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“The Big Apple” – история одного яблока Услышав термин «The Big Apple» все сразу понимают, что речь идет о Нью-Йорке. «Большое яблоко» — его самое известное прозвище.

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Услышав термин «The Big Apple» все сразу понимают, что речь идет о Нью-Йорке. «Большое яблоко» — его самое известное прозвище.

Официально, существует несколько версий возникновения такого названия.

Первая версия гласит, что термин возник в 1920-х годах. В прессе его впервые употребил Джон Фитцджеральд, спортивный обозреватель газеты «New York Morning Telegraph», в номере от 3 мая 1921 года. 18 февраля 1924 года в колонке под названием «Вокруг Большого яблока» он объяснил, что услышал это выражение в Нью-Орлеане. Лошади любят яблоки, а скачки в Нью-Йорке, по словам жокеев, — это «большое яблоко».

По другой версии, выражение возникло в среде джазовых музыкантов, у которых была пословица: «На древе успеха много яблок, но если тебе удалось завоевать Нью-Йорк, тебе досталось самое большое яблоко». В 1930-х годах существовали песня и танец под названием «Большое яблоко». Если кто-то говорил, что «he had a gig at «Big Apple»», это значило, что он выступал с концертом в самом центре Нью Йорка, на Манхеттене, где была самая жаждущая, наибольшая и самая признательная публика в стране. Интересно то, что это название вскоре забылось

В начале 1970-х бюро Нью-Йорка по туризму думало над вопросом, как привлечь побольше туристов в Нью Йорк. К этому времени город приобрел сомнительную репутацию благодаря постоянным забастовкам, уличным преступлениям и беспорядкам. Про «Яблоко» вспомнили снова и провели одну из самых успешных рекламных компаний, рисуя перед каждым американцем вид сочного краснобокого яблока — ну как же не поехать и не посетить этот замечательный город после этого! Кампания прошла успешно.

В 1997 года угол Западной 54-й улицы и Бродвея, где Джон Фитцджеральд жил в 1934—1963 годах, официальным указом мэра Рудольфа Джулиани был назван Углом Большого яблока.

Нью-Йоркские экскурсоводы с Брайтон Бич говорят, что связь «яблока» с Нью-Йорком появилась в силу того, что первое дерево, посаженное первыми переселенцами, которое дало плоды было яблоко. Поэтому «яблоко» стало символом Нью-Йорка. В центе Манхеттена есть магазин фирмы Apple, вход в который представляет собой большой стеклянный куб с хрустальным яблоком.

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BBC Learning English 4+

BBC Media Applications Technologies Limited

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Apple Store 4+

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Apple

• • #70 in Shopping
• • 3.5 • 69.3K Ratings

• • Free

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The Apple Store app provides a more personal way to shop for the latest Apple products and accessories. Get recommendations based on the Apple products you already own. Find out which accessories are compatible with your devices. Easily upgrade to a new iPhone from your current one. Keep track of your orders wherever you go. And sign up for hands-on sessions in store. You can even use Apple Pay to check out from your iPhone when you visit a participating Apple Store.

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Obviously Perfect

A critical part of the Apple experience beyond elegance in design, beyond product reliability, and beyond integrity in handling those rare occasions when support is needed, is simple thoughtfulness. The facility of use, the intuitive UI, and the ease and simplicity of discovering more and more commands effortlessly is what makes the Apple experience what it is. This is at the root of the deeply held loyalty of Apple customers.

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Disappointed

I tried to order some apple products this past Black Friday weekend with no resolve. I tried to pay for the items in my cart using Apple Pay which has my debit card, two different credit cards, and my one-week-old Apple Card. All cards have a close to zero or zero balance and work for reoccurring monthly payments as well as recent purchases at my regular grocery shopping. I spent over 2 hours on the phone with over four different phone calls with three additional apple employees. I figured there were issues with Apple being overloaded with Black Friday/Cyber Monday orders on Saturday, so I tried Sunday and again on Monday. I tried all my Apple Pay payment options and always got “Payment Not Processed.” I made sure my iOS and Apple store app were up to date. I deleted and reinstalled the Apple Store app. I restarted my phone—all of which the Apple employees had me do again over my phone calls with them. So Thursday and Friday, the apple store didn’t work. I invested in the Apple ecosystem to not deal with tech issues. I invested three extra hours in helping Apple become aware of its problems and get more orders. I missed out on the $25 Black Friday gift card, and this issue still isn’t resolved within this version of the Apple Store app and my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I wish someone would help me as much as I have helped apple become of this issue.

