from where the name banana in banana republic comes?
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The origin of the term is related to the way that United Fruit Company (Chiquita brand) controlled the government (overthrowing one dictator) as well as controlling the major banana crop and exports of Honduras around the turn of the last century. Many Latin American and Caribbean countries once were (and in some cases still are) dependent on bananas as their major source of export revenue. Many of these countries have also been unstable dictatorships so the term has come to mean any small country that has an unstable and corrupt dictatorship.\n\nSeveral banana companies have exerted control over small countries in the past, controlling large land plantations, major employment, and both the exports and imports of these islands through their shipping companies. Geest, a European company was once the only shipping company to call on several Caribbean islands and almost nothing was imported to these islands that did not arrive on a Geest boat.
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I'm not sure if is Indian \nbut almost every country has a nick name\nlike french are called gallos,Spanish,iberos,Americans Yankees,etc,etc,.\nboricua comes from BORINQUEN which is the second name of PUERTO RICO
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Because you're going bananas, dude !\n:-))
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I assume you want to write your name in chinese. A rough translation is 纳特. Note that there is no special meaning of this translation in chinese. It is pronounced as Na (as in banaNA) and Te (winTEr).
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Wow i don't know what to believe, but like to keep an open mind.  How did oyur professor's friend get hold of the gold bananas?\n\nSounds weird but i think it's a sort of test, you know bad spirits and all that like when they discovered tutankamun's tomb....i certainly wouldn't have kept hold of them if they do exist!
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Banana money. No value.\n\nWhy is called banana money?\n\nBanana money is an informal term given to a type of currency issued by Imperial Japan during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, and was named as such because of the motifs of banana trees on the banknotes. It was in widespread use within the occupied territories where the previous currency became a scarcity. To supply the authorities with money whenever they required it, they simply printed more notes. This resulted in high inflation and a severe depreciation in value of the banana note. Moreover, counterfeiting was rampant due to its lack of a serial number.\n\nAs with other currencies issued by Japan in occupied territories, local residents were forced to adopt this type of currency. After the surrender of Japan, the currency became entirely worthless, and to this day the Japanese government has refused to exchange these currencies. Some locals managed to escape poverty because they had hidden Straits dollars, the previous currency before the Japanese invaded. Those with hidden stashes of Straits Dollar were thus able to use them the moment the British resumed control of Singapore, when they became valid again.
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Moussa is a variant of Musa (Moses) and means "the chosen one"\nIt has been used as a first or last name.\n\nIt is also an Italian name, derived from a place called Musa.
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Canada:\n\nFrom kanata, meaning "settlement" or "village" in an Algonquian language (referring to Stadacona, a settlement near present-day Quebec City); \nThe name Canada is believed to have originated around 1535 from a Wendat (Huron-Iroquoian) word, kanata, meaning "village", "settlement", or "collection of huts"[1], referring to Stadacona, a settlement on the site of present-day Quebec City; another contemporary translation was "land"[2]. By 1547, maps made by early European explorers show that the name rivière de Canada was given to the nearby St. Lawrence River; the river was called Kaniatarowanenneh ("big waterway") in Mohawk, coincidentally and reinforcingly similar to kanata. A plausible hypothesis is that the river was named for the village on its banks and the surrounding land for the river used to explore it.\n\nAn apocryphal explanation of the name's origin is that Spanish cartographers, not having explored the northern part of the continent, wrote acá nada ("nothing here") on that part of their maps. A similar tale credits Portuguese explorers who, upon seeing the eastern coastline, declared a similar sentiment (cà nada).
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when i searched this word i just found that it could be a mistaken form of kwanzaa, when african americans come together to celebrate thier heritage and ancestors.The dude that started it came from west africa
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Boricua is an Amerindian (Native American Indian) people and word from the origin of Boriken(Boriquén) now known as the U.S. Territory called Puerto Rico (Rich Port) renamed by the Spanish. The American Indian translation for Boricua is "The Valiant People of the Sacred House". The word is sometimes used to denote a Puerto Rican or a person from Puerto Rico of descent from any racial group or category. . Boricua (American Indians) are less than 1% (percent) as recorded in the U.S. 2000 Census in Puerto Rico. Also, Less than 1% (percent) are reported on Native American Indian Tribal Rolls (Puerto Rico). Boricua derived from the Taíno a sub-group of the Arawak People (American Indians). The Arawaks and the Bodequas were different tribes and they had many wars. In the end there was no winner and they both traveled to Central America in Puerto Rico
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Africa. It is called the Federal Republic of Nigeria. \n\nNigeria, one-third larger than Texas and the most populous country in Africa, is situated on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. Its neighbors are Benin, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. The lower course of the Niger River flows south through the western part of the country into the Gulf of Guinea. Swamps and mangrove forests border the southern coast; inland are hardwood forests.\n\nbrownsluv --'White' man, and I'm thinking you mean southern 'white' man since that is where the 'n-word' came from, are no more 'ignorant' than any other geographical area of the USA. The n-word comes from the way Southerners said the word Negro. With the southern accent it came out  'negr' or 'ni**er' .  It really wasn't meant to be a 'bad' word. How ignorant YOU are.
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the word liberia come from the word liberty, the love of liberty brought us here, the quotes of the free slave that went to liberia, they came from the south.the capital is monrovia, name after the 5 president of the united state james monroe.
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"You shall take the first of every fruit of the ground produced by the land that God your Lord is giving you. You must place it in a basket, and go to the site that God will choose as the place associated with His name." (Deuteronomy 26:2) \n\n\nNow I'm no bible thumper...but I asked the same question when I went to my Grandfather's funeral.  Why the heck were we bombarded with bananas and pineapples and pomegranets and such....fruit is supposed to symbolize the world of creation. Life.
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Move the first letter to the back, and it spells it backward.\nExample:\n\nbanana..\nbecomes Ananab\nWhich is banana backwards.
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Yes - A Country\nYes - A Coffee Brand\nYes - Where Bananas Come from\nYes - High in Environmental protection\nYes - I would love to take a vacation
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the origin: uzbekistan. the meaning: believe you me for me to believe you, you have to believe me.
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My friend thats my last name i life in Colombia, I have seen it comes from Spain in Burgos... It means something like the one who uses the -translated by computer- crossbows.You know\n------> ballestas the one who was expert in that.