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66 relations: Anton Brees Carillon Library, Art Deco, Azalea, Blueberry, Calvin Coolidge, Camellia, Camp Mack, Carillon, Coquina, Creole marble, Crinum, Curtis Institute of Music, Edward Bok, El Retiro (Lake Wales, Florida), Equisetum, Etowah marble, Ficus pumila, Flamingo, Florida, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Gordonia (plant), Gothic Revival architecture, Holly, Ilex cassine, Ilex vomitoria, Iron Mountain (Florida), John Taylor & Co, Justicia (plant), Koi, Ladies' Home Journal, Lake Wales Ridge, Lake Wales, Florida, Landscape architect, Lee Lawrie, Legoland Florida, List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States, Live oak, Magnolia, Mary Louise Curtis, Mediterranean Revival architecture, Microsoft Research Maps, Milton Bennett Medary, Monstera, Musical keyboard, Myrica, National Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places, Papyrus, Peninsula, Philodendron, ..., Pinus palustris, Plumbago, Police aviation, Reflecting pool, Sabal, Sandhill, Sandhill crane, Sea level, Spider lily, Spook Hill, St. Augustine, Florida, Tate, Georgia, Trachelospermum asiaticum, Tree fern, United States, United States Geological Survey. Expand index (16 more) »
Anton Brees Carillon Library
The Anton Brees Carillon Library, located within the Singing Tower at Bok Tower Gardens, is home to various collections that document the history and development of the Singing Tower and Gardens, the historic Pinewood Estate, and the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America.
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Art Deco
Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.
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Azalea
Azaleas are flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron, particularly the former sections Tsutsuji (evergreen) and Pentanthera (deciduous).
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Blueberry
Blueberries are perennial flowering plants with blue– or purple–colored berries.
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Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was an American politician and the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929).
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Camellia
Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae.
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Camp Mack
Camp Mack is a popular fishing lodge, RV resort campground and recreation event venue in the historic town of Lake Wales, Florida situated on the Kissimmee River, in the heart of the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes. In March, 2018 the lodge was rebranded Camp Mack, a Guy Harvey Lodge, Marina and RV Resort, affiliating itself with Guy Harvey Outpost Collection, the lodging arm of the noted marine scientist, artist, and conservation advocate Dr. Guy Harvey. The camp’s unspoiled “old Florida” riverfront setting offers bass fishing enthusiasts access to Lake Kissimmee, Hatchineha, Cypress and Tohopekaliga and is host of numerous bass fishing tournaments. A variety of sporting and musical events use the riverfront setting as a backdrop, including Rockin’ on the River, an annual country music festival supporting autism. The Kissimmee River watershed comprises 3,000 square miles, supporting a diverse community of waterfowl, wading birds and other wildlife, in addition to its national reputation for holding trophy size largemouth bass.
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Carillon
A carillon is a musical instrument that is typically housed in the bell tower (belfry) of a church or municipal building.
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Coquina
Coquina is a sedimentary rock that is composed either wholly or almost entirely of the transported, abraded, and mechanically-sorted fragments of the shells of molluscs, trilobites, brachiopods, or other invertebrates.
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Creole marble
Creole marble, also called Georgia creole or Georgia marble is a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia.
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Crinum
Crinum is a genus of about 180 species of perennial plants that have large showy flowers on leafless stems, and develop from bulbs.
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Curtis Institute of Music
The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia that offers courses of study leading to a performance diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, or Professional Studies Certificate in Opera.
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Edward Bok
Edward William Bok (born Eduard Willem Gerard Cesar Hidde Bok) (October 9, 1863 – January 9, 1930) was a Dutch-born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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El Retiro (Lake Wales, Florida)
El Retiro (also known as Encierro and today as Pinewood Estate) is a historic site in Lake Wales, Florida.
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Equisetum
Equisetum (horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
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Etowah marble
Etowah marble, also called Georgia pink marble, is a marble with a characteristic pink, salmon, or rose color that comes from quarries near Tate, Georgia.
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Ficus pumila
Ficus pumila (creeping fig or climbing fig) is a species of flowering plant in the mulberry family, native to East Asia (China, Japan, Vietnam) and naturalized in parts of the southeastern and south-central United States.
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Flamingo
Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, the only bird family in the order Phoenicopteriformes.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (July 24, 1870 – December 25, 1957) was an American landscape architect and city planner known for his wildlife conservation efforts.
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Gordonia (plant)
Gordonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, related to Franklinia, Camellia and Stewartia.
