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  Holly
Holly can range from under one foot to over 80, and is found in both temperate and tropical regions.
Ilex asprella - a deciduous holly native to Taiwan.
Ilex cassine: Dahoon holly - A low, shrubby tree with rough grey bark and silky shoots, the Dahoon holly is native to swampy land in the American south.
www.bonsai-bci.com /species/holly.html   (1005 words)

  
 Holly
The Holly King is often depicted as an old man dressed in winter clothing wearing a wreath of Holly on his head and walking with the aid of a staff made from a Holly branch.
Holly leaves were formerly used as a diaphoretic and an infusion of them was given in catarrh, bronchitis, pneumonia, influenza, pleurisy and smallpox.
In today’s rituals, Holly is used for magick associated with the element of fire and Holly incense is used to consecrate the magickal knife (athame).
www.controverscial.com /Holly.htm   (3237 words)

  
 Holly Connects: Home
Holly Connects is a leading vendor of software Voice Platforms to the world's most demanding customers: Telecommunications Carriers, Hosting Service Providers and Large Enterprise.
Holly has deployed thousands of ports and hundreds of applications across 5 continents.
The Holly Voice Platform is an innovative, flexible, reliable standards-based system for delivering for naturally automated calls.
www.holly-connects.com   (121 words)

  
  Holly Cole Online Store
Produced by Holly Cole, "Shade" is based on jazz standards with a loose summer theme.
Holly Cole co-produced this package of Christmas goodies with pianist/arranger Aaron Davis, featuring an orchestra and a duet with Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson.
This is Holly's finest example of her blend of jazz, pop, and...
www.hollycole.com /Store/shop.php3   (556 words)

  
  WildWNC.org : Trees : American Holly   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hollies are dioecious; male (staminate) and female (pistillate) flowers, similar in appearance, with four to six small white petals, are produced on separate plants on the current season's growth.
The "national champion" American holly, in the Congaree Swamp of South Carolina, is 30.2 m (99 ft) tall, with a circumference of 248 cm (98 in), a trunk diameter of 79 cm (31 in), and a crown diameter of 12.2 m (40 ft) (2).
Hollies 30 to 90 cm (24 to 36 in) in diameter measured near the ground are common in the Mississippi River Delta (24).
wildwnc.org /trees/Ilex_opaca.html   (2940 words)

  
  Buddy Holly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas to Lawrence Odell Holley and Ella Pauline Drake.
Holly's music was sophisticated for its day, including the use of instruments considered novel for rock and roll, such as the celesta (heard on "Everyday").
Holly also managed to bridge some of the racial divide that marked rock, notably winning over an all-fl audience when accidentally booked at New York's Apollo Theater (though, unlike the fictional movie biography, it took several performances for audiences to be convinced of his talents).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddy_Holly   (2266 words)

  
 Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin (Buddy) Holly was born September 7, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas the fourth of four children born to Lawrence and Ella Holly.
In his youth, Holly had little direct contact with fls or their music, but like so many other young musicians, he was attracted to the rhythm and blues heard on distant radio stations.
The disc did not succeed partially because Holly and the Decca-selected backup group could not create the tightness inherent in the union of Holly's voice, his guitar and his own group of musicians.
www.history-of-rock.com /buddy_holly.htm   (1288 words)

  
 botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Holly - Herb Profile and Information
Pliny tells us that Holly if planted near a house or farm, repelled poison, and defended it from lightning and witchcraft, that the flowers cause water to freeze, and that the wood, if thrown at any animal, even without touching it, had the property of compelling the animal to return and lie down by it.
A vigorous shoot of Holly may have small leaves without spines at the base, when vigour was beginning; normal, large leaves in the middle when growth was most active; and later on small spineless leaves again appear as the annual energy is declining.
Holly is raised from seeds, which do not germinate until the second year, hence the berries are generally buried in a heap of earth for a year previously to being sown.
www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/h/holly-28.html   (2035 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Holly Valance
Holly is a classic triple threat; not only is she a radio sensation, but she can also shine on the small screen and work the runway to perfection.
Holly Valance may be burning up the charts in the UK, but those of us across the Atlantic have yet to feel the heat.
Holly Valance was born in New Zealand on May 11, 1983, and moved to Brighton, Australia when she was still a youngster.
www.askmen.com /women/singer_100/148_holly_valance.html   (410 words)

