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Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Vivien Mary, Lady Olivier (November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967), known as Vivien Leigh, was an English actress who won two Academy Awards for her portrayals of American "southern belles" as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). She frequently worked in collaboration with her second husband, Laurence Olivier, who also directed her in several roles. Their life together was full of romance and tragedy, making them one of Hollywood's most glamorous couples.

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Bark of a Pine tree

Bark is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants, such as trees and shrubs. Broadly defined, bark refers to all those tissues outside the vascular cambium, or all tissues from the living phloem outward. However, in popular use, the term bark is often used in reference to only the cork or only to the periderm (cork, cork cambium, and phellederm) in plants with secondary growth. The outer bark of dead cork cells gives the pattern seen in trees.

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James Frazer's distinction between magic and religion has been widely adopted by anthropologists since his time (source: James Frazer)

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