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Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.
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Holly
Ilex, or holly, is a genus of 400 to 600 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family.
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Ilex cassine
Ilex cassine is a holly native to the southeastern coast of North America, in the United States from Virginia to southeast Texas, in Mexico in Veracruz, and in the Caribbean on the Bahamas, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.
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Ilex vomitoria
Ilex vomitoria, commonly known as yaupon or yaupon holly, is a species of holly that is native to southeastern North America.
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Iron Mountain (Florida)
Iron Mountain is one of the highest points in peninsular Florida, United States and a prominent point of the Lake Wales Ridge.
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John Taylor & Co
John Taylor & Co, commonly known as Taylor's Bell Foundry, Taylor's of Loughborough, or simply Taylor's, is the world's largest working bell foundry.
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Justicia (plant)
Justicia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae.
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Koi
or more specifically, are colored varieties of Amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus) that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water gardens.
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Ladies' Home Journal
Ladies' Home Journal is an American magazine published by the Meredith Corporation.
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Lake Wales Ridge
The Lake Wales Ridge, sometimes referred to as the Mid-Florida Ridge, is a sand ridge running for about 150 miles south to north in Central Florida.
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Lake Wales, Florida
Lake Wales is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.
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Landscape architect
A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.
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Lee Lawrie
Lee Oscar Lawrie (October 16, 1877 – January 23, 1963) was one of the United States' foremost architectural sculptors and a key figure in the American art scene preceding World War II.
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Legoland Florida
Legoland Florida Resort (stylized as LEGOLAND Florida Resort) is a vacation destination in Winter Haven, Florida featuring a theme park, water park and on-site accommodations.
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List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States
This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States.
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Live oak
Live oak or evergreen oak is any of a number of oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that share the characteristic of evergreen foliage.
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Magnolia
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210The number of species in the genus Magnolia depends on the taxonomic view that one takes up.
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Mary Louise Curtis
Mary Louise Curtis (August 6, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts – January 4, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)Bok, Edward W. (1920) The Americanization of Edward Bok.
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Mediterranean Revival architecture
Mediterranean Revival is a design style introduced in the United States in the waning nineteenth century variously incorporating references from Spanish Renaissance, Spanish Colonial, Beaux-Arts, Italian Renaissance, Arabic Andalusian architecture, and Venetian Gothic architecture.
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Microsoft Research Maps
Microsoft Research Maps or MSR Maps was a free online repository of public domain aerial imagery and topographic maps provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
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Milton Bennett Medary
Milton Bennett Medary Jr. (1874 – 1929) was an American architect from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, practicing with the firm Zantzinger, Borie and Medary from 1910 until his death.
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Monstera
Monstera is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the arum family, Araceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.
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Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument.
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Myrica
Myrica is a genus of about 35–50 species of small trees and shrubs in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales.
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National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.
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Papyrus
Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface.
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Peninsula
A peninsula (paeninsula from paene "almost” and insula "island") is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border, while being connected to a mainland from which it extends.
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Philodendron
Philodendron is a large genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family.
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Pinus palustris
Pinus palustris, commonly known as the longleaf pine, is a pine native to the Southeastern United States, found along the coastal plain from East Texas to southern Maryland, extending into northern and central Florida.
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Plumbago
Plumbago is a genus of 10–20 species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world.
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Police aviation
Police aviation is the use of rotary-wing aircraft, fixed-wing aircraft, nonrigid-wing aircraft or lighter-than-air aircraft in police operations.
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Reflecting pool
A reflecting pool or reflection pool is a water feature found in gardens, parks, and at memorial sites.
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Sabal
Sabal is a genus of New World palms, commonly known as palmettos.
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Sandhill
A sandhill is a type of ecological community or xeric wildfire-maintained ecosystem.
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Sandhill crane
The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.
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Spider lily
Spider lily is the common name for a number of different plant species within the family Amaryllidaceae which belong to the following genera.
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Spook Hill
Spook Hill is a gravity hill, an optical illusion where cars appear to roll up the spooky hill in Lake Wales, Florida.
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St. Augustine, Florida
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Tate, Georgia
Tate is an unincorporated community in Pickens County, Georgia, United States.
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Trachelospermum asiaticum
Trachelospermum asiaticum (common name Asiatic jasmine) is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to Korea and Japan.
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Tree fern
The tree ferns are the ferns that grow with a trunk elevating the fronds above ground level.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bok_Tower_Gardens
