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5 unusual facts about Banana


Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo

The town reportedly fell to the rebels, and two foreign employees of the Chevron oil company were captured.

Henry Morton Stanley arrived at Banana in 1879 at the start of an exploratory expedition funded by Léopold II of Belgium.

Chiclete com Banana

The song "Chiclete com Banana," that was first recorded in 1959 by Brazilian popstar Jackson do Pandeiro and by dozens of performers, such as Gilberto Gil).

The group is named after the very well known and influential 1950's song "Chiclete com Banana," written by Gordurinha (Waldeck Artur Macedo; 1922-1969) and Almira Castilho.

MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles at Light Velocity

MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles at Light Velocity is the first live album by Melt-Banana.


Antonio Henrique Amaral

Albert Eckhout (1610–1665), the Dutch Brazilian painter from the 17th century, also associated the banana with the region that would later become Brazil.

Arlen Ness

The museum displays his famous Untouchable, the twin motor Two Bad, the antique inspired Ness-Tique, Blower Bike, the Italian sports car inspired Ferrari Bike, the '57 Chevy inspired Ness-Stalgia, the Bugatti-like Smooth-Ness, the Discovery Channel's Biker Build-Off bike Top Banana, and his jet-powered Mach Ness.

Banana chip

Fried banana chips, usually made in the Indian state of Kerala, and known locally as nenthra-kaaya oopperi or upperi, are fried in coconut oil.

Banana split

The banana split pie appears to have originated in the American Midwest, and to have been created by Janet Winquest, a 16 year-old resident of Holdrege, Nebraska, today still an isolated rural community that counted 5,500 residents during the 2010 census.

Bandaara Kilhi

Bounded by dense vegetations of mainly ferns, Screwpine, tropical almond, cheese fruit, Banana trees, coconut palms and taro fields plus Mango trees as well to an extent, among the creatures which inhabit the lakeside are the Common Moorhen which is a bird exclusively found in Fuvahmulah only in the Maldivian archipelago and Maldivian White-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus maldivus) which is an endemic species of the Maldives.

Barry Singh

The story of his journey from a banana plantation in the Murwillumbah Hinterland to the Queensland Conservatorium and to the establishment of the premier orchestra for the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers has been featured on Australian Story on ABC television.

Beelzebubba

The music videos for "Punk Rock Girl" and "Smokin' Banana Peels" were shown on episodes of Beavis and Butt-head.

Biffen

Biffen och Bananen (the Beef and the Banana), a comic strip by Rit-Ola, originally published in Folket i Bild, 1936–1978

Blood banana

The blood banana (Musa acuminata ssp. zebrina), is a subspecies of the wild banana Musa acuminata native to Sumatra, Indonesia.

Carlos Luis Fallas

Born in Alajuela to a single mother, Fallas completed only the first two years of secondary schooling before emigrating to Limón, in the Costa Rican Atlantic coast, where he worked in the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company.

Clark Air Base

During the 1970s, passengers arrived via Trans International Douglas DC-8 and Braniff International DC-8s (the Pickle and the Banana) flights from Travis AFB, California (via Honolulu and Guam).

Columbus Air Force

The song "Tree Top Flyer," written by Stephen Stills and performed by Jimmy Buffett on his album Banana Wind (as a hidden track), is reportedly about the Columbus Air Force.

Cynthia Harriss

In this role, Harriss had oversight of Gap Inc.'s three outlet chains: Banana Republic Factory Stores, Gap Outlet and Old Navy Outlet.

Deborah Gray

Gray co-wrote and sang the title song from Pacific Banana with fellow co-star Luan Peters.

Deep fryer

Industrial enterprises producing deep-fried snack foods such as potato chips or pre-fried French fried potatoes use automated frying systems that consist mainly of the actual frying pan, a tube type heat exchanger to heat the frying oil, a filter, a circulation pump, a banana tank for fresh oil and the automation system, most often a PLC.

Elizabeth Chittick

Chittick was the first woman civilian administrator of the U.S. Naval Air Stations in Seattle, Washington and Banana River, Florida, the first woman to be a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange, and the first female revenue collections officer with the Internal Revenue Service.

Ensete

It is one of the two genera in the banana family, Musaceae, and includes the false banana or enset (E. ventricosum), an economically important foodcrop in Ethiopia.

:Ensete ventricosum - enset or false banana, widely cultivated as a food plant in Ethiopia

Ensete glaucum

An extremely fast growing banana given heat, but not as hardy as Ensete ventricosum.

Environmental Working Group

Representatives from Schering-Plough (Coppertone), Johnson & Johnson (Neutrogena), and Sun Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Banana Boat) also reiterated their products' safety and efficacy.

Extract

A majority of other, concentrated fruit flavors, such as banana, cherry, currant, peach, pineapple, raspberry and strawberry, are produced by combinations of various esters, together with special oils.

Family names in North Karnataka

Surnames drawn from Food Items are Balikai (Banana), Bendikai (Okra), Bellolli (Garlic), ULLagaDDi (Onion), MeNasinakai (Chilli), Tenginakai (Coconut), Byali (Pulse/Dal), Tuppa (Ghee), Palle (Vegetable), Guggari (Boiled Food grains), Churamari (Bhel), Sajji (A type of Food grain), Akki (Rice), Jola (Jawar)

Fyffes Line

Fyffes Line was the name given to the fleet of passenger-carrying banana boats owned and operated by the UK banana importer Elders & Fyffes Limited.

