They're very pretty, though, marigolds.

During the 1850s, Maximo and Bartola, two microcephalic children from El Salvador, were exhibited in the US and Europe under the names Aztec Children and Aztec Lilliputians.

She's got hair like the west wind, eyes like limpid pools... skin like velvet?

It's Theo who's wearing velvet, so I must be Eleanor in tweed.

Opera cloaks are made of quality materials such as wool or cashmere, velvet and satin.

Now one other thing women like my grandma do in Turkey is to cover mirrors with velvet or to hang them on the walls with their backs facing out.

Cultivation A. caudatus can grow anywhere from 3 to 8 feet in height, and grows best in full sun.

Civilizations that have arisen in this area include the Teotihuacan (800 BCE to 800 CE), the Toltec Empire (10th to 13th century) and the Aztec Empire (1325 to 1521).