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unusual facts about Violet-capped Hummingbird


Violet-capped

Violet-capped Hummingbird, a Central American bird in the Trochilidae family


Adder's tongue

Erythronium (also known as Fawn Lily, Trout Lily, or Dog's-tooth Violet), a genus of lilies

Almandine

When the color inclines to a violet tint, the stone is often called Syriam garnet, a name said to be taken from Syriam, an ancient town of Pegu (now part of Myanmar).

American Fairy Tales

Baum adapted "The Box of Robbers" and "The Magic Bon Bons" as chapters 1 and 3 of his lost film series, Violet's Dreams, both with Violet MacMillan in the role of child protagonist.

American Violet

Set in the midst of the 2000 presidential election, American Violet tells the story of a young mother named Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24 year-old African-American single mother of four living in the town of Melody (based on Hearne, Texas, where the real incident took place).

Artists' Suffrage League

The body was responsible for the creation of a large number of posters, Christmas cards, postcards and banners designed by artists who included the Chair Mary Lowndes, Emily Ford, Barbara Forbes, May H Barker, Clara Billing, Dora Meeson Coates, Violet Garrard, Bertha Newcombe, C Hedly Charlton and Emily J Harding.

Burke Marshall

He was survived by his wife Violet P. Marshall, three daughters, Catie Marshall, Jane Marshall, both of Brooklyn, New York, and Josie Phillips of Plymouth, England, as well as four grandchildren: Ian Marshall Bakerman and Morgan Montgomery Bakerman of Catie Marshall and Nelson Bakerman; and James Marshall Phillips and Samuel Burke Phillips, who are the sons of Josie and Greg Phillips.

Carl Gräbe

Together with Carl Theodore Liebermann, he synthesized the orange-red dye alizarin in 1868; alizarin had been isolated and identified from madder root some forty years earlier in 1826 by the French chemist Pierre Robiquet, simultaneously with purpurin, a violet dye.

Chris Monroe

Christine Monroe (born April 17, 1962) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and author best known for her weekly comic strip “Violet Days,” which appears in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune.

Clara Bloodgood

" She next appeared with Arnold Daly in "How He Lied to Her Husband," and a production of "The Gentleman from India," in Boston. In 1905 at the Hudson Theatre in New York she played Violet Robinson in George Bernard Shaw’s "Man and Superman," with Robert Loraine.

Codes and Secret Longing

MTV Canada's Peak Season featured Violet Light, Phantom Limb/ Divided By Night and Relentless in Episodes 1, 6 and 8, respectively (2009).

Colias regia

(26 d), from Southern Fergana, is magnificently golden red, with a very feeble violet sheen in the male and a stronger gloss in the female; the black marginal band not very broad, dusted with yellow, the middle spot of the forewing black, that of the hindwing red and inconspicuous.

Coward of the County

The movie added several characters not mentioned in the song, including: Car-Wash (Noble Willingham), a friend of the Spencer family, Violet (Ana Alicia), a local girl who also loved Tommy, and Lem Gatlin (Joe Dorsey), father of the Gatlin boys (brothers Jimmy Joe, Paul, and Luke).

Daisy Wood

Daisy Violet Rose Wood (15 September 1877 in Hoxton, London – 19 October 1961), was an English Music hall singer.

Dog violet

A number of species in the genus Erythronium in the family Liliaceae are sometimes referred to as "dog's-tooth violet".

Doris Betts

An adaptation of "The Ugliest Pilgrim", the most widely printed of her stories, won Best Live Action Short at the 54th Academy Awards as a short film titled "Violet", and in 1998 was the basis of a musical that won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.

Espido Freire

The first chapter appeared in The Violet Issue of Fairy Tale Review, edited by Kate Bernheimer.

Evgraf Fedorovich Krendovsky

One of his pieces, Portrait of an Unknown Woman in a Violet Dress, is in the Collections of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, and several others are in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Gertrude Stubbs

Stubbs, the story goes, was born in 1879, in Whitby, England, the daughter of George Stubbs, a train engineer and his wife, Violet, a seamstress.

In Golden Blood

In Golden Blood is the third science-fiction alternate history novel by Stephen Woodworth featuring the "Violet" detective Natalie Lindstrom.

It's All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis

#"Violet and a Rose" (Thresa Auge, John Reinfeld, Little Jimmy Dickens, Tillis) – 3:54

Juniperus occidentalis

The plants often bear galls caused by the Juniper Tip Midge Oligotrophus betheli (Bibionomorpha: Cecidomyiidae); these are violet-purple fading to brown, 1–2 cm diameter, with dense modified spreading scale-leaves 6–10 mm long and 2–3 mm broad at the base.

JZ Microphones

After 20 years of repairing Neumann, AKG, Telefunken microphones and participating in Blue and Violet microphones manufacturing he started to produce his own line of microphones.

