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    Lifou Island (redirect from Ile Lifou)
    raised animals such as goat, pig and chicken. Crops include coconut, banana, taro, sweet potato, yam and vanilla. While the French introduction of coffee stayed...
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    Tuamotus (redirect from Îles Tuamotu)
    limited to simple subsistence. Fruit and vegetable staples include yams, taro, breadfruit, and a wide range of tropical fruit. Pandanus leaves are traditionally...
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  • Blanc-Mesnil but spent his childhood and adolescence in Aulnay-sous-Bois, in the Île-de-France. He played the main role in his first film, Cyprien Vial's Bébé...
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    fishing, and lumber. Agricultural products include coconuts, breadfruit, yams, taro, bananas, pigs, and fish. Exports include copra, chemicals, and fish. There...
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    overseas country of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island. Herman Melville wrote his book Typee based on...
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  • Shoushan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Ape (plant), the Polynesian name for the giant taro plant Xanthosoma ('ape), tropical American plant Acute pulmonary edema, fluid...
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    around 1800. This system included irrigated taro pond fields, mixed bush-fallow swiddens producing dryland taro and yams, and fallow secondary forest enriched...
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    Kotawa by a reef. Kō and Motu Kotawa are uninhabited food reserves, with taro and pulaka gardens and coconut plantations. Pukapuka Airport (ICAO: NCPK...
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  • its coordinates were corrected by Lapérouse, who referred to the island as île Plistard. As Pylstaart it was well known to whaling ships. Because of its...
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    (1999). "Migration d'une plante et migration de ses représentations. Le taro de marécage (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) sur Nikunau et Tabuaeran (République...
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  • HERR – German for "Mister (Mr.)" ICI – French for "here" ÎLE – French for "island", as in "Île-de-France" MÁS – Spanish for "more" MES – French for "my";...
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    every three weeks. The inhabitants are self-sufficient. They grow yams, taro and breadfruit, as well as all kinds of tropical fruits and, to a lesser...
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    such as taro. One way this is frequently prepared is in a buried-oven-style feast, known as bougna. Wrapped in banana leaves, the fish, taro, banana and...
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    majority of pre-European plants originated in South-East Asia: breadfruit, taro, coconut, yam (Dioscorea alata), Tahitian chestnut, Syzygium malaccense,...
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    island is abundant in cassava, bananas, mangoes, soursop, avocados, oranges, taro, and vanilla. The Anjouan scops owl is a rare owl. The Anjouan sparrowhawk...
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    or in a lake, the cultivation of traditional Austronesian crops such as taro or saonjo, banana, coconut, and sugar cane, traditional architecture with...
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  • (Ālu) बटाको/आलु (Baṭāko/Ālu) अरबी (Arbi)/ अरुई (Arui)/ घुइयां (Ghuiyan) Taro/ Colocasia Colocasia esculenta কচু (Kôsu) কচু (Kôchu) અળવી/ પત્તરવેલીયા (Aḷvi/Pattarveliyā)...
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    boundaries from the pre-war department of the same name. The reorganisation of Île-de-France in 1968 and the division of Corsica in 1975 added six more departments...
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    Malagasy cuisine grown in terraced fields in the highlands, and greater yam, taro, cowpea, and plantain. Plantation crops include litchi, cloves, coffee, and...
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    Charentonneau in Maisons-Alfort. Charenton-le-Pont is twinned with: Borgo Val di Taro, Emilia Romagna, Italy Büren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Trowbridge...
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  • Moreira, 82, Brazilian businessman and politician, federal deputy (1988–1995). Taro Nakayama, 98, Japanese politician, minister for foreign affairs (1989–1991)...
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  • Lomeña, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic priest, theologian and academic. Asashio Tarō IV, 67, Japanese sumo wrestler, small intestine cancer. Junior Balaiah, 70...
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  • pancakes, bread or biscuits with butter. Sometimes a starch, such as cassava, taro in coconut milk, or rice, is served instead. Leftover fish or meat from the...
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    the warm and humid climate make it possible to grow vegetables, tubers (taro and yams) and tropical and subtropical fruits. The products are mainly consumed...
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    during the brief excursions ashore were limited. Marchand named the island "Île Marchand," after his own surname. The arrival of the U.S. whaling ship Tuscan...
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    styles. A notable local dish is bougna which is a stew composed of starches, taros, sweet potatoes, poingo bananas, yams, and is accompanied by local meat...
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    visit the islands was Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, who named them the "Îles des Navigateurs" in 1768. British explorer James Cook recorded the island...
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    November 24, 2021. Retrieved October 10, 2021. "Chinese fried noodles-". ile-maurice.tripod.com. Retrieved January 10, 2022. "Top 10 Most Popular Mauritian...
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    and Makin supply most of the bananas sold in Kiribati. The cultivation of taro or babai (Cyrtosperma merkusii) has been historically easier in the northern...
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  • China UTC+08:00 CDG LFPG Charles de Gaulle Airport (Roissy Airport) Paris, Île-de-France, France UTC+01:00 Mar–Oct CDH KCDH Harrell Field Camden, Arkansas...
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