Category Archives: WHERE?
317.WHERE DID THE COCONUT ORIGINATE?
The coconut is the nut of a palm tree and is known and useful to millions of people. Now here’s a strange thing about this tree. Nobody knows where it originated! At the dawn of history this tree was already growing in every tropical land and seems to have always been part of the landscape. Scientists believe that the nuts were carried in ancient times by the ocean tides and by man from one tropical country to another. In this way, they spread everywhere so long ago that we can’t trace them back to any one place!
316.WHERE DID BANANAS ORIGINATE?
The banana is one of the oldest known fruits in history. The earliest men of whom there is any record already knew and enjoyed this fruit!
It is believed that the banana first grew in southern Asia and that through many centuries it spread through the East and to the West. The Mohammedans called the banana tree a paradise tree, and the Hindus believed the banana tree was sacred to their goddess Kali.
158.WHERE DO PENGUINES LIVE?
Many people imagine that this strange bird lives wherever it is cold, near the North Pole, South Pole, and so on. But the penguin inhabits only the Southern Hemisphere. Penguins live along the Antarctic (not Arctic!) continent and islands. They are found west Africa, NewZealand, and southern Australia.
The penguin is famous, of course, because it is like a comic version of a human being. Penguins stand up straight and flat-footed. Often they arrange themselves in regular files, like soldiers.
