Golden Apple is the symbol of Our City. I can see that a lot of people like to use the School Assignment Method: they post altered extracts from Internet sources without mentioning these sources. My entry was a part of my son's school research. I know that he found out this information in paper encyclopedias: * Old English Appel meant any fruit. * Dutch named this place New Orange. * The Sanskrit word Narange became the Latin Aurangia, “Golden Apple.” * Two the oldest (!) words in English language derived from the Indo-European Gol & Apal. * This is what I personally told him about the Bible: Adam never ate any apples. Muslims insist it was a banana, non-Muslims split on a pomegranate or an apricot. Fort Greene Dad
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