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	Pumpkin - the large food & drink encyclopedia
		A pumpkin is the fruit of the gourd Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita maxima, Cucurbita mixta, or Cucurbita moschata, a native plant of the Western hemisphere.
		Pumpkins are grown today in the US more for decoration than for food, and popular contests continually lead growers to vie for the world record for the largest pumpkin ever grown.
		Pumpkin chunking is a competitive activity in which teams build various mechanical devices designed to throw a pumpkin as far as possible.
	www.netmoon.com /recipes/encyclopedia/p/pumpkin.html (693 words)

	Pumpkin chunking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Pumpkin chunking (or "punkin chunkin" or "pumpkin chucking") is hurling vegetables (usually pumpkins) by mechanical means over great heights and distances so as to smash and dash them for entertainment.
		The better pumpkin chunkers specially grow dwarf, regular, firm pumpkins ideal for use as a cannon projectile, as sabots are prohibited in competitions.
		Another rule is that the pumpkin must be whole after leaving the device for the chunking to count, which limits the forces in the cannon barrel.
	www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pu/pumpkin_chunking.html (195 words)

	Pumpkin chunking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pumpkin chunking (or "punkin chunkin" or "pumpkin chucking") is hurling vegetables (usually pumpkins) by mechanical means over great heights and distances so as to smash and dash them for entertainment.
		The better pumpkin chunkers specially grow dwarf, regular, firm pumpkins ideal for use as a cannon projectile, as sabots are prohibited in competitions.
		Another rule is that the pumpkin must be whole after leaving the device for the chunking to count, which limits the forces in the cannon barrel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pumpkin_chunking (198 words)

	Pumpkin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		A pumpkin is a (Any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds) gourd ((A family of herbaceous vines (such cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)) Cucurbitaceae), most commonly orange in colour when ripe, that grows from a trailing vine.
		A pumpkin is the fruit of the gourd (Type genus of the Cucurbitaceae) Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita maxima, Cucurbita mixta, or Cucurbita moschata, a native plant of the (The hemisphere that includes North and South America) Western hemisphere.
		When ripe, the pumpkin can be boiled, baked and roasted, or made into various kinds of (Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top) pie, alone or mixed with other fruit; while small and green it may be eaten in the same way as the vegetable marrow.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pu/pumpkin.htm (926 words)

	Pumpkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pumpkins are traditionally used to carve Jack-o'-lanterns for use as part of Halloween celebrations.
		Some pumpkin chunkers grow special varieties of pumpkin, which are bred and grown under special conditions intended to improve the pumpkin's chances of surviving being thrown.
		The hulless or semi-hulless seeds of pumpkins are eaten as a snack, similar to the sunflower seed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pumpkin (828 words)

	Pumpkin
		Pumpkins are a popular Food, with their innards commonly eaten cooked and served in dishes such as Pumpkin pie.
		Pumpkins are traditionally used to carve Jack-o'-lanterns for use as part of Halloween celebrations.
		When ripe, the pumpkin can be boiled, baked and roasted, or made into various kinds of pie, alone or mixed with other fruit; while small and green it may be eaten in the same way as the vegetable marrow.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/pu/Pumpkin.htm (814 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Pumpkin
		Pumpkins are a popular food, commonly eaten cooked.
		Placing honeybees for pumpkin pollination Mohawk Valley, NY Pumpkins are grown today in the US more for decoration than for food, and popular contests continually lead growers to vie for the world record for the largest pumpkin ever grown.
		Pumpkins are orange because they contain massive amounts of lutein, alpha- and beta-carotene.
	upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=pumpkin (753 words)

	Pumpkin - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		A pumpkin is an orange gourd (Cucurbitaceae) growing from a trailing vine, commonly used in pies or in carving Jack o'lanterns for use as part of Halloween celebrations.
		A pumpkin is the fruit of the gourd Cucurbita Pepo, a native plant of the Western hemisphere.
		Pumpkin chunking is a competative activity, involving teams building various mechanical devices to throw a pumpkin for the furthest distance.
	www.free-definition.com /Pumpkin.html (616 words)

	PUMPKIN FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		A pumpkin is the fruit of the gourd ''Cucurbita pepo'', ''Cucurbita maxima'', ''Cucurbita mixta'', or ''Cucurbita moschata'', a native plant of the Western_hemisphere.
		Studies by the Royal_Military_College_of_Canada show promise for pumpkins and other members of the ''Cucurbita pepo'' family to be viable candidates for DDT phytoremediation.
		Pumpkins have historically been pollinated by the native squash_bee ''Peponapis pruinosa'', but this bee has declined, probably due to pesticide sensitivity, and most commercial plantings are pollinated by honeybees today.
	www.askacouple.com /pumpkin (761 words)

