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unusual facts about columbine


Prior Lake, Minnesota

She chose Prior Lake as her subject because it was found to be virtually identical to Columbine demographically.


1967 PGA Championship

Columbine was scheduled to host the championship in 1966, but flooding of the course by the South Platte River caused a postponement of a year.

Aquilegia eximia

Aquilegia eximia is a species of columbine known by the common name Van Houtte's columbine.

Aquilegia longissima

Aquilegia longissima, commonly known as long-spur columbine, is a flowering plant in the buttercup family.

Battle of Tysami

Under Commander John Willcox, Fury arrived off Bias Bay where the Columbine and Canton were anchored.

Canaan Mountain Wilderness

Riparian areas are found along South Creek, Water Canyon Creek, Squirrel Creek and several other drainages; maidenhair fern, shooting star, scarlet monkeyflower, and columbine grow in hanging gardens by cliff-side springs and seeps.

Cathedral Square, Gibraltar

The open space here was once a street called Columbine Street which was named after lieutenant-general Francis Columbine who was a deputy governor.

Columbine massacre

The 1999 Columbine High School massacre of students at Columbine High School near Denver and Littleton, Colorado

The 1927 Columbine Mine massacre of coal miners at the Columbine Mine in Serene, Colorado

Delbrook Senior Secondary School

Douglas Coupland's 2003 novel Hey Nostradamus! begins at a fictional Delbrook Senior Secondary in 1988 about a Columbine-like massacre at the school, the latter took place April 1999 in Jefferson County, Colorado.

Ethel Léontine Gabain

The melancholic theme continued with images centred around Pierrot and Columbine.

Francis Columbine

Cathedral Square in Gibraltar is on the site of what was Columbine Street.

HMS Columbine

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Columbine, after the common name for the plant Aquilegia.

Parallel harmony

Examples may be found in Claude Debussy's "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" (1894), Maurice Ravel's Daphnis and Chloë Suite No. 2 (1913), Richard Strauss's Elektra (1909), Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, "Columbine" (1914), and William Schuman's Three Score Set for Piano (1944).

Paul Legrand

After enjoying some success with his Pierrot, Murderer of his Wife (1881), a pantomime in which a disillusioned Pierrot tickles Columbine to death, the young Paul Margueritte interviewed Legrand, now an aging artist whose triumphs at the Folies lay far behind him.

Portinari Altarpiece

The orange lilies symbolize the Passion and the white irises purity, while the purple irises and the columbine stalks represent the seven sorrows of the Virgin.

Pulmonaria longifolia

In the New Forest in England, P. longifolia shares its habitat with wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), wood-sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), bastard balm (Melittis melissophyllum), wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa), columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris).

Steven Simring

The Compatibilty Quotient, 245 pages, w/ Sue Klavans Simring and William Proctor, ISBN 9780449902677, ISBN 0449902676, Fawcett Columbine, 2004.

The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack

"Rondo" includes a short excerpt from Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, as well as an extended quote and re-harmonization of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Blue Rondo a la Turk." "The Cry of Eugene", which was later re-recorded by Jackson's group Jackson Heights, refers to "Harlequin & Columbine".

Triptych of the Annunciation

The flowers behind her are traditional symbols for Mary: lilies for her purity and columbine for her sorrow.

Upper Piney Lake Trail

In summer, the aspen meadows along Piney River are filled with the blooms of red columbine, Aquilegia elegantula; lambstongue groundsel, Senecio integerrimus; lovage or osha, Ligusticum porteri; common harebell, Campanula rotundifolia; and wild rose, Rosa woodsii.

USS Columbine

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Columbine after Columbine, the flowering herb.


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