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4 unusual facts about Vinča


Elizabeth Warden

Liz usually gets nervous and repeatedly spills and drops things in Hyacinth's home throughout the series, especially Hyacinth's Royal Doulton cups with the hand-painted periwinkles, much to the devastation of her friend.

Evergreen Game

The German word Immergrün (Evergreen), used by Steinitz, refers to a specific evergreen plant, called Periwinkle (Vinca) in English.

Hunter Island, New York

One can also find traces of John Hunter’s estate garden, which held grape hyacinth, periwinkle, daylily, and Tartarian honeysuckle.

Pyle's Massacre

The site is marked with periwinkle and cedar trees and at one time had a stone marker (placed in 1880), which has since been removed from the site; the marker's current location is unknown.


Grocka

The experimental farm of Radmilovac is located near Vinča, as a section of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Agriculture.

Juozas Vinča

Vinča started his sport career in 1925 with weightlifting, but Steponas Darius persuaded him to switch to boxing.

Ramiz Tafilaj

As owner of the Jalifat Publishing company, he has published Kosova's Independence: Stabilising or Destabilising Factor by Hajredin Kuçi, Në rrugëtim me Kosovën: përpjetat dhe tatëpjetat by Faton Bislimi, Fan Noli's American Years: Notes on a Great Albanian American by Avni Spahiu, and the poetry collection Aty buzë liqenit by Nuhi Vinca.

Varna culture

The discontinuity of the Varna, Karanovo, Vinča and Lengyel cultures in their main territories and the large scale population shifts to the north and northwest are indirect evidence of a catastrophe of such proportions that cannot be explained by possible climatic change, Desertification, or epidemics.


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