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unusual facts about Palm-of-the-Hand Stories



Anna Palm de Rosa

During the First World War when he husband was called up, Palm de Rosa became extremely productive in her painting, especially in Baiae where she spent a year.

Asuncion Island

Vegetation includes Swordgrass (Miscanthus floridulus) grasslands on the upper slopes, forests of Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera), with some Pandanus trees and Papaya (Carica papaya) on the lower slopes, along with native Pisonia.

Atlantic Avenue

Florida State Road 806 in Palm Beach County, locally known as Atlantic Avenue

Ben Barenholtz

He supported the Coen brothers directorial debut through several titles such as, Blood Simple, Barton Fink (Awarded at the Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival's Golden Palm & Cannes Film Festival's Best Director award), and Miller's crossing (San Sebastián International Film's Best Director award).

Bonda people

They spend much time brewing and consuming liquor from rice, palm and the mahua flower.

Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board

Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris, 772 So. 2d 1220 (Fla. 2000); cert. granted, 531 U.S. 1004 (2000)

Caren Marsh Doll

Once a month on the first Monday, Marsh volunteers as a dance therapy instructor at the Palm Springs Stroke Activity Center where the styles taught range from themes like ballroom dancing, country, Hawaiian, and belly dancing.

Carol Roberts

She is best known for her part in the 2000 Florida election recount, where she served on the Palm Beach County canvassing board.

Central Coast Rays

The southern end is open giving filtered views of Brisbane Water through a row of palm trees.

Devonshire Parish

Other notable features of Devonshire include Devonshire Dock, Fort Langton, Fort Devonshire, the Bermuda National Stadium, the Arboretum, the Bermuda Equestrian Centre, Remnants of the British Army Headquarters, the Old Devonshire Church, the Gibbon's Nature reserves, Palm Grove Gardens, Ocean View Golf Course, and a Museum of the Old Elliot School.

DJ Quest

Quest is also featured in the Doug Pray-directed documentary “Scratch” (Palm Pictures), and is respected as one of today’s most talented and versatile DJ/turntablist.

Ebu gogo

An article in New Scientist (Vol. 186, No. 2504) gives the following account of folklore on Flores surrounding the Ebu Gogo: The Nage people of central Flores tell how, in the 18th century, villagers disposed of the Ebu Gogo by tricking them into accepting gifts of palm fiber to make clothes.

Govardhana sila

The only other God who shows a twig with a gunja seed on his upturned right hand palm to indicate the divya ksehtra’s superiority over Kashi (Varanasi) is Lord Narasimha, in the Gunja Narasimha Swamy temple locaterd at T.Narsipur in Mysore district in Karnataka on the bank of the Kaveri - Kapila - Spatika Sarovar sangam (confluence).

Green Aracari

Its diet consists mostly of fruit, including the fruits of Cecropia trees and the palm Oenocarpus bacaba.

Gus Broberg

Gus Broberg was the father of former Major League Baseball pitcher Pete Broberg, and both were inducted into the Palm Beach Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.

Haralamb H. Georgescu

At the time of his death in 1977, Georgescu was survived only by his then 27 year-old son, Christopher Georgesco, a sculptor now residing in Palm Springs (as of 2007).

Hyacinth Macaw

In the Pantanal, Hyacinth Macaws feed almost exclusively on the nuts of Acrocomia aculeata and Attalea phalerata palm trees.

KESQ-TV

Airing an analog signal on UHF channel 42, it used the KPLM-TV call sign named for the "Palm" as in "Palm Springs".

Lianhuanhua

Lianhuanhua (Chinese: 连环画 (Simplified) 連環畫 (Traditional); Pinyin: Liánhuánhuà or 連環圖) is a palm-size picture book of sequential drawings found in China in the early 20th century, and they were once used as political/propaganda tool for the Communist Party of China.

Los Llanos de Aridane

In its vicinity are 11 stunning Indian laurels (Ficus microcarpa) which together with royal palm trees were brought from Cuba by migrants in the mid-nineteenth century to beautify the ride of your hometown.

Martua Sitorus

Wilmar's business activities include oil palm cultivation, oilseeds crushing, edible oils refining, sugar milling and refining, specialty fats, oleochemicals, biodiesel and fertilizers manufacturing and grains processing.

Mary Elise Hayden

She studied at the Young Actors Theater in Tallahassee, Florida, for seven years and attended the Middle School of the Arts in North Palm Beach, Florida, and, in West Palm Beach, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, where she majored in voice and theater.

MV Mercedes I

She was caught in a storm while at anchor off Palm Beach, Florida on 23 November 1984, and was driven ashore where she crashed into the seawall front of the home of Palm Beach socialite, Mollie Wilmot, who served the 12 Venezzuelan sailors caviar, finger sandwiches and freshly brewed coffee in her gazebo, offered martinis to journalists and photographers, and granted the stranded Venezuelans access to her swimming pool.

