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4 unusual facts about Dole


Dole, Nepal

Dole is often a stopping point for trekkers on their way to Sagarmartha (Mount Everest) via the Gokyo Ri route.

Dorothy Bussy

He was five years younger, and the son of a shoemaker from the Jura town of Dole.

Ferry Carondelet

Ferry Carondelet was born in Mechelen, Flanders, to a rich, bourgeois and influential family originally from Dole.

Odette de Champdivers

Odette's family took their name after a fief that belonged to them, located near Dole and Saint-Jean-de-Losne in Burgundy.


1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii

Over less than a week, the new constitution was drafted by a group of lawyers including Thurston, Dole, William Ansel Kinney, William Owen Smith, George Norton Wilcox, and Edward Griffin Hitchcock.

Agriculture in Costa Rica

Costa Rican farmers and multinational corporations within Costa Rica practice two primary methods of farming: Plantation agriculture which includes practices by global companies such as Dole, Chiquita, Del Monte, etc. and sustainable/permaculture.

Al Pearce

Back at CBS, under the sponsorship of Dole Pineapple, he broadcast Wednesdays at 8pm from October 11, 1939 until April 3, 1940.

Anne de Xainctonge

Anne de Xainctonge (Dijon, November 21, 1567 – Dole, June 8, 1621) was the founder of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin and has been declared a Venerable by the Roman Catholic Church.

Barbara Staff

There was little support of Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee and no mention of the eventual choice, Robert Dole, she said.

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

The film is about how Gertten's film company was sued by Dole for the 2009 documentary film Bananas!*.

Bobby Ray Inman

Inman suggested that Safire had recruited Senator Bob Dole of Kansas to engage in a "vitriolic attack" on Inman, and also claimed that Dole and Senator Trent Lott were planning to "turn up the heat" on his nomination.

C.D.S. Vida

The training was carried out in a small field located that was property of the Standard Fruit Company (DOLE).

Dole Air Race

On 28 June, about a month after Dole posted the prizes, Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger flew a three-engine Atlantic-Fokker C-2 military aircraft from Oakland Municipal Airport to Wheeler Army Airfield on Oahu in 25 hours and 50 minutes.

Emily Dole

Dole joined Seidler and several other elite athletes of the period in playing supporting roles in the film Personal Best starring Mariel Hemingway and Scott Glenn, released in 1982.

Frédéric Rimbaud

Frédéric Rimbaud, born 7 October 1814 in Dole, and died 16 November 1878 in Dijon, was a French infantry officer.

Fredrik Gertten

In 2009, Gertten's production company was sued for defamation by Dole Food Company after the US screening of Bananas!*, a documentary film about a conflict between Dole and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases of sterility caused by the pesticide DBCP.

French nobility

High positions in regional parlements, tax boards (chambres des comptes), and other important financial and official state offices (usually bought at high price) conferred nobility, generally in two generations, although membership in the Parlements of Paris, Dauphiné, Besançon and Flanders, as well as on the tax boards of Paris, Dole and Grenoble elevated an official to nobility in one generation.

History of modern banana plantations in the Americas

These three factors converged in the Caribbean in the 1870s, and would lead to the development of large-scale banana plantations, usually owned and operated by highly integrated large corporations such as Dole and Chiquita Brands International.

Los Angeles Film Festival

Dole urged festival officials to "immediately cease and desist" their sponsorship of the documentary Bananas!*, directed by Fredrik Gertten.

Mang Pandoy

Jaime Aristotle Alip,CEO and founder of Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI) which one 2008's Ramon Magsaysay award for public service, took note of the icon's death at a forum after receiving the award, noting the need for long term solutions to poverty in the Philippines rather than the dole-out approach that Mang Pandoy's story typified.

Marcel Jacobo Laniado de Wind

of a farm called "Los Alamos" located in Guayas Province, Churute Region, between the Gulf of Guayaquil and a town called Puerto Inca, a farm originally owned by Standard Fruit Company (later known as Dole), the largest independent producer of bananas in the world.

Mazapan School

Owned and operated by Standard Fruit de Honduras (Dole), Mazapan School is located in La Ceiba, Honduras.

Mazapan School was founded in the early 1920s by the Standard Fruit Company, today known as Dole.

Mika Todd

Project concerts, appeared on television shows, hosted their own radio show Kiss the Coconuts and even promoted Dole pineapples.

Monica Novotny

In the U.S., she reported on President Clinton’s impeachment, the risks of a chemical weapons incinerator in Utah, Election Night 1996 in Little Rock and the Clinton-Dole debate.

Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert

Having completed his education at the college of Dole, he devoted himself for a time to a half-scholastic, half-literary life at Nancy, but in 1774 he found his way to the capital.

No More Fish, No Fishermen

"Coal Not Dole" was made popular by Coope Boyes and Simpson on their Funny Old World album, and is in turn based on the Victorian Christmas carol, "See, Amid The Winter's Snow".

Poolside Chats

With one angry caller, Hamburger claimed that Bob Dole had censored the show, to which the caller replied 'Yeah, fuck Bob Dole!'.

Robert Denys

Anne Denys, who married Sir Henry Rolle (d.1616) of Stevenstone in Devon, an ancestor of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (d.1842) and Barons Clinton, the latter of whom restored Livery Dole after the WWII bomb damage.

Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics

The director of the institute is Bill Lacy, who worked as a strategist on Sen. Dole's 1988 and 1996 presidential campaigns and his 1992 senatorial campaign.

Sanford B. Dole

In Hawaiian, the pale and hair-like Spanish moss is called ʻumiʻumi-o-Dole, meaning "Dole's beard".

United States presidential election in North Dakota, 1996

All major counties in North Dakota turned out for Dole, including the (relativity) highly populated center of Cass County, which contains the city of Fargo.

United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement

In a few cases, this has resulted in damaging public allegations and even court cases for several multinational corporations from the US and Canada (including Dole, Coca-Cola, Drummond Coal, and Chiquita, formerly known as the United Fruit Company).

Vicki Lansky

She worked as a spokesperson for Arm & Hammer Baking Soda (January 2001/BSMG), Dole Family Advisory Board (March 2000/Londre Company), Mead Johnson's Enfamil (December 1999/BSMG) and P&G's Bounce fabric softener sheets (July 1997/Marina Mahr).


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