Grand Nain

These include the utilization of kidney weed which discourages weed growth without adversely affecting banana plants.

Havana Brown discography

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History of modern banana plantations in the Americas

He then joined with Boston based Andrew Preston to form the Boston Fruit Company, the first company to engage in all aspects of the banana industry.

Since banana exports came to dominate the overseas trade and most of the foreign exchange earnings of Central American countries, and the companies could use their financial clout as well as carefully established connections with local elites, they had great influence over politics in those areas, leading O. Henry, who lived in Honduras (which he called "Anchuria") in 1896-97 to coin the term banana republic for them.

Jeff Kline

From 2006-2008 he was a consulting producer for Cartoon Network’s Banana Splits revival, wrote a Paris Hilton pilot for MTV, and co-wrote the feature film The Rosenbergs Save Christmas (with Goldie Hawn attached to star) for Fox Searchlight.

Kripik

Almost all type of fruits, nuts and tubers can be made as kripik, such as kripik singkong (cassava cracker) and kripik pisang (banana cracker), kripik apel (apple cracker) from Malang in East Java, also kripik nangka (jackfruit cracker), kripik salak (snake fruit cracker), kripik durian from Medan, kripik talas (taro cracker), kripik ubi (sweet potato cracker), and kripik sukun (breadfruit cracker).

Laida

Cultivated plants include tulsi, mango, guava, banana, rose, dahlia, chauldhua, kuiler, coconut, lichi, apple, Moringa oleifera and many others.

León Cortés Castro

During his term he introduced new bank reforms, supported banana plantations in the South Pacific region, and established ports at Quepos and Golfito.

Manfred Kaltz

Kaltz was famous for his right-footed crosses, which he hit with so much spin that they curved like a banana.

Mazaruni River

Next, the Mazaruni River flows past Oranapai Rapids, Kamakusa Landing, the mouth of Merume River, Banana Landing, Tiboku Rapids, the mouth of Equeribisi River, Issano Landing, the mouth of the Puruni River, Kaburi rapids, Marshal Falls, the last set of rapids, Itabali Landing, the mouth of the Cuyuni River, then, near the village of Bartica, finishes into the Essequibo River, the largest river of Guyana.

Moodymann

Junior Boys - "Banana Ripple (Moodymann Remix)" from Even Truer (2013)

Muesli

Other ingredients commonly included are additional grated or chopped fresh fruit (e.g., bananas, apples, berries, grapes, mango), dried fruit, milk products (e.g., fresh milk, yogurt, cream, condensed milk, fromage frais, quark, cottage cheese, or nondairy milk substitutes), lemon juice, ground nuts, seeds, spices (especially cinnamon), honey and muesli mix.

Musa acuminata

acuminata was later introduced into mainland Indochina into the range of another ancestral wild banana species - Musa balbisiana, a hardier species of lesser genetic diversity than M. acuminata.

Panama disease

New banana plants develop through asexual reproduction: after the fruiting stem has matured, fruited, and been cut down, the base of the plant produces suckers, which can be cut off and planted elsewhere.

Passiflora antioquiensis

Passiflora antioquiensis (the red banana passionfruit) is a species in the Passifloraceae family.

Paulus Johannes Maria Maas

Maas has identified and named about two hundred fifty plants from the Burmanniaceae, the Costus Family (Costaceae), the Gentian Family (Gentianaceae), the Bloodwort Family (Haemodoraceae), the Banana Family (Musaceae), the Olacaceae, the Triuridaceae, and the Ginger Family (Zingiberaceae).

Pig Goat Banana Cricket

The series was created by Dave Cooper and J. Ryan and was originally called "Pig Goat Banana Mantis".

Plátano River

The Plátano River (Banana River) is a river in Honduras which runs through the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve.

Puchero

In Philippine cuisine, pochero is composed of the following ingredients: 1/2 kilo chicken, cut into parts, 1/2 kilo pork, cut into cubes, 1/2 kilo beef for stewing, cut into chunk cubes, 8 cups water 6 minced cloves garlic minced, 5 pieces Saba banana, 5 pieces boiled potatoes, quartered, 5 pieces boiled sweet potatoes, quartered, 4 pieces chorizo bilbao, 2 tablespoons oil,1 teaspoon salt, 1 bundle onion leeks,1 cup chickpeas, 1 sliced bundle cabbage and a Pinch salt & pepper.

Ramb I

These ships were built for the Royal Banana Monopoly Business (Regia Azienda Monopolio Banane) and originally intended to be "banana boats", transporting refrigerated bananas to Europe from Somaliland and Eritrea in Italian East Africa.

Ramb II

The four ships were built for the Royal Banana Monopoly Business (Regia Azienda Monopolio Banane) to transport refrigerated bananas from Somaliland and Eritrea in Italian East Africa.

Staatliche Baderverwaltung Badenweiler

Today the garden contains extensive plantings of exotic trees, including mature sequoias, cedars, palm trees, eucalyptus, bananas, lemons, oleanders, hibiscus, and magnolias, as well as fine specimens of Prunus, Quercus, Rosa, Sorbus and Viburnum species and varietals.

Vla

It comes in several flavours, such as chocolate, caramel, vanilla, banana, etc. and some are limited editions like orange (with an artificial orange flavour) sold only at the time of national events in the Netherlands like "koningsdag" or the world and European championships (as long as the Netherlands is still in the competition).


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