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5 unusual facts about Groot


Groot

The character was reconfigured into a heroic, noble being in 2006, and appeared in the crossover comic book storyline "Annihilation: Conquest".

Groot played a part in Annihilation: Conquest, at which time he may be the last remaining member of his race.

During his time with the Guardians of the Galaxy Groot took part in all of the team's missions, taking on threats like the Badoon, Blastaar, the Negative Zone forces, The Shi'Ar, The Magus and The Cancerverse.

Groot reappeared in 2006 in the 6 issue limited series Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, and appeared in the Annihilation: Conquest and Annihilation: Conquest - Star-Lord limited series.

Next, Groot played a pivotal part in the War of Kings, a war between The Shi'Ar and The Inhuman/Kree where at the end of the war the Inhuman King of the Kree, Blackbolt, detonated his ultimate weapon – The Terrigen-Bomb.


Arthur Worthington

Hosking found that Worthington had contracted at least five bigamous marriages- to Miss Josephine Moore (New York, 1868), Miss Groot (Albany, New York), Mrs Lizzie Cowell (Troy, Michigan), Miss Joy Winfield (Chicago) and May Barlow (Xenia, Ohio).

Groot River

Grootrivier Pass, a mountain pass above the Groot River (Tsitsikamma) Valley (South Africa)

John IV, Lord of Arkel

Frans van Mieris the Younger, Groot Charterboek der Graven van Holland, Leiden, 1753

MV Mebo II

The Mebo II was originally the Dutch freighter, "Silvretta," built in 1948 by De Groot en van Vliet, Slikkerveer.

Roy Andries De Groot

De Groot's "Recipes from The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth" (Auberge de l'Atre Fleuri) published in 1973 is a classic in its field.

Spitzkoppe

The Spitzkoppe (from German for "pointed dome"; also referred to as Spitzkop, Groot Spitzkop, or the "Matterhorn of Namibia"), is a group of bald granite peaks or bornhardts located between Usakos and Swakopmund in the Namib desert of Namibia.


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