Ginger cultivation began in South Asia and has since spread to East Africa and the Caribbean.

Ginger root supplement has been identified in one study to help reduce colon inflammation markers such as PGE2, thus indicating a measure that might affect colon cancer.

Ginger oil has been shown to prevent skin cancer in mice and a study at the University of Michigan demonstrated that gingerols can kill ovarian cancer cells.

Ginger has a sialagogue action, stimulating the production of saliva, which makes swallowing easier.

Ginger has also been historically used to treat inflammation, which several scientific studies support, though one arthritis trial showed ginger to be no better than a placebo or ibuprofen for treatment of osteoarthritis.

* Rogers was the heroine of a novel, Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak ( 1942, by Lela E. Rogers ), in which " the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person.

Polly Parrish ( Ginger Rogers ) is a salesgirl at the department store John B. Merlin and Son in New York City who has just been told that since the Christmas season is ending she is going to be dismissed.

( The Plough is now an Indo-Chinese fusion restaurant & bar and has been renamed Blue Ginger.

FAB has become known for its traditional events such as Ben & Jerry ’ s Bingo, Bowling Night, Midnight Cheese Steak Run, FAB Quizzo, and trips to sporting events and the many arts and theatre venues in Philadelphia, the FAB Film Series ( the screening of a film's pre-DVD release every other weekend ) and other unorthodox events such as Love Shack: Valentines Ginger Bread House building and Iron Chef: Dining Center.

The dynamic between Jennifer and Bailey has been likened to that between Ginger and Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island.

One chicken, Ginger ( voiced by Julia Sawalha ), has attempted numerous plans to flee the coop, aided by contraband smuggled in by two rats, Nick and Fetcher ( voiced by Timothy Spall and Phil Daniels respectively ).

Fowler ( voiced by Benjamin Whitrow ), an older rooster who has been untrusting of Rocky, gives him his respect for rescuing Ginger and his old Royal Air Force ( RAF ) badge in tribute.

Luckily for Ginger, the most popular girl in school, Courtney Gripling, has taken a liking to her and often includes her in her social plans.

As Told by Ginger has been recognized by fans and Nickelodeon alike for its character development, most of which is unusual for a cartoon.

" A Lesson in Tightropes " has Ginger going through an emotional break-up with Darren while, at the same time, having to get surgery for acute appendicitis.

In Biggles Fails to Return ( 1943 ), Ginger falls in love with the sister of the French pilot who has flown Biggles into France on a secret mission, and at the end of the story Ginger gets to spend several weeks in her company while awaiting transport back to England.

" Rogers has since appeared in Reflections on a Crime ( 1994 ), The Mirror Has Two Faces ( 1996 ), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ( 1997 ), Lost in Space ( 1998 ), Ginger Snaps ( 2000 ), The Door in the Floor ( 2004 ) and For a Good Time, Call ... ( 2012 ).

The 2006 film Stormbreaker ( starring Ewan McGregor ) was filmed on Port Erin beach ; the town has also been used by various production companies including the BBC whose serialised drama The Ginger Tree was filmed at the railway station in 1989, and the cinematic adaption of Five Children & It.

Davis has become known for his coolness and impeccable conduct in high-pressure situations, earning himself the nicknames " Ginger Magician " and " Nugget ".

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Like Anders, he began an ongoing collaboration with Jonas Hellborg in 1989 which has resulted in several progressive and avant-garde recordings, including Dissident, Silent Run ( an acoustic piano trio record with Ginger Baker on drums ) and the hard core progressive fusion record, E.

He permits them to eat the rations of the men that had been killed in action, standing up to the chef Ginger who would only allow them their allotted share.

No films have been made about Ginger Rogers, possibly because her best-known co-star Fred Astaire stipulated in his will that no film representations of him were ever to be made.

According to an article by Ginger Thompson in the New York Times, " if Mr. Duvalier had been able to slip into the country and then quietly leave without incident … he may have been able to argue that Haiti was no longer interested in prosecuting him — and that the money should be his.

The Annenberg Estate or Sunnylands, owned by philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg, had long been popular with the wealthy and powerful, including Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Queen Elizabeth II, and Mary Martin.

Woodsworth had been an Independent Labour Party MP since 1921, and a member of the Ginger Group of MPs.

