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unusual facts about Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo



African Metals Corporation

African Metals Corporation (AMC) is a junior Canadian mining company that undertakes exploration and development of copper and cobalt mines in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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

Bas-Uele District

Bas-Uele District is a district located in Orientale Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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

Bills

The Bills were a youth subculture active in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the late 1950s, basing much of their image and outlook on the cowboys of American Western movies.

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.

Congotronics series

These bands play what is referred to in the Congo as tradi-moderne music, and comprise musicians who left the bush in order to settle in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic Of The Congo.

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.

DJ Brian

His distinct taste in music saw him being the first at the station to play artist such as Salala from Madagascar, Koffi Olomide from Democratic Republic of the Congo a variety of musicians from Mozambique such as Zico and Mr Bow.

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 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.

France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

On 19 February it was revealed that France 2 had selected Congolese singer and dancer Jessy Matador to represent France at Eurovision, with the hope of creating a summer hit and to promote the 2010 FIFA World Cup in France.

Friedrich St. Florian

With Abraham he also won the first prize (ex equo) in the international architectural design competition for the "Cultural Center" in Leopoldville, Congo in 1959 and the third prize in the 1958 competition for the Pan Arabian University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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.

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.

Imagine No Malaria

In April 2010, in a coordinated effort with many different religious faiths and institutions, 25,000 bed nets were distributed in Lubumbashi, DRC.

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.

K-65 residues

K-65 residues are the very radioactive mill residues resulting from a uniquely concentrated uranium ore discovered before WW II in Katanga province (Shinkolobwe) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly called the Belgian Congo).

Le Grand Kallé

Joseph Athanase Tchamala Kabaselleh (16 December 1930 in Matadi, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) – 11 February 1983 in Paris, France), popularly known as Le Grand Kallé, was a Congolese singer and bandleader, considered the father of modern Congolese music.

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.

Monastère Notre-Dame-des-Sources

Monastère Notre-Dame-des-Sources, Kiswishi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a Benedictine monastery of the Annunciation Congregation.

Mutamba Milambo

Albert Milambo-Mutamba, known as Mutamba Milambo (born 1 December 1984 in Mbuji-Mayi) is a Congolese football midfielder.

Négritude

Novelist Norman Mailer used the term to describe boxer George Foreman's physical and psychological presence in his book The Fight, a journalistic treatment of the legendary Ali vs. Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" bout in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in October 1974.

OTRAG

In the face of doubts by Debus and von Braun, Kayser chose in 1975 to set up testing and launch facilities in Shaba, Zaire (now Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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.

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).

Peter Taub

The MCA Stage—the museum’s performing arts program founded in 1996—features performers ranging from Chicago-based artists such as eighth blackbird and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago to artists from the Congo, Poland, Mexico, Ireland, and beyond.

Pig Goat Banana Cricket

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

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.

Raffia palm

The raffia palm is important in societies such as that of the Province of Bohol in the Philippines, Kuba of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nso of Cameroon, the Igbo and Ibibio/Annang of southestern, the Urhobo and Ijaw people of Niger delta Nigeria and the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria, among several other West African ethnic nations.

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.

Samasingha

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

Seke-Banza Territory

Seke-Banza Territory is an administrative area in the Bas-Fleuve District, Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the north of the city of Matadi.

Shuwa language

Shuwa (Shoobo), or Pianga (Pyaang), once considered a dialect of Bushong, is a Bantu language of Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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.

Tanganyika District

Tanganyika District is a district located in the Katanga Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1399

United Nations Security Council resolution 1399, adopted unanimously on 19 March 2002, after recalling all previous resolutions on situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Council condemned the capture of the town of Moliro and other activities by the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD).

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1484

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1484, adopted unanimously on 30 May 2003, after recalling previous resolutions on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Council authorised Operation Artemis in Bunia, the capital of Ituri Province, amid the deteriorating security situation in the area.

University of Kikwite

The University of Kikwite (UNIKI) is a public university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the province of Bandundu, city of kikwite.

University of Kindu

The University of Kindu (UNIKIND) is a public university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the province of Maniema, city of Kindu.

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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