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Why do people carve pumpkins for Halloween?
pumpkin seeds pumpkin pumpkin patch Halloween: jack-o'-lantern
The gourd family: Melons, squashes, and cucumbers
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Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).
What’s on the Menu? Vocabulary Quiz
Red and yellow cherry tomatoes, some forming a question mark, against a light blue background. (organic, fruits, vegetables)
Fruit or Vegetable? A Quiz
Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap
Plants: From Cute to Carnivorous
A scary old jack-o-lantern on black. Halloween pumpkin, trick or treat. Halloween holiday
Quick Quiz: Pumpkin Carving
Holiday, Christmas, Thanksgiving, turkey with stuffing and dressing. (holidays, Thanksgiving Day)
Thanksgiving Quiz
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Why Do We Celebrate Halloween?
halloween, jack o lantern, pumpkin, gourd
Why Do We Carve Pumpkins at Halloween?
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curly kale. Kale or borecole (Brassica oleracea Acephala Group) a loose leafed, edible plant derived from the cabbage. vegetable
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Anemone coronaria, the poppy anemone, Spanish marigold, or windflower, is a species of flowering plant.
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Why Is It Called Black Friday?
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Brain Games: 8 Philosophical Puzzles and Paradoxes
Confucius statue at a Confucian Temple in Shanghai, China. Confucianism religion
What is the Difference Between Daoism and Confucianism?
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci
Plato (left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508-11; in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican. Plato points to the heavens and the realm of Forms, Aristotle to the earth and the realm of things.
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Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that
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Why do people carve pumpkins for Halloween?
Learn how the pumpkin became a symbol of Halloween.
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The gourd family: Melons, squashes, and cucumbers
Learn about melons and gourds of the family Cucurbitaceae and their uses.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Large orange pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) ready for harvest.
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pumpkin patch
Ripening pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo) on the vine.
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pumpkin pie
A slice of pumpkin pie with whipped cream.
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pumpkin seeds
Roasted pumpkin seeds.
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Pumpkins (Cucurbita).
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Pumpkin patch in Napa Valley, California.
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Halloween: jack-o'-lantern
A pumpkin carved for Halloween.
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