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They finally settled in a suburb of Los Angeles, Hollywood, where there was guaranteed sunshine all the year round plus — within easy reach of the new studios — deserts and mountains as well as beaches, rivers, forests, and islands which could double for the Wild West, the Holy Land, the Mediterranean — wherever.
Artemisia L. (Asteraceae), as broadly conceived by Linnaeus, is the largest genus in Tribe Anthemideae [ 1 2 3 ] and one of the largest in the family [ 4 ] . It is widespread in mid- to high-latitudes, and shrubby species dominate most cold and many warm deserts in the Northern Hemisphere [ 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ] . Because of the abundance of wind-dispersed Artemisia pollen in the geological column, it is used as an indicator of steppe climates [ 14 ] . Some members are foraged by ungulates, rodents, birds, and insects [ 11 15 16 17 18 19 ] , despite the production of sesquiterpenes that afford a bitter taste to the herbage.
"Look, where once dead deserts lay, now flowering cities arise!
It is almost too irresistible to wonder: Did Nixon serve up his sympathetic testimony because he knew it would alienate the jury and give Deep Throat what he, Nixon, deemed his just deserts?
The hypocrite was neatly described as Hit's ill for da kettle crook tae ca da kettle black , while ` Caff [chaff] aye flees heicher [flies higher] dan guid coarn summed up a false friend who deserts one in trouble.