Happy Birthday California!
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Page under construction: will feature the Calidocious® Inc. annual shareholders meeting on Sept. 9, plus supplementary products of Calidocious® Co.. Sept. 9 is the 'birthday' of California. The holiday is also meant to honor the great Indian teacher Sequoia, and the legendary warior queen of California, Califija, (or 'Calífia').
Sequoia was a Cherokee indian who not only developed the Cherokee alphabet, but was able to teach the entire Cherokee tribe to read and write within twenty years! At the time of Cherokee's death, the Cherokee had a higher literacy rate than the English speaking immigrants to North America.
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The Giant Sequoia trees are named after the Indian teacher Sequoia. |
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Princes Calífia (also spelled 'Calafia' and 'Califia') was the heroine of a popular Spanish novel by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo in the early 1500's, during the period the Spanish were rediscovering California.
'Sequoia Day' will also commemorate the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company. (Princess Calífia was renouned for her trading empire which stretched from the East Indies to the West Indies.)
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Princess Calafia mural in the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco. |
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Amiqueo Tea with Rooibos is $14.99 for a 16ct box plus shipping. |
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| Products include Tea, which will contain Rooibos from the Dutch/Afrikaans-speaking area of South Africa, and non-chocolate candies, in particular jellybeans, which are used as a pronunciation aid.
Projected future products will include Spice cookies from Holland, as well as candies made from spices from the Dutch speaking areas of South America and the Caribean.
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Afrikaans is a form of Dutch similar to several of the dialects spoken in Flanders in the 18th century. The dialects of Dutch spoken in the Carribean and South America are patois, or mixtures of Dutch and indigenous languages.
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Tea is also marketed under the Calidocious brand. A 16-packet box is $14.99. |
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The 1/4th lb. jar of jellybeans is $14.99 plus shipping. |
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| As with all Calidocious Inc. products, Calidocious Inc. hopes to reduce the prices of all products in the future.
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Please allow two weeks for shipping, and send checks or money orders to:
Calidocious Inc.
363 Cypress Ave. Santa Clara, CA 95050
For questions please contact:
zeelands@sbcglobal.net
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The 1/2 lb. box of Peppermints is $15.99 plus shipping. |
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