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Shapiro was born on June 20, 1973, in Kansas City, Missouri. [7] He spent a few years of his childhood on a U.S. Navy base where his father, Steven Shapiro, served as a medical officer, [8] before the family moved to Dresher, Pennsylvania, a community in Upper Dublin Township in Montgomery County. [9]
Myrica esculenta is a evergreen tree of medium height, about 6 to 8 m (20 to 26 ft) tall. The yellow bark is soft and brittle. Its leaves are conjoint, 30–60 cm (1–2 ft) feet long, and has leaflets in pairs of 6 to 9 and it has a width of 19 mm (0.75 in).
A variety of passion fruits at a market in Portugal. Well known edible passion fruits can be divided into four main types: purple passion fruit (fruits of Passiflora edulis Sims), yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa Deg.), sweet granadilla (Passiflora ligularis), giant granadilla (Passiflora quadrangularis L.). [6]
Lychee [3] (US: / ˈ l iː tʃ iː / LEE-chee, UK: / ˈ l aɪ tʃ iː / LIE-chee; Litchi chinensis; Chinese: 荔枝; pinyin: lìzhī; Jyutping: lai6 zi1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nāi-chi) is a monotypic taxon and the sole member in the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae.
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
Several figures in Eisenhower's administration, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother CIA Director Allen Dulles, had close ties to the United Fruit Company. The Dulles brothers had been partners of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell , and in that capacity had arranged several deals for the UFC.
The fruit is intermediate in size between a lemon and a grapefruit, 5–12 cm (2– 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter with a rounded shape and thick, reddish husk. [7] In mature fruits, the juice obtained by compressing the seeds yields a sour flavor due to low pH (4.4) and high contents of polyphenols, [21] which may cause a red indelible stain on ...
It is illegal to hunt, capture, or keep yellow-breasted fruit-doves under Philippine Law RA 9147. Taxonomy and systematics. The yellow-breasted fruit dove is one of over 50 species in the genus Ptilinopus. Within the genus, it is most closely allied to the red-eared fruit dove and the Lompobattang fruit dove.