APPLES
We all know apples: they are edible fruit that grow on apple trees. They have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe and were brought to North America by European colonists.
The first apples were found growing wild in the mountains of Central Asia.They were introduced to North America by colonists in the 17th century and the apple tree may have been the earliest tree that humans cultivated.
SOME LEGENDS,TRADITIONS & OTHER TRIVIA
- Apples appear in many religious traditions often as forbidden fruit, however, the word "apple" was used as a generic term for all fruit, other than berries, including nuts, as late as the 17th century.Though the forbidden fruit of Eden in the book of Genesis* is not identified, popular Christian tradition has held that it was an apple that Eve coaxed Adam to share with her.
*Genesis: the first book of the Bible which desribes how God made the world
Source: The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/14/severance-intercourse-by-robert-olen-butler-review)
- When tomatoes were introduced to Europe, they were called "love apples". Cucumbers used to be called "earth-apples', just as in French, Dutch, Hebrew, Persian and Swiss German as well as several other German dialects, the words for potatoes mean "earth-apples". In some languages, oranges are called "golden apples" or "Chinese apples".
- In North America an American Indian is called an "apple" denoting someone who is "red on the outside and white on the inside" primarily by other American Indians to indicate someone who has lost touch with their cultural identity.
-"An apple a day keeps the doctor away" is a popular saying. The apple symbolizes health and advantages of eating fresh fruit.
- Comparing "apples and oranges" means to examine the similarities of things that are completely different; in Slovene the corresponding expression is "Comparing apples with pears".
- Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four tech companies along with Amazon, Google and Facebook.
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Apple Inc. decided to use not a complete apple for their logo but an apple with a bite (byte) taken out of it.
Mr, Janoff, the creator of the logo (1977) explained where he got the inspirtion : "The reason for the bite is that it's there for scale, so that a small Apple logo still looks like an apple, and not a cherry! As of why it's an apple? It results in Steve Jobs working in an orchard when he was a boy so I decided to name it after his favorite brand of apple, McIntosh."
*The Great Depression was the greatest and the longest economic recession in modern world history. It began with the U.S. stock market crash in 1929and did not end until 1946 after World War II.
Source:https://leonabeth.co.uk/portfolio/new-york-big-apple-illustration/
APPLE FOR THE TEACHER
The apple has several symbolic meanings: it can symbolise fertility, love, knowledge, wisdom and much more.
The apple became a symbol of teachers and education in the 18th century. The tradition of giving an apple to a teacher started in the 1700s before governments around the world paid for the education for its people. Poor families in Denmark and Sweden gave teachers baskets of apples and potatoes as payment for teaching their children.
Today, apples are very popular fruit worldwide, with over 7,500 known varieties. They can be baked, pressed, dried, fermented, poached, grilled, dipped in caramel, added to smoothie, and of course eaten as they are: red, green, yellow, juicy, crunchy, soft, shiny, sweet, sour, delicious, tasty, yummy, healthy,etc.
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