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8 unusual facts about holly


Granola

The company was founded in 1953 in Holly, Michigan by the Hurlinger family with the main purpose of producing a concentrated paste of brewers yeast and soy sauce known as "Sovex."

Holly Blue

In Europe, the first generation feeds mainly on Holly (Ilex aquifolium) but the second generation uses a range of foodplants.

Holly, Colorado

Holly is the hometown of former Colorado Governor Roy Romer, who moved there as an infant from his birthplace of Garden City, Kansas.

Holly's Law

Holly's Law was named after Holly Patterson, an 18-year-old woman who was believed to have been the third woman in the United States who died after taking Mifepristone (also called RU-486).

Holly's World

She stars in the Vegas show Peepshow at Planet Hollywood and hangs with a new group of friends, including Angel Porrino, her personal assistant/best friend, Josh Strickland, a former Broadway performer who plays the male lead in Peepshow, and Laura Croft, Holly's roommate, who's fond of partying and strip clubs.

O'Collins

O'Cuilleain or Cuilliaéan is an extremely ancient Irish name from Gaelic cuileann and primitive Gaelic cuilieann meaning Holly.

Sisiutl

Holly, and spat blood were some of the few implements able to harm a Sisiutl.

WHNE-LD

On December 28, 2011, the station returned to the air, broadcasting from a transmitter tower near Holly, Michigan at the East Holly Road and Interstate 75 (Exit 98) interchange, on UHF 26, and with a PSIP of 26.1 along with four sub channels.


A Movie Script Ending

The song begins with references to "the air on Railroad" and "the shopfronts on Holly," Railroad and Holly being two intersecting streets in downtown Bellingham, Washington, Death Cab for Cutie's hometown.

Berni Inn

In the Red Dwarf episode "Better Than Life", Holly notes that even though loneliness weighs heavily on us all, "Personally, the only thing that keeps me going is the thought that we are over 60 billion miles away from the nearest Berni Inn."

Better as a Memory

The co-writers of the song are both pseudonymous: Scooter Carusoe is a pseudonym for Travis Hill, founder of Carnival Music, and Lady Goodman is a pseudonym of Holly Gleason, Chesney's publicist and a music critic.

Brevipalpus phoenicis

In the state of Florida, this mite is known to infest Aphelandra, gardenia, grapefruit, hibiscus, holly, ligustrum, lemon, lime, orange, pecan and viburnum.

Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Set in Friday Harbor, the novel opens with a prologue that features six-year-old Holly Nolan’s letter to Santa Claus, asking for a mother for Christmas.

Darling Violetta

Darling Violetta's song "I Want to Kill You", produced by Holly Knight, from The Kill You EP was licensed by Activision for their game, Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption.

Dave Laing

His books have included The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), The Electric Muse: the story of Folk into Rock (with Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow and Robert Shelton, 1975), and One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985).

E. maritimum

Eryngium maritimum, the sea holly, a plant species in the family Apiaceae

Emergency Vets

The new series features six new veterinary interns during their first year of residency practice at the new Alameda East hospital, as well as familiar faces Dr. Robert Taylor, Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, Dr. Preston Stubbs, and Dr. Holly Knor.

Ernest Glenn Munn

Munn was buried May 17, 2008, in the family plot in Holly Memorial Gardens in Pleasant Grove, Ohio.

Fathers and Suns

Holly was last seen in Series VIII episode "Only the Good..." and they mentioned Holly was offline due to water damage in Back to Earth after Lister had left a bath running for nine years and the Skutters hadn't dried him out.

Fiddleford

Interesting flora grows in the different seasons, such as holly in the winter, and the Dunce Cap (Conocybe) Mushroom in the autumn.

Fire Island Pines, New York

Fire Island Pines derives its name from the scrub pine trees in the area, which, according to legend, started growing after a ship with Christmas trees and holly foundered off its coast in the late 19th century.

Fire/Ice

The episode was written by Holly Henderson & Don Whitehead and it was directed by Joshua Butler.

Heritage Museums and Gardens

Other items of horticultural interest include: holly, daylily, herb, hosta, and heather gardens, as well as more than a thousand varieties of trees, shrubs and flowers, many labeled.

Herman the Bull

Together with cloned cows named Holly and Belle, he lived out his retirement at Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden.

Holly Coors

Holland "Holly" Coors (August 25, 1920 – January 18, 2009) was an American conservative political activist and philanthropist who had been married to Joseph Coors, the president of Coors Brewing Company.

Holly Holyoake

Holly Holyoake (born 31 December 1988) is a Welsh classical music singer from Duffryn, Newport.

Holly Lodge Estate

The Holly Lodge Estate is an estate located on the site and grounds of a villa built in 1798 by Sir Henry Tempest on the south-facing slopes of Highgate, London adjacent to Highgate Rise, now known as Highgate West Hill.

Holly Merrill Raschein

Holly Merrill Raschein (born December 16, 1980) is a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 120th District, which includes Monroe County and southern Miami-Dade County, since 2012.

Holly Palance

Palance co-hosted the television version of Ripley's Believe It or Not! with her father for one season, replacing Jack's former co-host, Catherine Shirriff; Holly would later be replaced as co-host by singer Marie Osmond.

Holly Springs, North Carolina

On July 18, 2006, it was announced that the pharmaceutical company Novartis would be building a manufacturing facility in Holly Springs and employing approximately 350 to produce flu vaccines using new technologies.

