Word: camellia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mackenzie succeeded in preserving much of the boundless flora that is in full bloom during the week of the Masters. The stands of dogwood, camellia and magnolia planted by Prosper Berkmans still line the fifth, tenth, and 11th fairways...
...lines, there is no longer reason to live. Or to drink tea. The fortunes frequently inspired new hope in a darkening world. Bring back those travesties of the English language, those tiny ambassadors of the American ethos. We need them. Celeste Seasoning, '77 Red Zinger, '77 Earl Grey, '01 Camellia Sinensis, '76 Constance Comment...
Jesuit achievements were as often secular as spiritual. French Jesuit Jacques Marquette paddled down the Mississippi in the first European expedition to explore that river. Brother Jiri Kamel, a Moravian botanist at the Jesuits' College of Manila in the 17th century, gave Europe the camellia. A German mathematician and astronomer of the Society of Jesus, Christoph Klau, contributed to the Gregorian calendar and gave his Latinized name, Clavius, to a lunar crater that he discovered...