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	Painted ladies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victorian houses known as the "Painted Ladies" at Alamo Square park in San Francisco.
		Painted ladies is the collective American vernacular term to describe Victorian houses which are usually painted in a multi-colored pastel scheme, especially in the greater San Francisco area and New Orleans.
		The term "painted lady" is an archaic slang term referring to a prostitute who wore cosmetics in an era when respectable women did not.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Painted_ladies (237 words)

	painted lady
		Painted Ladies are medium-sized butterflies, with a wingspan of two inches.
		Painted Lady eggs are pale green and barrel-shaped.
		A Painted Lady chrysalis is brown and bumpy.
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/painted_lady.htm (280 words)

	Floridian: Painted ladies
		The "ladies," as she called the characters she created, were like her: brash and funny, women who met the world straight on, always in red lipstick and flamboyant accessories.
		One of her bedrooms is a studio, and leaning against the walls are ladies in various stages of refinement.
		She is the invisible member of every group she paints, the one just out of range telling her fellow divas to hold the pose or the queens to straighten their crowns.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/09/13/news_pf/Floridian/Painted_ladies.shtml (1556 words)

	Invasion of Painted Ladies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although the first Painted Lady of 2003 was reported in early March in the UK, the invasion has really begun in earnest since the beginning of June.
		The Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) is a long-distance migrant butterfly, which causes the spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland.
		Because it is a wide-ranging migrant, the Painted Lady may be seen in any habitat in the UK in a good year.
	www.butterfly-conservation.org /ne/news/painted_ladies/index.html (753 words)

	Painted Ladies: Victorian Architecture
		Painted Ladies, you still see them in nearly every town that has been around since the 19th century.
		Some of the Painted Ladies are famous, like the ones in San Francisco, but every little town has one or two still being lovingly kept up and painted in the colorful arrays that gave them their name.
		Painted Ladies were originally painted in darker, more 'earth tone' colors, such as hunter green, sienna red, burnt yellow, and brown.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/wisconsin/97125 (488 words)

	El Nino and Painted Lady Migrations
		Painted Lady migration is different from that of butterflies such as the Monarch and Red Admiral, which have a more or less regular, yearly seasonal migration.
		Female Painted Ladies that do find a suitable area to breed enjoy extraordinary breeding success which compensates for the loss of many of their siblings which are unable to do so.
		Since this is clearly not happening, this implies that Painted Ladies are returning southward in numbers sufficient to maintain the migratory habit in the source populations.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~mariposa/elnino.htm (1137 words)

	Earth's Birthday Project \| Butterflies & Bugs
		Painted ladies are native almost everywhere, from Canada, Iceland and the United States to Europe, Asia and South Africa.
		Painted ladies prefer sunny, open habitat with lots of small flowering plants--fields, meadows, marshes, dunes, grassy parks and yards.
		Painted ladies are “defoliators”: periodically large caterpillar populations infest plants of the thistle family and consume all of their leaves.
	www.earthsbirthday.org /butterflies/bflys/faqs.asp (544 words)

	Painted Lady Butterfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Painted lady butterflies have a wing span of 2 - 2 7/8 inches (5.1 - 7.3 cm).
		From the deserts of northern Mexico, the painted lady migrates and temporarily colonizes the United States and Canada south of the Arctic.
		The painted lady is also known as the Thistle Butterfly because the caterpillars like to feed on them and also as the Cosmopolitan because it is the most widely distributed butterfly in the world.
	www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us /4th/kkhp/1insects/paintedlady.html (382 words)

	Attracting Painted Ladies...Butterflies, That Is!
		North America is blessed to have an abundant population of all three species of painted lady butterflies: the Painted Lady, the West Coast Lady, and the American Painted Lady.
		All three painted lady butterfly species are quite similar in appearance when observed with their delicate wings open while basking on a flower petal, a leaf, or other favorite sunny spot.
		Painted Lady butterflies are very fond of traveling and can be found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/butterfly_gardening/42136 (656 words)

	Painted Lady Butterfly Printout - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Painted Lady may be the most widespread butterfly in the world.
		Egg: The Painted Lady begins its life cycle as an egg that is the size of a pin head.
		The adult Painted Lady is mostly fl, brown, and orange with some white spots; the underside is gray with white and red markings.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/butterfly/activities/printouts/paintedlady.shtml (426 words)