  
 RAB Hall of Fame: Buddy Holly
The audience at a UK Buddy Holly and The Crickets show included a young John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who would later sight them as a major influence, including the name The Beatles which was inspired from The Crickets.
Rock 'n' roll pioneer Buddy Holly would be 65 on Friday, had he not perished on "the day the music died." Holly's career was cut short, along with those of Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959.
Buddy Holly was one of those pioneers, and was the legend to be made, and he was one of my heroes.
www.rockabillyhall.com /BuddyHolly.html   (3499 words)

  
 Holly
The holly is one of the ogham letters - Tinne in Gaelic and comes immediately after oak, Duir, in the alphabet.
This means that when the Ogham is used to represent the months, standing with Birch (beith) at Samhain, oak and holly normally come either side of the summer solstice, one of the more important druidic events.
In common with other pagan paths, and following from this to an extent, the oak represents the waxing year and holly the waining year: the oak king and the holly king.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /theshire/trees/html/holly.html   (192 words)

  
 Red Dwarf - Holly/Hilly Biography
Holly also gets bored in the same way as the other members of the crew and has been known to play practical jokes to relieve the tension.
Holly once told Lister that there were two space ships heading for Red Dwarf with a warrant for Lister's arrest.
Holly fell in love with Hilly in the episode Parallel Universe and the increasingly erratic Red Dwarf computer performed a head sex-change operation on itself and became Hilly!- until he/it re-appeared in Season 8.
www.sadgeezer.com /RedDwarf/holly.htm   (740 words)

  
 Buddy Holly Center - Lubbock, Texas. USA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The mission of the Buddy Holly Center is to provide world-renowned interactive and dynamic exhibits and programs on Texas Music and contemporary visual arts.
The vision of the Buddy Holly Center is to discover art through music by celebrating legacy, culture and community.
Changing exhibitions in the visual arts provide an arena for celebrating the technical virtuosity and creative talents of fine artists at work in a region distinguished by vast distances and a rich tradition of creative resources.
www.buddyhollycenter.org /index2.html   (183 words)

  
 Holly - Herbal Encyclopedia
Holly is used as a protective plant, and used as decoration during the Yule season.
A male and a female holly plant need to be planted for the shrub to produce berries, enjoyed by many wild birds during the winter months.
AllNatural.net and its representatives make no claims as to the ability of plants and their derivitives to cure you or treat you of any ailment known to man. Before using any plants and their derivitives you should seek the advice and training of a qualified professional and your personal physician.
www.allnatural.net /herbpages/holly.shtml   (240 words)

  
 ChristStory Christmas Holly Page
Holly is one of the trees said to be the tree of Christ's cross.
Only the holly behaved like an ordinary tree, allowing itself to be cut and formed into a cross.
According to legend, the holly's branches were woven into a painful crown and placed on Christ's head while the soldiers mocked him saying, "Hail, King of the Jews." The holly's berries used to be white but Christ's blood left them with a permanent crimson stain.
ww2.netnitco.net /users/legend01/holly.htm   (451 words)

  
 Holly Golightly
Holly Golightly (real name) started her musical career as a founder member of all girl garage band Thee Headcoatees in 1991.
Holly Golightly is definitely the most interesting and diverse artist to come out of the Billy Childish school and is certainly one of the better singer/songwriters of the post-grunge era.
Holly has also recently been recording in the US with garage band The Greenhornes and they released a special Christmas 2002 single together.
www.theebillychildish.com /holly.htm   (499 words)

  
 Holly - HGIC @ Clemson University
Smaller hollies are attractive as foundation plantings or low hedges.
Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria): Yaupon holly is native from Long Island, New York to central Florida and west to Texas.
Lusterleaf Holly (Ilex latifolia): is a slow-growing evergreen tree, to 30 feet tall.
hgic.clemson.edu /factsheets/HGIC1066.htm   (1090 words)

  
 Holly In Holiday Tradition
Sometime in the past, the pagans of Europe took sprays of holly into their homes so that the tiny, imaginary peoples of the woodland would be safe from the cold of winter in the evergreen boughs.
Later, holly was used as holiday decor that gave the good fairies and elves a place to hide as they did their good deeds.
In medieval England, holly was kept in the dwelling or on the person as a protection against witchcraft.
www.ext.vt.edu /departments/envirohort/factsheets2/landsnurs/dec93pr1.html   (567 words)

