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Cuyamel Fruit Company was founded in the 1890s by William Streich, a speculator who bought land near the Cuyamel River in Honduras.The company soon ran out of money and was purchased around 1905 by Samuel Zemurray, who used it as part of the beginning of his growing banana trade operation.
Menander I Soter (Ancient Greek: Μένανδρος Σωτήρ, romanized: Ménandros Sōtḗr, lit. ' Menander the Saviour '; Pali: Milinda; sometimes called Menander the Great [4] [5]) was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek King (reigned c. 165 /155 [6] –130 BC) who administered a large territory in the Northwestern regions of the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia.
Christopher Robin Sabat is an American film, television and voice actor and voice director. Some of his prominent roles in animations and anime include Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Shenron, and various characters in Dragon Ball, Roronoa Zoro in One Piece, All Might in My Hero Academia, Daisuke Jigen in Lupin the Third, and Dr. Arthur Watts in RWBY .
King cake. A king cake, also known as a three kings cake, is a cake associated in many countries with Epiphany. [ 1] Its form and ingredients are variable, but in most cases a fève ( lit. ' fava bean ') such as a figurine, often said to represent the Christ Child, is hidden inside. [ 2] After the cake is cut, whoever gets the fève wins a ...
Mother. Jadwiga of Kalisz. Signature. Casimir III the Great ( Polish: Kazimierz III Wielki; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He also later became King of Ruthenia in 1340, and fought to retain the title in the Galicia-Volhynia Wars. He was the last Polish king from the Piast dynasty .
Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) [ 1] was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science . He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's developments included those of fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed (but did not create) a ...
Moctezuma I (c. 1398 –1469), also known as Montezuma I, Moteuczomatzin Ilhuicamina (Classical Nahuatl: Motēuczōmah Ilhuicamīna [motɛːkʷˈs̻oːmaḁ ilwikaˈmiːna]) or Huehuemoteuczoma (Huēhuemotēuczōmah [weːwemotɛːkʷˈs̻oːmaḁ]), was the second Aztec emperor and fifth king of Tenochtitlan.
Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about 5 mm (0.20 in) in diameter (fresh and fully mature), dark red, and contains a stone which encloses a single pepper seed.