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brandy
Alcoholic beverage distilled from wine or a fermented fruit mash. The name comes from the Dutch brandewijn, "distilled wine." Most brandies are aged and contain about 50% alcohol by volume. Some are darkened with caramel. They are usually served alone as after-dinner drinks, but are sometimes used in mixed drinks or dessert dishes, or as fuel in flamed dishes such as crê pes suzettes and cherries jubilee. They are also used to produce liqueur. The finest brandy is usually thought to be French cognac.


candy
Sweet sugar- or cacao-based confection. The Egyptians made candy from honey (combined with figs, dates, nuts, and spices), sugar being unknown. With the spread of sugarcane cultivation in the 15th cent., the industry began to grow. In the late 18th cent. the first candy manufacturing machinery was produced. The main ingredients are cane and beet sugars combined with other carbohydrate foods such as corn syrup, cornstarch, honey, molasses, and maple sugar. To the sweet base are added chocolate, fruits, nuts, peanuts, eggs, milk, flavors, and colors. Common varieties include hard candy (crystallized sugar), caramels and toffee, nougats, jellies, marshmallows, marzipan, truffles, cotton candy, licorice, and chewing gum.


-->Guan Yu

Military hero of the Three Kingdoms era (3rd cent. AD) who started his career as the bodyguard of Liu, Bei, the founder of one of the three kingdoms. He was captured and executed but his fame and popularity continued to grow. China's rulers conferred ever greater titles upon him until in 1594 he was canonized as god of war and protector of China. Thousand of temples were constructed in his honor. His cult spread to Korea in the 17th cent., where it was believed that he saved the country from Japanese invasion.


Kandy
Important independent monarchy in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at the end of the 15th cent. and the last Sinhalese kingdom to be subjugated by a colonial power. Kandy survived the predations of the Portuguese by allying with the Dutch and survived the Dutch by seeking British aid; when the British took over Ceylon in 1796, Kandy was left on its own. The first British attack on Kandy in 1803 failed; in 1815 Kandyan chiefs invited the British to overthrow a tyrannical king, and in 1818 those chiefs' rebellion against the British was suppressed.


Luanda
City (pop., 1995 est.: 2,081,000), capital of Angola. Situated on the Atlantic coast, it is Angola's largest city and its second busiest seaport. Founded in 1576 by Paulo Dias de Novais, it became the administrative center for the colony of Angola in 1627. It was a major outlet for slave traffic to Brazil until the 19th cent. Many Mbundu live in the city, and there is a sizable Cuban community. It is a commercial and industrial area, with oil-refining capacity. It is the seat of the Univ. of Luanda; the old fortress of Sã o Miguel lies beyond the port.


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