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  2. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The exact origin of the word Bangla is unknown, though it is believed to come from "Vanga", an ancient kingdom mentioned in world's largest Epic Mahabharat even Ramayan and geopolitical division on the Ganges delta in the Indian subcontinent. It was located in southern Bengal, with the core region including present-day southern West Bengal ...

  3. Hellmann's and Best Foods - Wikipedia

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    Best Foods' may contain more lemon juice, though the ingredients, ordered by volume, are the same as Hellmann's. [14] Still, the fine print in the company's marketing and websites state that "Hellmann's is known as Best Foods west of the Rockies" [15] and "Best Foods is known as Hellmann's east of the Rockies" [16] The recipe may vary by country.

  4. History of tea - Wikipedia

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    It first became known to the western world through ... more than 52 countries, from this centre of origin. [8] ... is the best quality tea produced in the country.

  5. History of English - Wikipedia

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    After the Norman conquest in 1066, Old English was replaced, for a time, by Anglo-Norman, also known as Anglo-Norman French, as the language of the upper classes. This is regarded as marking the end of the Old English or Anglo-Saxon era, as during this period the English language was heavily influenced by Anglo-Norman, developing into a phase ...

  6. Golden Age of Piracy - Wikipedia

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    Many of the best-known pirates in historical lore originate from this Golden Age of Piracy: "Black Sam" Bellamy, captain of the Whydah Gally, was lost in a storm off Cape Cod in 1717. Bellamy was popularly known as the "Robin Hood of pirates" and prided himself on his ideological justifications for piracy.

  7. History of Poland - Wikipedia

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    The reigns of King Sigismund I the Old (1506–1548) and King Sigismund II Augustus (1548–1572) witnessed an intense cultivation of culture and science (a Golden Age of the Renaissance in Poland), of which the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) [36] is the best known representative.

  8. Cathay - Wikipedia

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    While Central Asia had long known China under names similar to Cathay, that country was known to the peoples of Southeast Asia and India under names similar to China (cf. e.g. Cina in modern Malay). Meanwhile, in China itself, people usually referred to the realm in which they lived on the name of the ruling dynasty, e.g. Da Ming Guo ("Great ...

  9. Best Buy - Wikipedia

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    Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota.Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983.