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unusual facts about Cicely


Sweet cicely

Cicely, a cultivated European herb (Myrrhis odorata) also called "sweet cicely"


Aethusa cynapium

Fool's parsley, Aethusa cynapium (also known as fool's cicely or poison parsley), is an annual (rarely biennial) herb in the plant family Apiaceae, native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa.

Cicely Berry

Cicely Frances Berry CBE (born May 17, 1926) is the voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and is world-renowned in her work as a voice and text coach, having spent many years as an instructor at London's Central School of Speech and Drama.

KBHR

KBHR were also the call letters of the 570AM radio station in the fictitious town of Cicely, Alaska, on the CBS television dramedy Northern Exposure.

Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Baronet

Born at Milton Abbas, he was the son of Sir George Bingham, nephew of Sir Richard Bingham, and his wife Cicely Martin, daughter of Robert Martin.

Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet

Hugh was the son of Richard Halswell and Cicely Reeves, and grandson of Robert Halswell (d.1570) of Halswell, Somerset.

Such, Such Were the Joys

St Cyprian's was, according to him, a "world of force and fraud and secrecy," in which the young Orwell, a shy, sickly and unattractive boy surrounded by pupils from families much richer than his own, was "like a goldfish" thrown "into a tank full of pike." The piece fiercely attacks the cruelty and snobbery of both his fellow pupils and of his teachers (particularly the headmaster, Mr. Vaughan Wilkes, nicknamed "Sambo," and his wife Cicely, nicknamed "Flip").

Sweet cicely

Osmorhiza, a genus of plants native to North America called "sweet cicely"

William Denys

Eleanor was also the grandmother of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, founder of the American province of Maine, whose mother was Cicely Lygon.

William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle

William married Cicely, Lady of Skipton, the daughter and co-heir of William Fitz-Duncan by his spouse Alice, Lady of Skipton, daughter of William Meschin, Lord of Copeland.


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