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.
Crimea became part of Ukraine, but as an autonomous part of the country. Crimean War. During 1853-56 Crimean Peninsula witnessed Crimean War which was fought between Russia and the alliance of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. In this war Russia lost. The war came to an end in 1856 with the Treaty of Paris.