The singer, who missed Jingle Ball because of bad weather in the Big Apple, invited thousands of Smilers — the not-so-clever nickname given to her adoring acolytes — to attend the afternoon soundcheck before her sold-out show at TD Garden.

The kwongan is legendary among plant ecologists because it has an enormous number of plant species, species that occur nowhere else, not even in the rest of Australia.

The time-honored way was to use self as though it were a little man-inside-the-man who ordered all activities so that they pretty well suited his imperial selfship.

The kings came to the agreement between themselves that they would cast lots by the dice to determine who should have this property, and that he who threw the highest should have the district. The Swedish king threw two sixes, and said King Olaf need scarcely throw.