Where did peanuts originate?
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The peanut or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is a species in the pea family Fabaceae native to South America. It is an annual herbaceous plant growing to 30 to 50 cm (one to one and a half feet) tall.The leaves are alternate, pinnate with four leaflets (two opposite pairs; no terminal leaflet), each leaflet 1 to 7 cm (1/3 to 2.75 inches) long and 1 to 3 cm (1/3 to 1 inch) broad. The flowers are a typical peaflower in shape, 2 to 4 cm (3/4 to one and a half inches) across, yellow with reddish veining. After pollination, the fruit develops into a legume 3 to 7 cm (1 to 2 inches) long containing 2 to 3 (rarely 1 or 4) seeds, which forces its way underground to mature.\n\nAlthough a nut in the culinary sense, in the botanical sense the fruit of the peanut is a woody, indehiscent legume or pod and not technically a nut.\n\nPeanuts are also known as earthnuts, goobers, goober peas, pindas, pinders, manila nuts and monkey nuts (the last of these is often used to mean the entire pod, not just the seeds).\n\nthis information is found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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He wanted to know where he came from
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The Peach (Prunus persica) is a tree native to China.\n\nThe scientific name persica derives from an early European belief that peaches were native to Persia (now Iran). The modern botanical consensus is that they originate in China, and were introduced to Persia and the Mediterranean region along the Silk Road in early historical times, probably by about 2000 BC.
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Corn flakes from from the seed of the maize plant.\nCoffee is made from the beans (or seeds). \nTea is made from the leaves of a type of camelia plant.\nOatmeat is again made from the seeds. \nThe peanut is also a seed.
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Well, djddan, don't know where you got your information ...\nGinkgo trees were first "discovered" by a westerner (a dutchman, in fact) growing in temples at Nagasaki, Japan, in around 1690. They are asian plants, and any of them growing anywhere in the US must be cultivated and cannot possibly date to before the Pilgrims arrived.\nThey might potentially live a long time but I don't think you can count non-native trees.
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I read somewhere that Grace Hopper's ancestors had served in the American Revolutionary War. Therefore they must have originated from the United States.
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You can get them both on Amazon. Otherwise google the names of the films or Peanuts movies
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Two songs - "Linus and Lucy" piano tune by Vince Guaraldi.  Its the music most prominently featured of the "Peanuts" Christmas special.\n\nAlso, a very obscure song from very long ago called "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron."\n\nThere were 2 versions of the song, and the second had a holiday message. (Might have been wrtten in ghte 40's or 50's)\n\nOdd that all of my holiday memories involve Peanuts characters...
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Uncle Sam is the cartoon embodiment of the government of the United States of America, a character who appeared in newspapers and magazines beginning in the first part of the 19th century. The commonly accepted version of his origin, or at least the best explanation anyone's been able to supply, is that he was modelled after Samuel Wilson, a meat purveyor to the United States army during the War of 1812. Known as "Uncle Sam," Wilson put his initials on his goods. The initials U.S. were also taken to stand for United States. Over the years Uncle Sam evolved into a tall, white-haired man with beard, sporting patriotic colors and a top hat. The most common modern image can be traced to his depiction by James Montgomery Flagg from 1916, for a military recruitment poster calling "I Want YOU For the U.S. Army."
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Abner Doubleday is granted with the invention of baseball. He actually copied a game that was being played in Canada by the Indians there. He tweeked it a bit and called it baseball. I would say Canada was where baseball truly originated it.
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Where it started.  In England
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According to the English, it is derived from a place name indicating that they came from a place near the woods, or perhaps a grove of trees. My guess is that it is of Scandinavian origin and can be found all over Northern Europe.
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I m from my mother and planet Earth .. Where are you from ?
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No, where are they from?
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Pinpointing the absolute beginnings of agriculture is problematic because the transition away from purely hunter-gatherer societies, in some areas, began many thousands of years before the invention of writing. Maize was first domesticated from teosinte in the Americas around 3000-2700 BC. In these contexts lie the origins of the eight so-called founder crops of agriculture: firstly emmer and einkorn wheat, then hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chick peas and flax. These eight crops occur more or less simultaneously on PPNB sites in this region, although the consensus is that wheat was the first to be sown and harvested on a significant scale.
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watermelon, plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of the family Curcurbitaceae (gourd family) native to Africa and introduced to America by Africans transported as slaves. Watermelons are now extensively cultivated in the United States and are popular also in S Russia. The fleshy, juicy fruit is eaten fresh, the rind is pickled, and in Asia the seeds are eaten (the dry wild watermelon was originally domesticated for its seeds). Seedless and thin-rinded cultivated varieties have been developed, and one white-fleshed variety, the citron melon, is used like citron in preserving. Watermelons are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Violales, family Curcurbitaceae.
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the place where the glaciers originate from.