The Ghost Apple (2014)
“ 600 b.c.: Greeks build the slave-powered Diolkos wagonway, thought to be the world’s first railway.
500 b.c.– 1492 a.d.: Polynesians carry the banana as far east as Hawaii, while Arab traders are responsible for the fruit’s westward migration. Europeans first encounter the banana in West Africa, probably in the early 1400s.
1492: Columbus, miscalculating the circumference of the earth, which he believes is shaped like a pear, discovers America. Unfortunately, so do Euro...pean epidemic diseases, which kill almost all of the New World’s indigenous peoples over the next hundred and fifty years. Big Anna® honors them (the people) and celebrates their heritage yearly during its Amerindian Festival™.
1516: Friar Tomás de Berlanga brings the banana from the Canary Islands to the “undiscovered country” of the Caribbean, after which it spreads through Latin America like the epidemic diseases already blazing a path.
1519: Hernán Cortés arrives at the court of Aztec king Moctezuma II, where he learns that the monarch consumes more than fifty cups of chocolate a day.MoreLess
500 b.c.– 1492 a.d.: Polynesians carry the banana as far east as Hawaii, while Arab traders are responsible for the fruit’s westward migration. Europeans first encounter the banana in West Africa, probably in the early 1400s.
1492: Columbus, miscalculating the circumference of the earth, which he believes is shaped like a pear, discovers America. Unfortunately, so do Euro...pean epidemic diseases, which kill almost all of the New World’s indigenous peoples over the next hundred and fifty years. Big Anna® honors them (the people) and celebrates their heritage yearly during its Amerindian Festival™.
1516: Friar Tomás de Berlanga brings the banana from the Canary Islands to the “undiscovered country” of the Caribbean, after which it spreads through Latin America like the epidemic diseases already blazing a path.
1519: Hernán Cortés arrives at the court of Aztec king Moctezuma II, where he learns that the monarch consumes more than fifty cups of chocolate a day.MoreLess
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