• The Yew Tree Ball (French: Le bal des ifs) was a masked ball held in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on the night of 25–26 February 1745. 1,500 people...
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    who was appropriately dressed. It was at The Yew Tree Ball at Versailles in 1745 (a public ball celebrating the royal wedding of Madame de Pompadour's son)...
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    María Teresa Rafaela of Spain (category Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis)
    February the Yew Tree Ball was held in honor of the newlyweds. The event also marked the arrival of Madame de Pompadour at Versailles. The ball was attended...
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    this room. The most celebrated event of the 18th century on 25 February 1745 was the celebrated Yew Tree Ball. It was during this costume ball that Louis...
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    Topiary (category Trees)
    and Eve in yew; Adam a little shattered by the fall of the tree of knowledge in the great storm; Eve and the serpent very flourishing. The tower of Babel...
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    nutmeg (Chinese: 榧榧) and its yew-like foliage.T. grandis is a precious tree species with multiple values. According to the survey data, its economic life...
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    Elizabeth II A Yew clipped at Yew Tree Avenue, Clipsham, Rutland to commemorate the Ruby Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 1992 For much of 2002, the Tower Bridge...
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  • and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of France. See also the list of Frankish kings, French monarchs,...
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    replanted. Another tree moved by Barron's "ponderous" machine was the 800-year old Buckland Yew, which was moved fifty-six feet across the churchyard of St...
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    and St. John's wort. Ball's Falls is made up of hardwoods mixed with coniferous trees, lying within the deciduous forest zone. Tree species include Eastern...
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    Killarney National Park (category Biosphere reserves of the Republic of Ireland)
    a huge yew tree surrounded by a vaulted cloister. It is traditionally said that this tree is as old as Muckross Abbey itself. The abbey was the burial...
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    Maze (section The Shining)
    1,209 yews. Cliveden House Originally laid out in 1894, the maze was restored and re-opened to the public in 2011, consisting of 1100 Yew trees. Crystal...
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    Elm (redirect from Elm tree)
    semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the family Ulmaceae. They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate...
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    Podocarpus latifolius (category Trees of Africa)
    evergreen tree up to 35 m high and 3 m trunk diameter, in the conifer family Podocarpaceae; it is the type species of the genus Podocarpus. The real yellowwood...
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  • tea at the tea rooms and enjoying the donkey rides. A few of the large old houses still remain such as Yew Place, Farnham Park House and the home of...
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    Bonsai (redirect from Bonsai tree)
    height of the tree. The branches and leaves form a ball-shaped crown. Windswept (吹き流し, fukinagashi) is a style describing a tree that appears to be affected...
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    Yew". The Wood Database. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023. "English Oak". The Wood Database. Archived from the original...
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    been credited with introducing the Christmas tree to Britain and its colonies. Initially, Charlotte decorated a single yew branch, a common Christmas tradition...
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  • deficient (DD): 5,371 species The following is a list of widely known trees and shrubs. Taxonomic families for the following trees and shrubs are listed in...
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  • a 'pasture by the yew trees' (from ig 'yew' + denn 'pasture'). Hence the village's name means 'a pasture of green by the yew trees'. The village of Iden...
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  • Common Brittonic (category History of the Welsh language)
    Breton evor 'alder buckthorn', Scottish Gaelic iubhar 'yew', iùbhrach 'stand/grove of yew trees'; cognate with Évreux in France, Évora in Portugal and...
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    Saint Anne's Park (category Folly buildings in the Republic of Ireland)
    house and a yew circle and pool, while lost features include a yew walk and nymphaeum, and a basalt "druidic circle". No details of what the latter consisted...
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    words for trees and cutting that sound similar enough to suppose that they could have been used in an original. The Anchor Bible uses "yew" and "hew"...
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  • End (Coventry), Wood End (Wolverhampton), Woodgate, Wordsley, Wren's Nest, Wyken, Wylde Green Yardley, Yardley Wood, Yew Tree List of places in England...
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    box, yew, crab or holly tree and should be boiled in tallow for make it slippery and hard to hold. This ball is called cnapan and is by one of the company...
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  • places the baby with a couple there, but later reclaims her daughter after arranging for a family on the Downton estate (Mr and Mrs Drewe of Yew Tree Farm)...
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    while the abbey ruins are a scheduled monument. A yew tree (Taxus baccata), which is nearly 500 years old, grows on the ruins of the walls on the southeast...
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    Clove (redirect from Clove Tree)
    Cloves are the aromatic flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum (/sɪˈzɪdʒiːəm ˌærəˈmætɪkəm/). They are native to the Maluku Islands...
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    Willow (redirect from Willow tree)
    called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily...
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    Lugh (redirect from Lugh of the Long Hand)
    the Lúin of Celtchar. This spear is also called "Slaughterer" in translation. There is yet another name that Lugh's spear goes by: "A [yew] tree, the...
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