web Services, Azavea Hosting, local Linux server.


Apium

Apium species, including garden celery, are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Angle Shades, Common Swift, Hypercompe icasia, The Nutmeg, Setaceous Hebrew Character and Turnip Moth.

Bibio marci

Bibio marci larvae are known to be root damage pests of celery, asparagus, roses, saxifrages, lawn grass, lettuce and Polyanthus.

Cel-Ray

Cel-Ray was also mentioned in the Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention record albumI, "The Mothers at the Fillmore-1971. The character of Billy Rose (played by James Caan) in the 1975 film Funny Lady also habitually drank celery tonic, as an alternative to alcohol. Finally, it was used as a plot point joining assistant Harriet Smith and senator James Elton in the popular web series Emma Approved, written and directed by the makers of "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries".

Flavones

Natural dietary flavones, found in parsley, celery, and citrus peels, reactivate DLC1 (Deleted in Liver Cancer 1) expression in breast cancer cell lines which have decreased DLC1 expression due to promoter hypermethylation, and may potentially be used as an anti-cancer agent for prevention and therapy of breast and other DLC1 downregulated cancers.

GIS and aquatic science

For example, the USGS has created a model for the American wild celery (Vallisneria americana) by developing a statistical model that calculates the probability of submersed aquatic vegetation.

Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe

When Galahad first met him, Parsloe was walking around a supper-table at Romano's, wearing a soup-tureen on his head and holding a stick of celery, claiming he was a sentry outside Buckingham Palace.

Heathrow, Florida

The area had been a source of celery used in making his Chun King Foods American Chinese style food.

IronMQ

Can be used as a message service broker for popular task queues such as Celery and Delayed Job.

Pilularia globulifera

Some of the plants growing in association with this species in the UK include water celery (Apium inundatum), marsh pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris) and lesser spearwort (Ranunculus flammula).


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