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unusual facts about Powder-puff plant


Powder-puff plant

Sorocephalus, genus of small shrubs in the Proteaceae family


Armed helicopter

The CH-47 was used most often to assist in the clearing of bunkers, using an improvised bomb made from 55-gallon drums of bulk CS powder, designated Bomb, Fuze, and Burster, CS in 55-gallon Drum, XM920.

Bag It Up

Directed by Dawn Shadforth, the humorous and raunchy video for "Bag It Up" presents an advert promoting the male-behaviour-altering "Girl Powder".

Ben Wedeman

It was later confirmed by the IAEA that this powder was Yellowcake Uranium.

Boston Neck

On the night of April 18, 1775, Patriot leader Doctor Joseph Warren sent Paul Revere and William Dawes on horseback with identical written messages to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British expedition to capture them and to seize the powder in Concord.

Carl Axel Arrhenius

He was promoted to Feldzeugmeister and Lieutenant-Colonel at the Svea artilleriregemente and was handed the command in 1816 of the manufacture of powder in the kingdom.

Chaat

There are common elements among these variants including dahi, or yogurt; chopped onions and coriander; sev (small dried yellow salty noodles); and chaat masala, typically consisting of amchoor (dried mango powder), cumin, Kala Namak (rock salt), coriander, dried ginger, salt, black pepper, and red pepper.

Charles I. du Pont

He lived with his parents in New York until they established themselves in the wool manufacturing business at Louviers, across the Brandywine Creek from the DuPont powder mills and near Greenville, Delaware.

Chicken 65

Chicken 65 is a spicy, deep-fried chicken dish originating from Andhra, India, as a bar snack, entree, or quick snack.The flavour of the dish comes from ginger, cayenne pepper, mustard powder and vinegar although the exact recipe can vary.

Chreese

There are currently four different styles of Chreese powder mixes with a modified version for children: "Cheddar Style" and gluten-free cheddar style (used in grilled cheese sandwiches), "Mozzarella Style" (used on pizza), "Gluten Free Alfredo Style", and "KIDz Chreese" (less garlic and bright orange color).

Dynamite

Other American dynamite makers of that time period included the Hercules Corporation, Atlas, Trojan-US Powder, Austin, and several other smaller firms.

Emporium, Pennsylvania

Early in the twentieth century, there were large powder plants and manufacturers of radio tubes and incandescent lamps (Sylvania Electric Products), paving brick, flour, iron, lumber, sole leather, etc.

Feret diameter

Feret diameter is used in the analysis of particle size and its distribution, e.g. in a powder or a polycrystalline solid; Alternative measures include Martin diameter, Krumbein diameter and Heywood diameter.

Fort York

As the British abandoned the fort, they set the powder magazine to blow up, killing or wounding several hundred U.S. soldiers (including General Zebulon Pike, for whom Pikes Peak is named).

Giuseppe Toaldo

His treatise "Della maniera di difendere gli edificii dal fulmine" (1772) and his pamphlet "Dei conduttori metallici a preservazione degli edifici dal fulmine" (1774) contributed largely to remove the popular prejudices of the time against the use of the "Franklinian rod"; and through his exertions lightning-conductors were placed on Siena Cathedral, on the tower of St. Mark's, Venice, on powder magazines, and ships of the Venetian navy.

Gunpowder Incident

In early September, General Thomas Gage, the royal governor of Massachusetts, had removed gunpowder from a powder magazine in Charlestown (in a location now in Somerville), and militia from all over New England had flocked to the area in response to false rumors that violence had been involved.

On the night of April 20, royal marines went to the Williamsburg powder magazine, loaded fifteen half barrels of powder into the governor's wagon, and transported it to the eastern end of the Quarterpath Road to be loaded aboard the Magdalen in the James River.

Hasan Zaidi

Hasan has acted in over 15 TV serials - to name a few Kumkum, Pepsi 'A.D.A', Ghar Ek Sapna, Powder, Rishta.com and has come back to the small screen with a lead role as Mohit in the show Khotey Sikkey.

Hazardville, Connecticut

Production increased over the years in response to the needs of the U.S. military for gunpowder during the Mexican War (1846–1848), demand for blasting powder during the California Gold Rush of 1849, and the Crimean War (1850s), when the Hazard Powder Company supplied both Britain and Russia with gunpowder, shipping a total of 500 tons to Britain.

High tension leads

Radio suppressor type spark plug wires use compressed carbon powder as a conductor, rather than solid metal wire, to reduce radio frequency interference (RFI) produced by the wires, which may cause malfunction of sensitive electronic systems in modern vehicles.

Hildenborough

Apart from one large financial institution Fidelity Investments having set up its UK Headquarters in Hildenborough and a GlaxoSmithKline factory at nearby Powder Mills, commerce in the village is primarily based on small businesses.

