They set out to create 120 handmade poppies to mark Anzac Day in 2013, but after being inundated with help, they launched the 5,000 Poppies Project – and soon received more than 250,000 crocheted poppies from around the world.
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This year Glasgow has a statue surrounded by hundreds of "floating" poppies blown around by fans; 4,000 knitted poppies pour from a church in Warminster.
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It's a day when some people wear poppies to commemorate the fallen soldiers, based on John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Fields," where the poppies grow on the soldiers's graves.
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"Over the weekend the Sheriff's Office Investigations Division eradicated one acre of opium poppies, which contained approximately 27,000 plants of opium poppies and another 16,500 harvested plants," the statement said.
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His neighbours' fields are full of pink and white poppies.
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He scales the bachelor button flowers, daisies, and red poppies.
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"Vase With Poppies" will go back on display in April.
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Cutting down the tall poppies uses violence for the cut.
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And you need to know exactly which poppies to cut.
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"It is best to grow poppies in the desert," he says.
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There are also beautiful gardens to wander through (no poppies though).
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Unlike morphine or heroin, no poppies are required for its manufacture.
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A pigeon has been pinching poppies to build a red nest.
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Our players should wear their poppies with pride...stuff the rules!
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Bright red poppies and gigantic, neatly rolled haystacks dotted the fields.
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Why is this year so spectacular for the abundance of poppies?
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Bullock also mentioned that Paulson sent her poppies after dog Poppy died.
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And U.S. customers stayed on board even after it raised prices. Poppies!
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Television guests have poppies thrust upon them, lest their absence offend viewers.
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FALL OF POPPIES Stories of Love and the Great War 357 pp.
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In the spring, the vineyards around Pauillac are lined with wild poppies.
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Red poppies are worn and placed at memorials to remember their sacrifice.
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A tank leads a military convoy through a field of red poppies.
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Kate Spade has a denim skirt embellished with vivid red poppies ($2145).
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At Leicester City, the grounds staff mowed poppies into the playing surface.
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Opium poppies must be irrigated, well-fertilized, must get regular applications of pesticides.
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Farmers said they paid about $290 for each acre of poppies under cultivation.
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WILTON "Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War," panel discussion.
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They later confirmed the plants were Papaver Somniferum, commonly known as opium poppies.
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Deputies said they eradicated one acre of opium poppies, which contained 27,000 plants.
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"Tall poppies," coach Tim Walsh told Reuters before the squad departed for Brazil.
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Cherry also criticized immigrants for not honoring Canada's fallen soldiers by wearing poppies.
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This is the same substance that helps opium poppies produce their narcotic effect.
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Why are many Mexican farmers and their children growing and harvesting opium poppies?
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Then Alessandro Michele, the creative director of Gucci, put some silk poppies on top.
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From here we can look down the hill, covered in golden orange California poppies.
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Both wore red poppies, the symbol of remembrance for World War I and veterans.
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Both wore red poppies, the symbol of remembrance for World War I and veterans.
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"This park was created specifically because of the poppies that are here," Rhyne said.
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The poppies in Walker Canyon are so lush, they can be seen from space.
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The third opioid is heroin, derived from opium poppies, almost all of it illegally.
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The fireworks in Sin's Night Flowers series can look like marigolds, dandelions, and poppies.
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The fireworks in Sin's Night Flowers series can look like marigolds, dandelions, and poppies.
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They wore red poppies, the symbol of remembrance for World War I and veterans.
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Meanwhile, Prince William and Prince Harry joined their father in laying wreaths of poppies.
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Meanwhile, Prince William and Prince Harry joined Prince Andrew in laying wreaths of poppies.
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The Tasmanian Alkaloids facility in Westbury, Tasmania, processes poppies for use in prescription opioids.
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The crowd-pleasing poppies are likely to blossom in the next week or so.
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A set of 10 flowers costs $20 and includes peonies, roses, anemones, poppies and more.
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People have been cultivating the poppies for culinary and medicinal purposes for thousands of years.
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Other than poppies, few plants take to the thin soil on Juquila Yucucani's stony slopes.
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In March, a pair landed a helicopter in the middle of a field of poppies.
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For farmers like Mr Samad, that takes some of the buzz out of planting poppies.
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For centuries farmers have grown poppies on the hillsides and used them to make opium.
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People trampled California's poppies for the 'gram, and ruined it for the rest of us.
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The Taliban were forcing them to stop growing opium poppies, but it was tough going.
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FIFA rules forbid players from wearing poppies as they are perceived as a political statement.
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Myanmar destroyed 3,533 hectares of opium poppies in 2017, down from 13,450 hectares in 2015.
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The town is known for its ornate lacquerware, and the mountains for fields of poppies.
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At least you could pay a couple of bucks for poppies or something like that.
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Both women wore red poppies, the symbol of remembrance for World War I and veterans.
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Poppies are usually used to mark the sacrifice of soldiers who died in armed conflict.
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Some poppies, gentians and narcissus have emerged, but the scorching heat has taken its toll.
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Scarlet poppies and brilliant blue viper's bugloss carpet the meadows and line the roadside ditches.
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Thousand-year-old lace-like carved stone crosses (khatchgars) emerge from fields of roadside poppies.
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Sydney's Opera House was illuminated with a display of red poppies to commemorate the day.
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The daisies and poppies and pastel blooms on an evening capelet were carved from fur.
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The poppies were part of a ceramic poppy installation called "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red," which marked the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. There were 888,246 poppies in total, each one representing a British military fatality during the war.
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Hazan represents the yellows of brittlebush, bright orange of California poppies, and the purple of lupines.
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Visitors to the country in November are often surprised by the number of poppies on show.
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Last time the England football team played on November 11th, in 1987, poppies did not feature.
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And Cunning, a storyteller, seems born to make them, although "Wild Poppies" is her first effort.
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It was a fantastical dystopian world in the same way that 'Wild Poppies' was for me.
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If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.
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Opium was common in North Korea, where poppies grew all over the place, Ms. Choi said.
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NRPY: Pictures on the walls of Xiong Portraits show iconic images of poppies and Hmong regalia.
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Flowers, from left: Paper Eden anemones, dahlias, fritillaria, jasmine, muscari and poppies, $56 per stem, papereden.jp.
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They're the authors of hits like "Kill All the Poppies," a piece of pure hubris published
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Her husband grows poppies, and she said anyone who runs a business faces extortion by gangs.
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"Poppies die quickly when they're stepped on," said Jean Rhyne, an interpreter for California State Parks.
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ANCIENT Egyptians, Sumerians, Greeks and many others knew the powers of opium poppies and employed them extensively.
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The government has accused the activists of wanting to cultivate opium poppies and of propagating Maoist revolution.
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"Wild Poppies" is her first music video, although it feels like Cunning is made for the form.
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Steadily morphing like the poppies' blooms, these repetitious works displayed nature's steadfast presence — beauty despite surrounding conflict.
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And Indian poppies, transformed into pills, helped manufacture American pain, as well as a crisis at home.
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An artwork in Wales, made with thousands of handmade ceramic poppies, is stopping people in their tracks.
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They met around the central door, where the alien flowers shrunk, brightened, became marigolds, poppies, and roses.
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However, the poppies were piled under a stained glass window — probably not the best place to hide.
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So we have cyclones whirling around the theater, we have poppies growing, snow falling, and flying monkeys.
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"We went there and we actually brought our own flowers, not to pick the poppies," she said.
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They are less reliant on climate and labs are much easier to hide than fields of poppies.
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In the village outside the police post, children play in fields of tall white and pink opium poppies.
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Also dressed in black for the somber occasion, Queen Elizabeth laid a wreath of poppies at the memorial.
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Plastic red poppies—the national symbol for war remembrance—are permanently pinned to lampposts along the high street.
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Mexico supplies 90% of the US's heroin, and Guerrero grows 50% of the poppies for the heroin trade.
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From poppies to ephedra to cannabis, people have been turning plants into medicine for more than 60,000 years.
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Opium poppies are used to make opium and heroin, as well as morphine and other pain-killing drugs.
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"All of our poppies were disease-affected," said one farmer in the Loy Bagh area of Nad Ali.
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Perhaps the best hope is that the appeal of planting poppies wilts before too many wells dry up.
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Poppies are worn every year to remember those who have given their lives in conflicts around the world.
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It was there, he added, that most of Mexico's marijuana and poppies — used for making heroin — were grown.
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Perhaps the source of our addiction lay deep in our genes, beyond poppies or cartels or Big Pharma.
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A "super bloom" of wild poppies blankets the hills of Walker Canyon near Lake Elsinore, California, March 12.