Don’t recommend

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MadOut2 BigCityOnline 12+

Vladislav Ivanchuk

• • #91 in Racing
• • 4.3 • 11.6K Ratings

• • Free
  • Offers In-App Purchases

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Number one mobile game — with open world

* Online mode — up to 100 players on map
* Real big territory, you can explore it
* Full open world
* nice car physics
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What’s New

* Add new buildings
* Chat is now split by language
* In the chat, you can write private messages — which will be seen only by the one to whom they were written
* Ping is shown to the server
* There is now a queue on the server if it is full
* There are no language servers now, it just shows how many people with your language are currently on the server
* Cars online no longer shake
* Optimization has become better

Ratings and Reviews

Developers we need you

So first to start out this game is great! There are cool things in this game like car physics and police chases! Online is also fun to have wars with other people! But here is where we need you developers! In a lot of reviews people have been wanting things like more vehicles instead of just cars, it would be cool to have jets and boats, motorcycles etc. roaming through the streets! It would also be cool to have the cops come at you in a helicopter! Also make it allow private servers, were we can allow and not allow nods and cops in multiplayer! It would also be cool to have a big passenger plane we’re people can go inside and sit down! AlSO MORE GUNS like RPGs and nukes! Also a terrain manipulator! One last thing is more buildings you can go into with more advanced NPCs to Interact with! Make all buildings have an Inside! Also make swats come at 5 stars and shoot you with tanks and shields! I know this is a lot but this game is boring with these features missing! If you add these then this game would be NUMBER ONE IN MOBILE HISTORY thanks for your time now please add these!

Probably one of the most similar games to GTA on IOS/Android

This game is probably one of the most similar games to GTA I’ve seen on IOS. The only things that are limiting that feel are the massive amount of bugs and random crashes on older devices. It also has over 105 missions, but the missions are mostly just copies of other missions, just set in different areas. You should add more longer missions which you can choose the difficulty before the mission starts. I’ve also seen your list of things to do in-game. You don’t have to add all of these things over a year-to-year period. You should get that list done because it’s been there since 2017. You should remove most of the bugs in the game, but not in one update. You shouldn’t stress yourself in getting the most bugs out of the game in one update. Instead, to relive your stress, get rid of a group of bigger bugs in a span of a couple of updates, and then get rid of the smaller bugs in one or two updates. Also, the graphics option is really good, since it has a realistic feel to it. I know your last rating was over 8 months ago, and you might not read this, but I hope you can add most of these things, along with all of the other things that other ratings have suggested into the game by 2023. Other than that, this might be one of the most closest games to GTA I’ve ever seen. Great Job!

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Thanks for the feedback,advice and rating .We will try our best to resolve in future updates.

Best game ever but…

This is one of the best games I’ve ever played in my life, but there are a few things that make this game even better. One thing you could do is add more pick up trucks and the ability to put anything I want it on to any vehicle (ball bars smokestacks fender flares etc. ) I I know this may sound weird at first but if you could add turn signals to the game that would be kind of cool. And maybe if you could add brand new Cars like every time a new car where to come out in real life you could add that car into the game and a way to get gems in missions instead of getting 10 gems a day that’s pretty boring to get the Lambo doing that would you take 200 days (2/3 of the year) so if you could please add that into the game I would believe would be a necessity for the game. I’d say maybe 30 gems every mission plus the coins they would get for each mission. It would also be cool if you were able to add different engine sounds for example diesel engines loud V-8 engines like ones in muscle cars street car engines and pretty much any type of engine audio you can think of That is pretty much all that I wanted to say these would be cool into the game can you please do this maybe by the end of the month or something or ASAP please thx

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