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  2. Squash in Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Squash is a popular sport in Egypt. As of 2018, Egypt was a squash superpower. [ 1 ] It has been producing top players since the 1930s, and it is believed that former president Hosni Mubarak , a keen player himself, gave it a major boost in the 1990s. [ 2 ]

  3. Cucurbita - Wikipedia

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    Squash was domesticated first, followed by maize and then beans, becoming part of the Three Sisters agricultural system of companion planting. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] The English word "squash" derives from askutasquash (a green thing eaten raw), a word from the Narragansett language , which was documented by Roger Williams , the founder of Rhode Island ...

  4. Egyptian Squash Association - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptian Squash Federation is recognised as the Egyptian national governing body for the sport of squash. The federation is responsible for the following tasks: [ 1 ] Decide public policies that lead to the deployment of squash in the Arab Republic of Egypt and upgradable.

  5. List of food origins - Wikipedia

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    Corn, beans and squash were domesticated in Mesoamerica around 3500 BCE. Potatoes , quinoa and manioc were domesticated in South America. In what is now the eastern United States, Native Americans domesticated sunflower and sumpweed around 2500 BCE .

  6. Squash (sport) - Wikipedia

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    Squash, sometimes called squash rackets, is a racket sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow, rubber ball. The players alternate in striking the ball with their rackets onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court.

  7. Cucurbita pepo - Wikipedia

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    Cucurbita pepo is a cultivated plant of the genus Cucurbita.It yields varieties of winter squash and pumpkin, but the most widespread varieties belong to the subspecies Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo, called summer squash.

  8. The intro to MLB's Field of Dreams Game was a ... - AOL

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    No sport is more steeped in nostalgia than baseball, and no movie is more tied to baseball's nostalgia than "Field of Dreams." The 1989 Kevin Costner classic placed baseball on a mythical pedestal ...

  9. Cucurbita argyrosperma - Wikipedia

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    Cucurbita argyrosperma, commonly known as cushaw, kershaw, or silver-seed gourd, is a species of squash most grown most frequently in North and Central America, and believed to originate from southern Mexico.