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A "super bloom" of wild poppies blankets the hills of Walker Canyon on March 12, near Lake Elsinore, California.
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California poppies are abundant as visitors take in the scenery of the "super bloom" in Walker Canyon, March 216.
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The red and white poppies are relatively easy to take care of and can produce three harvests a year.
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But the poppies may be no match for the more destructive invasive species: the influencer who gets too close.
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But I will forever admire the angelic creatures among us who are able to pull poppies out of paper.
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Gone are the symbolic flowers she holds: poppies for death, pansies for love in vain, and daisies for innocence.
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Opium poppies and humans share a history dating back to the Neolithic period, according to the paper published in Science.
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A growing number of criminal groups in Guerrero are battling over territory used to grow opium poppies for heroin production.
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Gangs are battling over the territory where opium poppies are grown to make the heroin that has flooded U.S. streets.
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Two particularly interesting possibilities are the cannabinoids made by marijuana and the variations on opium and morphine made by poppies.
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To make heroin or morphine and other semi-synthetic opioids like Oxycodone and hydrocodone, you first need to grow poppies.
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AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISTS dabbed and flicked paint on their canvases to suggest spires of purplish blue hollyhocks and cascades of poppies.
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Earlier on Sunday, William and Harry laid wreaths of poppies at the Cenotaph war memorial in London for Remembrance Day.
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The UN plans to start satellite and ground surveys to measure the crop, just as it does with opium poppies.
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Her logo, a line drawing of a hand grasping desert poppies and wild grass, appears on many of the squares.
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Hear the sounds of a Tasmanian farm Pause It is poppies, however, that have earned attention from around the world.
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"The accountant said if you could fill the factory up [with poppies], we could give them a 747," Rockliff recalled.
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Among the blooms are baby blue eyes, orange poppies, purple bush lupine and goldfields — all set against rare green canvas.
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My first tattoo, a sleeve on my upper left arm, is a tangle of California wildflowers: poppies and lupines and blackberries.
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Ms Inglis untangles these contradictions with gusto, guiding readers from primitive Neolithic experiments with poppies to the modern "war on drugs".
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There were 2,000 pounds of poppies on a half-acre of land near Claremont, about an hour's drive north of Charlotte.
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According to The Canberra Times, the pigeon pilfered the poppies at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra ahead of Remembrance Day.
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He often painted the famous garden, lush with poppies, lilies and roses, of the poet Celia Thaxter, who lived on Appledore.
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Memo is a young and healthy farmer who says he would like to grow chili but he grows opium poppies instead.
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As our convoy of armored Humvees moves along the dirt roads of Helmand, we see barren fields where poppies once grew.
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Yellow broom, purple thistles and fat red poppies spring from the desert floor and paint it a psychedelic swirl of color.
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In one place, a huge patch of ground seems to bleed with thousands of poppies springing from the softly undulating earth.
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Noted If you think Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of petunias and poppies are anatomically suggestive, then you've surely never seen an anthurium.
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As U.S. flags sprouted like poppies across the American landscape, it was clear that politics still stopped at the water's edge.
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During his "Coach's Corner" segment, Cherry complained about people not wearing poppies - an emblem of remembrance - ahead of the country's Nov.
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Afghan warlords wouldn't be filthy rich if Americans didn't buy the heroin that starts as poppies throughout Afghanistan in plain sight.
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The second half of the film depicts hills covered in poppies in bloom, the color contrast cranked to a maximum saturation.
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They had no special secrets except their incredible skill at bending, pulling, and blowing glass into immortal lilies, roses, pines, and poppies.
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For that project, Paul Cummins created a field of 888,53 poppies, each representing the death of a member of the Allied forces.
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Thailand-based animator and painter Chanon Treenet illustrated a sensual scene between two lovers made out of succelents, waves, and water poppies.
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It is the potentially addictive subset of opioids, whose natural ancestors were originally derived from poppies, that we associate with the word.
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He ordered the Earl Grey tea, served in a pot adorned with poppies, and a plate of scones with jam and cream.
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In March, all of the fields are yellow because of the rapeseed crops, after that it turns red because of the poppies.
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Black tar heroin, produced from poppies that grow in Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains, offers a cheap and potent alternative to prescription painkillers.
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But a rail-thin grower with narco-style chain necklaces in the nearby hamlet of Amatitlan said he won&apost plant poppies again.
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It's worth noting that the Duchess was, in fact, attending a Christmas gathering — although, the print on her frock is actually of poppies.
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Both countries chose to defy FIFA by wearing poppies in Friday's Group F match to commemorate the armistice that ended World War One.
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Authorities have only been able to destroy 355 hectares of opium poppies this year compared to 3,760 hectares in 2015, a 91% decrease.
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The stagnant water below each projection showcases a reflected set of ghostly flowers, wilting poppies revealing a secondary symbolism of the flower: death.
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She loved her poppies, always giving to the bees, the butterflies, to the people who gazed at them, the soil when they died.
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The law frustrated Australia, which had started growing poppies on Tasmania with industrial efficiency, hawking top-shelf poppy straw at bargain basement prices.
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The primary problem is a new strain of genetically modified seed that comes from China, which allows poppies to be grown year round.
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Tall poppies, says Ms Glomb, are chopped down in a variety of ways, including ostracism at social events and humiliation before the boss.
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Guerrero, where opium poppies are grown for heroin production, has seen some of the highest rates of violence in Mexico in recent years.
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We trudged through olive groves and a beautiful field where red poppies and purple flowers grew among stalks of undulating, sea-green wheat.
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Benech had spent many summers at his maternal grandmother's Provençal garden, with its lavender, olive trees and blanket of white Coulter's Matilija poppies.
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Corn made way for poppies, and residents stopped their communal gatherings, opting instead to keep a low profile hidden away in their farms.
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To help things along, Panting added native yellow rattle, which is partially parasitic to grass, to the mix of daisies, poppies and cornflowers.
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That local farmers prioritize the growth of lucrative poppies over wheat and other cereal crops made the food shortage even worse, he continued.
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My legs are getting sore as we cut through a neighborhood called Excelsior, where front yards are full of roses and California poppies.
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One potential downside to walking is getting caught in a magic field of poppies and falling asleep, so it's not entirely without risk.
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Black tar heroin, produced from poppies that grow in Mexico's rugged Sierra Madre mountains, offers a cheap and potent alternative to prescription painkillers.
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For millennia they had only what could be reasonably easily coaxed from poppies, grapes, mushrooms and the like to help them in their endeavours.
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LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against England and Scotland after they wore poppies on black armbands in last week's World Cup qualifier.
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The latter is aided by the fact the poppies are farmed in some of the most impoverished and politically charged regions of the world.
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As a child, Mr. Vázquez worked in the fields, harvesting the poppies and bleeding them of their sap, the key raw material for heroin.
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A collection of golden poppies, California&aposs state flower, sit on the grass beneath the shield together with wintersweet, which grows at Kensington Palace.
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Now he works trying to create better conditions for families who have grown poppies for generations and rarely feel they are doing anything wrong.
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In "Poppies by a Victorian Mirror" (1965), the artist presents identifiable objects, such as a vase and flowers, while continuing to give color precedence.
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Helmand Police Commander Mahmood Noorzai says that, despite their previous crops being destroyed, many farmers in Nad-e Ali are once again growing poppies.
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Endless blue skies and stretches of open freeway, the edges smudged with orange poppies and wild buckwheat and tumbles of pink and purple bougainvillea.
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High-level U.S. state department officials have told Reuters that the United States has offered to help fund Mexico's efforts to eradicate opium poppies.
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Here at the monastery, though, on this pleasant spring day, birdsong ricocheted off the cliffs and the only thing to explode were the poppies.
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Kate was in a re-wear of an LK Bennett dress decorated with blue poppies that she was first seen wearing in Australia in 2014.
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Mr Samad says that he too would grow poppies, but his land is fertile and near a road, so he is better off growing vegetables.
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An impressive red carpet of poppies covered the grounds of the Royal Hospital as part of the annual Chelsea Flower Show, which kicked off Monday.
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In Acapulco, in the south-western state of Guerrero, the fight for control of trade in heroin, made from locally grown poppies, is still raging.
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The poppies brought thousands of tourists, many of whom trampled the flowers to get that perfect pic to share, dropping their trash along the way.
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Bees are drawn to bright colors and especially love blue, purple, white and yellow, so flowers like echinacea, poppies and asters will have them buzzing.
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As a teenager, U.S. prosecutors have said, he joined what was already an established industry there by cultivating marijuana and growing poppies for heroin production.
