Aquilegia ( Columbine ) is a genus of about 60-70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals of their flowers.

Columbine is rated at hardiness zone 3 in the USA so does not require mulching or protection in the winter.

Columbine ( in Italian, Colombina, " little dove "; in French, Colombine ) is a stock character in the Commedia dell ' Arte.

Although Columbina became the dominant name ( known as Columbine in France and England ) other names under which the same character is played in Commidian performances include: fantesca ( maid ), servetta ( female servant ), Franceschina, Smeraldina, Oliva, Nespola, Spinetta, Ricciolina, Corallina, Diamantina and Lisetta.

His character in postmodern popular culture — in poetry, fiction, the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall — is that of the sad clown, pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin.

Pierrot, on the other hand, as a " second " zanni, is a static character in his earliest incarnations, standing on the periphery of the action, dispensing advice that seems to him sage, and courting — unsuccessfully — his master's young daughter, Columbine, with bashfulness and indecision.

The formula has proven enduring: Pierrot is still a fixture at Bakken, the oldest amusement park in the world, where he plays the nitwit talking to and entertaining children, and at nearby Tivoli Gardens, the second oldest, where the Harlequin and Columbine act is performed as a pantomime and ballet.

Oscoda is notable for being featured in the 2002 documentary film Bowling for Columbine, in a scene where Michael Moore interviews two young residents in a local bowling alley, and learns that guns are relatively easy to come by in the small town.

This incident is cited as a major school shooting to occur prior to the Columbine High School massacre of 1999.

Jefferson County is where the Columbine High School massacre of 1999 occurred.

The Bath School Disaster is the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in United States history, claiming more than three times as many victims as the Columbine High School massacre, and half-again as many victims as the Virginia Tech shootings.

Finally Jerry is able to revive as the character Pierrot, forever mourning his lost Columbine, who is Catherine.

He was a member of gothmetal. net where he is seen holding guns and favored the video game depicting the Columbine High School shootings.

He is a servant and the love interest of Columbine.

Columbine is a lovely woman, who has caught the eye of Harlequin.

* Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond is the title of a book by Mark Ames, which examines the rise of office and school shootings in the wake of the Reagan Revolution, and compares the shootings to slave rebellions ( ISBN 1-932360-82-4 ).

Columbine High School or CHS is a high school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.

A statement probably backed up by the fact that he is at the same time, a member of the National Rifle Association, despite his ardent views on gun control -- see Bowling for Columbine.

It also has a tribute to Herbert George Columbine, who won the VC and after whom the local leisure centre is named, and a tribute to those lost in World War I in HMS Conquest.

Rachel's Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott is a non-fiction book about Rachel Scott, one of the victims of the Columbine High School massacre.

The College of Education is located in Columbine Hall on the UCCS campus.

On August 26, 1959, Ike was aboard the maiden flight of Air Force One, which replaced the previous Presidential aircraft, the Columbine.

Casorti's son, Giuseppe ( 1749 – 1826 ), had undoubtedly been impressed by the Pierrots they had seen while touring France in the late 18th century, for he assumed the role and began appearing as Pierrot in his own pantomimes, which now had a formulaic structure ( Cassander, father of Columbine, and Pierrot, his dim-witted servant, undertake a mad pursuit of Columbine and her rogue lover, Harlequin ).

The Columbine High School massacre ( often known simply as Columbine ) was a school shooting which occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.

Another program common to schools all over the United States was adopted by the Locke Middle School, a program entitled “ Rachel ’ s Challenge ,” which was founded in memory of Rachel Scott, the first victim to be killed in the school shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.

In the wake of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, Webster Groves High School was again profiled, this time in Time, which described Webster Groves as a " pretty town of old elms and deep porches " and a " mix of $ 90, 000 cottages and $ 750, 000 homes, young marrieds and old-line families and transient middle managers assigned to a stint in the St. Louis office who are looking for a comfortable place to settle and keep their kids on the track toward prosperity.

" The song tells the story of the FBI investigation and relates it with song lyrics by Marilyn Manson and Eminem which some blamed for the Columbine High School massacre.

One small packet of ashes was scattered at a 1989 ceremony which unveiled a monument to six unarmed IWW coal miners buried in Lafayette, Colorado, who had been machine-gunned by Colorado state police in 1927 in the Columbine Mine Massacre.

Columbine was named after the surrounding community of Columbine, which in turn was named after the state flower of Colorado: the columbine.

In 2005 Elder created a self-financed DVD called Michael & Me, in which he attempts to repudiate filmmaker Michael Moore's anti-gun politics and his assertions in Moore's controversial documentary, Bowling for Columbine.

Adios was released on April 20, 1999, which coincided with the Columbine High School massacre and Adolf Hilter's birthday.

In early 2009, Brendan composed music for motion picture April Showers, a film which deals directly with the Columbine Massacre.

