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    Memorial Day (category Holidays and observances by scheduling (nth weekday of the month))
    be handed down through time as a religious custom of the country, to wreathe the graves of our martyred dead with flowers. . . Let the soldiers’ graves...
    65 KB (6,276 words) - 02:51, 7 June 2024
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    Rosalia (festival) (category Flower festivals in Europe)
    describes a groom as wearing a wreath of roses, violets, and lilies. When the emperor made a formal arrival (adventus) at a city, garlands of flowers might...
    108 KB (14,763 words) - 22:09, 6 August 2023
  • Lucy on her birthday." THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS In Eastern lands they talk in flow'rs And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that...
    3 KB (364 words) - 08:26, 19 April 2022
  • of the marriage of Udayana and Padmavati has been made known. The maid asks Vasavadatta to make the wedding garland to which she agrees. She wreathes...
    10 KB (1,299 words) - 16:42, 3 April 2024
  • either side a Unicorn Argent gorged with a Garland of various Flowers Proper, the Horn wreathed Or and Gules. Corporation Guild "City Corporation of London...
    8 KB (863 words) - 20:23, 14 October 2023
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    Daphne (category Women of Apollo)
    my locks, my quiver you shall wreathe." Upon hearing his words, Daphne bends her branches, unable to stop it. A version of the attempt on Daphne's sworn...
    23 KB (2,284 words) - 21:06, 29 April 2024
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    Hilaria (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRG with Wikisource reference)
    against the cold. The branches would be decked in wreathes of violets, as "the Mother adorned with early flowers the pine which indicates and bears witness to...
    9 KB (1,193 words) - 10:37, 8 April 2024
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    decorated with tendrils, vases, flowers, animals, sphinxes, phantastic creatures and garlands on a yellow background, resting on a fake marble pedestal. These...
    16 KB (2,286 words) - 00:54, 6 May 2024
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    Elaeocarpus angustifolius (category Flora of tropical Asia)
    especially wreathed hornbills can be found feeding upon them. Fruit bats also do so. E. angustifolius was found to be one among a few dozen species of relatively...
    49 KB (5,679 words) - 23:59, 29 February 2024
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    Kattrump Tollgate). It is a pastorale, starting with a near-paraphrase of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's French guide to the construction of pastoral verse. That...
    12 KB (1,387 words) - 23:31, 3 June 2022
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    Dionysus (redirect from God of Wine)
    knowledge that her son would be divine. She dressed herself in garlands of flowers and wreathes of ivy, and would run barefoot to the meadows and forests to...
    212 KB (24,605 words) - 09:12, 4 June 2024
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    genus, a grouping of related species. These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for...
    124 KB (1,276 words) - 18:11, 12 March 2024
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    Kamerbeek, The Plays of Sophocles, Commentaries: The Oedipus Colonus (Brill, 1984), vol. 7, p. 106, noting that garlands of flowers were expressly forbidden...
    126 KB (17,183 words) - 16:51, 20 May 2024
  • is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the last of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature. It is a collection of 400...
    43 KB (4,008 words) - 16:50, 5 June 2024
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    Pandora (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    hand – both attributes of Eve. Her left arm is wreathed by a snake (another reference to the temptation of Eve) and that hand rests on an unstopped jar...
    48 KB (6,242 words) - 07:27, 12 May 2024
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    of Julius Caesar. When Mars is pictured as a peace-bringer, his spear is wreathed with laurel or other vegetation, as on the Ara Pacis or a coin of Aemilianus...
    82 KB (10,574 words) - 03:38, 5 June 2024
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    outermost fields of the dado contain dense perennial plants with yellow flowers. A lioness stands in the center field with garlands and a gold shield above...
    74 KB (9,508 words) - 09:09, 30 April 2024
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    Sixpence (British coin) (category Pre-decimalisation coins of the United Kingdom)
    a wreathed shield featuring St George's Cross, surrounded by the inscription THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND. The reverse features the combined arms of England...
    32 KB (3,349 words) - 16:47, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Armorial of schools in England
    This is a list of the official historical coats of arms or 'full heraldic achievements' of English primary and secondary education schools, grouped by...
    120 KB (1,728 words) - 08:05, 4 June 2024
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    chambers of the Speaker of the Senate of Canada. Canada portal Heraldry portal List of governors general of Canada Canadian heraldry Arms of Canada Roll of arms...
    44 KB (1,166 words) - 06:26, 15 September 2023
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