The Iran Hostage crisis which began during Jimmy Carter's presidency ended the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Pearl Harbor naval base was established, and Martin Luther King Day was declared a holiday in most states in This Day in History video.n November 4, 1979, the crisis began when militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government had allowed the ousted shah of Iran to travel to New York City for medical treatment, seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran.
Technically speaking, botanists classify the coconut as a drupe, not a nut. A drupe is a fleshy fruit enclosing a hard-shelled stone or seed and composed of an outer, middle, and inner layer. While a nut is a dry fruit consisting of a kernel or seed enclosed in a woody shell.
What consumers commonly associate with the word coconut is the inside of the green fibrous fruit. Its covering has been hacked off with a machete to expose the hairy, brown shell and thin skin that protects the treasure within: the sweet, snow-white meat and silky, smooth coconut juice (though milky, it is not to be confused with actual coconut milk; see below). Coping with a fresh coconut involves a steep learning curve. That said, nothing compares with freshly flaked coconut or coconut ...