" " The Cry of Eugene ", which was later re-recorded by Jackson's group Jackson Heights, refers to " Harlequin & Columbine ".

The confrontation between strikers and the militia unit resulted in the Columbine Mine Massacre, in which six miners were killed by machine gun, rifle and pistol fire.

Released shortly after the Columbine High School massacre, the game attracted controversy which led it to be dropped from various retailers, despite receiving moderate critical acclaim.

On May 19, 1999, a month after the Columbine shootings, which prompted O ' Donnell to become an outspoken supporter of gun control and a major figure in the Million Mom March, O ' Donnell interviewed actor Tom Selleck, who was promoting a film The Love Letter.

Columbine was 24 years old, and a private in the 9th Squadron, Machine Gun Corps, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

As the position was now untenable, Private Columbine told the two remaining men to get away, and although he was being bombed on either side, he kept his gun firing, inflicting losses, until he was killed by a bomb which blew him up along with his gun.

Public concern with the goth subculture reached a high point in the fallout of the Columbine High School massacre that was carried out by two students, incorrectly associated with the goth subculture.

In the decades after the 1980s, there were newspaper reports about the use of the MAC-10 or the Tec-9 in crimes, including gang-related crimes and its use by Dylan Klebold in the Columbine High School massacre.

* 1927 – Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.

Columbine, in 1683 by Maurice Sand

As in the Bakken pantomimes, that plot hinged upon Cassander's pursuit of Harlequin and Columbine — but it was complicated, in Baptiste's interpretation, by a clever and ambiguous Pierrot.

Among the most celebrated of pantomimes in the latter part of the century would appear sensitive moon-mad souls duped into criminality — usually by love of a fickle Columbine — and so inevitably marked for destruction ( Paul Margueritte's Pierrot, Murderer of His Wife ; the mime Séverin's Poor Pierrot ; Catulle Mendès ’ Ol ’ Clo's Man, modeled on Gautier's " review ").

: Mon Ami Pierrot: Songs and Fantasies ( 1917 ; illustrated by Will Bradley ); Beswick, Katherine: Columbine Wonders and Other Poems ( c. 1920 ); Bodenheim, Maxwell: " Pierrot Objects " ( 1920 ); Breed, Ida Marian: Poems for Pierrot ( 1939 ); Burt, Maxwell Struthers: " Pierrot at War " ( 1916 ); Burton, Richard: " Here Lies Pierrot " ( 1913 ); Chaplin, Ralph: Maybe, Pierrot ... ( c. 1918 ); Crane, Hart: " The Moth That God Made Blind " ( c. 1918, pub.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Abelle, Victor: " Pierrot and Pierrette " ( 1906 ; piano ); Foote, Arthur: " Pierrot " and " Pierrette ", from Five Bagatelles ( c. 1894 ; piano ); Hoiby, Lee: " Pierrot " ( 1950 ; # 2 of Night Songs for voice and piano ; text by Adelaide Crapsey above under # Poetry | Poetry ); Neidlinger, William Harold: Piano Sketches ( 1905 ; # 5: " Pierrot "; # 7: " Columbine "); Oehmler, Leo: " Pierrot and Pierrette – Petite Gavotte " ( 1905 ; violin and piano ).

The film proved to be the most successful documentary in American history at the time in its theatrical run ( since surpassed at the box office by Moore's later documentaries Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9 / 11 ) and enjoyed wide critical acclaim.

* The Modern English Haiku ( Toronto: Columbine Editions, 1981 ) ISBN 0-919561-00-4 Illustrated by Aiko Suzuki

UA ( re-christened United Artists Films ) hired Bingham Ray, who previously founded October Films, to run the company in September 2001, and under his supervision produced and distributed many " art-house " films, among them Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine ; 2002's Nicholas Nickleby and the winner of that year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, No Man's Land ; and 2004's Undertow, directed by David Gordon Green, and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda, a co-production of UA and Lions Gate Entertainment.

From these, the standard English harlequinade developed, depicting the eloping lovers Harlequin and Columbine, pursued by the girl's father, Pantaloon, and his comic servants.

In pantomime, the love scenes between Harlequin and Columbine dwindled into brief displays of dancing and acrobatics, the fairy-tale opening was restored to its original pre-eminence, and by the end of the century the harlequinade had become merely a brief epilogue to the pantomime.

The album's second single, " Youth of the Nation ", was influenced in part by the school shootings at Santana High School, Columbine High School, and Granite Hills High School.

Approached by HBO and producer Diane Keaton to craft a fictional film based on the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, the director chose to shoot in his hometown of Portland, employing dozens of untrained teen actors to chronicle an " ordinary " high-school day — albeit one underlined by an unexpected tragedy.

The Carbine High Massacre, a film made in 2000 inspired by the Columbine High School massacre

* Zero Day, another film inspired by the Columbine High School massacre made in 2003