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  • n  an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black

  • Carla under the jacaranda tree in 'La Perdida' The long second act begins as Carla involves herself more deeply with the native .
  • They crowded onto balconies, perched in jacaranda trees, and clung to flagpoles around the airport building.
  • Maurice Kogode is the chairman of the grandly named Central Square Consultation Forum, which meets beneath a vast jacaranda tree.
News & Articles

  • Donations fund jacaranda tree project
    San Diegans can thank the The Village Garden Club of La Jolla for the blooming jacarandas currently brightening the city.
    June 21, 2013 - U-T San Diego
  • Jacaranda Living Launches Its Spin on Ginger Jars
    Jacaranda Living, the high-end soft furnishings company, is launching a new collection of embroidered linens, featuring the classic blue Ginger Jar on natural and white palettes. The blue and white Ginger Jars are beautiful décor accents that Jacaranda Living is excited to have added to their collection of bed and bath linens. (PRWeb June 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com ...
    June 21, 2013 - PRWeb
  • Review: Fighting and losing in Iran, then and now
    Children of the Jacaranda Tree(Atria Books), by Sahar Delijani
    June 19, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Nelson Mandela in Politicsweb
    In his inaugural address on the 10th of May 1994, Madiba said "To my compatriots, I have no hesitation in saying that each of us is as intermittently attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and...
  • Ranjit Hoskote in Thaindian.com (blog)
    Bawa recalls how he had been physically seized by the ends of rocks, the green of paddy fields on a hillside and the violet of the jacaranda tree,art critic Ranjit Hoskote commented on Bawa's show in 2005.
  • Sir Alex Ferguson in International Herald Tribune
    The first time I saw it was a photograph in a 1951 Sporting Life magazine. I would bowl with the same grip with a tennis ball in backyard cricket, with a jacaranda tree as the wicket. It was quite natural for me to bowl a legspinner even if it... John Gleeson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gleeson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNElQrUX3Ps1c1EAZfOJhqST86aZUA CricInfo.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://content-www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/362088.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEhonhJTMEI10cl2fCKNIBYvP93pg Jul 23, 2008 54141 71341 jack-in-the-box It was a superb performance from Carlos Tevez," Ferguson told MUTV. "He was like a jack-in-the-box all day and he showed great energy, getting on the ball and showing great movement. Right from the word go all the players played with great...

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