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Paradise Lost
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Grains of paradise
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The Earthly Paradise
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bird-of-paradise flower
bird-of-paradise flower large tropical herb ( Strelitzia reginae ) of the family Musaceae ( banana family), native to S Africa. Its large blue and orange blossom resembles an exotic bird; it is cultivated as an ornamental in warmer regions and as a greenhouse plant, and is sold as a florists' cut... Read more |
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Richard Walton Tully
Tully, Richard Walton (1877–1945), playwright. He was born in Nevada City, California, and educated at the University of California. His first work, The Strenuous Life, was mounted briefly in Los Angeles by Oliver Morosco but never brought East. However, the men later collaborated again to... Read more |
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Paradise
Paradise uninc. town (1990 pop. 25,406), Butte co., N central Calif., in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range. It is mainly residential with a growing population. Cattle are raised and fruits, olives, nuts, wheat, and nursery stock are grown. Gold was discovered nearby in 1859.... Read more |
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peri
peri , in Persian mythology, supernatural being. Peris were said to be fallen angels who were denied paradise until they did penance. Originally agents of evil, in later mythology they were identified as benevolent spirits.... Read more |
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Valhalla
Valhalla or Walhalla , in Norse mythology, Odin's hall for slain heroes. This martial paradise was one of the most beautiful halls of Asgard . The dead warriors, brought to Valhalla by the Valkyries, fought during the day and feasted at night.... Read more |
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Uriel
Uriel . 1, 2 Two descendants of Kohath. 3 Man whose daughter became mother of King Abijah of Judah. The name appears in the pseudepigrapha for an archangel. He is introduced in Milton's Paradise Lost as the angel of the sun. ... Read more |
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bird of paradise
bird of paradise common name for any of 43 species of medium- to crow-sized passerine birds of New Guinea and the adjacent islands, known for the bright plumage, elongated tail feathers called wires, and brilliant ruffs of the males. Their common name is derived from 16th-century Spanish explorers,... Read more |
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Surfers, fishermen rise with the sun in Pacific paradise.(Travel)
...all still there - from California's surf culture to...drive along the scenic Pacific Coast Highway brings...famous surfers. The Pacific was cranking up roaring...in morning gold said California with a capital C. Meeting...Diego, splurge at the Paradise Point Resort and Spa... |
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SOUTH PACIFIC PARADISE SCHOLAR FINDS SOCIETY WHERE MEN, WOMEN EQUAL.(LIFE &...
...have been attracted to South Pacific islands for more than the...student at the University of California at Berkeley and has elaborated...scale groups in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, that...the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who has studied... |
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PACIFIC PARK PARADISE.(Unwind)
Besides being an unlikely California winter getaway, Point Reyes...by our driver, a Southern California native, that being as this...there, I harrumphed at the California definition of cold and wet...ever-present wind off the Pacific had not kicked up, and we... |
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Pacific islands were hardly paradise
...common beliefs, the Pacific islands before their...of the University of California, Berkeley's Phoebe...ever set sail in the Pacific, human settlement and...thought he had arrived in paradise. Bougainville's description...however, that the Pacific island peoples were... |
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Yankees in Paradise: The Pacific Basin Frontier.
...read Yankees in Paradise: The Pacific Basin Frontier...entities ... in the Pacific basin resulted...statehood for Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon...to America as a Pacific nation. Across...may no longer be paradise, or even the fantasy... |
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Another sale in paradise: Pacific Perfumes directors Francesca Brice and Kate...
...are currently the three key Pacific markets. Kate says their clients...professional." Summing up all Pacific markets, Francesca says it...building relationships. "The Pacific market benefits from that personal...West Coast, predominately California, and a d |
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SHOPPERS' PARADISE PACIFIC PLACE LOOKING UP: UP-UPSCALE, THAT IS.(Special...
When Pacific Place shopping center opens...square-foot, five-story Pacific Place is scheduled to provide...Bay, serving contemporary California cuisine; and Gordon Biersch...of the past three years of Pacific Place's slow birth. First... |
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Fruit flies flee paradise.(Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center)
...wild fruit, thanks to work being done at ARS's U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center (PBARC) in Hilo, Hawaii...the Mediterranean fruit fly were to become established in California, the potential direct and indirect losses could amount to... |
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Paradise By The Pacific
...Francisco.But perhaps no California city has been more transformed...every day --and spectacular Pacific beaches that stretch out along...terrific to take in a spectacular Pacific sunset.Few waterfront areas...cliffside views of theturquoise Pacific. Its sophisticated yet arty... |
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PARADISE BY THE PACIFIC IN POINT REYES, ROMANCE BLOOMS AMONG THE WILDFLOWERS
...woman said as I bent to photograph a California poppy. "Is it that good?" I asked...were never like this. In early April, California poppies shocked the eye with electric...drew us to sheer cliffs battered by the Pacific. Then the fog attacked, thick and solid... |
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