Just as lilacs and hyacinth bloom throughout the spring, so too a new color is blooming for the Nintendo 3DS system.

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Thus, her collection was filled with many beaded cocktail numbers and elongated evening gowns in pale blues, lilacs and greens plus pops of oranges.

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"We want to capture the changes day-by-day throughout the seasons, " said geographer Mark Schwartz at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who monitors lilacs at a thousand U.S. locations.

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The waters flowed past the tables and their carafes of raki, the lilacs were in bloom and the mosques were in full song with the adhan, the call to prayer.

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