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Rossum's Universal Robots

By: Karel Capek

...ease the Robots. Good heavens, what are they to buy? You can feed them on pineapples, straw, whatever you like. It's all the same to them, they've n...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...aw a vegetable market, and smelled redolent papayas, durians, watermelons, pineapples, guavas, and tangerines. Further along he smelled tom yam soup,...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... 1901, the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. became the world’s largest producer of pineapples under the Dole brand. In 1911, engineer Henry Ginaca invented ... ...nted a machine that revolutionized the industry by peeling and coring 80 pineapples a minute. SOME SAY HAWAI‘I invented modern tourism promotion i...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...aragonite, timber Agriculture: food importer; produces vegetables, tomatoes, pineapples, bananas, citrus fruits; pigs, sheep Major industries: banking... ...70 per capita (1983) Agriculture: export crops include copra, citrus fruits, pineapples, tomatoes, and bananas, with subsistence crops of yams and tar... ...Agriculture: commercial cocoa, coffee, wood, palm oil, rice; main food crops pineapples, bananas, manioc, peanuts, root crops; imports food Fishing: c... ...iculture: cash crops coffee, bananas, palm products, peanuts, citrus fruits, pineapples; staple food crops cassava, rice, millet, corn, sweet potatoes... ...m, diamonds, manganese Agriculture: commercial coffee, cocoa, wood, bananas, pineapples, palm oil; food crops corn, millet, yams, rice; other commodit... ...985 est.); cocoa (30%), coffee (20%), tropical woods (11%), cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, cotton Imports: $1.6 billion (1985 est.); manufac- ... ...ita (1981) Natural resources: scenery, cultivable land Agriculture: bananas, pineapples, vegeta- bles, flowers, sugarcane for rum Major industries: co... ...ble, and asbes- tos Agriculture: rice, sweet potatoes, sugar- cane, bananas, pineapples, citrus fruits; food shortages wheat, corn, soybeans Fishing: ...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

...ocados, bananas, bilberries, blackberries, grapefruit, grapes, lemons, pears, pineapples, strawberries, and all vegetables. Fresh fruits, especially... ...hat helps to reduce swelling and inflammation. Do not eat canned or processed pineapples. If you don't like fresh pineapple, take the supplement Bro... ... - including citrus or acidic fruits and vegetables (such as lemons, oranges, pineapples, apples, figs, tomatoes, and strawberries) - can trigger a ... ...of intake of them. Consuming a lot of acidic foods such as tomatoes, oranges, pineapples, or others can increase the risk of developing canker sores... ...steoporosis according to the latest researches. Take manganese in the form of pineapples, nuts, spinach, beans and whole wheat. 18. Brussels sprou... ...ould take, three meals a day of juicy fruit, such as grapes, oranges, apples, pineapples, mangoes, pears, and papayas at five-hourly intervals. There...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...m the kindest attentions. The vegetable productions of the island consisted of pineapples, citrons, lemons, bitter oranges, shaddocks, bananas, and co...

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The Blithedale Romance

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

... sweeping past the window! Are there any figs ripe, do you think? Have the pineapples been gathered to day? Would you like a bread fruit, or a cocoanu... ... go and help get supper. Do you think you can be content, instead of figs, pineapples, and all the other delicacies of Adam’s supper table, with tea ...

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A Footnote to History

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

..., are among the more recent outputs; and from one plantation quantities of pineapples are sent at a particular season to the Sydney markets. A hundred...

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A Daughter of Eve

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ssitudes! She knew life, from that which begins in Brie cheese and ends at pineapples; from that which cooks and washes in the corner of a garret on a...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...ary menu. The sago pasty, the artocarpus bread, some mangoes, half a dozen pineapples, and the liquor fermented from some coco-nuts, overjoyed us. I e...

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David Copperfield Volume One Chapters One through Twenty-Eight

By: Charles Dickens

...trolled, at such a time, as far as Covent Garden Market, and stared at the pineapples. I was fond of wan- dering about the Adelphi, because it was a m...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...ng now a wickered demijohn, now a case of wine, now a basket of lemons and pineapples. Besides general supervision, he had elected to assume the respo...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...s, mel- ons almost a weed, bananas abundant; by-and-by coffee, sugar-cane, pineapples (these last but small), arrowroot of excellent quality. Violets ...

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

...he perfume of the fruits and flowers, wondering at the magnificence of the pineapples and melons; catching glimpses down side avenues, of rows and row...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...s, and tell him ‘Count Ilya has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ We can’t get them from anyone else. He’s not there himself, so...

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The Essays or Counsels, Civil

By: Viscount St. Albans

...kind of victual the country yields of itself to hand; as chestnuts, walnuts, pineapples, olives, dates, plums, cher ries, wild honey, and the like; a...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed by their redness ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... in codroys for the knives & shoes. They had nine meels aday—Shampayne and pineapples were served to each of the young ladies in bed before they got u...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

... she felt it cold in her mouth. She had never seen pomegranates nor tasted pineapples. The powdered sugar even seemed to her whiter and finer than els...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed by their redness ... ... and tell him ‘Count Ilya has sent you to ask for straw- berries and fresh pineapples.’ W e can’t get them from anyone else. He’s not there himself, s...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...nd armed with torches, javelins, spears, and halberds whose ends were like pineapples. Besides, they had certain small light bucklers that gave a loud...

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