Most and Least Nutritive Fruits In World Source: Pixabay Most and Least Nutritive Fruits An analysis of the 38 commonly eaten raw (as opposed to dried) fruits shows that the one with the highest calorific value is the avocado (Persea americana) with 741 calories per edible lb. That with the lowest value is cucumber with 73 calories per lb. Avocados probably originated in Central and South America and also contain vitamins A, C. and E and 2.2% protein. Biggest Apple An apple weighing 3 lb 1 oz was reported by V. Loveridge of Ross-on Wye, England in 1965. Largest Artichoke An 8-lb artichoke was grown in 1964 at Tollerton, N Yorkshire England, by A. R. Lawson Largest Broccoli A head of broccoli weighing 28 lb 14 3/4 oz was grown in 1964 by J. T. Cooke of Huntington, W. Sussex, England. Largest Cabbage In 1865 William Collingwood of The Stalwell, County Durham, England, grew a red cabbage with a circumference of 259 in. It reputedly weighed 123 lb. Largest Carrot A carrot weighing 11 ...
Different Types Of Ships Found In The World ,1838 SHIPS Evidence of seafaring between the Greek mainland and the island of Melos to trade obsidian c.7250 BC was published in 1971. Oars found in bogs at Magle Mose, Sjaelland, Denmark, and Star Carr, North Yorkshire, England, have been dated to the 8th millennium Bc. The oldest surviving boat is the 142-ft-long 40-ton Nile boat buried near the Great Pyramid of Khufu, Egypt, c. 2515 BC, and now reassembled. The oldest shipwreck ever found is one of a Cycladic trading vessel located off the islet of Dhokos, near the Greek island of Hydra reported in May 1975 and dated to 2450 BC 250. Earliest Power Vessels Propulsion by steam engine was first achieved when in 1783 the Marquiz Jouffroy d'Abbans ascended a reach of the Saône River near Lyons,France in the 180-ton paddle steamer Pyroscaphe. The tug Charlotte Dundas was the first successful power-driven vessel. She was a paddlewheel steamer built in Scotland in 1801-02 b...