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5 unusual facts about Tamarind


Chincholi Morachi

The villagers also claim that their ancestors kept on planting tamarind trees and cohabited with this bird over here.

Chincholi Morachi or Morachi Chincholi (मोराची चिंचोळी), by name itself means a village of tamarind trees (Marathi:चिंच Chincha) & town of Dancing Peacocks (Marathi:मोर More) all around.

Murder of Jessica Lal

He admitted that Sharma had stayed with him on the night of the murder but denied being present himself at the Tamarind Club or having any knowledge of the events that had occurred there until the next day, when he told Sharma to surrender to the police.

Parque del Carmen

In front of it, there is a gray marble monument surrounding a Tamarind tree indicating the foundation of Santa Clara.

Portoviejo

Also known as the city of the "Royal Tamarind Trees" for the beautiful trees found in the area.


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A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray

Thibaw, last king of Burma, decapitated seventy or eighty of his brothers on his accession, but planted Tamarind trees in Mandalay, and Mrs Overall, wife of Dean Overall was a wanton but was commemorated in an entertaining poem about her - "The Shepherd Swaine" by John Aubrey.

Dialium guineense

The velvet tamarind can be found in West African countries such as Ghana where it is known as Yoyi, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Nigeria where it is known as Awin in Yoruba, Icheku in Igbo and Tsamiyar kurm in Hausa.

Diploglottis australis

The Native Tamarind is grown as a decorative tree in various parts of urban Australia, including behind the Mitchell Library in the city of Sydney.

Graphicstudio

With the support of then president Cecil Mackey, Saff modelled Graphicstudio after the Pratt Graphics Center, Tamarind Press, and Gemini G.E.L. The first artist to participate at Graphicstudio was Philip Pearlstein.

Joe Funk

After Tamarind, Joe became the technical director at Kanthos Press from 1961 to 1962, where he printed for José Cuevas and Aubrey Schwartz.

Khatkhate

Khatkhate Curry is prepared with at least five vegetables, plus grated coconut, jaggery, kokum, tamarind, tirphala/Tepphal (Sichuan pepper- a special spices from Konkan region), dried red chillies, garam masala powder, and turmeric powder.

Kinnal Craft

Jute rags, soaked, slivered into pieces, dried, powdered, and mixed with saw dust and tamarind seed paste is made into kitta.

Manupeu Tanah Daru National Park

There are about 118 plant species protected in this national park including Toona sureni, Sterculia foetida, Schleichera oleosa, Alstonia scholaris (Ditabark), Tamarind, Candlenut, Syzygium species, Casuarina species, and Lantana camara (Spanish Flag).

Mirchi Bada

Mirchi Bada (chili cutlet) is a spicy Indian snack consisting of chili (Mirchi) and potato stuffing, served hot with tomato sauce or occasionally with mint and tamarind chutney.

Phyllocnistis longipalpa

It is known only from the Everglades National Park, Dade County, and along the Loop Road near Tamarind Hammock, Monroe County, Florida.

Samlar machu

The sour flavour of the soup comes from the use of tamarind (អម្ពិល) and certain tangy vegetables such as tomato (ប៉េងប៉ោះ) and pineapple (ម្នាស់), as well as Tiliacora triandra leaves (ស្លឹកវល្លិយាវ).

Sampaloc

Sampaloc is the Filipino word for tamarind and the name of certain locations in the Philippines.

Tamarind Books

Tamarind also specialises in biographies of black role models, in the Black Stars series, which includes biographies of Malorie Blackman, Benjamin Zephaniah, Rudolph Walker, Baroness Scotland, Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy and David Grant.

Trepanging

Archeological remains of Makasar contact, including trepang processing plants from the 18th and 19th centuries, are still found at Australian locations such as Port Essington and Groote Eylandt, and the Makasar-planted tamarind trees (native to Madagascar and East Africa).


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