Columbus, who was looking for spices as much as for gold, discovered the little red berries on his first voyage to the New World.

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Her parents, Lesia and Peter Matijcio, had steeped their daughter in the customs and language of their homeland, and as she recited (in Ukrainian) an ode to Ukraine's folkloric kalyna plant a slender-branched shrub with lustrous red berries by the poet Taras Shevchenko, the crowd roared, and the little girl took bow after bow.

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