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4 unusual facts about Trillium


Trillium series

Black Trillium (1990, by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Andre Norton)

However, only the first book of the series, Black Trillium, was created by all three of them, while the other four were written by individual authors.

May wrote her own vision of the story, called Black Trillium, and to her astonishment, Norton, Bradley and even Luserke himself agreed to it.

The concept of "trillium" or trinity (also a plant with a threefold flower: Trillium) plays an important role in the novels, probably because there were three lead characters and three authors working on the series.


Amanda Staveley

Also in 2008 Staveley fronted a bid by the Qatar Investment Authority to buy the Trillium facilities management business from the Land Securities property group, an offer reportedly totaling £1.1 billion.

Articulatory synthesis

One of the few commercial articulatory speech synthesis systems is the NeXT-based system originally developed and marketed by Trillium Sound Research, a spin-off company of the University of Calgary, where much of the original research was conducted.

Binah

Binah, a character in the World of the Three Moons a fantasy realm that serves as a setting for the Trillium series of novels

Dominic Seiterle

The trip was 130 kilometers from Rochester, New York, to Kingston, Ontario and raised money for the J.P. Wilmot Cancer Center (at the University of Rochester Medical Center) and Camp Trillium (Ontario).

Nob Hill Nature Park

Along with white oak trees, or Quercus garryana, it also has a wide array of native wildflowers in spring, including camas, trillium, iris and larkspur.

Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers

The colours of the medal are red (the colour of the Ontarian flag), white and green (the colours of the trillium), and gold.

Shorewood-Tower Hills-Harbert, Michigan

Besides the beachfront, its other features are its mesophytic forest with four co-dominant species, including both northern hemlock and southern tulip trees, an ample population of trillium seen in spring, and Deer Creek which winds its way through a common ravine area out to the lake.

Trillium Cup

In 2008, Mayor Michael B. Coleman of Columbus and Mayor David Miller of Toronto started a small wager on their respective team for the first installment of the Trillium Cup – the mayor of the losing team was required to wear the winning team's jersey.

View Lake, Ontario

Public schooling is provided by the Durham District School Board and Trillium Lakelands District School Board.


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