The Comet Orchid, Angraecum sesquipedale, a rare Malagasy flower with its nectar stored at the bottom of a 30 cm long tube, was described in 1822 by Aubert du Petit-Thouars, and later Charles Darwin famously predicted that there must be some specialised animal to feed from it:

Kehew's famously exotic collection of synthesizers and electronic musical instruments includes many rare and unusual vintage machines, including four Mellotrons, two rare Chamberlins, and two of the rare Con Brio, Inc. synthesizers, the ADS-200 and ADS-200R.

The scheme of colour is reticent ; had the picture been exhibited at the time of the Second Boer War of 1900, the colour would have been called khaki ; the design is simple, uniting nature to art with a rare felicity, with the likeness being found satisfactory by the sitter's friends.

Damon Knight wrote, " As a science fiction writer she has few peers ; her work is not only technically brilliant but has a rare human warmth and richness.

Historically, common law courts relied little on legal scholarship ; thus, at the turn of the twentieth century, it was very rare to see an academic writer quoted in a legal decision ( except perhaps for the academic writings of prominent judges such as Coke and Blackstone ).

Bentham was an obsessive writer and reviser, but was constitutionally incapable, except on rare occasions, of bringing his work to completion and publication.

The writer ( Hermina Getting Hrvol ) and several neighbors took a day off to go to Tampa on a rare shopping trip, for in those days the road to Tampa was still unpaved.

Ichiyō Higuchi, a rare female writer in this era, wrote short stories on powerless women of this age in a simple style in between literary and colloquial.

" A positive review however came from an anonymous writer in the Boston Evening Transcript, for whom the central figure was, " analyzed with rare insight and unprejudiced if inexorable justice ", and the book itself praised as full of " realities faithfully and unflinchingly realised.

The latter are rare in Hanzi and the derived Japanese Kanji characters which are usually well separated by the writer.

His rare forays into interior art also include Batman: The Killing Joke, with UK-based writer Alan Moore, regularly hailed as one of the finest realised Batman stories, and a self-penned Batman: Black and White story.

" They go on to declare that " Bishop is one of the new and still rare breed of science fiction writer attempting to produce art without rejecting the pulp vigor that is science fiction's continuing strengths.

In this rare scenario, Boam was hired to rewrite his own script with a second writer.

In his 1994 The Rules of Baseball, David Nemec relates the following " often-told Kelly tale " and is the rare writer to say it is either false or embellished.

Only rare programmes had a specialist writer – in most cases the producer / director was also the writer.

Australian cricket writer Jack Pollard said that " Woodfull had the habit of being where things were tough, and he brought rare dignity to the Australian captaincy ".

In a rare comedy turn, she starred in The Baxter alongside writer / director Michael Showalter.

Garner's background ( poor, urban, Protestant ) is rare for a Canadian writer of his time.

The film is a thinly disguised account of writer Peter Viertel's experiences working with John Huston ( the Wilson character ) while he made the film The African Queen, which was shot on location in Africa at a time when location shoots outside of the United States for American films were very rare.

Recurring portions of the High Plains Reader include the weekly editorial, generally written by sales director John Strand ; the " Dear John " section for letters to the editor ; the cover story ; a theater column ; movie reviews, one by writer Greg Carlson, who covers current movies, and one by Christopher Jacobs, who often writes about his own film productions and DVD releases of rare and classic movies, a Best Bets section, generally giving brief synopses of upcoming events, focusing mostly on local musicians ; and a calendar section, a detailed list of daily events for the upcoming week.

A prolific and widely published writer, Robertson was also a dedicated reader with a passion for lexicography and for collecting rare English dictionaries.

" Rolling Stone's Peter Travers called David Gordon Green " a writer and director of rare grace and feeling ", whose directorial debut is of " startling originality that will haunt you for a good, long time.

Speaking about his quartet to noted UK jazz / soul writer Pete Lewis of the award-winning Blues & Soul, in a rare music-themed interview prior to their performance at the HSBC Cheltenham Jazz Festival in May 2008, Salmon stated:

Red-nosed and blustery, an archetypal lazy schemer often found " sloping " through alleys to avoid his landlord and other creditors, he was created for the British magazine Judy, by writer and fledgling artist Charles H. Ross, and inked and later fully illustrated by his French wife Emilie de Tessier — a rare European-woman comics-artists of the time — under the pseudonym " Marie Duval " ( or " Marie DuVal "; sources differ ).

This was a rare example of a Doctor Who writer also acting on the programme.

Isaac's writings offer a rare example of a large corpus of ascetical texts written by an experienced hermit and is thus an important writer when it comes to understanding early Christian asceticism.

The title of Sir Thomas More's 1516 fictional work Utopia is a double entendre because of the pun between two Greek-derived words that would have identical pronunciation: with his spelling, it means " no place " ( as echoed later in Samuel Butler's later Erewhon ); spelled as the rare word Eutopia, it is pronounced the same by English-speaking readers, but has the meaning " good place ".

It also includes the rare first neurological text written in the 1600s by Thomas Willis, the man who coined the term neurology and is known as the ‘ father of neurology ’.

Among these are many rare 17th-century manuscripts and an original edition of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan given as a personal gift to the College: Hobbes prepared this work while at Magdalen Hall.

Its rare and unusual phonographs include models by Thomas A. Edison.

Thomas ' " Floating " and " Eternity Road " stood out, as did Hayward's " Gypsy " and a rare Pinder-Lodge collaboration " Out And In ".

The college library was built in the late sixteenth century, probably during the mastership of Thomas Preston and is now principally used for the storage of manuscripts and rare books.

Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil War and during the Interregnum.

Just three portraits of the Queen were used on the penny in the whole of her reign, the Young Head ( used from 1838 to 1859, with rare copper issues from 1860-the 60 is struck over 59 ), designed by William Wyon ( who died in 1851 ), whose eldest son Leonard Charles Wyon ( 1826 – 91 ) designed the bronze coinage of 1860 with the second (" bun ") head ( 1860-1894 with scarce issues of the farthing in 1895 ), and finally the Old Head ( or " veiled head ") designed by Thomas Brock which was used on the penny from 1895 to 1901.

The Storrs campus is also home to the university's Music and Pharmacy libraries, as well as the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, home to the university's archives and special collections, including university records, rare books, and manuscript collections.

* Actress Michelle Thomas died from desmoplastic small-round-cell tumor, a rare abdominal soft-tissue sarcoma.

The rare line bevilled modifies the bendlets in the arms of Thomas Roy Barnes and the pairle in the arms of Rovaniemi, Finland.

In or around 1853, G. J. R. Gordon, Queen Victoria's envoy and minister in Stockholm, gave a rare copy of the 1582 edition of Piae Cantiones to English hymnwriter John Mason Neale, Warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead, Sussex and to the Reverend Thomas Helmore ( Vice-Principal of St. Mark's College, Chelsea ).

On rare occasions, " Five Good Minutes " runs long, such as on June 8, 2005 when NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus's interview ran 11 minutes, forcing the cancellation of the following segment ( Role Play ), on March 23, 2007 when USC basketball coach Tim Floyd's interview ran 9 minutes as he talked about O. J. Mayo, and on October 22, 2009, as reporter Jackie MacMullan discussed the Magic Johnson / Isiah Thomas controversy, forcing the cancellation of the segment Report Card.

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is a library in the University of Toronto, constituting the largest repository of publicly accessible rare books and manuscripts in Canada.

* The Crying of Lot 49 is a novel by Thomas Pynchon in which a set of rare stamps are sold in Lot 49 of an auction.

Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome is a rare complication of pelvic inflammatory disease ( PID ) named after the two physicians, Thomas Fitz-Hugh, Jr and Arthur Hale Curtis who first reported this condition in 1934 and 1930 respectively.

Available only to scholars, a signed copy of Terrance Lindall's Paradise Lost Illustrated is in the Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of the Thomas Cooper rare book library at the University of South Carolina.

7 ) The Thomas Cooper rare book library at the University of South Carolina

The collection contains many rare exhibits including John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers ' bicycle shop, and the Rosa Parks bus.

After some rare positive feedback by his biology teacher, Barbara Thomas, he began to study and put forth a greater effort in that class.

The Storrs campus is also home to the university's Music and Pharmacy libraries, as well as the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, home to the university's archives and special collections, including university records, rare books, and manuscript collections.

The Thomas Prize honors " the rare individual who bridges the worlds of science and the humanities -- whose voice and vision can tell us about science's aesthetic and philosophical dimensions, providing not merely new information but cause for reflection, even revelation as in a poem or painting ," Nobel laureate Torsten N. Wiesel, M. D., president of the University remarked in 1996.

He was a bibliophile and he collected rare first editions of Charles Dickens, Robert Burns and others, and artworks of Aubrey Beardsley, George Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson.

Martin also achieved the rare feat of scoring a hat-trick against three different Newcastle United goalkeepers — Martin Thomas, who was then injured, and outfield players Chris Hedworth and Peter Beardsley — in a Football League First Division match in April 1986 which the Hammers won 8 – 1.