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KAPOK CONNECTION: STUDY EXPLAINS RAINFOREST SIMILARITIES
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The National Science Foundation issued the following press release:
Celebrated in Buddhist temples and cultivated for its wood and cottony fibers, the kapok tree now is upsetting an idea that biologists have clung to for decades: the notion that African and South American rainforests are similar because the continents were connected 96 million years ago.
Research by University of Michigan evolutionary ecologist Christopher Dick and colleagues shows that kapok-and perhaps other rainforest-trees colonized Africa after the continents split when the trees' seeds traveled across the ocean.
The ...
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Obituary: Meriel Forbes
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...known as the wife of Sir Ralph Richardson, who...hairdresser's. Born Meriel Forbes-Robertson in 1913 in Fulham...family. Her father Frank Forbes-Robertson ran an acting troupe, and her great-uncle Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson had...
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JOANNA'S FAMILY DRAMAS
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ...that Joanna's grandfather, Aberdeen-born Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, was the first of the theatrical dynasty she...explains. "My mother was an actress called Jean Forbes-Robertson, and a lot of her uncles were in the same business...
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City STORIES Remembering the golden years of glorious Alhambra Series: Milwaukee 150 \ 1846-1996
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...international star made his way there as well. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was a British actor who became a sensation on...indeed, George Bernard Shaw himself called Forbes-Robertson the greatest "Hamlet" that ever was. His appearance...
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Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918
Magazine article from: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
; ...performers to fill the most important roles. Thus, a number of 'footlight favourites' - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, F. R. Benson, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and H. B. Irving among them - doubled as the first generation of British cinema...
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Are you Dressed to Kilt?
Newspaper article from: PR Newswire Europe
; ...s event include Sir Sean and Lady Connery...soccer legend Mo Johnston; and celebutantes...Patricia Duff, Moira Forbes, Cristina Greeven...Denise Rich, Belinda Robertson, Susan Shin, and...International, Castle Forbes Collection, University...Atelier, Belinda Robertson, Thistle &...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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THE SCOTS GONG SHOW; List of all the tartan honours.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...East Lothian) James Alexander Forbes. Lately chief executive...Giffnock, Renfrewshire) Sir John Lister-Kaye, Bt. President...Scotland. (Saltcoats) John Robertson. Lately area director North...Ross and Cromarty) David Johnston Stobie. Lately chairman...
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