The Egyptian priests and rulers were often buried with necklaces of waterlily blossoms, for the lilies symbolized resurrection from the dead. |
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But the Monet waterlily painting, which features a Japanese footbridge at Giverny, was not on the Philippine government's list. |
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The compact space is the permanent home of Sidney Nolan's Riverbend series, hailed as the Australian answer to Monet's waterlily cycle. |
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Other species found during the survey include coontail, fragrant waterlily, American pondweed, duckweed, American frogbit, cattail, soft-stem bulrush, and arrowhead. |
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The stout tubers of the waterlily and the lotus are edible when properly prepared, and have been an important starch crop both in Asia and North America. |
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Ted Arison, the founder of Carnival Cruise Lines, and his wife, Lin, bought the Monet waterlily paintings at Sotheby's sale of art from the Reader's Digest Collection in 1998, a year before Mr. Arison died. |
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His death, in December 1926, attracted little public attention, and his Grandes Décorations, the waterlily hemicycles inaugurated one year later at the Musée de l'Orangerie, were ignored for decades. |
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His menus have included the exotica of pandan leaves, waterlily herbs, betelnut and nuoc mam. |
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A gardener's wheelbarrow parked outside the Waterlily House had an old Victoria Lily leaf sitting in it. |
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