Venus flytrap
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Ve·nus fly·trap
(also Venus's flytrap)
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n.
a small carnivorous bog plant (Dionaea muscipula, family Droseraceae) with hinged leaves that spring shut on and digest insects that land on them. Native to the southeastern US, it is also kept as an indoor plant.
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Clement V
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Clement V. Sophia Menache. [Cambridge Studies...Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xiv, 351. $69.95.) Clement V (1305--1314). formerly Bertrand...unravel. While the translation of Clement`s letter summoning the archbishop...
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Clement V.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Clement V, by Sophia Menache. Cambridge, University Press, 1998. xiv, 351 pp. $69.95. Sophia...been conducted on the career of Clement V, uncertainty and ambiguity...the papacy on 5 June 1305 as Clement V, and occupied that position...
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MAKING CHRISTIANS: CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE RHETORIC OF LEGITIMACY.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; MAKING CHRISTIANS: CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE RHETORIC...Princeton University, 1999. Pp. xiv + 221. $39.50. Buell explores the ways in which Clement of Alexandria used metaphors...present. As an assessment of Clement's theology, however, the...
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Arthurian Literature.(issue XIV)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Arthurian Literature, XIV. Ed. by JAMES P. CARLEY and FELICITY RIDDY. Cambridge: Brewer...of the text here, but (in so far as I understand it) the author Clement Prinsault tells us that heraldic lions have one eye and one ear while...
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Un Formulari i un registre del bisbe de València En Jaume d'Aragó (segle XIV)
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...i un registre del bisbe de Valncia En Jaume d'Arag (segle XIV). By M. Milagros Crcel Ort. [Fonts histriques valencianes...bishop of Tortosa (in 1362-1369). He was named cardinal by Clement VII, one of the competing popes during the Great Schism, but...
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Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Basilica and personal secretary to Pope Benedict XIV. Benedict's successor, Clement XIII, appointed Braschi to the post of general treasurer...reformer's zeal, in 1773 the next pope, Clement XIV, made Braschi a cardinal, but then relegated him...
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Politics and Theater: the Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Culture. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000. xiv, 394 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). The political...suspicions leading to the first suppression of the Society by Clement XIV in 1773. Conversely French liberals saw the re-establishment...
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Playing the papal name game.(COMMENTARY)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 4/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...there were so many named Pius (pious), Innocent and Clement. When a pope came from a religious order, he often...of fellow Franciscans who became pope (for example, Clement XIV [1769-74]) to choose from. None from the aristocratic...
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Food: Dark pleasures For all its associations with Easter, chocolate is more sensual than spiritual. In fact, says Michael Bateman, history reveals it to be deliciously sinful
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...cyanide. The most famous victim of such poisoning was Pope Clement XIV in 1774, who (and some may see this as poetic justice...suppressed the chocolate-loving Jesuits the year before. Clement complained about the bitter taste but went on drinking...
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Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy.
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric...Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv + 221 pp. $39.50 cloth...crafted Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric...kinship metaphors in the works of Clement of Alexandria. Through the...
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Clement XIV
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Clement XIV 1705-74, pope (1769-74), an Italian...named Lorenzo Ganganelli; successor of Clement XIII. He was prominent for many years...hostility of every state of Catholic Europe. Clement XIV's part in the suppression of the Jesuits...
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Clement XIV, Pope
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Clement XIV, Pope. See Vatican Museums .
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Benedict XIV
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Benedict XIV Pope Benedict XIV (1675-1758) was one...the future Pope Benedict XIV was the son of a senator...been established by Pope Clement VIII to educate young...Humanist Pope Benedict XIV. In 1731 Pope Clement XII named Benedict archbishop...
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Clement of Alexandria.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Clement of Alexandria. See after Pope CLEMENT XIV .
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Benedict XIV (Pope) (1675–1758; Reigned 1740–1758)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
BENEDICT XIV (POPE) (1675 –...x2013; 1758) BENEDICT XIV (POPE) (1675 –...between 1747 and 1751. When Clement XII died on 6 February 1740...on 17 August 1740. Benedict XIV pursued policies of conciliation...
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