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TANGYAN, Myanmar (Reuters) - Zhou Xing Ci's family have farmed poppies for as long as anyone remembers, scraping the flowers' sticky brown sap to produce opium.
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In addition to the now-deleted Meghan post, McCartney also shared a video on Instagram of poppies in a field in commemoration of Remembrance Sunday.
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All your favorites are there: the good witch (Glinda, for Wicked fans), the Yellow Brick Road, Toto, those vibrant red poppies, and even Oz himself.
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It's made in a lab using chemicals and doesn't require drug makers to cultivate organic crops, such as poppies, as is the case with heroin.
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Afghanistan accounts for 0003 percent of the world's heroin; more than two-thirds of that comes from Helmand's opium poppies, according to United Nations figures.
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All the while, Cornflowers and Water Men frolic with Poppies — girls, around the ages of 12 to 14, from Ballet Theater's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.
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Hashtags like #Horribleperson began popping up in comments on any photos geotagged at Lake Elsinore in which it appeared someone might be mistreating the poppies.
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While Mexico's security forces burn opium poppies and shoot traffickers, there are also countless cases of its soldiers, police and politicians working with the criminals.
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In the hills beyond the poppies are the pretty pointed mud domes of traditional "beehive" villages and young shepherds watching flocks of sheep and goats.
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The second is J & J's former ownership of two companies that produced and refined Tasmanian poppies into narcotics material for other drug manufacturers, including Purdue.
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Emily Weiss, the C.E.O. and founder of Glossier, asked her to create the bouquet for her wedding, which consisted of reflexed roses, poppies and ranunculus.
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Thousands of wooden crosses adorned with poppies and the names of the dead were planted at the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey in London.
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To legally grow and export opium poppies for painkillers, Mexico first would need authorization from the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a United Nations body.
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In response to a picture delighting in the California Poppies that was taken in the area on Saturday, one Instagram commenter was polite but firm.
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At the very same event, while taking in the spectacular field of handmade poppies, designer Margaret Knight told reporters she overheard a different nickname in play.
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Addiction rates are still soaring in the U.S., but the cartel has found a way to meet demand for heroin that doesn't involve fields of poppies.
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In the 19th century China was defeated in two wars against Britain that were caused by British sales of contraband opium produced from Indian-grown poppies.
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Saltzman was inspired to pick this fiery shade for the star after Oh had told her that she loves to gaze at poppies out her window.
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Rain in the forecast this week might deter some tourists from coming - or it could cause even more poppies to bloom and attract even more tourists.
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Month three, the local businesses, dependent on the tourists attracted by the poppies, scrounged together enough to pay her part-time to keep the reserve pristine.
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LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA has rejected a request by England and Scotland for their players to wear armbands featuring poppies during their World Cup qualifier on Nov.
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This year sees a floral arch for the Queen's 90th birthday, a selection of bizarre garden gadgets in "The British Eccentrics Garden," and a poppies tribute.
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Royal parents-to-be Harry and Meghan matched in navy, and all four wore red poppies, the symbol of remembrance for World War I and veterans.
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Heavy rains caused the city's Walker Canyon nature reserve to bloom with millions of bright orange poppies, and the scenic slopes quickly gained traction on Instagram.
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In the bombed-out countryside of Western Europe after World War I, Flanders poppies, which were resilient enough to grow amid the destruction, became potent symbols.
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In this episode, we take a trip into the mountains of Sinaloa to meet farmers who grow opium poppies — the plants that get processed into heroin.
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First of all, there is his repulsive painting on the cover of some poppies next to a doll-like creature clinging to an alien-like creature.
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An estimated 45 million poppies will be distributed in 2016, according to the BBC, worn on television and in Parliament, schools, hospitals, railway stations and offices.
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The United States has offered to help fund Mexico's efforts to eradicate opium poppies, a U.S. official says, as Mexican heroin output increased again last year.
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One of the most striking events is at the museum in Kansas City where a massive light installation appears to cover a memorial in 5,000 poppies.
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"The growth in the use of fentanyl could be reducing the harvest of opium poppies, and that could be having an effect" on murder rates, Hope said.
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The hall's terrazzo floor was designed by San Francisco-based artist Julie Chang and is a lively collection of California flora and fauna, including poppies and hummingbirds.
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Meghan and Kate joined those gathered at Sunday's solemn service in wearing red poppies, a symbol of remembrance for World War I and veterans, and singing hymns.
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Meanwhile, regional demand for heroin, which is derived from opium poppies, has remained stable or decreased, with many younger drug users preferring methamphetamine, according to UNODC data.
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But from behind now they look just like little girls: sisters in a portrait, or Renoir's beauties in flat black hats, poppies sprung from their ballet shoes.
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But all of the stamping of feet and screaming of dissent about the forbidden poppies did nothing to further what the poppy nominally represented: sincere, somber reflection.
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This includes a wide range of herbaceous plants that cover soil, like clump-forming sedges, rhizomatous strawberries or golden groundsel, and self-seeding columbine or woodland poppies.
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This information will be useful for scientists hoping to genetically engineer poppies to tweak their opioid-producing abilities, which could perhaps be a next step for the research.
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Pfaff, the DEA spokesperson, said "there are a variety of potential reasons for falling gum prices" in Mexico, including increased fentanyl trafficking and a supply glut of poppies.
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The two golden stripes represent rays of sun, reflecting Meghan's sun-filled days growing up in L.A. There is also a scattering of golden poppies, California's state flower.
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It has been nearly constant along the interior routes where drugs and precursor chemicals are smuggled, as well as in places where opium poppies and marijuana are grown.
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Among the striking displays: a field of 5,000 poppies, a tribute of remembrance created to mark the sacrifice of those who have fallen in conflicts around the world.
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One of the arguments for bringing saffron to an international market is that it could give Afghan farmers an alternative to growing opium poppies, a source of heroin.
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For decades, families in the area worked the fields, cultivating marijuana and poppies used to produce heroin, according to Anabel Hernandez, an investigative journalist who covers Mexican cartels.
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And that was how it was: days and nights in the long, narrow house surrounded by sea, stones, thistles, poppies, and barren moors reminiscent of West African savannas.
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"I would gladly trade in this clutch of national symbols — sabers, white horses, red poppies — for a handful of sexual symbols from a Freudian textbook," he once said.
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Mr. Cushing based the clothing and scenery on Ballets Russes costumes, Japanese prints and Whistler's paintings, among other sources, and the background vegetation includes poppies, oleander and nightshade.
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Nature poured off every point of the highway: massive emerald-green cliffs and the turquoise ocean below, the yellow California poppies, craggy pines, cattails moving in perfect rhythm.
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From afar, they seem like maps of fantasyscapes, coral branches, or patches of fluorescent flowers — the visualization of his passwords, in particular, resembles a field of purple poppies.
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A strong theme of her work was grass-roots mobilization against the eradication of poppies, passionately arguing that Afghanistan could gain by legalizing the crop for medicinal purposes.
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Mr. Fels described the defendant as a seasoned trafficker who had ascended to the top of his cartel after getting a start growing poppies and marijuana in Sinaloa.
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The two of you represent a conundrum for the average Canadian as we are unkind to tall poppies but desperate for attention from international celebrities of any kind.
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" Left and center: "These are hollyhocks and verbena (left) and poppies (center) from the garden at our Suffolk cottage, where we try to spend two weekends each month.
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One of the oldest recipients was 94-year-old Janet Gillespie who received a British Empire Medal for her charitable service, voluntarily selling commemorative poppies for over 60 years.
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His house and decked garden, which is adorned with poppies and pink foxgloves and overlooked by towering apartment blocks, could soon be demolished if local authority plans are approved.
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Through a contract-farming framework, the Hilltribe farmers, who in the past grew poppies for opium, raise laying hens and sell organic eggs to the company at zero expense.
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As the Taliban has consolidated its hold on parts of Afghanistan, where 85% of the world's heroin is made, more of the country has been given over to poppies.
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CALAIS, France (Reuters) - A Monet painting inspired the field of red poppies embroidered onto the delicate lace at Gerard Dezoteux's 126-year-old lace factory in Calais, northern France.
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The history of the poppy as an honor Poppies as a memorial for fallen soldiers date back to the early 1900s, according to the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
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On the same day, Canada's best-known hockey commentator, Don Cherry, suggested that new arrivals should spend a few dollars buying the red poppies worn to commemorate Remembrance Day.
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Zhou is now in his third year raising silkworms rather than poppies, and says quicker profits have enabled his family - with six children - to upgrade from a bamboo hut.
