Vegetables can be grouped according to the edible part of each plant: leaves (lettuce), stalks (celery), roots (carrot), tubers (potato), bulbs (onion), and flowers (broccoli). In addition, fruits such as the tomato and seeds such as the pea are commonly considered vegetables.. A vegetable is the edible portion of a plant. Vegetables are usually grouped according to the portion of the plant that is eaten such as leaves (lettuce), stem (celery), roots (carrot), tubers (potato), bulbs (onion) and flowers (broccoli). A fruit is the mature ovary of a plant.
Hostilities between Great Britain, France and Russia were declared 169 years ago today. The Crimean War marked a crossroads in military history as one of the first major European wars in which the combatants used both percussion caps but also rifles.
The Crimean War (pronounced /kraÉªËmiËÉn/ or /krÉ¨ËmiËÉn/) (October 1853 â February 1856) was a conflict in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and (to a lesser extent) the Piedmont-Sardinia (The Kingdom of Sardinia). Austria, while neutral, played a role in stopping the Russians.