Jacob Holm

In 1805 he constructed an oil mill at Christianshavn and from 1808 to 1811 acquired several smaller lots along Amager Road where he set up various manufacturies, producing glue, candles, oil, starch, powder and ship sails.

Jenny Logan

The advert featured Jenny Logan dancing around a typical British living room in high heels, shaking the powder onto the carpet and vacuuming it up, while singing a musical jingle.

Kay Nielsen

He received his first English commission from Hodder and Stoughton to illustrate a collection of fairy tales, providing 24 colour plates and more than 15 monotone illustrations for In Powder and Crinoline, Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in 1913.

Kevin Caron

2007 Temple, Texas, City of Temple: Temple Falls. powder-coated steel, 48" x 27" x 32"

Khatkhate

Khatkhate Curry is prepared with at least five vegetables, plus grated coconut, jaggery, kokum, tamarind, tirphala/Tepphal (Sichuan pepper- a special spices from Konkan region), dried red chillies, garam masala powder, and turmeric powder.

Kundt's tube

The tube is a transparent horizontal pipe which contains a small amount of a fine powder such as cork dust, talc or Lycopodium.

Little Red Riding Rabbit

The wolf (voiced by Billy Bletcher) growls for the others to "COME ON! COME ON! take a powder – this is MY racket!" and the other wolves leave muttering to themselves, and a small wolf leaves from under the pillow.

Metsubushi

One type of metsubushi was a powder made up of ashes, ground-up pepper, mud, flour, and dirt.

Milo Dinosaur

According to a reporter for The New Paper, the "Dinosaur" in the beverage's name on its own means "a heap of Milo or Horlicks powder on the iced drink".

Neutra

Neutra Phos, a powder formulation of sodium and potassium phosphate

New Zealand Music Awards

The awards were co-founded by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) and soap powder manufacturer Reckitt & Colman, with the awards named after Reckitt & Colman's anti-dandruff shampoo, Loxene.

NIBS

Cacao nibs, pieces of roasted cocoa beans, generally ground into powder, but also inserted into chocolate bars to give additional "crunch"

One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta

Vivi describes a brief history on how the Baroque Works leader Crocodile has used Dance Powder while posing as the country's hero.

Oriental Powder Company

Oriental Powder Company was a gunpowder manufacturer with mills located on the Presumpscot River in Gorham and Windham, Maine.

Powder Horn Mountain

Powder Horn Mountain (PMH) is a gated residential/resort community in Triplett, Watauga County, North Carolina, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Powder keg

Powder keg is also used in literature as in the lyrics of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart: "We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks".

Powder keg of Europe

The "Powder keg of Europe", sometimes alternately known as the "Balkan Powder Keg", refers to the Balkans in the early part of the 20th century preceding World War I.

Powder of sympathy

He is then ordered by Cardinal Mazarin to spy on a secret English Pacific voyage to test an unknown application of the powder to solve the longitude problem.

Rather than injure the dog with a knife, they played "I Dreamed a Dream" to it, dipping the CD in the powder at the appropriate time.

Powder Your Face with Sunshine

"Powder Your Face with Sunshine" is a popular song written by Carmen Lombardo and Stanley Rochinski, and published in 1948.

Rancho Cañada del Rincon en el Rio San Lorenzo

In 1861, the California Powder Works was established to meet a need created by the outbreak of the Civil War, when shipments of gunpowder from the East Coast to California had been discontinued due to the fear that Federal gunpowder would fall into the hands of Confederate raiders.

Sinalco

In 1902, German scientist Friedrich Eduard Bilz invented "Bilz Brause", a sherbet powder, and started to sell it in partnership with industrialist Franz Hartmann.

Sir Alfred Bird, 1st Baronet

He is best remembered as the proprietor of Alfred Bird & Sons, a company founded by his father Alfred Bird, the inventor of baking powder and the powdered custard that bears his name.

St. George's, Bermuda

The powder was carried over the hill to Tobacco Bay, from where boats transported it to an American ship that lay offshore.

Tayum, Abra

At the beginning of the century, however, a powder dye from the Aniline Factories of Germany came into popular use among Ilocano weavers, causing the death of the indigo industry.

Thomas Edmonds

Thomas Edmonds (manufacturer) (1858–1932), a philanthropist from Christchurch famous for his 'Sure to Rise' baking powder and the Edmonds Cookery Book

Trow Ghyll skeleton

The glass bottle seen by Burgess turned out not to contain flash powder, but Sodium cyanide, a lethal poison.

Victor Baptistin Sénès

He became chief of the first section of the General Staff in Toulon, and he was conspicuous in 1899 during the explosion of the powder magazine at Lagoubran near Toulon.


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