Ilex qianlingshanensis

Ilex qianlingshanensis, commonly known in China as 黔灵山冬青 (Qianling Mountain Holly) is a species of plant in the Aquifoliaceae family.

Jasmine Curtis

In 2012, she played the role of Epifania "Anya" Dionisio in Nandito Ako, where she co-starred with Eula Caballero as Holly Posadas and American Idol Season 7 runner-up David Archuleta as Josh Bradley.

Jeff K. Oliver

Oliver and his wife, Holly, and their two sons, Evan and Gavin, live in Highland, California

Kuding

Ilex vomitoria- "Yaupon Holly", a caffeine containing member of the Ilex genus from North America.

Ilex guayusa- also known as "guayusa", is an Amazonian tree of the holly genus, native to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest.

Los Alcornocales Natural Park

Forests and smaller wooded areas within the park are comprised mainly by cork oaks (Quercus suber), Portuguese oaks (Quercus faginea), Pyrenean oaks (Quercus pyrenaica), olive trees (Olea europaea), alders (Alnus glutinosa and Alnus incana incana), holly trees (Ilex aquifolium), bay laurels (Laurus nobilis), rhododendrons (Rhododendron ponticum), ferns, mosses, and lichens.

Marty Scurll

On 14 February edition of Impact he teamed up with The Blossom Twins (Hannah and Holly) to face the team of Tara, Jessie, and Gail Kim.

Michael Ann Holly

Holly currently serves as the Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Mississippi Highway 7

This sweeping bottomland, located approximately halfway between Holly Springs and Oxford, was the inspiration for fictional settings in several works by William Faulkner.

Mount Street Gardens

Underneath these trees are planted a number of shrubs, most noticeably Laurels (Aucuba japonica) and Hollies (such as Ilex aquifolium), and several Camellias (Camellia japonica) and a Fatsia japonica.

Nancilea Foster

Foster also came from a sporting family, where her sister Holly Jo was a successful Big Ten diver at Ohio State University, and her father Olen Underwood, a retired state administrative judge, played for the New York Giants, Houston Oilers, and Denver Broncos in the National Football League (NFL).

Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom

A more positive outlet of publicity for British Wrestling was TNA's spin–off show British Bootcamp which saw local stars Marty Scurll, twins Hannah and Holly Blossom and former British Welterweight Champion Rockstar Spud vying for an opportunity with the company, which Spud went on to win.

Rebecca Harper

Roxy Olin, daughter of Patricia Wettig (the actress who plays Rebecca Harper's mother Holly) and Ken Olin, auditioned for the role of Rebecca.

Richard N. Hughes

Two versions of the message were recorded, both of them depicting Hughes surrounded by a wreath of holly, and backed by an instrumental version of Silent Night.

Robert Piotrowski

Piotrowski's projects include the Corporate Headquarters for Holly Hunt, LTD in Chicago, the town halls in Seckach and in Rosenberg, a community center in Zimmern, the Sparkasse in Hettingen, and The House Dandelion Clock, a kindergarten for physically and mentally handicapped children in Buchen.

South Liverpool F.C.

In 2006, the site of Holly Park had been redeveloped and was opened as Liverpool South Parkway railway station.

Terry Danko

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The Turquoise Shop

This event coincides with the mysterious arrival of Pat Abbott, a handsomely rugged private investigator from San Francisco with hopes of pursuing an art career, while the shallow and snobbish Mona finds herself ostracized by her small New Mexico community of Santa Maria, including Jean Holly, the owner of The Turquoise Shop, after she had her own beautiful teenager daughter incarcerated by police.

The Waylors

After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane for himself, Allsup and Jennings to avoid a long bus trip to Fargo, North Dakota.

Tony Maxwell

He was one of the dancers in Weezer's "Buddy Holly" video directed by Spike Jonze, he played the Dog Boy in Jonze's video for Daft Punk's "Da Funk" and "Fresh", he choreographed the Dance of Despair in Jonze's Being John Malkovich, and he was Nicolas Cage's body double in Jonze's Adaptation..

Velma Kelly

Women who have portrayed Velma on the Broadway stage include: Chita Rivera, Terra C. MacLeod, Amra-Faye Wright, Nancy Hess, Deidre Goodwin, Brenda Braxton, Caroline O'Connor, Roxana Carrasco, Bebe Neuwirth, Reva Rice, Donna Marie Asbury, Lori Ellis, Stephanie Brown, Holly Shepard, Pia Douwes and Ute Lemper.

Walter Hunnewell Arboretum

The collection of specimen trees and shrubs include towering American White and English Oaks, lindens, tulip trees, bald cypress, and Chinese Golden Larch, as well as different species and cultivars of azaleas, lilacs, viburnums, hollies, weeping cherries and rhododendrons.

William Charles Anderson

Several of his books were autobiographical accounts of the adventures of Anderson, his wife, Dortha, and their children, Ann (Ann Kiessling), Scott (Scott Charles Anderson) and Holly.

Wisner, Louisiana

One of Swayzer's descendants, Frances Swayzer Conley, an English professor at Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City and a resident of Shreveport, has written a pictorial family history entitled Home To Holly Grove: Cherishing Our Rich Heritage.

Zome

Both the building and the learning tool are the brainchildren of inventor/designer Steve Baer, his wife, Holly, and associates.


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