  
 Great American Country - Holly Dunn   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The common denominator is Holly's shimmering, multi-hued singing -- and her precise turn of phrase, both lyrically and musically.
t was as a songwriter that Holly Dunn first made her mark in country music; her compositions were turned into hits by the likes of Cristy Lane, Louise Mandrell and the Whites.
At every stop on the road, fans would ask her when she was going to make another album.
www.countrystars.com /artists/hdunn.html   (1007 words)

  
 Holly
During the dark and barren days of winter, holly has always been prized for its fresh green leaves and bright berries, signifying the green of growth and fertility and the red or blood, a tree of hope and a reminder of the renewal of the springtime to come.
In Somerset, holly might not be brought in before Christmas Eve, and then only by a man. sterile holly was dangerous to man and beast, and on a year when holly had no berries, it was wise to add ivy or box to a wreath or ball for good luck.
In some parts of England and Germany, hollys are referred to as "he" and "she", those with prickly-edged leaves being male, while the smooth-leafed variety signified a female tree.
www.druidry.org /obod/trees/holly.html   (1535 words)

  
 IN MEMORY OF HOLLY LEA NELSON Oct 30, 1982 ~ Feb 20, 1998
Holly was fifteen when she took the car without permission and picked up her boyfriend from the Sioux City airport.
Holly always believed in giving a person a second chance in life, even if she couldn't live.
At this time, Holly was able to wear the ring which Ben had given her and we sprayed the Hugo perfume so she could smell it.
www.angelfire.com /ok/alittlepieceofheaven   (526 words)

  
 Severely Holly! a Holly Marie Combs fansite...
Holly is really something: sweet, adorable, disarming, it seems like she could be your friend at any given moment.
Maybe this isn't at all how her real life personality is, but it most certainly is the effect of her character portrays that we can all relate to..
Holly: (laughs) Well, it's a show for the fans.
members.home.nl /lancelot   (491 words)

  
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Mayor David Langston and members of the Lubbock City Council, Maria Elena Holly, the Holly family, and official from DECCA Records were in attendance.
Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock, Texas, on September 7, 1936.
Lubbock residents converged on the unveiling of the new Buddy Holly exhibit at the Texas Tech Museum that was held on September 7, 1995.
www.interoz.com /lubbock/bhmuseum.htm   (799 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Holly (Deveraux, Jude): Books: Jude Deveraux   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Holly thinks that she may finally be able to have both her loves to herself after all of this time.
Holly and finds that she is more then just a pretty face.
Holly is mean, and she is always thinking about social status.
www.amazon.com /Holly-Deveraux-Jude/dp/0743478967   (1897 words)

  
 Absolute Divas - Holly McNarland
Holly McNarland came into Canadian Music with a storming entrance.
Holly, born in Winnipeg, raised in Vancouver, first broke out of her shell with her EP "Sour Pie".
Well known for her large voice, contrasting with her smaller physique, she boomed into the music scene.
www.absolutedivas.com /holly   (171 words)

  
 Buddy Holly - The Day that Music Died?
The disc did not succeedpartially because Holly and the Decca-selected backup group could not createthe tightness inherent in the union of Holly's voice, his guitar and hisown group of musicians.
Their songs were often modified during session - improvisation was a key to the Holly sound.
Holly was not happy with the turn of events...but he was confident thatthe decision was right.
www.rareexception.com /Garden/Rock/Buddy.php   (3384 words)

  
 Holly Valance
Holly Rachel Vukadinović (born 11 May 1983 to Serbian father, Rajko Vukadinović, and British mother), who is better known by her stage name of Holly Valance, is an Australian-born actress and ARIA nominated singer.
We have great collection of Holly Valance pictures - with pictures of her acting and modelling here in our gallery section.
We gather news from various medias about Holly Valance and you find them in the news section.
www.holly-valance.org   (95 words)

  
 Yaupon Holly Encyclopedia Article @ HillCountryArtists.com (Hill Country Artists)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria), also called Yaupon or Cassina (the latter shared with the Dahoon Holly), is an evergreen holly found in the southeast United States.
The active ingredient is actually caffeine, and the vomiting was either learned or as a result of the great quantities in which they drank the beverage (Hudson, The Southeastern Indians, ISBN 0870492489).
Gilman, Edward F. and Watson, Dennis G. Ilex vomitoria: Yaupon Holly Fact Sheet ST-311 (November 1993), Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida accessed at [1] June 19, 2006 End
www.hillcountryartists.com /encyclopedia/Yaupon_Holly   (282 words)

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