The riot of blooms in a nearby tulip poplar became a visual touchstone for my stay.

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Eighty hours of work are needed just to fashion the poplar wood case.

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He's also retraced the route of Thomas Jefferson, who drove from his Monticello home to Poplar Forest in Lynchburg, Va.

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Dr Reid is viewed by many of his colleagues as one of the most poplar and colourful characters in politics.

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It takes about a year to build a Steinway from 12, 000 components and eight different kinds of wood including maple, birch, spruce and poplar.

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The ornithologists studied a small colony that was living close to the village of Feherto in southern Hungary, an area of fishponds surrounded by willow and poplar trees.

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They produced aspens, another species of poplar, that have 45% less lignin and 15% more cellulose than their wild brethren, and grow almost twice as fast, as well.

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Before you check to see if there's an app for that, Escape to Poplar Springs, The Inn Spa for a getaway that will redefine what it means to stay connected.

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And though her life and those of the financiers that populate the sterile walkways of Canary Wharf are only separated by the rail lines at Poplar station, for Lorna, they are worlds apart.

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The job consists of us carvers carving decorative items out of poplar from which molds will be made and then casts made of wood-like plastic produced for sale in Woolworths, Kresges and other fine stores.

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