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How did New York become known as "the Big Apple"?

          

The history of the name 'Big Apple' (referring to New York), was thought a mystery but research has provided a solution of the term's history. False terms were made earlier in time that was derived from a NY brothel madam named Eve. This was exposed as a hoax.

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