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The modern English word – and its cognates in many European languages such as the German Pfirsich and Finnish persikka – also have Latin origins. [40] In ancient Rome the peach was called persicum malum or simply persicum meaning ' Persian apple '. [41] This became the Late Latin pessica and in turn the medieval pesca.
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The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically altered garden bugs he meets. Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry , but changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is "prettier, bigger and squishier than a ...
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Depiction of the tale on a painting from the Long Corridor, Summer Palace, Beijing. The Peach Blossom Spring (Chinese: 桃花源記; pinyin: Táohuā Yuán Jì; lit. 'Source of the Peach Blossoms', also translated as “(The Record of) the Peach Blossom”), [1] [2] or Peach Blossom Spring Story or The Peach Blossom Land was a fable written by Tao Yuanming in 421 CE about a chance discovery of ...
In 1901, the English engineer Josias Harding established that the route via the Maipo River was the most appropriate one In 1902, the Chilean engineer Santiago Muñoz issued a report noting the enormous benefits that the railway would bring to the whole community, both in agriculture and trade (paper mills, coal, and tissues).
Consisting of sisters Antonia "Toñi" (14 March 1963) and Encarnación "Encarna" Salazar (10 January 1961), the singing duo comes from Badajoz. [citation needed] They are part of a large family of performers: their grandfather was a musician, their father a singer and songwriter, their brothers the members of band Los Chunguitos and their uncle is famous singer Porrina de Badajoz.
A longevity peach, or shoutao, is a type of lotus seed bun, sometimes with a filling made of red bean paste or lotus paste.It is white with a red dyed tip with a crease along the side, mimicking the shape of a peach.