Banana (29 page)

Friendly Islands

Friends of the Earth

Frison, Emile

Fructose

Fruit Dispatch Company

Fundacion Hondureña de Investigacíon Agricola (FHIA)

Fusarium family

Fyffes

Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer

Gang's All Here, The
(movie)

Garden of Eden

Genesis, Book of

Genetic modification

Giant Cavendish banana

Gihon River

Ginger

Golfito, Costa Rico

Gondwanaland

Grande Naine (Big Dwarf) banana

Great American Insurance Company

Great Barrier Reef

Great White Fleet

Greenpeace

Gros Michel banana

Guangdong, China

Guantánamo Bay, Cuba

Guatemala

Guatemala City, Guatemala

Guevara, Che

Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Panama

Gulu

Gutenberg, Johannes

Ha Long Bay

Haiti

“Hallelujah Chorus” (Handel)

Halmahera, Papua New Guinea

Handel, Georg Friedrich

Hawaii

Hazard, E. R.

Hebrew language

Henry, O.

Hibiscus

“High mat,”

High Sign, The
(movie)

Himalayas

Honduras

Hord, H. H. V.

Houston
(boat)

Houston Post

Human genome project

Hunt, E. Howard

Hurricane Mitch

ICI banana

IC2 banana

Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture

India

Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean Complex (IOC) banana

Indochina

Indonesia

Inflorescence of banana

International Federation for Produce Standards

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

International Network for the

Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP)

International Red Cross

Iran

Iraq

Irazú volcano, Costa Rica

Irrigation

Isabella, Queen of Spain

Islam

Israel

Ivory Coast

J.P. Morgan and Company

Jamaica

Java

Jenkins, Virginia Scott

Jerome, Saint

Johansson, Edna

Jones, Geoffrey

Jordan

Justice, U.S. Department of

Kagera region, Tanzania

Karat banana

Keaton, Buster

Keith, Minor C.

Kellogg, Frank Billings

Khairpur, Pakistan

Kim Ngan, Cat Ba Island

Kintu

Kinzer, Stephen

Knox, Philander C.

Koran

Kuk Swamp

La Ceiba, Honduras

La Lima, Honduras

Lacatan banana

Ladino class

Lake Victoria

Lakshmi (goddess)

Lambert, Aylmer Bourke

Lancetilla, Honduras

Langdon, Robert

Langley, Lester

Language

Latifundios

Latin American Research Review

Latrobe, Pennsylvania

Leghari, Hadi Bux

Leopold II, King of Belgium

Leuven, Belgium

Levin, Schnier

Levine, Jonathan

Limón, Costa Rica

Lindner, Carl

Linnaeus, Carolus

Linnean Society

Livingstone, David

López Arellano, Oswaldo

Lutaladio, NeBambi

MacArthur, Charles

Madagasgar

Magazine of Botany

Malay Peninsula

Malaysia

Malnutrition

Managua, Nicaragua

Manila hemp

Maori language

Marín, Douglas

Markham, Richard

Marquardt, Steve

Márquez, Gabriel García

Martinez, Adolfo

Martinique

Mauritius

Mayas

McCann, Thomas P.

McCarthyism

Meiggs, Henry

Melpa people

Mercator, Geradus

Mercenaries

Mexico

Midges

Migrant bananas

Mindanao, Philippines

Miranda, Carmen

Molina, Gus

Molony, Guy “Machine Gun,”

Mossadegh, Mohammed

Mount Hagen

Mpologoma banana

Mukiibi, Joseph

Musa

Musa acuminata

Musa balbisiana

Musa sapentium

“Musalogue,”

Mysore banana

Nam Heng, Malaysia

Nambi

Napoléon

Nation
,
The

National Housewives League

National Research Center for the Banana (India)

Nature
magazine

Nematodes

Nendran, India

Neumann, Katharina

New Scientist

New York Police Department

New York Times

New Zealand

Newfoundland

Newsweek
magazine

Nicaragua

Nigeria

Noboa, Alvaro

Oil palm

Old Testament

Oman

One Hundred Years of Solitude
(García Márquez)

Only Yesterday
(Allen)

Operation PB Success

Operation Zapata

Oreamuno, Próspero Fernández

Organic bananas

Organization of American States (OAS)

Organization of Banana Exporting Countries

Orinoco River

Oviedo, Gonzalo Fernández de

Pakistan

Palm oil

Pan-American School of Agriculture

Panama

Panama Canal

Panama disease

Papua New Guinea

Particle bombardment

Pectin

Peña, Billy

Perennials

Persian Gulf

Peru

Pesticides

Petite banana

Peurifoy, John

Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition (1876)

Philippines

Philipps, Roland

Phytoliths

Pilgrim, The
(movie)

Pisang Mas banana

Pison River

Plant Disease

Plantains

Plate tectonics

Ploetz, Randy

Plum pox

Pohnpei Island

Polynesia

Polynesian fe'i banana

Ponce, Francisco

Popenoe, Dorothy Hughes

Popenoe, Wilson

Popular Science
magazine

Port Antonio, Jamaica

Pouyat, Jean François

Poyo banana

Preston, Andrew

Price look-up (PLU) system

Price wars

Propaganda
(Bernays)

Provident Financial Group

Pseudostem of banana

Puerto Bolívar, Ecuador

Puerto Castilla, Honduras

Puerto Rico

Quechua Indians

Quiriga, Guatemala

Race

Radishes

Rainforest Alliance

Redmond, Kenneth

Refrigerated shipping

Reinking, O. A.

Remy, Serge

Renaissance artists

Reynolds, Philip Keep

Reza Pahlavi, Shah Mohammad

Rice

Roatan Island

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rosales, Franklin

Rough Riders

Rowe, Phil

Rwanda

Samoa

San Francisco, California

San José, Costa Rica

Santa Marta district, Colombia

Santo Domingo

Santos, Brazil

Schlesinger, Stephen

Schoonover, Thomas

Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala
,
1952–1954
(Cullather)

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Senegal

Shaolin Soccer
(movie)

Sierra, Juan Roa

Sigatoka fungus

Black

Silver, Frank

Sixaola
(ship)

Slave trade

Smith, Jeremy

Social Accountability International

Solomon Islands

Soluri, John

Sosua, Dominican Republic

South Africa

South China Sea

South Johnstone, Australia

Soybeans

Spanish-American War

Sri Lanka

Standard Fruit Company

Stanley, Henry Morton

State, U.S. Department of

Stock market crashes

Strickler, David

Sucker of banana

Sudden Oak Death

Suez Canal

Sugarcane

Sumatra

Sunda Arc

Sundararaju, Palaniyandi

Sunderland, Thomas

Suriname

Sweet potatoes

Swennen, Rony

Sycamore tree

Systema Naturae
(Linnaeus)

Tacamiche, Honduras

Tahiti

Taiwan

Tamil Nadu, India

Tanzania

Tanzanian
huti

Taro

Telegraph
(ship)

Telfair, Annabelle

Telfair, Charles Edward

Thailand

Thella Chakkarakeli

Tigris River

Tin Pan Alley

Tonga

Torah

Traveler's palm

Trinidad

Trujillo, Rafael

Tumushabe, Godber

Turmeric

Ubico, Jorge

Uganda

Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act

United Brands

United Dairy Farms

United Fruit Company

United Fruit Historical Society

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

United Self-Defense Forces (AUC)

U.S. Secret Service

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences