The flower has long been associated with human manner, as one man cleverly stated: “ Nature sports as much with the colours of this little flower as she does with the features of the human countenance .” The pansy ’ s particular connection to human thought and emotion is mirrored in one Dr. Evan ’ s poems, where he captures the whimsical, yet deep emotional roots of the pansy ’ s symbolism: “ Pied Pansy ,-once a vestal fair / In Cerestrain ,-now droops-/ Stained by the bolt of love her purple breast ,/ And ‘ freaked with jet ’ her party-colored vest ”.

In the Harry Potter series, a character named Pansy Parkinson is a bully, and just one of the characters in the novels who has a flower related name, including Lavender Brown and Lily Potter.

The Pansy is a symbol of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, the Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Sigma Lambda Upsilon ( ΣΛΥ ) or Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc.

Despite the fact she is weaker than Pansy, Minnie does manage to with-hold four sailors before they finally manage to catch her and tie her up leaving her before her father.

Pansy Division is an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California in 1991.

Featuring primarily gay musicians and focusing mostly on gay-related themes, Pansy Division is one of the more melodic-oriented bands to emerge from the " queercore " movement that began in the 1980s.

Viola pedunculata, the Yellow Pansy, is a common and attractive wildflower of coastal regions of California and Baja California.

Meanwhile, Isabel learns from her sister-in-law that Pansy is actually the daughter of Madame Merle, who had an adulterous relationship with Osmond for several years.

The ending is ambiguous, and the reader is left to imagine whether Isabel returned to Osmond to suffer out her marriage in noble tragedy ( perhaps for Pansy's sake ) or whether she is going to rescue Pansy and leave Osmond.

One interpretation is that Isabel not only feels as honor-bound to the promise she has made to stepdaughter Pansy as she does to Osmond, but also considers that the scene her " unacceptable " trip to England will create with Osmond will leave her in a more justifiable position to abandon her dreadful marriage.

Pansy Yu Fong Wong (; pinyin: Huáng Xú Yùfāng ) ( born circa 1955 ) is a former New Zealand politician.

Genevieve Gaunt is also an actor, and portrayed Pansy Parkinson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

An Isles of Scilly speciality is the Dwarf Pansy ( Viola kitaibeliana ) which grows nowhere else in Great Britain.

Under a sub concession approved by the Macau government, the project is owned and operated as a 50 – 50 joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Pansy Ho, daughter of Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho.

For the next three years Mitchell worked exclusively on writing a Civil War-era novel whose heroine was named Pansy O ' Hara ( prior to publication Pansy was changed to Scarlett ).

D. H. Lawrence's Pansies: Poems by D. H. Lawrence was published in 1929, and Margaret Mitchell originally chose Pansy as the name of her Gone with the Wind heroine, but settled on Scarlett just before the book went into print.

Pansy was broken during a show.

It was driven at Bossier City on July 12, 1884, by Julia " Pansy " Rule.

Her trademark walk was said to have been inspired or influenced by female impersonators Bert Savoy and Julian Eltinge, who were famous during the Pansy Craze.

Daniel and Pansy was Herriman's first strip to feature an all-animal cast.

The band had offered two other tracks that were cut, along with " Pansy Division's Deep Water ", which made the soundtrack but was cut from the movie due to time constraints.

Mammy Yokum: Born Pansy Hunks, Mammy was the scrawny, highly principled " sassiety " leader and bare knuckle " champeen " of the town of Dogpatch.

Tracy Flannigan's Rise Above: A Tribe 8 Documentary was released in 2003, and Pansy Division: Life In A Gay Rock Band by Michael Carmona debuted in 2008, both films playing regularly at film festivals around the world.

Pansy Division's sound was heavily influenced by 1960s pop and 1970s punk rock, most notably bands such as the Ramones, the Buzzcocks and early Beatles: short, catchy pop punk numbers with humorous, in-your-face lyrics that dealt with various aspects of both gay life and life in general.

In 1993, following extensive Californian touring, several 7 " singles and compilation appearances, Pansy Division was signed to Lookout!

Pansy Division was mentioned once on an episode of the US version of Queer as Folk ( 2000 TV series ) by Daphne, Justin's straight female friend, who worked at a record store.

1998 saw the release of their fifth studio album Absurd Pop Song Romance, which was a departure from earlier Pansy work, featuring less humorous, more introspective lyrics and a darker, two-guitar layered alternative rock sound.

In 2001, Pansy Division was finally ready to record another album, but the lack of support from Lookout!

