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  Ivy (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ivy League is an association of prestigious universities in the United States
The Jesuit Ivy is a nickname for Boston College, a prestigious university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Ivy Mike, was the code name given to the first test of a successful fusion device, detonated on October 31, 1952
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 Ivy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hedera colchica – Caucasian ivy or Persian ivy.
Ivies are very popular in cultivation within their native range, both for attracting wildlife, and for their evergreen foliage; many cultivars with variegated foliage (photo, right) and/or unusual leaf shape have been selected.
Ivies have however proved to be a serious invasive weed in the parts of North America where winters are not severe, and their cultivation there is now discouraged in many areas.
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 Poison ivy rash - Wikipedia
Poison ivy rash along with that from poison oak (hereafter referred to as poison ivy collectively) contain a sticky compound all over the leaves and stems called "urishiol".
Archaeologists discovered some poison ivy in a 2000 year old tomb, and it still caused a rash on one of the scientists.
Poison ivy is found all over the midwest and eastern United States, from Michigan down to Florida.
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 Ivy (disambiguation): Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Boston ivy is a species of Parthenocissus, in the grape (grape: Any of various juicy purple- or green-skinned fruit of the genus Vitis; grow in clusters) family Vitaceae (Vitaceae: A family of vines belonging to order Rhamnales)
The Ivy League (Ivy League: A league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige) is an association of the more prestigious universities (universities: a university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants...
Ivy (band) (Ivy (band): more facts about this subject) is trio of musicians from New York City (New York City: The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center)
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 ScienceDaily: Poison ivy
Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans or Rhus toxicodendron), in the family Anacardiaceae, is a woody vine that is well-known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant which for most people will cause an agonizing, itching rash.
Poison ivy is apparently far more common now than when the Europeans first entered North America because it has profited immensely from the "edge effect", enabling it to form lush colonies in such places.
This is because poison ivy will grow in either the ivy-like form or the brushy oak-like form depending on the moisture and brightness of its environment.
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 Poison Ivy Resource Page - poision ivy
Failing to catch poision ivy cures on as a character, she was not heard of until the rise of feminism brought the need for a greater number of more independent female villains in the series.
Poison Ivy recently came to believe that her powers care of posion ivy were killing the children she looked after, so she got Batman to reverse her powers and make her a normal human being once more.
In the earlier days batman robin movie poisen ivy halloween costume of the Animated series, her meta-human characteristics, such as her immunity to toxins, poision ivy plant were downplayed or outright ignored, instead portraying her as a human with how to trwat poisin ivy an extreme affinity for plants.
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 Ivy - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Hedera, English name Ivy (plural, Ivies), is a genus of about 10 species of climbing or ground-creeping evergreen woody plants in the Araliaceae, native in the Atlantic Islands, Europe, North Africa and across Asia east to Japan.
Hedera colchica - Caucasian ivy or Persian ivy.
In typography, hedera is the name of a horticultural dingbat shaped like an ivy leaf.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Ivy   (610 words)

  
 Ivy League - Wikipedia
Caswell Adams of the New York Tribune made a passing comment about the schools in 1937, referring to the ivy growing on institutions' walls.
In 1945 the athletic directors of the schools signed the first Ivy Group Agreement, which set academic, financial, and athletic standards for the football teams.
In 1954, the date generally accepted as the birth of the Ivy League, the agreement was extended to all sports.
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 Poison Ivy Remedy
The best cure for poison ivy is before you have it is soap, if you already have had it a while, pour tomato juice on it.
The name originated in a dream and was initially "Poison Ivy Rorschach", the Rorschach referring to the Rorschach inkblot test, however over the years it has been contracted to plain and simple "Poison Ivy".
Her stage persona is best defined by as being the bad-girl vixen from next door; this is underlined the sexually provocative photographs of her which appear on the band's album covers.
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 Poison ivy - Psychology Central
) Kuntze }} Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans or Rhus toxicodendron), in the family Anacardiaceae, is a woody vine that is well-known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant which for most people will cause an agonizing, itching rash.
The reaction normally associated with Poison Ivy is an allergic reaction.
However, those who are affected by it, it causes a very irritating rash.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Poison-ivy   (689 words)

