• The White Carnation is a 1953 play by English playwright R. C. Sherriff. Its premiere production had a cast led by Ralph Richardson, but it was not revived...
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    dy-AN-thəs KAIR-ee-ə-FIL-əs), commonly known as carnation or clove pink, is a species of Dianthus native to the Mediterranean region. Its exact natural range...
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    government officials (from the president down) to wear a white carnation the following day in observance of Mother's Day. On May 8, 1914, the U.S. Congress passed...
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    By the 1920s, as the floral industry continued increasing prices of white carnations and then introduced red carnations to meet the demand for the flower...
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    The race, nicknamed The Test of the Champion, The Test of Champions and The Run for the Carnations, is the traditional third and final leg of the Triple...
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  • Annabel Mullion (category Alumni of the University of East Anglia)
    by Stephen Daldry, Lydia Languish in The Rivals directed by Braham Murray, and Lady Mary in The White Carnation directed by Knight Mantel. In 2019 she...
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  • "A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)" is a 1957 country and western song with words and music both written by Marty Robbins. It was recorded at the...
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  • Snakehead The White Carnation, an extra chapter in Russian Roulette (June 2014) Resistance to Interrogation and Coda are available on the author's website...
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    with James Best, Ann Doran, and J. Carrol Naish in the 1956 episode "The White Carnation" of the religion anthology series, Crossroads. She guest-starred...
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  • The For Carnation are an American post-rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, formed in 1994. The band was formed by Brian McMahan, who is the only constant...
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  • Carnation is a brand of food products. The brand was especially known for its evaporated milk product created in 1899, then called Carnation Sterilized...
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  • The Green Carnation is a novel by Robert Hichens that was first published anonymously in 1894. A satire on contemporary champions of the Aesthetic Movement...
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  • Delta Sigma Phi (category Student societies in the United States)
    Knot, and the Egyptian Pyramids. The white carnation was chosen as the fraternity's flower because it contains the fraternity's colors; white and Nile...
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  • Tri Kappa (category Fraternities and sororities in the United States)
    inception, the organization chose crossed keys, a triangle and the white carnation as symbols. The crossed keys are the predominant symbol used on the organization's...
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  • Chi Omega (category Student societies in the United States)
    was initiated in 2013. The white carnation is the official flower, while the skull and crossbones are the official symbol. The official colors are cardinal...
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  • the bride has a white carnation flower stuck in her hair and the groom wears a white carnation pinned to his breast pocket or buttonhole. While white...
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    cast in the religion anthology series Crossroads, in its 1956 episode "The White Carnation." He was also cast on an episode of the NBC sitcom The People's...
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    exams. At the first examination, a white carnation is worn, at subsequent intermediate examinations, a pink carnation is worn, and at the final examination...
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  • National Tour and Ireland (January - August 2013) John Greenwood in The White Carnation with Benjamin Whitrow, Robert Benfield and Tony Dale - Jermyn Street...
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    Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the American painter John Singer Sargent in 1885–86. The painting depicts two small children...
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    Carnation (Lushootseed: tultxʷ) is a city in King County, Washington, United States. It was historically known as Tolt and lies at the confluence of the...
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  • white carnations, and she inserts one in his lapel's button-hole. At the end of the day, she and Richard leave the office. She is carrying the white carnation...
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  • Celeste Caeiro (category Carnation Revolution)
    prominence during the revolution to overthrow Marcelo Caetano. She gave out red and white carnations to the soldiers, leading to the action of 25 April...
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  • colors were olive green and grey. Its flower was the white carnation. Its quarterly publication was The College Publisher. Members of Pi Delta Epsilon were...
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    J. Thomas Heflin (category Critics of the Catholic Church)
    for being "the greatest source of our country’s strength and inspiration.” The tradition of wearing white carnations (and later red carnations) spread across...
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  • the order by the seven members of the White Duchy from the previous year. Members were known by the white carnation they wore on specific days of the...
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  • color of the fraternity is white, the unofficial secondary colors are black and gold. The fraternity flower is the white carnation. The flag of the Zeta Psi...
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    Mother's Day (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    her mother's death and selected her mother's favorite flower, the white carnation, as the day's official emblem. L. James Grold (April 1968), "Mother's...
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    he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping...
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  • R. C. Sherriff (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    1953: The White Carnation 1955: The Long Sunset 1957: The Telescope 1960: A Shred of Evidence (or The Strip of Steel) 1919: The Toilers 1933: The Invisible...
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