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Yams
Dioscorea Second only to potatoes in terms of world tuber production, true yams (genus Dioscorea) are more closely related to tulips (both are monocots) than to the sweet potato ( Ipomoea batatas), which is also often called a yam. The genus Dioscoreaincludes... Read more |
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Ilorin
Ilorin , city (1991 est. pop. 420,000), SW Nigeria. It is an industrial city and the market (especially for cattle, poultry, palm products, and yams) and transport center for a wide region. Manufactures include cigarettes, matches, and sugar. Traditional artisans make woven goods, tin products, wood... Read more |
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Bat Yam
Bat Yam, Israel Bayit ve Gan Founded in 1926 with a Hebrew name meaning ‘House and Garden’, the name was changed ten years later to ‘Daughter of the Sea’ from the Hebrew bat ‘daughter’ and yam ‘sea’.... Read more |
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yam
yam common name for some members of the Dioscoreaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical climbing herbs or shrubs with starchy rhizomes often cultivated for food. The largest genus, Dioscorea, is commercially important in East Asia and in tropical America. The thick rhizomes, often weighing 30... Read more |
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Trobriand Islands
Trobriand Islands , small volcanic island group off SE New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea. Kiriwana is the largest of the group's 22 islands. Yams, pearl shell, and trepang are the major products. The islands were made famous in the writings of anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski .... Read more |
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Abeokuta
Abeokuta , city (1991 est. pop. 377,000), SW Nigeria. It is the trade center for an agricultural region producing rice, yams, cassava, cotton, fruit, vegetables, and palm products. Manufactures of the city include beer, cement, dyed textiles, and canned foods. There are granite quarries nearby that... Read more |
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Ado
Ado , city (1987 est. pop. 287,000), SW Nigeria. Located in a region where rice, corn, cassava, and yams are grown. Traditionally an important cotton-weaving town, Ado also manufactures bricks, tile, and pottery. Ado was the capital of the Yoruba Ekiti state that was probably founded in the 15th... Read more |
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Kingisepp
Kingisepp , city, NW European Russia, SW of St. Petersburg, near the Estonian border, on the Luga River. A river port, it has leather and shoe industries. The site was settled in the 9th cent., and the fortress of Yam was founded there in 1384 as a frontier post of Novgorod. The fortress was taken... Read more |
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Korhogo
Korhogo , town (1996 est. pop. 158,300), N Côte d'Ivoire. It is an administrative and processing center for a mountainous region where cotton, kapok, rice, millet, peanuts, corn, and yams are grown and sheep and goats are raised. Diamonds are mined in the area. Korhogo was on an important... Read more |
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Oyo
Oyo , city (1991 est. pop. 226,700), SW Nigeria. It is primarily a farming town, producing tobacco, yams, and cassava. Traditional artisans make textiles and leather goods and carve utensils from shells of the calabash gourd. Oyo was founded c.1835 as the successor of Old Oyo (Katunga), the capital... Read more |
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RECIPES FOR SUCCESS ARTICHOKES, YAMS AND FRUIT ARE WINNERS IN OUR SIDE DISH...
...goes to Lynne Hawkins of Saratoga Springs. Hawkins, who won third place in last year's contest, entered her recipe for Yam Bake with Apples and Walnuts. The layering technique Hawkins uses would create a lovely holiday presentation when prepared in... |
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Yam attributes his success to sincerity and transparency, BUSINESS TIMES
...managing director Datuk Michael K.C. Yam was chosen as the winner of the Business...through property and education projects. Yam, the eighth recipient of the award since...yesterday that sincerity was the key to his success. He said that since he took over the company... |
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Sweet success. (entrepreneurship).(teen-owned business Jam-N-Yams)
...endeavor. Her company, Jam-N-Yams, based in Flossmoor, Illinois...year. Camilla's financial success along with her strong marketing...March. While the Jam-N-Yams' pie list boasts plenty to...the best way to make Jam-N-Yams profitable. EARNING CASH Turning... |
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Ulu Yam's 'green' success
...Straits Times 03-09-2005 Ulu Yam's 'green' successByline...ChinEdition: Main/LifestyleULU YAM, Tues. - One the country...dirt roads in the depths of Ulu Yam. A charming 1,920 hectares...But the main secret of their success, says Thiam, is pure and simple... |
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CULTURE: They Yam what they Yam; Stefan Kucharczyk makes friends with...
...striking about meeting the Yam Yams is their charming intimacy...release, At Home With the Yam Yams, was a four track EP released...and force a band towards success, it will never really...through their website, the Yam ... |
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Yam, the cookie master
...Straits Times 11-20-2003 Yam, the cookie masterByline: Hisham...2*Memo: (STF) - Jason Yam's on a roll! His thriving...venture in cookies OF late, Jason Yam has been making lots of dough...all the ingredients for sweet success. Chance, he admits, had a... |
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Biggest talent agency in the world signs up filmmaker Yam...
...signed up Filipino filmmaker Yam Laranas to be part of its roster...Filipino talent! And all because of Yam's horror movie "Sigaw...been prouder to be Filipino," Yam exclaimed. "Kaya rin natin...crossed for this. The unqualified success story of "The Echo" ... |
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Yam believes a good CEO should lead by example, BUSINESS TIMES
...officer (CEO) Datuk Michael Yam Kong Choy said it is still giving...certainly sell out fast," said Yam. "Rather, my job here is to...ringgit entry level, " he added. Yam said people are always looking...Yam attributes the company's success ... |
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The great Bat Yam butterfly experiment
...02-04-2011 The great Bat Yam butterfly experimentByline...great colorful swarms to Bat Yam, attracted to 150,000 new...The notion of transforming Bat Yam into Israel's first natural...as well. Encouraged by this success, Mayor Shlomi Lahiani gave the... |
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Yin, Yam Bring Hong Kong to the `Cradle'
...Butfor Hong Kong actors Simon Yam and Terence Yin, last week marked...In the Tomb Raider sequel, Yam and Yin play Chinese brothers...ofAlexander the Great, Chen Lo (Yam) and his brother, Xien (Yin...similar opportunity forcrossover success realized by Hong ... |
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