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发帖数: 6973 | 1 格雷瑟, 乔治亚公司出口筷子到中国. VOA Chinese, July 17, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110716-american-chopsticks-125690043.html
My comment:
(a) VOA (Voanews.com) does not have the English-language original.
(b) Nick Carbone, Import Irony: China Buys Its Chopsticks From A Small
Georgia Town. Time, June 4, 2011.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/04/import-irony-china-buys-its
(i) Americus, Georgia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americus,_Georgia
(home of Habitat for Humanity International's international headquarters)
The nation name America is named after Amerigo Vespucci
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
(1454-1512; an Italian explorer; The Americas are generally believed to have
derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name)
Quote: "It was the publication and widespread circulation of the [supposedly
Amerigo Vespucci's] letters that might have led Martin Waldseemüller to
name the new continent America on his world map of 1507 in Lorraine.
Vespucci used a Latinised form of his name, Americus Vespucius, in his Latin
writings, which Waldseemüller used as a base for the new name, taking the
feminine form America, according to the prevalent view (for other hypotheses
, see the footnote in the introduction). The book accompanying the map
stated: 'I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling
this part, after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence
, Amerige, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and
Asia got their names from women.' Amerigo itself is an Italian form of the
medieval Latin Emericus (see also Saint Emeric of Hungary), which through
the German form Heinrich (in English, Henry) derived from the Germanic name
Haimirich."
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Asia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia
(section 2 Etymology)
(ii) sweetgum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetgum
(iii) Georgia-Pacific
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia-Pacific
(based in Atlanta, Georgia; an independently operated and managed company of
Koch Industries; founded by Owen Robertson Cheatham in 1927 in Augusta,
Georgia as the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co. Over the years it expanded,
adding sawmills and plywood lumber mills. The company acquired its first
west coast facility in 1947 and changed its name to Georgia-Pacific Plywood
& Lumber Co. in 1948. In 1956, the company changed its name to Georgia-
Pacific Corp) |
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