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5 unusual facts about Peach


Cretone

In the second half of July there is an "Peach Festival" (Sagra della Perzica) festival in honor of one of the most fruit is grown in the surrounding countryside.

Hughson, California

The crops grown in Hughson are, but not limited to: Almonds, Peaches, Walnuts, Nectarines, Cherries, Apples, and the occasional vineyard.

Melick's Town Farm

In the 2008 New York Times article “Sweet Peaches”, Kelly Feeney writes that Melick’s competes with nearby superstores by selling its own fruits at its stands.

Palisade High School

The original mascot of the school was the "Palisade Peaches," a reference to the rich fruit orchards of the Palisade region especially famous for the sweet peaches.

WUBL

The name was "FM95 WPCH" until mid-1991, when the "Peach 94.9" name was adopted, reflecting its exact frequency for newer radios with digital tuning, and Atlanta's nickname as the "Big Peach".


Bass Culture

The track "Reggae fi Peach" laments the death of Blair Peach, an activist who was killed in London during a clash with police officers while protesting with the Anti-Nazi League against a British National Front meeting in 1979.

Carposina sasakii

The Peach Fruit Moth (Carposina sasakii) is a species of moth of the Carposinidae family.

Carposina scirrhosella

The Peach Fruit Moth (Carposina scirrhosella) is a moth of the Carposinidae family.

Cecil B. Moore Avenue

In West Philadelphia's Parkside community Columbia Avenue runs between North 51st and Lindenwood Streets; between North Peach and 54th Streets in Wynnefield; North 59th and 63rd Streets in Overbrook; and its final portion between Wynnewood Road and North 64th Street also in Overbrook.

Chelsea, Oklahoma

Chelsea was named after the area in London, England, by Charles Peach, a railroad official who was a native of that city.

Christopher Palles

The family lived in Mountjoy Square in Dublin, then moved out to Mount Anville in Clonskeagh to a site subsequently named "Knockrabo", where they cultivated a peach orchard, and to Fitzwilliam Place where a town-brick neo-gothic oratory was added (and can still be seen from Leeson Street).

Cinnamon budgerigar mutation

Cinnamon-like mutations are known in many other bird species, including the Canary, Greenfinch, Peach-faced Lovebird and Cockatiel.

Country Yumkins

The initial 9 Yumkin dolls (Sweetie Pea, Lushie Peach, Reddie Tomato, Cobbie Corn, Snappy Bean, Juicy Pineapple, Cocky Crow, Shoo-Shoo Scarecrow, and Fluffy Lamb) were made by a company called Trudy based in Norwalk, CT.

Darrelle London

In 2010, London was approached by fellow Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk and the two wrote three songs together — "Ceila," "Too Good," and "Peach" — that appeared on London's 2012 album Eat A Peach (Bandwidth/EMI).

Daryl Peach

Due to his success in the World Championship he was called up into the 2007 Mosconi Cup in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he took part in a controversial match against American Earl Strickland, whose constant disruptive behaviour lead Peach to brand the American "The scum of the Earth" in his post-match interview.

Dichelachne crinita

In South Australia, it is associated with such trees as drooping sheoak (Allocasuarina verticillata), pink gum (Eucalyptus fasciculosa), sugar gum (E. cladocalyx), messmate (E. obliqua), and shrubs such as golden wattle (Acacia pycnantha) and peach heath (Lissanthe strigosa).

Dixon, New Orleans

A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Interstate 10 to the northeast, South Carrollton Avenue to the southeast, Palmetto Street to the southwest and Cherry, Dixon, Mistletoe, Peach, Hamilton, Quince and Last Streets to the northwest.

Drunken Monkey

In the story, the Monkey King stole all the peaches of the "spiritual peach tree" of the Heavenly King Mother and drank all the wine reserved for fairies and immortals who were invited to the birthday party of the Heavenly King.

Extract

A majority of other, concentrated fruit flavors, such as banana, cherry, currant, peach, pineapple, raspberry and strawberry, are produced by combinations of various esters, together with special oils.

Flora of Morocco

-- spp.? -->, Prunus amygdalus, P. persica, P. institia, P. longipes, Pyrus communis, Malus domestica, Crategus oxyacantha Sisymbrium spp.

Fruit and vegetable beer

RJ Rockers Brewing Company of South Carolina released Son of a Peach Wheat Ale in 2009 which is made with real peaches added during the fermentation process.

Huashi, Beijing

Queen Mother's Saturn Peach Festival - is a Daoist festival held during the third lunar month to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West.

Kenneth Peach

Presently, Martin Peach works as a 'key grip' for Disney's children's TV series, Wizards of Waverly Place.

L. du Garde Peach

From the early 1920s, he began regularly writing humorous pieces for Punch and other magazines, and after a period as a lecturer at the University College of the South West of England (later to become the University of Exeter), Peach left academia to become a full-time writer.

Peach, the son of a Unitarian minister, was born in 1890 in Sheffield, and attended Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University before taking up a postgraduate position at University of Göttingen in 1912, later earning a PhD at Sheffield University in 1921 for a thesis on the development of drama in France, Spain and England in the 17th century.

Landscape of the Body

It was directed by John Pasquin, and Shirley Knight starred as Betty, F. Murray Abraham as Holahan, Paul McCrane as Bert, Rex Robbins as Durwood Peach, Jay O. Sanders as the Bike Messenger/Dope King/Bank Teller, Bonnie Deroski as Margie, Alexa Kenin as Joanne, Anthony Marciona as Donny, Richard Bauer as Raulito, and Peg Murray as Rosalie.

Menasha Skulnik

He made many television and Broadway appearances as well, including successful runs in Clifford Odets's The Flowering Peach and Harold Rome's The Zulu and the Zayda.

Milas carpet

The yellow is obtained from leaves of peach and apricot trees, the distinctive reddish brown (which is also frequently encountered in artefacts dating from the Carians, the inhabitants of the same region in antiquity) from Erica vulgaris, the brown from walnut leaves, the very dark, brownish yellow from acorns, the green from mint, and the wool is blackened by leaving it in the ground for a week.

Miss Peach

From 1982, several television movies were based on the strip: Miss Peach of the Kelly School featured a live actor as Miss Peach and puppets as the children (some voiced by Martin Short).

Oath of the Peach Garden

Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei took an oath of fraternity in a ceremony in the Peach Garden (believed to be in present-day Zhuozhou, Hebei), and became sworn brothers from then on.

The Oath of the Peach Garden is a fictional event in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong.

Paden Tolbert

In 1880, his father sold the family estate in Griffin and traveled by train to Clarksville, Arkansas where he became successful in growing peach trees and introducing the Elberta peach.

Peach Creek, West Virginia

The show Ed, Edd n Eddy is set in a town called Peach Creek, but this is a coincidence.

Peach Springs, Arizona

Peach Springs is located on the route of the former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (now the BNSF Railway) and on historic US Route 66.

Project NExT

Colors are frequently chosen according to the location of MathFest in the year of selection (for example, the peach dots first meeting was in Georgia, and the Brown dots first meeting was at Brown University).

Room Nine

By 1988 the band had broken up however with each of its members going separate ways (Rudzitis onto Love Battery, Vanderpool onto Chemistry Set and radio DJing, Boggan briefly played in Black Sea with Michael Fulhaber and Danny Kelly (Heliotroupe), and then into the computer industry), and Allen into Peach and Cantona.

Simeon S. Pennewill

Pennewill inherited and continued to operate his family's peach orchards in Greenwood and Bridgeville.

Sirghaya

Economy for this town is based on agricultural activities and the main crops are (Apple, Cherry, Pear, Peach and Apricot).

South Cobb High School

The trip was made possible by many sponsors from around the Atlanta area including Atlanta Peach Movers, Lockheed Martin and Atlanta radio station WWWQ (Q100).

Spring of a Twenty Year Old

On May 1, 2012, IU posted a hand-drawn picture of a peach to her official Twitter account, which she described as "racy".

The Delicious Little Devil

The second is a classified ad for the Peach Tree Inn, a nightspot that aims to be the "snappiest roadhouse this side of Monte Carlo."

The Peach Blossom Spring

The Taohuayuan Scenic Area is a national park based on the Peach Blossom Spring and is located in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province.

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1992

However, despite Clinton's victory in the Peach state, Republicans made significant gains during coincidal congressional elections with former state Senator and Peace Corps Director Paul Coverdell's (R) victory over Incumbent U.S. Senator Wyche Fowler (D) in the Senate election runoff and gaining three of Georgia's U.S. House seats.

Usedom Botanical Gardens, Mellenthin

Kitchen Garden - fruit trees and bushes including apple (Malus), pear (Pyrus), cherry (Prunus cerasus), and peach (Prunus persica), as well as a small vineyard with a variety of grapes (Vitis) and hedges of Lonicera xylosteum and Humulus lupulus.

Vic Piano

College Bowl games such as the Fiesta, Bluebonnet, Hall of Fame, Peach, Liberty, Freedom, Cherry, Garden State, Tangerine, Holiday, California, All American, Blue Gray, East West Shrine and Senior Bowls were all televised by Mizlou.

You Lied

The lyrics and melody were originally written in the 1980s by Simon Oakes (Peach's vocalist) for Amelia Fletcher, singer with Talulah Gosh.

"You Lied" was performed at the Download Festival at Donington Park in 2006, where Peach opened the festival on the first day.


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