One of the three specimens of the giant palm Raphia farinifera, growing by the Lagoon, in The Palmetum Townsville, Australia, started to flower in October 1993.
Raphia is a genus in which the species have a flowering habit which is termed either monocarpic or hapaxanthic, depending on whether the species is single stemmed or clumping.
The flowering of Raphia farinifera in The Palmetum will give both botanic garden's staff and visitors a unique opportunity to witness one of the palm family's most unusual and dramatic reproductive events.
The toponym Raphia (now Rafah and Rafiah), the next station in the map, is only preserved by its first letter, as well as by a very small part of a public building in its original graphic representation.
Raphia, whose famous pagan shrines had raised it to the status of shelter-city ("hiera Rafia", as written on some of its coins), was in the sixth century the see of a flourishing bishopric under the jurisdiction of Jerusalem as well as a hospitable road-station for pilgrims.
Raphia was the boundary town between Palestine and Egypt.
Raphia frater has a bluish gray forewing with darker gray shading.
The hindwing is very white, with faint dots marking the pm line and with a dark blotch at the inner angle.
According to Handfield (1999), the primary host plant for Raphia frater is poplar, but the larvae may also feed on other trees such as willow and birch.
"Raphia" is a simulation of a battle between the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt and the Seleucid kingdom of Antiochus the Great in 217 B.C. It is a "Series 120" game, containing 120 counters and designed to be played in 120 minutes.
Rules ----- "Raphia" is a simple game, but there are some interesting and even innovative design concepts in those scant four pages of rules.
Some of the features that the designer used to show the nature of warfare during this period are: 1.
I think perhaps she meant implants and not glands when she was relating this info to you and it sure sounds like adeno from what you wrote above.
Raphia, I had the same thing, only my doctor called in "internal endometriosis".
Your doctor's description is a bit childish, and there are some EXCELLENT sites on the Internet put out by the Endometriosis center, a group of physicians who specialize in the treatment of endometriosis.
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Battle of Raphia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Battle of Raphia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Fought on 22 June 217 BC near (A coastal region at the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean bordering Israel and Egypt) Gaza.
Ptolemy's victory kept the province of Syria for Egypt but it was only a brief respite; at the Battle of Paneas in 198 BC Antiochus defeated Ptolemy and captured Palestine and Syria.
Third Book of Machabees is the title given to a short narrative which is found in the Alexandrine codex of the Septuagint version and various private manuscripts.
It gives an account of an attempted desecration of the Temple at Jerusalem by the Egyptian king, Ptolemy IV (Philopator) after his victory over Antiochus the Great at Raphia, 217 B.C., and the miraculous frustration of his endeavour to wreak vengeance upon the Egyptian Jews through a massacre with elephants.
This apocryphon abounds in absurdities and psychological impossibilities, and is a very weak piece of fiction written in Greek by an Alexandrian Jew, and probably designed to encourage its countrymen in the midst of persecutions.
Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #6374487 - Swampy area transformations by exploitation of Raphia hookeri (Arecaceae) in southern Benin (West Africa)
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Swampy area transformations by exploitation of Raphia hookeri (Arecaceae) in southern Benin (West Africa)
For more information about the Handicraft Center, or to place an order (orders must be paid for in advance with Western Union), please contact Fonwouo (in English or French) at:
"Raphia Palm Basketmaking in Western Cameroon, Africa," in SHUTTLE, SPINDLE, and DYEPOT, Winter 2003/2004, 21-24.
Web page, most photographs, and text by Carol Ventura.