More recently Biffo was seen in a four-part special leading a group of retired characters, Pansy Potter, Keyhole Kate and Desert Island Dick, to return The Beano to an earlier form ( specifically, the 1960s, the logo from that era was used in the story ).

Pansy Potter The Strongman's Daughter was a comic strip in The Beano, featuring Pansy Potter, a really strong girl.

As the name suggested, Pansy Potter no longer lived in what we can safely call Beanotown, but instead was living in this fantasy world called Wonderland which was also home to Humpty Dumpty and other nursery rhyme Characters.

Some unrelated species, such as the Pansy Monkeyflower, also have " pansy " in their name.

During early drafts of the original novel, Mitchell referred to her heroine as " Pansy ", and did not decide on the name " Scarlett " until just before the novel went to print.

Frustrated by the lack of openly gay musicians in independent rock, Jon Ginoli formed Pansy Division ( the name itself a pun on Panzer division and the word " pansy ") in San Francisco in early 1991.

Garland said that if they screwed up in front of such a huge crowd, she was going to change her name to Pansy Smith and move into Gaiman's basement ; in his blog, Gaiman says this was his suggestion.

The boxer's name was changed from Pansy Jones to Stoker Thompson ; his race was changed from black to white, he went from being a bigamist to being devotedly married, and Jones ' beating and subsequent death on a subway track was turned into an alley beating and a shattered hand.

The name Pansy derives from the French pensees, meaning thoughts.

R. E. M., The Ramones, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Mr. Bungle, Sonic Youth, Godsmack, Soundgarden, Weezer, Tina Turner, Mudvayne, Blues Traveler, Butthole Surfers, Keith Urban, L7, Nonpoint, Devin the Dude, Iron & Wine, Dillinger Escape Plan, EOTO, Aesop Rock, The Books, Staind, AFI, Sleater-Kinney, KRS-One, The Black Lips, The Donnas, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bun B, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job !, Os Mutantes, Foals, Tomahawk, Big Boi, Dresden Dolls, Warpaint, Del the Funky Homosapien, Man Man, Uh Huh Her, The Raveonettes, Pansy Division, Fantômas, Yelle, Prince Paul, OK Go, The Walkmen, Andy Dick, The Misfits, UK Subs, Death, Lucero, Man or Astroman ?, Theophilus London, The Jesus Lizard, Daniel Johnston, Cracker, The Sword, MC Chris, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Peelander-Z, Toro y Moi, CocoRosie, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, The Oh Sees, Yann Tiersen, Anamanaguchi, The Drums, Delicious Milk, Oh, Nostalgia, and hundreds of other now nationally recognized rock, country, hip-hop, and blues artists have all had their turn on the stages of Fitzgerald's.

In the 1990s, the queercore movement developed around a number of punk bands with gay, lesbian, or bisexual members such as God Is My Co-Pilot, Pansy Division, Team Dresch, and Sister George.

A Pansy exhibiting the flower's morphology: two large petals overlapping at the top, two side petals, a lower petal with slight indentation, and beards at the center

In 1887, van Gogh painted Mand met viooltjes, and, in 1926, Georgia O ' Keeffe created a painting of a black pansy called simply, Pansy and followed it with White Pansy in 1927.

Terry Gilliam wrote the screenplay with fellow Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin, who appears with Shelley Duvall in the small, recurring roles of Vincent and Pansy.

In the strip itself, Minnie dressed up as Pansy Potter in compliance with the editor's wishes.

In December 2007, it opened MGM Grand Macau, its first overseas property, owned and operated through a 50 / 50 partnership with Pansy Ho, the daughter of Macau's gambling tycoon Stanley Ho.

* MGM Grand Macau, Macau, China ( 50 % joint venture with Pansy Ho, opened 2007 ) ( 51 % after IPO )

The cultivar ' Forest Pansy ', with purple leaves, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Mainstream media coverage intensified when Pansy Division toured the U. S. with Green Day ,.

Also catching the wave of pop punk's mainstream explosion, Pansy Division were selected to tour with Green Day on the band ’ s Dookie tour, thus introducing the group and queercore to a much larger audience.

Pansy Division also toured prolifically during these years, both nationally and internationally, touring with such alternative rock and punk bands as Chixdiggit, the Groovie Ghoulies, cub and Servotron, God Is My Co-Pilot and Team Dresch, while often sharing the stage with such bands as Rancid, The Vandals, New Bomb Turks, Jimmy Eat World, Supergrass and The Supersuckers.

During this time, Pansy Division primarily performed as a trio, with Freeman and Ginoli being the only constant members amid a slew of perpetually rotating drummers, both gay and straight.