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Violence has spiked in Guerrero over the past decade as a growing number of criminal gangs vie for control of crops of opium poppies and for drug-trafficking routes.
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The Sumerians wrote about "the joy plant"; an Egyptian papyrus from the second millennium B.C. described the use of a product of poppies to stop the crying of children.
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These organized criminal groups have been active across Mexico since the 1990s, producing heroin from poppies grown in the mountains here and exporting it to the US and Europe.
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An internal government report leaked to the news magazine Proceso earlier this month discusses creating a legal market for opium poppies used in the production of morphine-based medication.
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The book begins in a burning Mexican poppy field in 1975 ("Only in hell, Art Keller thinks, do flowers bloom fire") and leaves Keller among more poppies in 2004.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. FIFA has fined all four home nations for displaying poppies during World Cup qualifiers in November, in commemoration of Armistice Day.
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Among the super-blooming wildflowers are bright yellow Parish's poppies, desert lilies, desert sunflowers, dune evening primrose, monkeyflower, whispering bells and the Little Gold poppy, according to the state park.
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I grab gardening tools and a few packages of seeds and take the dog to the front yard to plant a variety of edible flowers, poppies, and Black-eyed Susans.
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Since the poppies went viral — even getting their own Twitter moment —the city has tried to cope with the flood of visitors by closing, then reopening, then closing the fields.
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In some British mosques imams pinned poppies on each other to mark the centennial of the first world war and remember the hundreds of thousands of Muslims killed in battle.
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Beneath the shield on the grass is a collection of golden poppies, California's state flower, and wintersweet, which grows at Kensington Palace — right outside Meghan and Harry's cozy Nottingham cottage.
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Robert Mapplethorpe's iconic photography in the 1980's series Flowers depicted the pert grace of Calla lilies and poppies with the same frankness that he captured more controversial subject matters.
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And in 2011, when the FIFA rule was invoked to ban the poppy, the organization backed down, allowing English players to wear black armbands appliquéd with poppies during a game.
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"In Syria we believe that poppies are the blood of the martyrs," said Aleppo lawyer and historian Alaa al-Sayed, explaining that their Arabic name comes from a dead king.
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The orange patches are countless poppies sprouting up, but depending where you are in the state, there are also yellow dandelions and other pink and purple desert wildflowers to admire.
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American officials also sought to end Afghanistan's opium trade — a major source of income for poor farmers — and, at points, tried to cultivate pomegranate crops as a replacement for poppies.
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An old wooden homestead wagon, eventually purchased by Tyler to celebrate the history, remains parked near the house between the gravel driveway and a long row of bright red poppies.
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Finally, tell us more about what you think: The article states: But the poppies may be no match for the more destructive invasive species: the influencer who gets too close.
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The symbols include a red dragon, a symbol for Wales, a rose, thistle, and shamrock for the UK, and a rose for the U.S. surrounded by golden poppies to represent California.
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When the Chelsea Flower Show ends on Saturday, the handmade poppies will be transported back to Australia to help commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme on July 1.
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The rare profusion of orange poppies in Walker Canyon, set in the Temescal Mountains and accessible on foot via a trail, owes thanks to above-average rainfall in the arid region.
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In Afghanistan, farmers are turning from water-intensive crops such as wheat to more drought-tolerant opium poppies, which in turn provide a source of income for the Taliban, she added.
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A lack of job opportunities in this fertile land pushes many like El Chapo to get involved in illegal but highly profitable crops like marijuana and poppies, he told the actor.
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We learn he started growing marijuana and poppies by 15, the inside story of his audacious prison break, which involved expert engineers and a motorbike, and how he wants to die.
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According to Francis Audemard, an official tasting expert to the French law courts, Wong would have found "a Cognac full of vigour" with notes of dried poppies, passion flower, and coconuts.
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Mexico is the world's third-largest producer of opium, and Guerrero grows fifty to seventy per cent of the country's poppies; the mountains near Olinalá are among the most productive regions.
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The presumably patriotic pigeon piled the poppies under a stained glass window — probably not the best place to hide the colorful things you stole if you're trying to avoid getting caught.
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"This isn't just about destroying (plantations), it's about finding solutions for people forced to cultivate poppies," Paulo Carreño, Mexican deputy foreign minister in charge of North America, told Reuters this month.
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El Chapo remains a local hero at home, and although the heroin boom may be over, tradition dictates that Mexico's production of poppies and the plant-based drugs will also continue.
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He has also introduced McAfee's traditional cottage garden favorites: poppies, lupines, honesty and sweet woodruff, ''which comes up,'' she says, ''like a white haze under the green arches of Solomon's seal.
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The daisies and poppies and pastel blooms on an evening capelet were fur; ditto the jacket and pencil skirt of a suit, shaved thin as wool and traced by inky blooms.
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The images, collected between January and March show the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, in Los Angeles County, transform from a dull brown to a deep green with patches of orange poppies.
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Not only have they spurned a huge income through opium, but their ban on growing poppies—while forcing farmers to become IS soldiers instead—has turned the local population against them.
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"Back in the 1970s, farmers planted more marijuana, and when the marijuana went down, opium poppies went up, and now they&aposre looking to turn to regulated marijuana growing," said Nava Reyna.
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The pair toured the hospital grounds before joining a small group of elementary schoolchildren and veterans in making red paper poppies, a national symbol for remembering and honoring those fallen in war.
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" She added: "It is for our Football Association, but I think the clear message is going from this House (of Commons): we want our players to be able to wear those poppies.
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Understanding how pharmaceutical companies and American regulators use Indian poppies may not clean up Methadone Mile or Punjab's villages—but it might point to a way beyond the bodies and the blight.
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The world governing body's rules forbid players from wearing poppies as they are perceived as a political statement but SFA chief Stewart Regan said he would ask FIFA to change their minds.
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Vast fields of opium poppies under Taliban control fuel a profitable drug-production operation that dumps as much as $60 billion worth of heroin on American streets, according to the US government.
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" In an Instagram post that showed his wife, Esther JuLee, surrounded by the poppies, he offered a tip to hopeful poppy photographers: "There are plenty of dirt trails to walk around in.
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Heading north past potato fields and farmlands, meadows of poppies and royal blue delphiniums, we drove up the western shore of Lake Sevan, one of the largest high-altitude lakes in Eurasia.
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One day, his father and uncle had cut down the poppies and were preparing the fields for a second crop, onions, when they were hit by an American airstrike, Mr. Zindani said.
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John McCrae, described the poppies that grew next to the crosses of the dead, the sunsets that glowed above the destruction, and the larks that sang, despite being drowned out by gunfire.
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They're also trying to maintain the native diversity, growing California poppies and mugwort, a medicinal plant that induces lucid dreaming, which Christiansen bundles into sachets with sage and gives as parting gifts.
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The people who originate the memes, like peasants who grow poppies or coca, aren't painted as blameless, exactly, but their behavior is understood to reflect incentives that have been engineered by others.
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Coffee is the main source of income for most of the hill tribes living in Chiang Rai, who grew opium poppies before shifting to food crops and coffee beans in the 1960s.
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Gouthière made all-gilt objects as well — most impressively, here, a pair of wall lamps featuring loose clutches of poppies that seem to encompass their life cycle, from buds to wilted blossoms.
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" Schilling continues: Panting "also introduced McAfee's traditional cottage garden favorites: poppies, lupines, honesty and sweet woodruff, 'which comes up,' she says, 'like a white haze under the green arches of Solomon's seal.
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Since poppy seeds are derived from opium poppies, they can contain traces of morphine that wouldn't get you high but could show up on a drug test—a very sensitive drug test.
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The area of Mexico that illegally farms opium poppies grew by more than one-fifth last year, to an area the size of Philadelphia, according to a UN-backed study published in November.
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For now, several hours journey from the nearest hospitals or schools, Juquila Yucucani's poppy farmers say they have two choices to make a living: sneak illegally into the United States, or grow poppies.
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The biscuit—the form of the vessel itself—is fine, semi-translucent when held to the light, weightless like the poppies and the yellow, pink and lavender blossoms that creep up its side.
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The poppy symbol is believed to have come from the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae, a poem about World War I. The opening stanza reads: In Flanders fields the poppies blow
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Billie Lourd and Taylor Lautner took a trip on Monday to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, enjoying the fields of poppies that a surprising amount of rain has brought to the state.
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The restrooms of the poppy reserve were closed to the public day 12 of the state park closures so now Jolene discovered surprise piles in the poppies left by the more diehard visitor.
