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K-12 teachers meet for a discussion about a proposal for an in-world SL project MK Snowdrop is wondering might be of interest to teachers.
Archive 2007-06-24 Milosun Czervik 2007
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They called her Snowdrop, and not long after her birth the Queen died.
The Red Fairy Book 2003
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Snowdrop was alive still, for, as it always told the truth, it still told her Snowdrop was the fairest lady in the land.
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Once upon a time there was a little princess called Snowdrop, who had
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They called her Snowdrop, and not long after her birth the Queen died.
Red Fairy Book 1890
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And they still call her Snowdrop, the name that they gave, --
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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This is one of my madder projects that's been going on (and off) for more years than I care to remember: a long poem about a girl called Snowdrop who stumbles into a magical world - much against her will - one Crimbo Eve and has many adventures with fairies, sprites and various lost souls, some of whom would quite like to see her sacrificed to continue the magic of the place and, incidently, bring about the birth of a new sun to replace the one that in the midst of its winter solstice death.
The Rik Files 2009
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It tells first how the loss of the "Snowdrop" troubled Winstanley: --
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The loss of the "Snowdrop" is followed by that of another ship, with contents, and then --
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All the three common names are happy ones: "Snowdrop" and "Fair Maids of February" are appropriate both to the season and a pretty flower; "Bulbous Violet" pleasantly alludes to its sweetness; all are poetical, as if this lovely flower had the same effect on the different minds of those (including Linnæus) who first gave them.
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