	Beautiful butterflies
		The objective of this lesson is to explore the life cycles of the painted lady butterfly.
		The Painted Lady is one of the most common and widespread butterfly in the world.
		The Painted Lady Butterfly has four wings, two hind wings and two forewings, that are symmetrical in pattern and shape.
	www.iit.edu /~smart/pearkat/lesson1.htm (791 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Painted ladies making a colorful trek across Utah
		Utah and much of the rest of the West are in the midst of one of the biggest painted lady butterfly migrations in years.
		One might think it would be easy to distinguish the species because this swallowtail is largely fl and the painted lady has a lot of orange coloration.
		And there were so many painted ladies in the area that trying to separate them from the few swallowtails was the type of visual task that can bring on a headache, he said.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/1,1249,600127212,00.html (602 words)

	Painted Ladies \| Arts \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		The shaded crook of her arm, the paint that traces her biceps and torqued stomach muscles—these spaces are blocked out in the same steel blue of the background.
		Pop painting inured us to the jarring experience of seeing paintings at once so blatantly commercial and so technical, carrying forward a tradition of commenting on the link between women's bodies and commerce that goes back at least to Manet.
		And buying paintings is always about the desire for objects that are at a certain level unyielding—we might at least be honest with ourselves.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=41641 (828 words)

	Painted Lady - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) is a well-known colourful butterfly, known in North America as the Cosmopolite.
		In general, the Painted Lady is a large butterfly (wing span can range from 2 - 2 7/8 inches long) identified by the fl and white corners of its mainly orange wings.
		American Painted Lady (Vanessa virginiensis) showing the two ventral eyespots as well as the small white dot within the pink field, both distinguishing features.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Painted_Lady (529 words)

	Everyday Uses of the Painted Ladies
		But, the use of these painted ladies in the graves more than likely points to a deeper purpose of helping the deceased while they accompany them in the afterlife.
		The stiff, cross-armed ladies of the graves were decidedly the most common figurines in Cycladic periods but others have been excavated that have a more optimistic connotation.
		And even more believable as an explanation about rank and power, these marble ladies would have been a nice collectable piece for one who could afford to have them commissioned and would explain why many inhabitants had no traces of these objects in their own graves.
	home.austin.rr.com /rogermorgan/painted_ladies.html (1248 words)

	Rembrandt's Women and Painted Ladies - Critical Essay Contemporary Review - Find Articles
		Rembrandt doted on Saskia, whom he painted again and again, because of his obsession with her and his obsession with fancy dress, in a succession of strange guises.
		Painted Ladies, brilliantly assembled and catalogued by the National Portrait Gallery and now at the Yale Centre, is a sundial which records only the brightest hours.
		These ladies of the court of Charles II, painted mostly by the Dutch immigrant Sir Peter Lely, admittedly had the advantage of youth, opulence and being clad more sumptuously than in Rembrandt's fusty studio properties.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1633_280/ai_83520039 (939 words)

	Hooker Heroes: Painted Ladies
		Spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) is famed in part for his paintings of Majas--loose, carefree common women of questionable repute who dressed in gaudy fashion.
		The painting, rejected by the official Salon exhibition (perhaps because of the scandal caused earlier by Manet's portraits of Victorine Meurend), was displayed in a fashionable shop window--where it predictably caused another furor.
		U.S. artist John Sloan (1871-1951), well known for his paintings, etchings, and lithographs of daily life in New York City, was clearly sympathetic to prostitutes.
	wondersmith.com /heroes/painted.htm (513 words)

	Painted Laydies Mineral Make Up, Beauty...The Way Nature Intended (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Painted Laydies Mineral Makeup has gained the trust and respect from people who had given up wearing makeup because it felt yucky and looked fake.
		Any information found on Painted Laydies Mineral Makeup website or it's affiliates is for information purposes only and is not to be taken as, or as substitue for medical advice.
		No liability is taken by Painted Laydies Mineral Makeup or its affiliates and/or partners for any claims arising out of the misuse of any Painted Laydies Mineral Makeup product or any product sold by Painted Laydies Mineral Makeup.
	www.paintedlaydies.com (342 words)

	Painted Ladies - Geocaching Australia
		Exterior paint colors are authentic, as are elegant crown moldings, ceiling medallions, ornamental woodwork and friezes, which were originally painted white, but have been redone in splashy shades reminiscent of its days as a Cuban nightclub.
		This painted lady is one of several in South Acton, MA and one of two on Central Street, close to the train station.
		The Chapman House is truly a beautiful Painted Lady located in Red Lodge, MT. She is in a neighborhood with several of her sisters who also look very nice.
	geocaching.com.au /cache/gcadac (5258 words)

