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Meeropol was born in 1903 to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants in the Bronx, New York. [2] [3] [4] He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1921 (his classmate Countee Cullen graduated in 1922); he earned a B.A. from City College of New York and an M.A. from Harvard University.
Roatta, 29, and Schlegel, 25, harnessed social media’s devotion to that which is strange and nostalgic (and possibly profane). They use it to market and sell the niche tropical fruit grown in ...
The proposed "uniform standardisation parameters" would have applied to straight bananas and curved cucumbers, as well as to more extreme cases such as carrots with multiple "legs", or fused fruit. The main concern for opponents of the proposed legislation was the ethical question of the wastage it would have generated if growers were forced to ...
"Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a ...
A prominent, pointed terminal projection, especially of a carpel or fruit. berry A type of indehiscent fruit with the seed s immersed in the pulp, e.g. a tomato. bi-A prefix meaning "two", e.g. bisulcate, having two sulci or grooves. biennial A plant which completes its life cycle (i.e. germinates, reproduces, and dies) within two years or ...
The light-green surface blemishes turn orange when the fruit is at its peak ripeness. The Jamaican tangelo is usually slightly larger than a grapefruit (but this varies) and has fewer seeds. The flesh is very juicy and tends toward the sweet side of the tangerine rather than the bitter side of its grapefruit lineage, with a fragrant rind.
Mangosteen is the national fruit of Thailand. It is also known as the ‘Queen of Fruits’. It is available from May until August. Mangosteen is called ‘Mangkhud’ in Thai language. Turkey: Sultana Grapes: Vitis vinifera [citation needed] Turkmenistan: Watermelon: Citrullus lanatus [citation needed] United Arab Emirates: Dates: Phoenix ...
The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...