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William, dressed in a navy coat adorned with military accolades on his lapel, laid a wreath of poppies at the foot of military drums before stepping back and lowering his head in remembrance.
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Cultivation and production of opium poppies continued to flourish at 2015 levels in conflict-plagued areas of those states, which remained a "safe haven for those who run the drug trade", said Douglas.
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VICE News travels to the fertile mountains of western Mexico, where we see the beginning of the path black tar heroin takes to the US on plantations growing poppies used to make opium.
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Opium production from poppies in Afghanistan increased to one of the highest levels on record, according to the United Nations, as eradication efforts all but ended amid continued focus on the ongoing insurgency.
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She meticulously dried and flattened a wide range of species — chestnut, dogwood, poppies, lilac, nasturtiums, even a couple of algae — and artfully fixed them to paper, christening many with the appropriate Latin names.
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The area of Mexico that illegally farms opium poppies grew by more than one-fifth last year, to an area the size of Philadelphia, according to a U.N.-backed study published in November.
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On Wednesday, ex-President Vicente Fox said Mexico must consider legalizing opium poppies, while the Supreme Court made a second ruling in favor of recreational marijuana use after a landmark decision in 2015.
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In London, a National Service of Remembrance is held each year at the Cenotaph, a war memorial, and bright red paper poppies are worn as a symbol of support for the armed forces.
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With poverty rates escalating, and, according to farmers, the government spending most of its funds on fighting the Taliban rather than helping local people, the allure of growing poppies is only growing stronger.
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So is Australia becoming more open to bold creative expression or is this country just as eager as always to cut down the tall poppies who stick their heads up and stand out?
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I think Damien's observations are spot on — we are a friendly people (we prioritize fun and laughter) but that's mixed in with a touch of anti-intellectualism (because we don't like tall poppies).
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Previously endorsed projections include one of falling poppies on the Elizabeth Tower to commemorate the 100th anniversary of WWI and a light show during the 2012 Olympics, commissioned by the Mayor of London.
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When Markle married Prince Harry in May 2018, the design of her veil featured flora from all 53 Commonwealth countries, along with wintersweet for Kensington Palace and California poppies for her home state.
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For their part, the Taliban, who famously banned opium growing in 2000, when they held power across most of the country, have suggested they will once again eliminate the poppies if peace talks succeed.
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Representing Markle, the design to the right of the text includes the rose, the national flower of the United States, while two golden poppies are the state flower of California, where Markle was born.
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El Chapo got his start growing poppies as a teenager, but as his Sinaloa cartel empire expanded, the organization pivoted to synthetic drugs, primarily methamphetamine, made with ephedrine and other chemicals sourced from Asia.
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Proceeds from another auction of jewelry seized from organized crime groups will go to communities in the mountains of Guerrero state, where many families struggle to eke out a living by growing opium poppies.
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During the super bloom — a semi-rare outbreak of poppies in the spring — that number has skyrocketed to around 2,000, including swarms of kids, families, and models posing for Instagram among the delicate wildflowers.
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Both royal women followed the tradition of wearing black outfits adorned with red poppies, the symbol of remembrance for World War I and veterans, to Saturday's Festival of Remembrance ceremony at Royal Albert Hall.
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This first room contains two projections of poppies splayed against the far wall — it's a flower that permeates Koch's exhibition with an obvious symbolism, a reigning icon of peace similar to the white doves.
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Sharing the land with the region's famed lentils - Castelluccio's small, brown pulses are prized by chefs around the world - poppies, daisies and cornflowers provide a floral carpet that has become an annual tourist attraction.
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But New Zealand is a nation with socialized healthcare where those who seek success too aggressively are often derided as "tall poppies" — many have viewed his presence in the country as an uncomfortable fit.
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Despite the swirling controversy, the soccer associations of England and Scotland have announced that their national squads will defy the ban and wear the black armbands with poppies despite the threat of possible sanctions.
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The next morning, we took a taxi out of Samarkand and deeper into the lush Zerafshan Valley, passing cotton and wheat farms and fields of blood-red poppies, until we reached the Tajik border.
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In a rebellious reinvention of French grandeur, his bouquets explode with dyed blue delphiniums and thistles, white hellebores, black-eyed poppies, waxy olive branches and fiery orange lotus, making at once clamor and harmony.
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Representing Ms. Markle, the markings to the right of the text include the rose, the national flower of the United States; and four golden poppies, the state flower of California, where she was born.
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Painted glazed tiles are set so that vines and stalks of flowers — tiger lilies, chrysanthemums, peonies, poppies — seem to climb the walls; more tiles place pink and white cockatoos up in the crown molding.
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Two unnamed individuals—reportedly, a couple—landed a helicopter amid a field of delicate golden poppies on Monday, prompting officials at Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve to ask that visitors, yeah, not do that.
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Government figures suggested opium eradication nationwide remains strong and may even be rising: In the first four months of 2018, soldiers destroyed 12,834 hectares (31,713 acres) of opium poppies, and only 720 hectares of marijuana.
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Earlier this spring, when hundreds of bright orange and yellow poppies bloomed in Southern California in late March, tourists left a field of "crushed flowers and overflowing toilets" after seeking that perfect flower-filled shot.
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The geometry is so exact that some experts theorize that the opium plant and our neural architecture is the result of symbiotic co-evolution (some even think opium poppies shaped the development of human consciousness).
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A super bloom of golden poppies along the hills of Lake Elsinore in Southern California has caused an influx of tourists to the area, with onlookers waiting hours to see the flourishing florals up close.
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"I went to the poppy reserve and all I got was this bizarre pic of me in a kimono making a mildly awkward face surrounded by 4ish dying poppies," Lourd wrote on an Instagram post.
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Sportsnet released a press release saying the longtime Canadian hockey commentator would "immediately step down" due to his remarks on the show accusing immigrants of not wearing poppies to respect military heroes, a Canadian tradition.
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"We are not drug traffickers, we want a dignified life," said elderly Nieves Garcia, who has grown poppies since she was a child and speaks a variant of the indigenous Mixtec language, but no Spanish.
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British pen-maker Yard O Led has launched a luxury silver pen and pencil set encrusted with Californian golden poppies, in what it has dubbed a homage to Markle's former life as a Hollywood actress.
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In just one weekend, more than 66,000 tourists looking to take the perfect shot for Instagram flooded the town, causing gridlock and standstill traffic in the streets, crushing poppies underfoot, and fainting in the heat.
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"Only a small proportion of the Bennelong residents are high-profile tall poppies; many are working or retired people trying to enjoy their lives but having to tolerate event noise and unsocial behaviour," Burtenshaw said.
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"It's a way out that could get us away from the violence there has been in Guerrero," Guerrero's governor, Hector Astudillo, said in March, floating the idea of legal cultivation of poppies for medical purposes.
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The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, the world soccer governing body known as FIFA, has said players must not wear poppies at a World Cup qualifying match between the two national teams set for Friday.
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In December, I traveled to the mountainous town of Guadalupe y Calvo in Chihuahua and saw how the mayor, Noel Chávez, was encouraging local farmers to switch from growing opium poppies and marijuana to avocados.
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The stunning display, which boasts an impressive 300,000 knitted and crocheted poppies, is in honor of all the Commonwealth servicemen and women who have fought in wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations over the past 100 years.
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In the interview published by Rolling Stone, Guzman told Penn that he started growing marijuana and poppies as a teenager because there was no other employment opportunities that allowed him to make money to buy food.
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Although red poppies are traditionally used to honor those who lost their lives, Harry commented that he would like to lay a wreath of marigolds in honor of the Indian troops who served in the war.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Opium production in Afghanistan reached a record high this year, rising 87 percent compared with last year, after a rapid expansion of the areas used to cultivate poppies, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Pacheco now heads a rural police force and is vocal in his demand that the authorities start taking better care of the sierra so people like him can stop growing poppies for the illegal heroin market.
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To cite one recent—and shocking example—of the complexity of China's food fraud craziness, 35 restaurants across China were recently found to have been illegally seasoning their food with none other than opium poppies. Yup.
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This year's bloom is more widespread — purple and yellow sprays along freeway medians, golden poppies covering hillsides that glow orange from miles away, and desert valleys filled with dozens of species, some not seen for decades.
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While morphine is still produced in plantations of opium poppies, the discovery of an enzyme that increases the tyrosine used to make the painkilling molecule could have effects on how that drug and others are made.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A windswept hillside seen on a sunny spring day, its bright red poppies rendered in sprightly strokes of paint, a mottled smudge of a haystack in the distance: It's a classic French Impressionist scene.
