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unusual facts about primrose


Primrose, Rhode Island

The geography of Primrose was drastically changed by the Wisconsin glaciation between 70,000 and 10,000 years ago.


Assia Wevill

In 1961, poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath rented their flat in Chalcot Square, Primrose Hill, London to Assia and David Wevill, and took up residence at North Tawton, Devon.

Asterix and the Falling Sky

Centurion Polyanthus - Polyanthus are a cultivated variety of primrose, with several flowers on one stalk, bred in vivid colors.

Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race

The player takes on the role of Barbie and races horses through various tracks of the Primrose Hill Charity Cup.

Battle of Bakenlaagte

The 73 dead Commonwealth troops were buried on Gun Hill but later reinterred in Primrose Cemetery, Corner of Cemetery road and Beaconsfield road, Germiston in the 1960s.

Bodkin Hazel Wood

In addition to common species such as Dog's mercury (Mercurialis perennis), Primrose (Primula vulgaris), Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa), Wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) and Ramsons (Allium ursinum), a number of scarce species are present.

Cape Chignecto Provincial Park

The park's high southern cliffs support species of vetch and primrose with Alpine characteristics which are unique in Nova Scotia.

Chalk Farm

Home to a number of writers, artists and actors, Chalk Farm and Primrose Hill are popular places to celebrity spot where Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller are all part of the area's famous set.

Charles Debrille Poston

His remains were buried on Primrose Hill, renamed Poston Butte where he had never completed his “Temple to the Sun”.

Clan Primrose

The seat of the Chief of Clan Primrose is still at Dalmeny House in Dalmeny on the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

Henry Primrose's grandson was Gilbert who was one of the Ministers of the reformed church at Bordeaux,and afterwards of the French church in London.

Ernst Wallfisch

Lory Wallfisch donated her husband's collection of viola music, approximately 300 items, to the Primrose International Viola Archive at Brigham Young University.

Fiddler's Elbow National Nature Reserve

Spring-flowering plants that occur on the site include the bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), common primrose (Primula vulgaris), lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria), ramsons (Allium ursinum) and wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa).

Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Journey

Martin, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Aegolius acadicus, rescued and bought to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree the same night Primrose came.

Guilford, Missouri

His hits included "Primrose Lane", "Shutters And Boards", "In The Misty Moonlight", and If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry.

Hobbs Quarry SSSI, Longhope

The upper edges of the reserve were not quarried and the area supports ancient woodland flowers such as Wood Anemone, Wood Sorrel, Primrose, Sweet Woodruff, Greater Butterfly-orchid, Herb Paris and Bluebell.

Japanese primrose

Japanese primrose may refer to two species of plant within the family Primulaceae:-

John George Alleman

During his years there he served missions in Sugar Creek (now known as St. Paul), West Point, Montrose, Burlington, Iowa City, St. Vincent’s Church in a rural area west of Riverside, Keokuk, Augusta, Dodgeville, Bakers' Point, Farmington, Primrose, Franklin, all in Iowa, and Nauvoo, Illinois.

L. palustris

Ludwigia palustris, a flowering plant species in the evening primrose family known by the common names marsh seedbox and water purslane.

Metrostop Entertainment

Metrostop Entertainment optioned a number of properties in a short space of time, including properties created by Bob Layton, David Michelinie and Dick Giordano of Future Comics, Helen Falconer's 1999 novel Primrose Hill and the THQ PlayStation 2 videogame franchise Red Faction 2.

MV Primrose

The Primrose was launched by Belliard Hoboken as the Princesse Marie Christine in 1975 for Regie voor Maritiem Transport Belgie on their Ostend to Dover route.

O. californica

Oenothera californica, the California evening primrose, a flowering plant species native to parts of the southwestern United States and Baja California

O. pubescens

Oenothera pubescens, the South American evening-primrose, a plant species native to the Southwestern United States

Philip Bragg

The English records of this period contain no reference to Bragg, but in a set of Irish military entry-books, commencing in 1713, which are preserved in the Four Courts, Dublin, his name appears as captain in Primrose's regiment, lately returned from Holland to Ireland; his commission is here dated 1 June 1715, on which day new commissions were issued to all officers in the regiment in consequence of the accession of George I.

Primrose Adams

Primrose Adams (b. 1926 in Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands) is a Canadian First Nations artist from the Haida nation.

Primrose and West

George Thatcher, one of the troupe members who became a partner of Thatcher, Primrose & West (and later had his own troupe), explained later that "We were looking for novelty, and for a change tried white minstrelsy."

Primrose baronets

He was a senior partner in the firm of William Primrose and Sons, flour millers, of Glasgow, and served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1903 to 1905.

Primrose Hill Productions

Primrose Hill Productions is a production company founded by the British screenwriter Bruno Heller in 2008.

Primula vulgaris

"Primrose" is ultimately from Old French primerose or medieval Latin prima rosa, meaning "first rose", though it is not closely related to the rose family Rosaceae.

Rosebery, New South Wales

Rosebery was named after Archibald Phillip Primrose, the fifth Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1894–95.

St. James Infirmary Blues

"St. James Infirmary Blues" is an American folksong of anonymous origin, though sometimes credited to the songwriter Joe Primrose (a pseudonym for Irving Mills).

Tiffany Butcher

A mischievous child, Tiffany causes havoc by stealing a top from Stacey Slater's (Lacey Turner) stall for Whitney to wear for a family party and defacing the pavement outside Zainab Masood's (Nina Wadia) house before ruining her primroses by pouring soapy water over them.

Victor and Barry

Victor Ignatius MacIlvaney and Barry Primrose McLeish were the creations of Forbes Masson and Alan Cumming.

Włatcy móch

In the 105 episode's title, the word "pierwiosnek" can be read as primrose, but it's also a pun from word "pierwiastek" - element.


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