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In addition, E. coca var. ipadu was separately derived from E. coca var. coca when plants were taken into the Amazon basin. Genetic evidence (Johnson et al. in 2005, [15] Emche et al. in 2011, [16] and Islam 2011 [17]) does not support this linear evolution. None of the four coca varieties are found in the wild, despite prior speculation by ...
Walter Bellingrath was one of the first Coca-Cola bottlers in the Southeast, and with his wealth built the estate garden and home. He and his wife, Bessie, lived in the home which has since been converted into a museum. The gardens opened to the public in 1932. [4]
That family had a long-term association with Coca-Cola as they started Brennan's Vend Works, which had been selling Coke products since its founding in 1950. [6] After two years of renovations led by James Brennan, the building reopened in 2023 as "The Coke Plant", a wedding venue with a 500-person capacity.
Charlottesville Coca-Cola Bottling Works; Coca-Cola Building (Chicago) Coca-Cola Bottling Plant (Cincinnati, Ohio) Club Cool; Coca-Cola Bottling Plant (Bogalusa, Louisiana) Coca-Cola Roxy; Coca-Cola Coliseum; Coca-Cola Bottling Company Building (Columbia, Missouri)
The 1937 Tifton Coca-Cola Bottling Plant is located at 820 Love Avenue. The building is a two-story, brick, commercial Beaux Arts -style building with tile roof, heavy modillions under the cornice, metal factory sash-windows, leaded-glass transoms over plate glass display windows, and decorative cast-concrete door surround.
The coca plant, a tea-like shrub, was cultivated mostly by small farmers in the Yungas regions. In the 1980s, Bolivian farmers rushed to grow coca for the illicit market, as its price climbed and the economy collapsed. Soaring unemployment also contributed to the boom.
Coca eradication is a strategy promoted by the United States government starting in 1961 as part of its "war on drugs" to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are not only traditionally used by indigenous cultures but also, in modern society, in the manufacture of cocaine. The strategy was adopted in place of running ...
Before the 1990s, harvesting coca leaves had been a relatively small-scale business in Colombia. [3] Though Peru and Bolivia dominated coca-leaf production in the 1980s and early 1990s, manual-eradication campaigns there, the successful rupture of the air bridge that previously facilitated the illegal transport of Bolivian and Peruvian coca leaf to Colombia, and a fungus that wiped out a large ...