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A loop of more colorful poppies (a whole field this time) is cut with black-and-white footage of children playing from both the 1930s and the present — laughter despite the world's tragedy, blooming despite its agony.
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Their wardrobe personalities are built on elaborate collages of tulle, tiers and ruffles; safety-pinned high-waisted rock-star trousers and party dresses covered in sequined poppies, point d'esprit and perforated leather, shredded chiffon and shaggy shearling.
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He would at times hide in the mountains of his home state of Sinaloa in an area called "The Golden Triangle," known for farms that grow such plants as marijuana and opium poppies, used to make heroin.
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The vases are objects of beauty on their own, but if you also want them to be functional, floral designer Sophia Moreno-Bunge of Los Angeles's Isa Isa recommends filling them with Iceland poppies and curly allium.
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He was taking a brief reprieve from dealing with the biggest crisis of his short term in office yet: an explosion of picture-perfect California poppies in the Temescal Mountains, just northwest of the center of town.
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In the Golden Triangle, at the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos, Mr. Lucas said, they made a deal with a Chinese-Thai man named Luchai Rubiwat, who grew poppies and processed opium into almost pure heroin.
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They came in their uniforms or their Sunday best, bearing wreaths of cloth poppies and handwritten notes for fallen family members and countrymen, to be laid upon marble steps, to be read like poems by the living.
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One of the best places to enjoy the vista is the hotel's rambling garden, created by the Cape Town-based landscape designer Leon Kluge and planted with ancient mission olive trees, gnarled guava trees and purple poppies.
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In other corners of the galleries' hushed, carpeted rooms, swans attacked, goats bleated, poppies unfurled and snakes slid over the rims of Chinese urns, frozen in gold but animated in time by Gouthière's almost obsessively executed observation.
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The last occurs on an especially beautiful pair of lidded alabaster vases; the matte laurel branches — bent to form handles — are so true to life they should rustle; they also have the appealing nonchalance of the poppies.
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Her condition for spending part of each year in the region was an official commitment to revive forests devastated by the slash-and-burn cultivation of opium poppies and to give its people other sources of income.
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It's in the heart of a remote and rugged region known as the "Golden Triangle," where for generations farmers have grown marijuana and the opium poppies that get processed into heroin and smuggled to the United States.
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Earlier this spring, when hundreds of bright orange and yellow poppies bloomed in Southern California's arid Walker Canyon in late March, thirsty Instagrammers and disrespectful travelers left a field of "crushed flowers and overflowing toilets" in their wake.
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In advance, the countries' football associations asked FIFA, the sport's governing body, for permission for the players to wear armbands featuring poppies to commemorate fallen soldiers, since the 11th also marks Armistice Day, when Britain remembers its dead.
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In the latter case it was reported that the parrots were obviously becoming intoxicated from the poppies, often crashing into trees and branches or being found lying dazed in a nearby field after having indulged in the drug.
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If you need a reminder for how great this season can be, we've got seven road trips across the United States that are perfect for stopping and smelling the roses — and the poppies, bluebonnets and many other wildflowers.
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US forces would try to encourage impoverished Afghan farmers to grow other crops, but there are only so many crops that grow well in their soil and climate, and nothing comes close to the profit margin of poppies.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A pigeon has been pinching poppies from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Australia's national war memorial in Canberra and using them to build a colorful nest in the lead-up to Remembrance Day commemorations.
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"The wounded soldier symbolizes the defining quality of endurance, and the nest of poppies nearby is a poignant reminder of the powerful bond between man and beast on the battlefield," a War Memorial spokesperson told the West Australian.
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I promise to lose weight was a lie I told in every register I knew, until the night the wind blew backward, and exactly seven yellow poppies grew from the mouth of her corpse I tried to cuddle.
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"Poppies: Weeping Window", by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, has toured Britain - including Lincoln Castle and Perth, Scotland - after its debut as part of the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" installation at the Tower of London.
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The town even has its own style of engraving, called fleurisanne, developed by Bovet in the 21990s, which uses distinctive swirls to convey the way the poppies in the fields bordering the river valley dance in the wind.
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A couple of months ago, the counter-narcotics police eradicated almost all the poppy fields in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand, including those of Haji Abdul, a farmer who's switched from growing poppies to green beans.
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This month, Hector Astudillo, governor of Guerrero, a mountainous southern state where an estimated half of all heroin consumed in the US originates, proposed that some small farmers be allowed to grow opium poppies licitly for medical use.
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Last week, the army flew U.S. military, U.N. and embassy officials into the heart of Mexico's heroin country to witness the destruction of fields of opium poppies, according to two of the officials with knowledge of the operation.
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The Dutch royal couple also added to the sea of poppies at the War Memorial in Canberra's Wall of Remembrance and placed a wreath in the Hall of Memory, commemorating servicemen and women who have died in battle.
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After all, the cover is Hallmark-card treacly (poppies in soft focus), the publisher is known for its woo-woo titles, and the author, who calls herself a "loveologist," is also in the business of selling personal lubricants.
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It is hard to tell why growth in homicide rates seem to have tapered off in historically violent states like Guerrero, which is home to more than a dozen gangs and is a main growing area for opium poppies.
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BADIRAGUATO, Mexico — The region that produced Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman is known as The Golden Triangle, in reference to the fields of opium poppies hidden deep in the rugged Sierra Madre mountains where three states intersect.
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Except none of this is accurate: the volcano looks more like the Paramount Pictures mountain than Kilauea, grass skirts are originally from the Gilbert Islands, and even the flowers — poppies, violets, and forget-me-nots — are foreign to Hawaii.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A senior Mexican official has said legalizing cultivation of opium poppies for medicinal purposes might help reduce violence in one of the regions most affected by brutal drug gangs that have ravaged the country for years.
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The company boasted at the time that one of its opium poppies "enabled the growth of oxycodone," and said the morphine content of a different poppy was "the highest in the world," according to investor slides obtained by Axios.
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Most carry legitimate goods, but authorities cannot inspect them all, and some are used to smuggle drugs — or just as importantly, the chemicals used to make meth and cheaply process coca leaves and opium poppies into cocaine and heroin.
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Her small town of Guachochi sits in the heart of the so-called Golden Triangle crisscrossing the states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango, a region flush with leafy marijuana farms and fields dotted with pink and red opium poppies.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday it was "utterly outrageous" that soccer's governing body FIFA will not allow English and Scottish footballers to wear armbands featuring poppies during their World Cup qualifier on Nov. 11.
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Last year, 263,000 soccer fields worth of opium poppies were cultivated by a narco-state that produces 90 percent of the planet's illegal heroin, despite successive attempts by foreign invading armies and the Taliban to cripple its lifeblood crop.
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Venture out into the hills, and many of northern Thailand's former dope farms have been replaced by food crops, with a number of plaques in commemoration of the Royal Project dotted around to mark where the poppies once grew.
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Taking shelter in a cave, he reminisces about his boyhood in what was then a lavish landscape; young Alexander darts through fields of poppies and sunflowers, their fierce primary colors slashing the screen as Solntseva's camera rushes alongside him.
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These are necessary codas, of the sort that were lacking from this year's grander commemorations — like the one Theresa May led here in July, or the one Donald Trump declined to attend in April — or amid London's porcelain poppies.
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The blocky basalt of the Pinacate lava flow shimmered with desert sunflowers, while white primrose and prickly poppies, yellow marigolds, purple sand verbena, and more, burst from the Pinta Sands in random arrangements expressing a chaotic exuberance of life.
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Her name brings to mind Edwardian corset dresses and Julian Sands in a meltingly lit field of poppies — though her asperity and sense of moral stakes, so in tune with Forster's, were the crisp counterpoint to all that romance.
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Meghan was also given her own Coat of Arms, that featured many symbols of her Californian heritage, such as golden poppies, California's state flower, and two golden rays striking through a blue shield to symbolize the sunshine on the Pacific Ocean.
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Farmers in Sinaloa said they would jump at the opportunity to legally grow poppies, but they would just as gladly switch to another crop that would provide the same level of income they earned prior to the arrival of fentanyl.
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BuzzFeed News has found Nigerians of all ages are popping millions of pills daily, washing them down with codeine, another drug based on opium poppies, or as part of a cocktail that includes "purple lean" and Rohypnol, the date-rape drug.
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The boy's vest in "The Cornfield," or perhaps the red poppies in a Constable study in a Birmingham museum, likely inspired Tillyer's rectangle, but beyond these associations, I think what he was really after was the creation of a layered space.
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The prince, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, wore his military medals and his Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order star over his necktie as he placed a wreath of red poppies at the memorial at Hyde Park Corner, London.