  
 Harvard University - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
But like other Ivy League universities, Harvard does not offer athletic scholarships.
Perhaps because of this prominence, Harvard is the target of a number of criticisms, some of them leveled at other research-based American universities.
It has been accused of grade inflation, as have other Ivy League institutions and Stanford University.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Harvard_University   (5112 words)

  
 WASP - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Legacy admission to prep schools and to large universities in Ivy League or small liberal arts colleges such as the "Little Ivies" taught habit and attitude and formed connections which carried over to the influential spheres of finance, culture, and politics.
They are still upper middle to upper class educated Protestants, members of high society, with prep school and Ivy League educations.
The term does not easily apply in the Midwest, where generations of Yankee, Pennsylvanian, and Virginian pioneers and farmers settled, though this region maintains a Protestant majority.
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 Cornell University - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
There are more than 800 registered student organizations, running the interest gamut from kayaking to full-armor jousting, from the Cornell Collegiate Curling Program and a cappella groups to improvisational theatre, from political clubs and publications to chess and video game clubs.
It also houses the largest fully student-run organization in the Ivy League in the form of its marching band.
Cornell's traditional football rival is the University of Pennsylvania; in 1993, the two institutions celebrated the 100th anniversary of their first game.
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 Hedera - Definition up Erdmond.Com
On suitable surfaces (trees and rock faces), they are able to climb to at least 25-30m above the basal ground level.
Problems have apparently been greater in North_America, where trees may be overwhelmed by the ivy to the extent they are killed; this could be because ivy in North_America, being introduced, is without the natural pests and diseases that control its vigour in its native areas.
Acute and chronic antiinflammatory profile of the ivy plant, Hedera helix, in rats.
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 IVY - OneLook Dictionary Search
Ivy, ivy : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include IVY: poison ivy, english ivy, common ivy, kenilworth ivy, halls of ivy, more...
Words similar to IVY: ivies, common ivy, english ivy, hedera helix, more...
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 Ivy - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Hedera (English name ivy (plural, ivies) is a genus of about 10 species of climbing or ground-creeping evergreen woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to the Atlantic Islands, Europe, North Africa and across Asia east to Japan.
A Hope in the Unseen : An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League to the College That is Best for You
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 Ivy - TheBestLinks.com - Grape, Ivy League, Mint, University, ...
Ivy - TheBestLinks.com - Grape, Ivy League, Mint, University,...
Ivy, Grape, Ivy League, Mint, University, United States, Flower, Leaf, Vitaceae...
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Category:Disambiguation - Creatures Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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 CUP : search word
"Looking a little Run in and tell Mother I'm here." Ivy kept one slender finger between the leaves of her book.
Then he went in, and spake, thus: "You get on your hat and meet me at the 2:45 inter-urban.
Kind of a pet, Dutch is." "Rudie Schlachweiler!" murmured Ivy, dreamily.
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 Harvard University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was founded on September 8, 1636, by a vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
Harvard is the target of a number of critiques, many of them also levelled at other research-based American educational institutions.
Minorities and women are considered underrepresented on the Harvard faculty according to The New York Times, as at several other Ivy League universities.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Poison ivy (disambiguation)
Poison Ivy is a plant; it has, however, lent its name to many other things, including:
a 1992 US movie: see Poison Ivy (movie).
the United Mine Workers' pejorative for Ivy Lee, Rockefeller's spin doctor
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Poison_ivy_(disambiguation)   (90 words)

  
 Oberon
Oberon, King of the Fairies, most famous from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
[To Ivy] 'Twas yure the doctor, they wouldn't 'ave Mr.
Strangway 'ere for curate any leave her 'usband, an' 'e so fond of her.
www.freearchive.info /ob/oberon.html   (283 words)

  
 Poison ivy (disambiguation): Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Poison Ivy (Poison Ivy: Climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact) is a plant; it has, however, lent its name to many other things, including:
a Batman (Batman: An orderly assigned to serve a British military officer) villain: see Poison Ivy (comics) (Poison Ivy (comics): more facts about this subject) ;
"Poison Ivy", a Lieber and Stoller (Lieber and Stoller: more facts about this subject) song by the Coasters (the Coasters: the coasters were an american doo wop and early rock and roll group, evolving from...
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