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unusual facts about balsam


Balsam Mountain Inn

The Balsam Mountain Inn is an historic wooden Neo-Classical and Victorian hotel located at 68 Seven Springs Drive in Balsam, North Carolina, United States.


Allergic contact dermatitis

Balsam of Peru (Myroxylon pereirae) - a fragrance used in perfumes and skin lotions, derived from tree resin (see also Tolu balsam).

Anticosti Island

Balsam fir is slowly being replaced with white spruce because of intensive grazing done by deer and by periodic outbreaks of Hemlock Looper and Spruce Budworm.

Balsam Lake Mountain

Catskill forest historian Michael Kudish says the Mill Brook Ridge range, including Balsam Lake, is one of the areas in the region showing the fewest signs of human disturbance.

Calophyllum brasiliense

The word "Guanandi" comes from the Tupí (a Brazilian Indian folk) language, means "soap that glues", in function of the yellow latex (balsam) of the rind, known as Jacareubin.

Canada balsam

Canada balsam, also called Canada turpentine or balsam of fir, is a turpentine which is made from the resin of the balsam fir tree (Abies balsamea) of boreal North America.

Crimsonwing

They usually forage on or near the ground, feeding mainly on seeds such as those of grasses and balsam.

Dead Ends and Girlfriends

Primarily composed of original material, the album contains three cover songs, "Miz" by Kevin Doss & The Humdingers, "I Want It That Way" by Max Martin and Andreas Carlsson, as popularised by the Backstreet Boys, and the theme from the television series "Fraggle Rock" by Dennis Lee and Phillip Balsam, credited with the altered title of "Fraggle Rawk".

Great Balsam Mountains

The most famous peak in the Great Balsam range is Cold Mountain, which is the centerpiece of author Charles Frazier's bestselling novel Cold Mountain.

Heat wave of 1995 derecho series

An F1 tornado struck the Balsam Lake Trailer Park near Kirkfield, flipping over vehicles, destroying several trailers and sending ten people to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Impatiens balsamina

Impatiens balsamina (garden balsam, garden jewelweed, rose balsam, touch-me-not) is a species of Impatiens native to southern Asia in India and Burma.

Isaac Balsam

Balsam's great-great-great-grandsons Yehonatan and Malachi Yammer and his great-granddaughter Shira Yammer, born in Israel in 2009, 2010, and 2012, respectively, are great-grandchildren of the physicist and historian of science Max Jammer (1915-2010).

Isaac Balsam (1880–1945) started the first Chalav Yisrael dairy farm on the East Coast, and possibly in the United States.

Kneisel Hall

After a long hiatus, the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School was reestablished in 1953 by Kneisel's daughter Marianne Kneisel, pianist Artur Balsam, violinist Joseph Fuchs and violist Lillian Fuchs.

Martin Balsam

Martin Balsam made his professional debut in August 1941 in a production of The Play's the Thing in Locust Valley.

Pershing, Wisconsin

Balsam and Elm line the margins of the Meadow and Alder bottoms.


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