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She was also given her own Coat of Arms, that featured many symbols of her Californian heritage, such as golden poppies, California's state flower, and two golden rays striking through a blue shield to symbolize the sunshine on the Pacific Ocean.
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There are also signs that some sectors of the federal government are at least contemplating the idea of legalizing the cultivation of opium poppies for use in the production of morphine-based medications that are hard to obtain in Mexico.
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In March, the U.S. city of Lake Elsinore declared a public safety crisis after "superbloom" of poppies in a nearby canyon attracted tens of thousands of visitors, and selfie takers have irked owners of eye-catching properties in Paris and London.
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In 2010, Cameron and a delegation of ministers caused offence during a visit to Beijing by wearing poppies - a symbol of remembrance of fallen troops for Britons, but in China a reminder of the opium trade that helped trigger the conflict.
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"When people come to California and they see the hills decked with poppies — everything is beautiful — they expect this is the norm," said Mike Davis, a Southern California historian who recently wrote about the fires in a New Yorker essay.
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It's their adoring, smartphone-equipped fans, who have shown up in droves over the past three weeks, bringing with them horrible traffic and occasionally horrible etiquette when they wander off the trail to pose with, trample or even pick the poppies.
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In addition to the Skittles dress, which took more than 145 bags of the candy treat and about 90 tubes of glue, she has also crafted a dress made of 3,000 paper poppies, as well as other forms of wearable art.
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Related: Ayotzinapa: A Timeline of the Mass Disappearance That Has Shaken Mexico "The 43 students has to do with control of poppies and opioids," said Catalina Perez Correa, coordinator of the Research Consortium on Drugs and Law (CEDD) in Mexico.
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As an added security measure, the government has denied Mr. Guzmán family visits, including from his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, a former beauty queen whose father, the authorities say, cultivated poppies and marijuana for one of her husband's top lieutenants.
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Fierce emotions were stirred by two sets of comments, first from the broadcaster Don Cherry, who was fired for his remarks about what he believed to be the insufficient patriotism of Canadians who weren't wearing poppies in honor of military personnel.
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It was irrigated by a lawn sprinkler mounted on a pole that spritzed water over less than a hectare of poppies and fertilizer bags were piled nearby, basic farming techniques the soldiers nevertheless said were a sign of growers' new sophistication.
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The resulting series — now on view at Julie Saul Gallery in New York City — is transformative: In image after image, whirling, wind-tossed dish towels, dresses and denim conjure the shapes and colors of blooming poppies and flocks of birds.
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The United States has spent more than $10bn on anti-drug efforts in the country, mainly on setting up eradication teams, giving cash to Afghan peasants to grow wheat instead of poppies and rewarding local politicians from areas where opium production fell.
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A young member of Mexico's main opposition party, Sanchez was elected to the state legislature in 2013 to represent her hometown of Cosalá, in the heart of an impoverished mountain region where many farmers grow marijuana and opium poppies to make a living.
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By 15, he said in an interview conducted in a jungle clearing by the actor and director Sean Penn for Rolling Stone magazine, he had begun to grow marijuana and poppies because there was no other way for his impoverished family to survive.
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He would have loved to make films about something else, to have dumped the tragic national themes and their well-worn symbols—sabres, white horses, red poppies—for something more exotic, such as "a handful of sexual symbols from a Freudian textbook".
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Amid the chaos and traffic jams that have popped up along with the poppies, there have been at least two injuries in the area — one visitor was bitten by a rattlesnake, while a city employee was injured by a hit and run driver.
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A "super bloom" of poppies has been reported in Lake Elsinore southeast of Los Angeles, and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park northeast of San Diego reported "great displays of wildflowers" this week that could last into April because of cool weather and moisture.
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Estimates suggest that the global harvest of opium poppies, from which natural and semi-synthetic opioid medications such as morphine and codeine are prepared, together with the chemicals for synthetic ones, should be enough to satisfy all the demand in the world.
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According to The Canberra Times, a poppy-pinching pigeon was caught pilfering the red-colored poppies from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Australian War Memorial in the capital of Canberra and repurposing them to build a very bright nest.
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Free of the nationalism that can divert military anniversaries — consider "Blood Swept Land and Seas of Red," the grossly jingoistic installation of ceramic poppies that festered around the Tower of London in 2014 — these Belgian exhibitions are models of sincerity and sobriety.
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Is she also—perhaps maybe are all our pop women—targeted tall poppies: the kind of successful people (women, usually) who are looked up to in America, yet scorned in Canada for their talent or fame or something that makes them special.
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After more than a century of the headlands being occupied by a sprawling mill site, the town now has access to its coastal bluffs, where California poppies blaze orange in the spring, when it's also possible to spot migrating whales spouting offshore.
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Each place-setting included a small vase for guests to take home, hand-sculpted by the ceramist Cassie Griffin, painted to match the primary hues of the collection, and filled with water lilies and Icelandic poppies by floral designer Sophia Moreno-Bunge.
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We also offer a variety of Going Further ideas for hearing real stories about families devastated by opioids, analyzing the complex politics of the war on drugs, evaluating successes in addiction prevention and treatment, and considering the farmers who cultivate opium poppies worldwide.
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Tourists have been flocking to Lake Elsinore in Southern California to see a stunning display of golden poppies that are in bloom along its hills, but the influx of people has gridlocked the area and caused a massive headache for the short-handed city.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican cultivation of opium poppies used to make heroin rose 21 percent from mid-2015 to mid-2017, a new report showed, possibly reflecting surging U.S. demand for the drug and underscoring the deep security challenges for the incoming Mexican government.
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We may loathe the British trade, we may shudder at its terrible consequences, but we easily grow fond of the young woman who cut poppies during the day and then came home of an afternoon to create a pudding for her husband and children.
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With bright red poppies and moments of silence, people across the world on Saturday commemorated World War I's end 99 years ago, gathering for Armistice Day events that honored the millions who died in the conflict and those who have perished in wars since.
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Mr. Murakami's golden multipanel "Kawaii – vacances (Summer Vacation in the Kingdom of the Golden)" (2008), populated with a field of smiling flower faces, echoes the dazzling ornamentation of poppies on a gold ground in a 17th-century screen by the school of Tawaraya Sotatsu.
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BUT COLOR IS only the first salvo in the war against restraint: a sure-handed layering of pattern — from fields of poppies alongside bold stripes to feverish wall paintings amid plaids and ikats — is the lingua franca of this new group of English designers.
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Yes, the funny thing is, and this is how much the state has changed is that Jerry Brown whom when I was a kid was derided as Governor Moonbeam supposedly planted opium poppies like -- MACCALLUM: (INAUDIBLE) called him that recently because he likes that kind of throwback.
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Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world, selling for as much as $1,200-$1,63 a kilogram, and has long been seen as an alternative crop to opium poppies for poor farmers in a country struggling with the legacy of decades of war and lawlessness.
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Among the details honoring the U.S.: a rose, the national flower of the U.S.; two golden poppies, the state flower of Meghan's home state of California; and olive branches, which are featured in the Great Seal of the United States, a design dating back to 1782.
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To learn about El Chapo's origin story, we visit his hometown of La Tuna, a tiny village in the heart of a remote and rugged region known as the "Golden Triangle," where for generations farmers have grown marijuana and the opium poppies that get processed into heroin.
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The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford announced Friday that "Vase With Poppies," a still life oil painting, has been verified by researchers at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam as having been made by the Dutch artist in 1886, just after he moved to Paris.
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I have yet to discover a challenge coin proudly commemorating the way an insightful Marine colonel's initiative to encourage farmers in Helmand Province to grow cotton instead of opium poppies was torpedoed by U.S.A.I.D. bureaucrats who seemed to think Afghan cotton could threaten American cotton producers.
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But that also suggests that the Mexican army is placing a higher focus on eradicating poppies than on marijuana; after all, the army has seized an average of 850 tons harvested and dried marijuana annually in recent years, suggesting there are hundreds of thousands of acres under cultivation.
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Last year's Met Gala theme, "China: Through the Looking Glass," proved to be controversial to some; so was the event's red carpet sightings, which involved a number of looks replete with poppies, a flower that's darkly symbolic in Chinese culture for its connection to the 19th-century Opium Wars.
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They joined Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and other members of the royal family for the ceremony marking 100 years since the end of World War I. They all wore red poppies, the symbol of remembrance for World War I and veterans.
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They will allow farmers to do more than graze sheep and cattle; they will be able to grow fruit and vegetables, including more of Tasmania's exotic stuff: cherries, grapes for the island's increasingly fashionable wines and even poppies (the island is a big opium supplier for legitimate pharmaceuticals).
