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2 unusual facts about Dahlia


Eagle Rock Music Festival

The festival was originally called Dahlia Days after the Dahlia flower.

The Blue Dahlia

When he spots her kissing her boyfriend Eddie Harwood (Howard Da Silva), the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub, he punches Eddie.


Big Spruce

That same year he also finished second to the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame filly, Dahlia in the Washington, D.C. International at Laurel Park in Maryland and in 1974, finished second to Dahlia again in the Canadian International.

Brinkley

Brinkley Court, the seat of Dahlia Travers and her husband Tom in the novels and stories of P. G. Wodehouse

Cushing, Maine

The Olson House was depicted in Andrew Wyeth's 1948 painting, Christina's World, which in turn was used as Dahlia Gillespie's house in the horror video game series Silent Hill, and inspired the farmer's house in the 1978 film Days of Heaven.

Dahlia Gredinger

The Feinberg Graduate School of Weizmann Institute of Science awards a fellowship for cancer research financed by the Dahlia Greidinger Anti-Cancer Fund.

Dahlia Seed

Dahlia Seed played extensively in 1994 and early 1995, with such varied acts as Archers of Loaf, Everclear, Built to Spill, Texas is the Reason, Avail, Los Crudos, Heavens to Betsy, etc., and in the summer of 1995, headed off to Philadelphia to record their first proper record "Survived By".

Emily Schooley

In 2012, Emily played fan-favorite complicated IT Director/party girl Dahlia Joss in ZED.TO.

Kat Dahlia

Berkowitz quickly brought Dahlia to the attention of veteran record executive Sylvia Rhone.

Laida

Cultivated plants include tulsi, mango, guava, banana, rose, dahlia, chauldhua, kuiler, coconut, lichi, apple, Moringa oleifera and many others.

Maurice Zilber

Maurice Zilber gained his most fame as the trainer for American owner/breeder Nelson Bunker Hunt with European-based horses such as U.S. Racing Hall of Famer inductees Exceller and Dahlia.

Parc Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse

The park contains 400 kinds of iris in spring and 100 cultivars (varieties) of dahlias in summer, trees shaped into fantastic forms, and a collection of rare and endangered plants that includes Catharanthus from Madagascar (7 taxa), Canary Islands (22 taxa), and Madeira (11 taxa).

Star Appeal

Ridden by Greville Starkey, he won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at odds of 118:1, defeating a large field which included the great Dahlia and Allez France.

Sweet pea

His initial success and recognition came while serving as head gardener for the Earl of Radnor, raising new cultivars of pelargoniums and dahlias.


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