the first banana company in the u.s. was what and when  was it established?
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Boston Fruit Company was established in 1885; later merged with United Fruit Company, which is now Chiquita.\n\nBefore that, in 1870, Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker brought bananas from Jamaica to Jersey City with the intention of selling them for a profit. Andrew Preston, a Boston produce dealer began selling them in 1871. Baker and Preston were the founders of Boston Fruit Company in 1885. \n\nAlso in 1871, Minor Keith started building a railroad across Costa Rica and planted bananas alongside the tracks. In 1899 Keith was the largest importer to the southeast US and Boston Fruit was the leading northeast importer. They merged to form United Fruit Company in 1899
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I DO BELIEVE THAT THE ANSWER THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS DELEWARE. IT IS ALSO NICKNAMED "THE FIRST STATE" DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT WAS THE FIRST STATE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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I would vote for anyone over Bush. Even a banana!!!
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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Minnesota admitted to the Union as the 32nd state in 1858\n\n(a five second search in Wikipedia yielded this information)
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Harvard.  Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded on September 8, 1636 by a vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States[1] and a member of the Ivy League.
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Do you mean in the US or in the world?\n\nIt was first smoked by the Mayan Indians and they were around from 300 to 900 AD.  Tobacco is indigenous to North America.  It was then adopted by Europeans.
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was it bananas -- or strawberryish
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I got some bananas u want some?
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Costco is a public company (COST) located in Washington Sate. The company, formerly known as Price/Costco, Inc., was founded in 1976. It changed its name to Costco Companies, Inc. in 1997 and to Costco Wholesale Corporation in 1999. Costco is headquartered in Issaquah, Washington.
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Their economy:  Cotton was the US's biggest export adn slavery ensured low labor costs
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The Singer Sewing Machine Company.  They began granting franchises in 1851.
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First University is Nalanda University in India (6th–5th centuries BC)\nSecond university which you're asking about is the University of Santo Tomas Philippines looks at one of the oldest universities in Asia that first opened in 1611 and started granting degrees in 1624.
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Edible bananas originated in the Indo-Malaysian region reaching to northern Australia. Bananas and plantains are today grown in every humid tropical region and constitute the 4th largest fruit crop of the world. World production is estimated to be 28 million tons—65% from Latin America, 27 % from Southeast Asia, and 7 % from Africa.India is the leading banana producer in Asia.\n\nThe orange is cultivated over thousands of years now. It is supposed to originate from South- and indo-China.Brazil produces more oranges than any other country, followed by the United States, China, Spain and Mexico.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_america\nPlease click the above link to know in detail.
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Yes they sell bananas in Poland, although they are all imported just the same as in most of the european countries.  They also grow apples, pears, grapes, raspberries, blackberries, and many other fruits.
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banana has amino acid\n\nÆ