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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.
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.
I have lately been reading accounts of the exploration of the western and northwestern deserts of Australia in the 1870s and I have become very aware of the effect absent necessities might have on the frequency of particular items in discourse.
Its northern deserts were a battleground in the Egypt-Israeli conflicts of the 1950s and 1960s, and it was occupied by Israel for many months before it passed permanently back into Egypt’s hands with the treaty of 1979.
When she speaks Shakespearean verse, that nervy edge deserts her: She makes her face a blank and pipes her lines arrhythmically, like a clueless high-school thespian.
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