The Veterans of Foreign Wars selected Oakland as their Poppy Girl during National Poppy Week in May 1925.
There, she sank the British vessel Wanstead south of Greenland, whose survivors were picked up by the corvette HMS Poppy and the ASW (anti-submarine warfare) HMS Northern Gift.
In protest against the proceeds of Poppy sales on Armistice Day (11 November) being used for the benefit of the British ex-servicemen to the detriment of Sri Lankan ex-servicemen, one of the latter, Mr Aelian Perera, had started a rival sale of Suriya flowers on the same day, the proceeds of which were devoted to help needy Ceylonese ex-servicemen.
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Argemone mexicana, the Mexican poppy, Mexican prickly poppy, cardo or cardosanto, a plant species found in Mexico
One of the least internationally known of British minimalist composers, Poppy was a founding member (in 1981) of The Lost Jockey, a large ensemble dedicated to the performance of new works by British composers composed in the style of such composers as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Louis Andriessen.
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In 1986, Andrew Poppy composed the original score for Portuguese seminal 80's film A Girl In Summer directed by Vítor Gonçalves.
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A collaboration between Poppy and German singer Claudia Brücken (another ZTT artist in the 1980s who recorded with Propaganda and Act) resulted in the album Another Language in 2005.
Lapinskas deemed his character "pleased that somebody likes him", and said that while he was also interested in Jodie Gold (Kylie Babbington), he was put "on the spot" by Poppy and so did what he thought was expected of him in asking her out.
Arctomecon californica is a species of poppy known by several common names, including California bearpoppy, Las Vegas bearpoppy, golden bearpoppy, and yellow-flowered desert poppy.
Argemone pleiacantha Greene – southwestern prickly poppy
Čížečku, čížečku ("Siskin, o Little Siskin") is a traditional Czech children's folk song and a singing game which was performed in the past as an annual custom supposed to enhance the yield of poppy.
The edible dormouse was considered a delicacy in ancient Rome, either as a savoury appetizer or as a dessert (dipped in honey and poppy seeds).
Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy, a plant species native to the western United States and in Mexico
Pierre was in the middle of recording the album, Even If It Kills Me with his other band, Motion City Soundtrack and decided to make something considerably less poppy.
He pursued Heracles at the River Anthemus but fell victim to an arrow that had been dipped in the venomous blood of the Lernaean Hydra, shot so forcefully by Heracles that it pierced Geryon's forehead, "and Geryon bent his neck over to one side, like a poppy that spoils its delicate shapes, shedding its petals all at once".
When Jodie's friend Poppy was introduced, her initial scenes with Jodie were described as "a bizarre and utterly irrelevant chat" by Jody Thompson from the Daily Mail.
On 11 November 2013, a Routemaster owned by Metroline was used on the route as part of The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.
A quotation concerning Tarquinius and the poppy allegory appears in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.
Mabein Township is considered poppy - free by the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) in the Opium Survey 2002, and in the World Drug Report 2005 published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Marion Hume, writing in Time Magazine, explains that Isola "was able to mastermind an astonishing range, from the intricate and folkloric Ananas (1962)—which remains one of the most popular prints for the home market—to the radically simple, dramatically enlarged, asymmetrical Unikko poppy (1964), originally in red and in blue, which may be one of the most widely recognized prints on earth.".
Meconic acid, also known as acidum meconicum and poppy acid, is a chemical substance found in certain plants of the Papaveraceae family (poppy) such as Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) and Papaver bracteatum.
Freelance staff often appear on the station, such as Georgina Godwin, Nancy Durham, Emma Nelson, Dominic Reynolds, Andrew Mueller, Clemency Burton-Hill, Tadhg Enright, Poppy Trowbridge and Ted Kravitz.
MAC is responsible for a number of incidents including protests outside the Royal Albert Hall and in Kensington on 11 November 2010, when two large plastic poppies were burned during the Remembrance Day silence.
Poppy Manning (Kirsha Southward) (2002–2006), a girl who frequently appears as a rival to Josh, due to her similarly scheming, sneaky personality.
Early on she took on roles such as "Maria" in West Side Story, "Hodel" in Fiddler on the Roof and "Jemima" in Cats, but also straight acting roles such as "Poppy" in Noises Off.
Papaver alpinum, the Alpine poppy, a plant species found in the Alps
Rhaetian Alps poppy (P. alpinum subsp. rhaeticum) has light yellow to orange petals and feathery foliage is found in the Central and Southern Alps.
This plant is cultivated as an ornamental plant and erroneously sold under the name of Papaver nudicaule, that is instead a different species (Papaver nudicaule L. – common names Iceland poppy, Icelandic poppy).
Despite the extreme northern latitude of the Svalbard poppy, another separate poppy species, Papaver radicatum, is the furthest northernly growing plant known to the world.
Oriental poppies are closely related to the Great scarlet poppy Papaver bracteatum, which can be grown for the commercial extraction of thebaine, a main source for the legal synthesis of opiates.
It is often confused and misidentified as Papaver rhoeas (corn poppy, common in Europe) even though it is classified as the rest of the subspecies, since they are very similar in form and appearance.
It was directed by Jim Johnson, produced by Bryan Savery and starring Yamina Peerzada from the Rafi Theatre Workshop of Pakistan as Zuhleikah, taking over from Poppy Jakhra from the production's original tour the previous year.
An animated TV series The Extraordinary Adventures of Poppy Cat based on the Poppy Cat books, comprising 52 episodes running 11 minutes, was created by Kate Boutilier and Eryk Casemiro and produced by Coolabi Productions, and BAFTA award-winning King Rollo Films and first aired on Nick Jr. from May 2011, and on Disney Junior.
The name poppy goddess was given to a large female figurine which is believed to represent a Minoan goddess, discovered in a sanctuary of the Post-palace period (LM III, 1400–1100 BC) at Gazi, Crete.
Poppy tea, a water extraction of dried opium poppy seeds, fruits, or straw
Poppy was introduced in two episodes on 11 and 13 January 2011, in "filler" scenes which were substituted for scenes cut from the controversial baby swap storyline, in which Ronnie Branning (Samantha Womack)'s son James, dies of sudden infant death syndrome and she secretly swaps him with Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace)'s son, Tommy.
The Raleigh Twenty is the bicycle ridden by the main protagonist, "Poppy" during the title sequence of the 2008 film "Happy-Go-Lucky".
The biometrician Karl Pearson used the Shirley poppy to study his ideas of homotyposis, which he defined as “the quantitative degree of resemblance to be found on the average between the like parts of organisms”.
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The rancorous debate between genetics and biometrics, in which the Shirley poppy became embroiled, was only resolved through the work of Ronald Fisher who showed that the two schools of thought were actually compatible.
In 2001 Topping caused controversy when he designed a black poppy to 'highlight the problems of world poverty'.
Jardine (Sam Hardy), a plantation owner, is determined to have Poppy, and when she wants to escape from the Oriental underworld, he offers to help, provided she accompanies him to Penang.
Their final album, A Plus de Cent (1996) - which features the French language version of their last single, "Harley Davidson" - was released by Tall Poppy Records.
The RBLR has had some celebrity support with Hayley Westenra, Simon Weston who have both received the Branches' Poppy Appeal cheque.
In the midst of Fashion Week, a furious Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) plans on sabotaging Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) after Serena claims her Queen Bee status and rejecting her for New York socialite Poppy Lifton (Tamara Feldman), during her mother's fashion show.
Owen Teale appeared in the role as Edmund Platt, Poppy's not so endearing boyfriend.
Gleeson currently resides in Romsey, Victoria with his wife Ellie Parker and his dog Poppy Parker.