Channel: Fire of Learning

Category: Education

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Description: In this video, we look at the history of the pumpkin, from its surprising ancient origins, to its modern day popularity. Find us here too! Patreon: Patreon.com/Fireoflearning Lucinox – Our Science Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCM2dfLR3BR0CHuePEDtxAZw Instagram: @Fire_of_Learning The following music performed by Kevin Macleod Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Download available at incompetech.com C Major Prelude Accralate The Snow Queen These songs provided by the YouTube audio library Spanish Rose Harpsichord fugue Simple Gifts Hickory Hollow Sources ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1567861 smithsonianmag.com/history/how-formerly-ubiquitous-pumpkin-became-once-year-treat-180970860 publicism.info/gardening/curious/23.html ipm.missouri.edu/meg/2013/10/Pumpkin-A-Brief-History web.extension.illinois.edu/pumpkins/history.cfm powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:292416-1 pbs.org/food/the-history-kitchen/history-pumpkins-recipes google.com/amp/s/indiancountrytoday.com/.amp/archive/pumpkins-are-native-however-you-carve-it google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/pumpkin-facts-halloween-jack-o-lantern web.archive.org/web/20131016003715/http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Cucurbita dictionary.com/e/squash-vs-gourd bbc.com/travel/article/20151027-pumpkins-surprising-origin nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-twisted-transatlantic-tale-of-american-jack-o-lanterns?cmpid=int_org=ngp::int_mc=website::int_src=ngp::int_cmp=amp::int_add=amp_readtherest en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbita irishcentral.com/roots/history/jack-o-lantern-turnips-ireland washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/belgian-mans-pumpkin-sets-world-record-at-a-whopping-2624-pounds/2016/10/17/2c37272e-9470-11e6-bc79-af1cd3d2984b_story.html research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn09/pumpkins.cfm research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn09/pumpkins.cfm Picture attributions By ForestWander.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 us, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21872979 By Valerii Tkachenko - Cityscape|Paris|raining autumn, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23655724 By Martin Doege (Morn), uploaded to English WP on 2003-08-21 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=195806 By Fredde 99 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5091528 By Gabriel Kaplan - Imported from 500px (archived version) by the Archive Team. (detail page), CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82647843 By Dmitry Makeev - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85608227 By सीमा1 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88114688 By Wildfeuer - Self-photographed, CC BY 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1368045 By Visitor7 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16820436 By Ringer - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59794869 By Hans-Jürgen Neubert - Own work, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65078419 By Chiswick Chap - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36881535 By Tigerente - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94040293 By Zenon Sych - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102321389 By Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71865024 By Loozrboy - Flickr: Out of your gourd, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31738902 By Kreuzschnabel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28834253 By Anders Lagerås - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8317700 By JR Conlin - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2022321 By Matthew Gordon - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17898994 By Bodrugan - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22472756 By Rannpháirtí anaithnid at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7788068 By Reinhard Müller - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85241128 By Teo - Jack o' Lanterns, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91503614 By Lou Oms - Jack O'Lantern Spectacular, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35911918 By Michal Klajban - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52138741 By Rodney Campbell - Pumpkin Field, CC BY 2.0, comm