In the meantime, on 11 June the formation of the Cream -- Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Ginger Baker -- had been revealed in the music press, much to the embarrassment of Clapton, who had not said anything about this to Mayall.

However, actress Pert Kelton was blacklisted at the time and replaced on the tour by Beulah actress Ginger Jones, who subsequently was also blacklisted ( having earlier been named on the Red Channels blacklist ) by CBS, which meant that a new Alice was needed.

At the end of this course Ginger was assigned to work as a code-breaker near Washington — work for which an education in statistical analysis would have been more appropriate than linguistic studies.

Ginger beer and ginger ale as soft drinks have been moderately popular in many parts of the world since they were introduced.

Ginger and galangal are produced in great quantities as well as other drugs .’ He did not seem to be very impressed with Fuzhou and barely gives the city a mention other than to remark that, ‘ The people in this part of the country are addicted to eating human flesh, esteeming it more delicate than any other, provided that the person has not been occasioned by disease … They are a most savage race of men, insomuch that when they slay their enemies in battle, they are anxious to drink their blood and afterwards they devour their flesh .’

Staples, fresh from the London underground scene, had been gigging regularly at the legendary Middle Earth Club in London with Ginger Johnson's African Drummers, alongside, amongst others, Pink Floyd and Mark Bolan.

Other soft drinks with the Sussex name have been Sussex Old English Ginger Beer, Sussex Pale Dry Ginger Ale, Sussex Red Oval Ginger Ale, and Sussex Cola.

* Ginger Jordan, a struggling academic and English professor at Buffalo Lake State University, whose star student Cynthia was interning at the CIA despite coming out to her parents.

The passengers included the skipper Jonas Grumby, his first mate Willie Gilligan, millionaire Thurston Howell, III, his wife Lovey Howell, movie star Ginger Grant, professor Roy Hinkley, and farm girl Mary Ann Summers.

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Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.

The group included, at various times, such influential musicians as Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Graham Bond, Danny Thompson and Dick Heckstall-Smith.

Among the major artistic films of this era were La città delle donne, E la nave va, Ginger and Fred by Fellini, L ' albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi ( winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival ), La notte di San Lorenzo by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Antonioni's Identificazione di una donna, and Bianca and La messa è finita by Nanni Moretti.

During development at the University of Plymouth, in conjunction with BAE Systems and Sumitomo Precision Products, the iBot was nicknamed Fred Upstairs ( after Fred Astaire ) because it can climb stairs: hence the name Ginger, after Astaire's regular film partner, Ginger Rogers, for a successor product.

Ginger is reported to calm the pyloric valve located at the base of the stomach.

" Astaire also had this to say to Raymond Rohauer, curator at the New York Gallery of Modern Art: " Ginger was brilliantly effective.

Ginger Rogers's feet and hand prints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre

They wrote the screenplays for Good News and The Barkleys of Broadway ( which reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ), and then adapted On the Town for Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, scrapping most of Bernstein's music at the request of Arthur Freed, who did not care for the Bernstein score.

* Lois McGiver, a sex-positive activist, drag king, a clerk at Bounders Books and Muzak ( formerly at Madwimmin ) and housemate to Ginger and Sparrow, dating single mother Jasmine, mother of transgender teenager Janis ( originally introduced as Jonas ).

Lois and Stuart homeschooled Janis and J. R. Sparrow and Ginger purchased the house they had earlier shared with Lois ( and later Stuart ) after rooming together for years ; Ginger later moved out, and the group was able to buy Ginger out of the house by Sparrow taking the Executive Director position at the state NARAL office.

* May 19 – Three of the four ex-Beatles perform on the same stage, as Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr jam with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Mick Jagger and others at a wedding reception for Clapton at his Surrey home.

In 2012 the film documentary Beware Of Mr. Baker of Ginger Baker's life was presented at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas.

Ginger Baker's Handprints at the Hollywood Walk of Fame | Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame

* Ginger Baker at His Best ( 1972 )

William and his friends, Ginger, Henry and Douglas, call themselves the Outlaws, and meet at the old barn in Farmer Jenks ' field, with William being the leader of the gang.

In Hawarden, he came under the influence of the great Ginger Lacey, whose score at the time stood at 27.