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Tumultuous tulips
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Behind a disguise of vibrant-colored petals, the tulip has a
checkered past that is all but forgotten today.
Other bulbs, such as daffodils, have been immortalized in
legends, while roses have reigned over the Victorian language of
flowers. But tulips have made men into millionaries and then turned
them to paupers just as quickly.
The fascinating tale of the tulip is told in Anna Pavord's The
Tulip, the Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad (1999, $35,
Bloomsbury Publishing, New York).
Pavord chronicles tulips, past and present, in over 400 pages of
intriguing text illustrated with ...
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Planets Seen Orbiting Distant Stars
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; ...away. Both of the new planets are slightly smaller...is the second largest planet in the solar system after...discovered extrasolar planets, including 20 others...life flourished on our planet.'' Planets in an eccentric orbits...
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Planets in all the wrong places.(WEB)
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; ...best theories of planet formation. It made sense that all the planets close to the sun...influence of giant planets orbiting around them. The larger the planet, and the closer...several years of planet-hunting and close to 200 extrasolar planets found, it's time...
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Planet Hunters Find Large Planet
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; ...newly discovered planet is one of three planets circling a star...will find many such planets over the next decade. Since a planet must make one whole...On the Net: Planet search: http://exoplanets.org New planets: http://www...
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Planet Payment, Inc. Announces Executive Changes.
PR Newswire
; ...Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Planet Payment (LSE: AIM: PPT and PPTR; OTCQX...Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Planet Payment and will oversee the Company...growth." "This is an exciting time for Planet Payment," said Cox. "Its continuing...
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Planet Green Heads Into 2010 With New Series and Stories About Passionate People Creating Positive Change.
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Planet Calypso and Florida State University Researchers Team up to Study Virtual Buying Habits.
PR Newswire
; ...Sweden, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- First Planet Company, developer and publisher of the...experience can affect a brand. First Planet Company and business scholars at The Florida...upcoming Miss Calypso beauty pageant on Planet Calypso seeks to understand how the mental...
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Planet Technologies Announces Agreement to Acquire Antigen Laboratories.
PR Newswire
; ...Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Planet Technologies, Inc. , a specialty pharmaceutical...entered into a definitive agreement under which Planet will acquire Antigen. Under the agreement, Planet will acquire all of the outstanding equity...
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Planet hunter: he has found 65 new worlds circling stars far away.
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children
; ...family" of three planets. In June 2002 they...a Jupiter-like planet orbiting star number...scientists began spotting planets farther out. The planet orbiting 55 Cancri...the Jupiter-like planet and two other planets that lie close to...
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Missing planets attest to destructive power of stars' tides.(Report)
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