sandbur
sandbur or bur grass, any species of the genus Cenchrus of the family Gramineae ( grass family), sandy-soil plants of tropical and temperate regions. At maturity the sharp spines and burlike seeds make the plant a troublesome weed, especially to sheepgrowers. The name sandbur is sometimes used for the buffalo bur and the horse nettle of the family Solanaceae ( nightshade family). The family Gramineae is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Liliopsida, order Cyperales. The Solanaceae is in the class Magnoliopsida, order Polemoniales.
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Profile: French rock 'n' roll band Les Sans Culottes
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 4/2/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...French rock 'n' roll band Les Sans Culottes Host: SCOTT SIMON Time: 1:00...This is a song written for Les Sans Culottes by Mr. Jean Custone(ph). It...daytime. And the time is now. LES SANS CULOTTES: (Singing in French...
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Popular politics and the sans-culottes.(French Revolution)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...individuals, called sans-culottes ("without breeches...life and added five "sans-culotte holidays" to celebrate...the influence of the sans-culottes quickly waned, although...death of Louis XVI. A sans-culotte waves a banner labeled...
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FRENCH CONNECTION THE IRREPRESSIBLY SILLY LES SANS CULOTTES ARE GOOD FRIENDS OF FAUX.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/11/2002; 700+ words
; ...smile to your lips -- go see Les Sans Culottes on Friday night at Club Helsinki...wrong? Oh no, mon cherie. Les Sans Culottes -- whose name is derived...s irresistible. So who are Les Sans Culottes? The seven-member party...
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`Un Sans Culotte': The Bulletin's Early Theatre Criticism and the Masculine Bohemian Masquerade.
Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...authorial personae developed in the Bulletin's theatrical journalism: a collective identity masquerading under the name `Sans Culotte'. Used with due care, the study of the Bulletin's dealings with theatre during this period may provide a more contextualised...
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LES SANS CULOTTES FIXATION ORALE AERONAUT RECORDS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/21/2004; ; 402 words
; In Les Sans Culottes, Francophiles have found their B-52's. Not since singer France...turns out, enlightens much of the material on "Fixation Orale." Les Sans Culottes even covers her Eurovision hit, "Poupee de Cire." Band members...
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SANS CULOTTES.(Shelton Brothers Import Co. imports French beer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Magazine article from: Modern Brewery Age; 7/30/2001; 602 words
; ...is from La Choulette, a French farmhouse brewery originally founded in 1885. The brand name pays tributes to the Sans Culottes, the "trouserless" peasants who fought in the French Revolution. The brand contains 7% alcohol by volume, and...
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War-cry for the days of sans culottes' militancy on the barricades
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 9/14/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...production Britain, with the public on the Aztec sacrificial slab. It evokes the days when the des-camisados and the sans culottes of trade union militancy manned barricades, when the noise of battle rolled at Grunwick, the photographic processing...
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BUSINESS VIEW: Why Britain may say thanks a lot to the Sans-Culottes
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 4/11/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...capitalism." You can say what you want about the implications of the ousting of the Chunnel group's board by the French Sans-Culottes, (and we do on page 7). But like Balaclava, or indeed the French revolution, this fight was lost well before...
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CHEVY SANS CULOTTE.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable; 10/23/2000; 460 words
; Maybe some women attended the National Breast Cancer Coalition's benefit auction Last week to see Lifetime President Carole Black get the organization's Leadership award. Or maybe just to get close to co-chairs Julianne Moore and Susan Sarandon. But in the end, they left talking about Chevy Chase,
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Books: A don among the sans-culottes John Weightman examines a life-long Francophile's last thoughts of abroad
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/25/1997; ; 700+ words
; The End of the Line: A Memoir by Richard Cobb John Murray, pounds 20, 229 pp SOME YEARS ago, when the late Richard Cobb, Professor of Modern History at Oxford and an authority on France, chaired the Booker Prize committee, he created a mild furore by adopting an anti-highbrow stance and saying, in
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sans-culottes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sans-culottes [French,=without knee...fall of Hébert , sans-culotte power was neutralized. The...s were a distinct group of sans-culottes. Bibliography: See A. Soboul, The Sans-cullotes (1981).
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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...support of the lower middle and working classes (the sans-culottes ) and a firm place later in the 19th century in the...faction, aided by the intervention of the Parisian sans-culottes, with the expulsion from the Convention and arrest...
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Jacques René Hébert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Twelve Who Ruled: The Committee of Public Safety during the Terror (1941); and Albert Soboul, The Parisian Sans-Culottes and the French Revolution, 1793-4 (1964). Additional Sources Slavin, Morris, The Hébertistes to...
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sans-culottides
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sans-culottides , the last five days of the year in the French Revolutionary calendar , thus named in honor of the sans-culottes .
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Yacine, Kateb
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Guerre de 2,000 ans (1975), it is in Arab dialect. In 1988 the Avignon Festival staged his last work, Le Bourgeois sans culotte; ou, Le Spectre du parc Monceau , about Robespierre.
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