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Dasani (/ d ə ˈ s ɑː n i /) is a brand of bottled water created by the Coca-Cola Company, launched in 1999. [1] It is one of many brands of Coca-Cola bottled water sold around the world. The product is filtered and bottled.
Several thousand place names in the United States have names of French origin, some a legacy of past French exploration and rule over much of the land and some in honor of French help during the American Revolution and the founding of the country (see also: New France and French in the United States).
But President Hastings Banda, the founding President of Malawi, reported in interviews that in the 1940s he saw a "Lac Maravi" shown in "Bororo" country on an antique French map titled "La Basse Guinee Con[t]enant Les Royaumes de Loango, de Congo, d'Angola et de Benguela" and he liked the name "Malawi" better than "Nyasa" (or "Maravi").
Gerardus Mercator applied the names North and South America on his influential 1538 world map; by this point, the naming was irrevocable. [20] Acceptance may have been aided by the "natural poetic counterpart" that the name America made with Asia, Africa, and Europa. [13]
William Conan Davis was born on August 22, 1926, in Waycross, Georgia to Kince Charles Davis and his wife Laura Jane (née Cooper; July 9, 1898 – June 6, 2004). Kince Davis' family self-identified as being of Ethiopian Jewish descent, and he read Hebrew but not English. [4]
Dasani is also a surname in the Indian Subcontinent. I would also be interested in knowing the origin of this as a Coca Cola product. I've deleted this ridiculous passage from the article: Unlike beer, Dasani water has absolutely no alcoholic content what so ever. It keeps your body running smoothly.
Although less important than in other European countries, immigration from France to the New World was numerous from the start of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. As of 2013, French authorities estimate that between 2 [ 18 ] and 3.5 million [ 19 ] French nationals are living abroad but the diaspora includes over 30 million ...
The Pays de France is now almost entirely built up as the northern extension of the Paris suburbs. This fourth meaning is found in many place names, such as the town of Roissy-en-France, on whose territory is located Charles de Gaulle Airport. The name of the town literally means "Roissy in the Pays de France", and not "Roissy in the country ...