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Tupelos deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds
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Nyssa was a small town in Cappadocia . The Antonine Itinerary places it on the road from Ancyra to Caesarea , between Parnassos and Asiana, 24 Roman miles from Parnassus and 32 from Asiana. Ptolemy 's Geography places it at 68°20' 38°40 (in his degrees) ...
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Who spirited them off to Pontus and in time married them to two of his many daughters, Auletes to Cleopatra Tryphaena, and the younger Ptolemy to Mithridatidis Nyssa.
Cleopatra Tryphaena will go to Ptolemy Philadelphus, Berenice Nyssa to Ptolemy No Other Name.
Nyssa had felt that for Seria to be an effective seductress she needed to know the full score.
Clearly the Alexandrian bureaucrats had a great deal more respect for Mithridatidis Nyssa than for her husband-which may have had something to do with the fact that King Tigranes was just across the water in Syria.
This dangerous hypothesis was countenanced by the two Gregories, of Nyssa and Nazianzen, by Cyril of Alexandria, John of Damascus, &c.
I gather that my companion Nyssa went some way towards developing an artificial blood substitute, at least, if the traces she left in the TARDIS labs were anything to go by.
On a camping holiday, Nyssa would have been the one with the emergency matches and the insect repellant.