M. dentatus

Melicytus dentatus, the tree violet, a shrub species native to south-east Australia

Mary garden

Such plants may include laurel trees, strawberries, ladyslippers, lilies of the valley, peonies, violets, irises and roses, all of which are identified as symbolic and significant in the story of Mary as recounted in the Bible and other Christian stories.

Mindy Cohn

In 2010, she played the role of Violet, the leading character in Casper Andreas' movie Violet Tendencies.

Pageboy

In the film Pulp Fiction, the character of Mia Wallace (played by actress Uma Thurman) sports a pageboy, as does AnnaSophia Robb as Violet Beauregarde and Missi Pyle as Violet's mother Scarlett Beauregarde in Tim Burton's film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Parma violet

The d'Udine Parma violet features large, bluish-lavender flowers and a strong perfume.

The delicate purple flowers of the parma violet plant also give their name to a delicate, violet-scented sweet Parma Violets, manufactured by Swizzels Matlow.

Pecan Grove Press

Other notable poets include Vince Gotera, editor of North American Review; Marian Haddad; Edward Byrne, well known for his "One Poet's Notes" blog; Olga Samples Davis; Wendy Barker, winner of two Violet Crown awards from the Texas League of Writers; Gwyn McVay; award-winning poet, essayist and dramatist David Brendan Hopes; Cyra S. Dumitru; Colin Morton, award-winning Canadian poet; Bonnie Lyons; and Joel Peckham.

Prater Violet

Prater Violet is based on Isherwood's experience as a screenwriter for the British Gaumont film Little Friend (1934), directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Matheson Lang and Nova Pilbeam.

Red-faced Cormorant

The Red-faced Cormorant, Red-faced Shag or Violet Shag (Phalacrocorax urile) is a species of cormorant that is found in the far north of the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, from the eastern tip of Hokkaidō in Japan, via the Kuril Islands, the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands to the Alaska Peninsula and Gulf of Alaska.

Richard Deodatus Poulett-Harris

He died at Woodbridge, Tasmania, on 23 December 1899, and was survived by his wife, and of his first marriage: Georgiana (see above); Katharine (1847–1940); Charlotte Maria (1850–1941); Annie Louisa (1853–1922), and Lovell Andrews (1856–1929); and of his second marriage: Eleanor Mary (1865–1931), Henry Vere (1866–1933), Anna May (1869–1953), and Louisa Violet (b. 1873).

Romanowsky stain

The demethylation of Methylene Blue in aqueous solution using heat and alkali produces a mixture of Azure A, Azure B, Methylene Violet and Methylene Blue.

V. hastata

Viola hastata, the halberd-leaf yellow violet, a flowering plant species in the genus Viola

Violet Barclay

Born Violet Barclay, she adopted "Valerie" in adulthood, after actress Valerie Hobson, though without filing for legal change of name.

Violet blue

Noname Jane (born 1977), pornographic actress known in the majority of her movies as Violet Blue

Violet click beetle

One of the host trees at Windsor blew down in the Great Storm of 1987, but was re-erected solely as a host for the violet click beetle.

Violet Crumble

In the novella Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice, Kellyanne's two imaginary friends eat nothing but Violet Crumbles, Cherry Ripes and lollies.

Sydney Kings, whose primary colours are purple and yellow, are often referred to as the "Violet Crumbles" due to their constant under performance in the National Basketball League during the 1990s.

Violet L. Fisher

Violet L. Fisher is a retired Bishop in The United Methodist Church, elected and consecrated to the Episcopacy in 2000.

Violet Town

Violet Town has connections with Australian rock music - during the 1980s a song by The Church was named for the town, and more recently the town has been known for being the home of Jesse and Ella Hooper, members of rock band Killing Heidi.

Violet, Texas

He advertised in several Texas German newspapers and secured the endorsement of Reverend Peter Verdauger, the apostolic vicar of Brownsville (the precursor to the Diocese of Corpus Christi).

Violet's Dreams

1. A Box of Bandits (based on "The Box of Robbers" from American Fairy Tales) 27 August 1915

Willow Dawson

The series Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate was a 4 issue comic book series published by Kiss Machine from 2005–2008, which drew inspiration from the lives of Anne Bonney and Mary Read, two of histories most infamous female pirates.

With Red Hands

With Red Hands is the second science-fiction alternate history novel by Stephen Woodworth featuring the "Violet" detective Natalie Lindstrom.

Zygaena lonicerae

They suck nectar of the preferred blue violet flowers, such as on field scabious (Knautia arvensis), Dove Pincushion Flower (Scabiosa columbaria), meadow knapweed (Centaurea jacea), panicle knapweed (Centaurea stoebe), creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense), Bulbous thistle (Cirsium tuberosum) and ring thistle (Carduus).


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