Pumpkin is a gourd like squash of the genus Cucurbita and the family Cucurbitaceae. It is a common name of or can refer to cultivars of any one of the species Cucurbita pepo. They are typically orange or yellow and have many creases running from the stem to the bottom.
They have a thick shell on the outside, with seeds and pulp on the inside.
The largest pumpkins are Cucurbita maxima. They were cultivated from the hubbard squash genotype, crossed with kabocha-pumpkin types by enthusiast farmers through intermittent effort since the early 1800s.
As such germplasm is commercially provocative, a u.s. legal right was granted for the rounder phenotypes, levying them as constituting a variety, with the appellation Atlantic Giant. Eventually this phenotype graduated back into the public domain, except now it had the name Atlantic Giant on its record.
Weigh off competitions for giant pumpkins are a popular festival activity. 460 pounds 208.65 kilograms held the world record for the largest pumpkin until 1981 broke the record with a pumpkin near 500 pounds 226.80 kilograms.
Dill patented the seeds used to grow this giant pumpkin, deeming them Dill Atlantic Giant seeds, and drawing growers from around the world. Dill is credited for all of the giant pumpkins today, most of which are borne from crossing and re crossing his patented seed with other varieties.
By 1994, the Giant Pumpkin crossed the 1,000 pound 453.59 kilogram mark. The current world record holder is 1,725 pound Atlantic giant pumpkin, which won the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers annual weigh off in Oct 2009. Harp pumpkin beat the previous world record in 2007 by 36 pounds.
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The Outline of, subtitled either The Whole Story of Man or Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, is a book published in 1919.
Wells was very dissatisfied with the quality of history textbooks at the end of World War I, between 1918 and 1919, with the first hardcover edition appearing in 1920. The book met with popular acclaim and massive sales. Nevertheless, its popularity and literary achievements were overshadowed by Wells works of science fiction, such as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds. Because of this, Wells is now known not as a non fiction writer or a historian, but as a novelist.
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