	Amazing Painted Ladies - Controversy Page
		These species are common and widespread enough to reabsorb the genes and diseases of their artificially-bred brethren, and they are common enough in nature already to not create a notable impact on butterfly counts.
		The type of species offered for release are generally those which are widespread and common over broad regions, such as the Painted Lady, which occurs vitually worldwide; thus the likelihood of transmitting a completely new disease is extremely small.
		The Painted Lady's gene pool is spread over much of the hemisphere and may not be much different from those overseas.
	www.paintedladybutterflies.com /controversy.htm (4777 words)

	Charles Village Brighter with Its ‘Painted Ladies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		INNERS of the first of three “Painted Ladies of Charles Village” contests were announced on December 6.
		The term “painted ladies” is coined from the famous multi-colored Victorian houses that transformed communities in San Francisco, St. Louis, and other cities.
		They painted the bricks in the background a neutral cream that allows the brighter colors to stand out.
	baltimorechronicle.com /painted_ladies.html (467 words)

	The Painted Ladies of Deadwood Gulch
		A thriving industry in the camp dominated almost entirely by men, in 1876, it was estimated that approximately 90% of women of the camp were “painted ladies.”
		For her share of the take, the Madam provided room, board, and “protection” to her girls; however, the women were required to pay for their own clothing and personal necessities.
		Though the sporting ladies of the gulch may be gone, they are not forgotten as Deadwood continues to celebrate them in parades, stories, and musical revues.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /SD-DeadwoodPaintedLadies.html (1270 words)

	Painted Lady butterfly
		Similar Species: Vanessa annabella (West Coast Lady) and to a lesser extent Vanessa virginiensis (the Painted Beauty or Virginia Lady).
		Distribution: Probably the world's most widely distributed butterfly, the Painted Lady is often a common sight in Orange County, although in some years it is almost absent.
		Migration: Painted Lady butterflies are often seen migrating northward through Orange County (and elsewhere in the western
	darwin.bio.uci.edu /~pjbryant/biodiv/lepidopt/nymph/plady.htm (374 words)

	Painted Lady Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Painted Lady is one of 10,000 species of Lepidopterans that is common to most temperate regions of North America.
		Butterflies undergo complete metamorphosis, which means they have four distinct stages in their life: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis) and adult butterfly.
		Painted ladies, like all butterflies, use their proboscis to drink nectar from flowers.
	www.naturepark.com /pladyinf.htm (555 words)

	Painted-Ladies
		Last year, a similar migration of Painted Lady occurred, at the same time as the moths, from 12 March 2003.
		NB: The last date on record for Painted Ladies in the Adur area last year was 10 October 2003.
		Other Painted Ladies are on record, too many to collate straight away.
	www.glaucus.org.uk /Painted-Ladies.html (800 words)

	Butterfly Migration California: Monarch or Painted Ladies
		He tracks the migration of Painted Lady butterflies in the way that Journey North tracks monarchs.
		Painted ladies by the billions invade Solano, Yolo counties
		Pull out your sketch pad and take a close look at these photos of a monarch, a painted lady, and other look-alike butterflies.
	www.learner.org /jnorth/tm/monarch/MigrationMassiveCAQA.html (201 words)

	Butterfly Species Data - Painted Lady (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Painted Lady is a long-distance migrant, which causes the most spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland.
		Because it is a wide-ranging migrant, the Painted Lady may be seen in any habitat.
		Adults tend to congregate in open areas with plenty of thistles, which serve both as larval foodplants and nectar sources for adults.
	www.butterfly-conservation.org /species/bdata/painted_lady.html (229 words)

	The Painted Ladies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen welcome you to the Painted Ladies web site--your online source for the wonders of Victorian architecture.
		We're always looking for new Painted Ladies: Victorians painted in three or more colors that highlight the architecture's ruffles and flourishes.
		If your house is a Painted Lady, or you know of one, please mail us a photograph and we may be able to feature it in our next book.
	www.paintedladies.com /main1.html (153 words)

	Painted Ladies Caterpillars & Certificates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		You will receive a caterpillar certificate as shown above, which you mail in at your convenience to receive five painted ladies caterpillars and enough food to complete their development, also shown above.
		You will receive a shipment of 5 painted ladies caterpillars and enough food to complete their development.
		32 painted ladies caterpillars and plenty of food
	www.milkweedcafe.com /catcert.htm (136 words)

	Park City Painted Ladies - Old Town Park City, Utah lodging
		Park City Painted Ladies - Old Town Park City, Utah lodging
		The Painted Ladies sit side by side on Park Ave in Old Town Park City, Utah.
		They are currently owned and run by a Park City family.
	www.parkcitypaintedladies.com (106 words)

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