Monthly Archives: April 2014
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.
315.WHEN WERE COMBS FIRST USED?
The first time a woman noticed that she could make herself more attractive by arranging her hair in some special way was probably the first time a “comb” was used. A comb is simply any implement with “teeth” which go through hair, thereby arranging it.
There are people who live in New Guinea called Papuans. They have very crisp hair which grows in tight ringlets. Some people believe that in order to arrange these ringlets into a big mop at the top of the head, the Papuans must have invented the comb.
