Word: anais
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...major reasons Bryant's plantation is not a fast-eroding cow pasture is that he got help from an environmental group called Anai (which means "friend" in the language of the local Bribri Indians). "We probably wouldn't still be farming if it wasn't for these guys," admits Bryant. Anai provided him with new kinds of crops, including vanilla plants and a different variety of cacao tree, which is less likely to die from fungus. Over the past five years, Anai has brought dozens of new varieties of cash crops to more than 20 communities in the Talamanca region...
...June 6 it will be 25 years to the day that two elderly French spinsters, Anai's Georget and Blanche Cardon, wrote those words in their diary. It was Dday, and along the coast of Normandy, under gray, blustery skies, 156,000 Allied troops were hurling themselves against Hitler's Festung Europa, launching a thrust that would conclude on the Elbe River eleven months later and bring World War II to an end. Anai's Georget and Blanche Cardon have long since died, but the memories and memorials of that day in 1944 have...
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