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I chased the super bloom east of Los Angeles, to Lake Elsinore, where the hills were orange with poppies in full, magnificent bloom and the skies were freckled with millions of painted lady butterflies on their way from the Mojave and Colorado Deserts up to the Pacific Northwest.
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Around those obstacles streamed leather painted with poppies and other blooms; Prince of Wales jackets with backs that had been cut open to expose the spine and trimmed in chains; and a slick black pair of trousers topped with the silver cobweb slip of a summer solstice priestess.
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Growing opium is theoretically a crime in Afghanistan but it is a way of life for tens of thousands of farmers like Ahmadi, who feeds a family of 22000 with the money he makes from selling the sticky, brown sap from the poppies in his fields to be refined into heroin.
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Last year we threw a bag of wildflower seeds onto an otherwise barren patch of dirt in front of our house just to see what would happen, and what happened is an explosion of cosmos, poppies, snapdragons, and baby's breath that grow so tall they can't support their own weight.
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His autumnal follow-up was no less emotionally-charged and poignant: A yellow brick road-type runway, lined with sparkling red poppies and topped with an oversized broken heart, opened to the moving piano chords of George Michael's "Faith," which hung in the silence before "Somewhere over the Rainbow" began.
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The collection of essays is studded with personal moments—a drug experience ("the metallic taste of poppies in various states of refinement"), a dream about her childhood bedroom—but also with polymathic curiosity: incidents in the lives of historical figures such as Yves Klein, a sketch of the tortoise's tenuous survival.
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Mr. Guzmán also opened up to him, Mr. Martínez said, telling him how he got his start in dealing drugs by cultivating marijuana near his home in Sinaloa, Mexico, and making heroin by scraping — "little by little every morning" — the milk-like sap out of the poppies he had planted.
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The macarons are fragrant and delectable, in rose, lavender, lily of the valley, orange blossom, violet with black currants and strawberry with poppies: Macarons, $2.80 each, collections start at six for $24, Ladurée, 398 West Broadway (Spring Street), 646-392-7868; 864 Madison Avenue (70th Street), 646-558-3157; laduree.us.
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Colonel Isaac Aaron Jesus Garcia, who runs a base in one of the state's most unruly cities, Ciudad Altamirano, told Reuters on an operation to chop down poppies high in the Guerrero mountains that violence increased two years ago when a third gang, Los Viagra, began a grab for territory.
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The proposals have ranged from the bizarre — independent candidate Jaime Rodriguez wants to cut off the hands of public servants who steal — to the maddeningly vague: Lopez Obrador floated the idea of an "amnesty" that advisers say may just mean plea bargains or pardons for farmers who grew opium poppies or marijuana.
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Seeds this year will be planted a month later than usual but locals trust it will be done in time for the fields to burst into the bright colors of the so-called "Fiorita" - stunning blossoms created by rows of poppies, gentians and narcissus that sprout in June next to the lentil plants.
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Princess Kate and Prince William are expected to join Queen Elizabeth and other members of the royal family at the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening, while most of the senior royals will lay wreaths of bright red poppies at the Cenotaph war memorial in Whitehall, central London, on Sunday.
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John McCrae, penned the poem "In Flanders Fields," which details a scene of poppies in a field of white crosses, according to the VA. It was in 1922 that the flower officially became the memorial flower for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, or VFW, the VA's Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs said online. Ret.
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The actual cultivation of drugs like cocaine and heroin has an impact: The Organization of American States estimates that 240 million hectares of Amazonian forest in Peru have been destroyed to grow coca, while more than 1 million hectares of forest in Colombia have been culled to grow illicit drugs, including opium poppies for heroin.
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Sophia's embroidery — done with ancient techniques called aari and zardozi, which are practiced only by male artisans in Rajasthan and mostly used on costumes for religious ceremonies — adorns everything from necklaces to pillows to clutches and features intricately stitched flora and fauna, like poppies or butterflies, in bright shades of coral, turquoise and pink.
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Obama for her speech at the 2012 Democratic convention, became her best-selling dress when remade for sale, and whose black dress with big red poppies, worn by the first lady for the 50th anniversary of the 1963 march on Washington, is now on display at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
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Beset by poverty and joblessness, farmers in the hills around the Guerrero state hamlets of Tenantla and Amatitlan say that prices for opium paste — which oozes from the bulbs of poppies after they&aposre cut — have fallen so low they don&apost even pay for the cost of planting, fertilizing, irrigating, weeding and harvesting the raw material for heroin.
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Lake Elsinore Mayor Steve Manos announced in a Facebook post on Saturday that amid the chaos and traffic jams that have popped up along with the poppies, there have been at least two injuries in the area — one visitor was bitten by a rattlesnake, while a city employee was injured by a hit and run driver.
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"This isn't just about destroying (plantations), it's about finding solutions for people forced to cultivate poppies, and there will be an important announcement in this context at the summit on a new cooperation plan between the three countries to deal with problems that obviously concerns us all," said Mexico's deputy foreign minister in charge of North America, Paulo Carreno.
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Once that first 65-degree day of the season hits and you exchange your dark winter mood for a sundress and a cocktail at the door, there's no shame in wanting to feel — and smell — like a brighter version of you, one who just sprung headfirst from a bouquet or rolled in a field of poppies.
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But through them I'm reminded of those mornings sitting on the floor in my pajamas, marveling at scenes like a sea of poppies covered in snow, and even of those awkward, yet necessary, memories of eating alone in a bathroom stall at school or approaching a group of intimating girls to befriend them, wishing I were closer to home.
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Aspirin is based on a compound found in the perennial herb meadowsweet; pseudoephedrine was inspired by the use of the dryland shrub Ephedra sinica in traditional Chinese medicine; morphine, codeine, thebaine and other opiates are still made from poppies; and many anticancer drugs come from plants, like vincristine and vinblastine, both extracted from the Madagascar periwinkle.
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Mr. Fitzpatrick writes about a memorial in Grand Central Terminal that is dedicated to subway workers lost in the war; a salute to Flanders Fields in Hell's Kitchen (a statue of a soldier holding poppies in his outstretched hand); York Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, named not for the Duke of York but for Sgt.
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But she had to wait until Stieglitz's death in 1946 to exhibit Arthur Dove, and finally, briefly, Georgia O'Keeffe, who created two of the show's strongest works: her "Poppies" (1950), with its flowing petals and richly colored stamen, and his "Snowstorm" (1935), whose ambiguous forms include a wind-battered row of trees that can morph into an angry, seven-legged feline.
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Using F-22 attack planes and B-52 bombers, the military says it dropped bombs on labs where the insurgents turn poppies into heroin, as well as "storage facilities where they keep their final product, where they stockpile their money and their command and control," Nicholson said in a news conference with the Afghan army chief of staff in Kabul.
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CreditCreditJamie Stoker When the British embroiderer and designer Cressida Jamieson is not tending flowers at her allotment — a community garden parceled into plots and rented to city-dwelling gardeners not blessed with the precious acreage — in Walthamstow, North London, she can be found stitching miniature renderings of her blooms (fiery nasturtiums, golden Californian poppies) in her Victorian, wisteria-clad house nearby.
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While bonsais and premade bouquets are available, shoppers can make their own arrangements in hourlong sessions from a variety of blooms like poppies and flowering quince branches; for vases, they can choose from natural-toned ceramics by the Seoul-born artist Yoon-Young Hur or vessels from the Massachusetts-based one-man brand Pete's Rocks, made with stones sourced from the North Atlantic coast.
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Four years ago, they launched their own business: Apponyi, who studied art at City & Guilds of London Art School and finds inspiration in everything from Greek myths to film, paints the elements of each design, usually in oil, after which Woodcock scans and arranges them into a pattern, often pairing seemingly disparate objects, such as palm trees and cigarettes or monkeys and giant red poppies.
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From the book: Things made me sentimental: a pair of sprinting spikes, a tennis racquet, sheet music on the music stand, a small acrylic painting of California golden poppies, a stuffed baby giraffe that had lost all its filling — I had sewn the tear back together but the giraffe remained skinny and floppy — a handmade print of a purple penguin with a bowler hat.
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More than 645,000 poppies were placed in the wall, every eye-catching red flower signifying each man and woman who gave their life in military service to the United States since World War I. In addition to the stunning red that was visible on one side of the memorial, the exhibit also included the number of casualties from each war fought by the US over the past 100 years, and various other displays of information about the poppy itself, including its significance in honoring a nation's greatest sacrifice.
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