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The guaraná is an Amazonian fruit used to make a pleasant and sweet commercial soda. It is a very popular drink in Amazonia. The origin of this fruit is explained in this folk tale:
The Guaraná Legend
An indian couple, belonging to the Maués tribe, lived together for many years, always wishing that they could have a child. One day they asked the god Tupã to give them a child as a present to complete their happiness. Tupã, the king of the gods, knowing that the couple had good hearts, fulfilled their wish, bringing to them a beautiful boy.
Time passed by quickly and the boy grew up handsome, generous and kind. However, Juruparí, the god of the darkness, felt an extreme envy for the boy and the peace and happiness that he transmitted, and decided to end that blooming life.
One day the boy went to gather fruits in the forest and Juruparí decided that his vengeance time had arrived. He transformed himself into a serpent and bit the boy, killing him instantly.
The sad news spread quickly. At this moment, thunder echoed and a lightening bolt fell near the indian longhouse. The mother, who was crying in despair, understood that the thunder was a message from Tupã, explaining that she should plant the child’s eyes and that from them a new plant would grow, yielding tasty fruits.
The indians obeyed the mother’s voice and planted the boy’s eyes. There grew the guaraná, whose seeds are black, each with a white aril around it, that reminds one of a human eye.
Guara = human being, na = similar, alike
Trees shrouded in ghostly cocoons line the edges of a submerged farm field in the Pakistani village of Sindh, where 2010’s massive floods drove millions of spiders into the trees to spin their webs.
The power plant of Kardia, Greece, viewed through a destroyed house in the village of Charavgi, some 500 km north of Athens, on September 29, 2011. According to a May 2007 WWF survey called "Dirty Thirty", the Greek Public Power Corporation's (PPC) power plants of Kardia and Agios Dimitrios are the EU's top two polluting stations. The once flourishing nearby villages of Charavgi and Kleitos have been gradually abandoned since PPC opened the two mines. The company "bought" the villages and relocated residents elsewhere. The only person who now lives in Kleitos is an Indian immigrant, Jangdip Pal, 45, who works as a nightguard at the mine. And only one shepherd and his family live in Charavgi. The power plants produce 70 percent of Greece's electricity.
People gather to get water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat on June 1, 2003.
A cargo train on the Kenya-Uganda railway line travels through the sprawling Kibera slum, one of the largest and poorest slums in Africa and home to about 1 million people, in Kenya's capital Nairobi, on August 26, 2011.
Wrecked rickshaws in a dump at Mirpur in Dhaka, bangladesh, on September 23, 2011. Rickshaws far outnumber cars on the streets of many Bangladeshi towns, and they are an important source of income for the country's poor, who often have no other options. Yet the vehicles are a major headache for police, who struggle with licensing and safety issues for the estimated 1 million tricycle rickshaws on the road in Dhaka. Nearly half of all road accidents in the city are believed to involve them.
"In 1936, 16-year-old Ria van Dijk from Tilburg, Holland, fires a gun in a fairground shooting gallery. She hits the target, triggering a camera to take her portrait as a prize.
At the age of 88, Ria van Dijk still makes her annual pilgrimage to the Shooting Gallery."
you really in tears though? you stay coming off corny
im in tears bruh.....you serious too