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Lilium nobilissimum

... that the common Japanese name of Lilium nobilissimum (pictured) may refer to the sleeves used to carry it from the cliffs on which it grows?
... that the parked vehicle of one candidate in a 2024 Mexico City borough election was shot five times to "give her a scare"?
... that "The Man in the Yellow Tie", an episode of The Flash, concludes a plotline established two years earlier on a different TV series?
... that college football player Chad Brinker continued his career after undergoing brain surgery and eventually signed into the NFL?
... that Their Highest Potential shows the positive side of segregated schools, as written by a student who was taught in one?
... that Ann McMillan recalled "playing" a tape recorder for Déserts, a piece by Edgard Varèse?
... that an Iowa TV station, in one fell swoop, fired nearly a third of its staff and canceled a children's show that had been on the air for 32 years?
... that Henry A. Henry brought an extensive library of Jewish literature when he emigrated to the United States in 1849?
... that King Philip refused to give up Champagne?