Nadine Sierra

In January 2011 she returned to Palm Beach Opera's Orfeo ed Euridice in the title role.

Palad

Bukas Palad Music Ministry (literally meaning Open Palm Music Ministry in English) is a Roman Catholic community of young people who compose, record, and perform original Filipino religious music.

Palm 105.5

After the RSLs, Dr. Avtar Lit and Palm Radio Ltd agreed to apply for the Torbay Licence, Managing Director of London Media Company, Neil Romain joined the Board of the newly formed Palm FM Limited with his colleague David Lowen, a media consultant and former head of news for ITV Westcountry.

Palm flour jelly ball

This type of palm is usually found in tropical areas of South Central Asia particularly in India thru the Philippines and some parts of northern Australia.

Palm wine

In Tuvalu, the process of making toddy can clearly be seen with tapped palm trees that line Funafuti International Airport.

Palmenhaus Schönbrunn

The current centrepiece, planted in 2008, is a Livistona chinensis known as the "Mirna palm" after the Austrian swimmer Mirna Jukić.

Palmeral of Elche

In 2005, it was discovered that the larvae of the red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) had infested some trees, laying its eggs inside the stems.

Pierre Kaan

On 12 May 1948, the official journal of the French Government announced that Kaan had been posthumously decorated with Knight of the Legion of Honour, Medal of the Resistance with Rosette, War Cross with silver palm.

R. palmarum

Rhynchophorus palmarum, the South American palm weevil, a beetle species

Raffia palm

The raffia palm is important in societies such as that of the Province of Bohol in the Philippines, Kuba of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nso of Cameroon, the Igbo and Ibibio/Annang of southestern, the Urhobo and Ijaw people of Niger delta Nigeria and the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria, among several other West African ethnic nations.

Rashaad Duncan

He was named All-Palm Beach County, All-Western Conference, and was selected to play in the Outback Steakhouse All-Star Game.

Right in the Palm of Your Hand

"Right in the Palm of Your Hand" is the title of a country song written by Bob McDill.

Rinconsaurus

Besides the plant remains that might have been expected, such as cycads and conifers, discoveries published in 2005 revealed an unexpectedly wide range of monocotyledons, including palms and grasses (Poaceae), including ancestors of rice and bamboo, which has given rise to speculation that herbivorous dinosaurs and grasses co-evolved.

Rise Academy-South Dade Charter School

The West Campus is located at 713 West Palm Drive, Florida City; the East Campus is located at 303 West Palm Drive, Florida City.

Sengkang Riverside Park

The 16 different fruit trees that can be found in the trail are Mangosteen Tree, Ordeal Tree, Custard Apple, Pomelo, Lime, Weeping Tea Tree, Island Lychee, Mango, Pond Apple Tree, Asam Tree, Java Olive Tree, Elephant Apple, Fish Killer Tree, Starfruit, Pig's Mango and Wine Palm.

Sunshine Hockey League

Kelly Dyer, one of five females to ever play professional hockey in North America, played in the SuHL with the West Palm Beach Blaze from 1993 to 1995.

Texas Coastal Bend

For example, the California Fan Palm (Washingtonia filifera) is found only west of the Texas Coastal Bend, or more specifically the Balcones Fault.

The Woman of Ahhs: A Self-Portrait by Victoria Fleming

Premiering at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma where it was nominated for the Grand Prix Focus, The Woman of Ahhs was an official selection at numerous film festivals around the world, including Cinefest, the Sofia International Film Festival in Bulgaria, the European Independent Film Festival in Paris, France, where it was presented at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Mexico International Film Festival where Paquette received the Bronze Palm Award.

Thuraya Al-Baqsami

Thuraya Al-Baqsami received the Golden Palm Leaf award from the GCC Biennale in Riad in 1989 and in Doha in 1992.

Tigana

Action is centered on the Peninsula of the Palm which shares a common culture and language, but, like medieval Italy, is not a unified nation, comprising instead nine provinces with a long history of internecine struggle.

Trachycarpus latisectus

It is commonly known as Windamere palm, for the locality where its first botanical description was made, the garden of the famous Windamere Hotel in Darjeeling, India.

Unisan, Quezon

The name Kalilayan derived from the Tagalog root word lilay, referring to a kind of palm similar to buri with the smaller leaves in the size of anahaw leaves that grew once in abundance.

Washingtonia filifera

The recent discovery of the red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) in Southern California may pose a threat to many palms, with coastal garden W. filifera specimens already a known host.

WMUM

WRMF, an FM station in Palm Beach, Florida, which used the call letters WMUM until 1973

Worshipful Company of Loriners

The Loriners' coat of arms is Azure on a Chevron Argent, between three Manage-bits Or, as many Bosses Sable, supported asymmetrically by a single Horse, between Foliage of Palm and of Juniper.


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