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George W. Bourne. Engineer. unknown. The Wedding Cake House in 2006. Once called the "most photographed house in the state" of Maine, [1] the Wedding Cake House, known formally as the George W. Bourne House, is a historic house located at 104 Summer Street in Kennebunk, Maine.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem Inversnaid While the term "weed" generally has a negative connotation, many plants known as weeds can have beneficial properties. A number of weeds, such as the dandelion (Taraxacum) and lamb's quarter, are edible, and their leaves or roots may be used for food or herbal medicine. Burdock is common over much of the world, and is sometimes used to make soup and ...
A wedding cake is the traditional cake served at wedding receptions following dinner. In some parts of England, the wedding cake is served at a wedding breakfast; the 'wedding breakfast' does not mean the meal will be held in the morning, but at a time following the ceremony on the same day.
Wedding Cake Rock, also known as White Rock, is a sandstone rock formation located in the Royal National Park near Bundeena in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, accessible via the Royal National Park Coast Track.
A shotgun wedding is a wedding arranged in response to pregnancy resulting from premarital sex. [1] The phrase is a primarily U.S. colloquialism, termed as such based on a stereotypical scenario in which the father of the pregnant bride-to-be threatens the reluctant groom with a shotgun in order to ensure that he follows through with the wedding.
All About Claire Ptak. Hannah McKay/Getty Images. For reference, Ptak —who grew up in California and now owns her very own East London bakery, called Violet —just happens to be the very same ...
Sharing the first piece of wedding cake is still a ritual in weddings, but it originated as a way to ensure fertility for the bride in her attempts to have children. Superstition says that a bride cannot bake her own wedding cake or taste it before the wedding, or else risk losing her husband's love.
A traditional English topper in ceramic, from 1959. A wedding cake topper is a small model that sits on top of a wedding cake, normally a representation of the couple in formal wedding attire.
Administration. Australia. Demographics. Population. Unpopulated. Wedding Cake Island is an island located approximately one kilometre (0.6 mi) east of Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia in the Tasman Sea. The island protects the beach from most swells. The island is also known as Lemo's Island.
Wedding-cake style. 120 Wall Street in New York, a skyscraper from 1930, is an archetype of wedding-cake architecture. In architecture, a wedding-cake style is an informal reference to buildings with many distinct tiers, each set back from the one below, resulting in a shape like a wedding cake, and may also apply to buildings that are richly ...