Tuesday, January 30, 2024

GET ME REWRITE: French protestors provide an opportunity to share very brief histories of the Mona Lisa and pumpkins

 
Screenshot from YouTube video

5550 B.C.  
Earliest known date of pumpkins in the Americas.

1503
Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa.

Mid-1500s
European explorers return with pumpkins seeds.   Cultivation in England and France.

1630s
Mainstay of colonial New England diet.

1675
First pumpkin pie recipe.

1904
The Mona Lisa is installed in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre.  
 
The crowded gallery where the Mona Lisa is installed.  (Photo taken by Retiring Guy on 12/29/2011.)



Sources:
A Brief History of Pumpkins.  (WGBH, 11/1/2017)

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