	Local men get their kicks catapulting pumpkins world-record distances - The Boston Globe
		That "chunk" -- as the long-distance launch of a pumpkin is called -- went far ther than any other catapulted pumpkin in recorded history.
		The pumpkin chunking quartet -- Drew, Arnold, of Norwell, Bruce Blatchford of Stoughton, and Pete Rosa of Norwell -- have funneled thousands of dollars and hours of their lives into perfecting the catapult.
		To add to the challenge, the heavy rains this spring damaged the pumpkin crop in the region, leading to a scarcity of the dense, white lumina pumpkins that fly the farthest.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/10/26/smashing_pumpkins (875 words)

	Pumpkin explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Pumpkins A pumpkin is a gourd (Cucurbitaceae), most commonly orange in colour when ripe, that grows from a trailing vine.
		Pumpkins on sale at a Caribbean market Summer squashes, like pumpkins, are mostly varieties of Cucurbita pepo; if picked while immature they are eaten as summer squash or marrow, but if left to mature on the vine will form a hard fruit like winter squash.
		Wagon full of pumpkins Studies by the Royal Military College of Canada show promise for pumpkins and other members of the Cucurbita pepo family to be viable candidates for DDT phytoremediation.
	www.wordspider.net /pu/pumpkin.html (1061 words)

	Pumpkin - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		It is traditionally used to carve Jack o'lanterns for use as part of Halloween celebrations, but is also popular in cooking.
		• The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,458 lbs and was grown by Bruce Whittier from Henniker, New Hampshire.
		• Pumpkins are orange because they contain massive amounts of lutein, alpha- and beta-carotene.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Pumpkin (737 words)

	Useful Lumina Pumpkins Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Some pumpkins like the white "Lumina" pumpkins are pumpkin shaped and...
		The Pumpkin Circle Project is designed to connect elementary school children with the web of life by focusing on the miraculous cycle of nature in a backyard pumpkin patch.
		The lumina or "ghost" pumpkins are white with...
	www.thehalloweendirectory.com /pumpkins/I-P/Lumina-Pumpkins.html (394 words)

	CHUNKING FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		In cognitive psychology and in memory training systems, chunking refers to a short-term memory mechanism and techniques to exploit it.
		In computer programming, chunking can be a memory allocation or message transmission procedure.
		The activity of hurling pumpkins is often called pumpkin_chunking.
	www.statelawonline.com /chunking (134 words)

	Pumpkin at AllExperts
		Pumpkins grow as a gourd from a trailing vine of the genus Cucurbita Cucurbitaceae.
		Butternut squash is called "butternut pumpkin" in Australia, where it is commonly regarded as a pumpkin and used in similar ways to other pumpkin.
		Festivals dedicated to the pumpkin and these competitions are relatively widespread and some form tourist attractions in their own right, for example in Half Moon Bay, California.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pu/pumpkin.htm (914 words)

	chunkin
		The third annual Pumpkin Chunking event was the culmination of a 15-week extension project that requires the students to reach beyond the traditional classroom setting to undertake a project from conception to completion.
		The purpose of Pumpkin Chunking is to give students an opportunity to take on an activity based in physics and see it through to completion.
		Pumpkin Chunking relates to many concepts in physics and math: conversions, equation relationships, average speed, velocity and acceleration, graphing relationships, freefall, vectors, force, free body diagrams, weight, projectile motion, range, momentum, angular momentum, laws of conservation of momentum and energy, work, power, kinetic, potential and mechanical energy, collisions, trigonometry, geometry, algebra and basic calculus.
	www.oxford.k12.pa.us /chunkin.htm (923 words)

	Useful Pumpkin Chunkin Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Pumpkin Chunking may not be a respected American sport right...
		I refer to the pumpkin, the king of the family of plants in the genus cucurbita...
		Pumpkin Chunkin' The Pumpkin' Chunkin' was part of the Fall Camporee (Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2004)...
	www.thehalloweendirectory.com /pumpkins/I-P/pumpkin-chunkin.html (361 words)

	World Championship PunkinChunkin
		Team captains are responsible for making sure they get their pumpkin weighed well enough in advance to ensure they have the time they need to set up.
		If your pumpkin is not found after the three (3) hours it is considered "pie." The searching decision must be made with in 15 minuets after you fire.
		Major infractions that are deemed as challenging the safety of the chunk and/or others around your machine will be discussed during a quorum of PCA trustees and Safety Committee to decide on the actions to take.
	www.punkinchunkin.com /rules.htm (4160 words)

	Pumpkins!
		But if you were forced to eat only pumpkins (baked, steamed, boiled, stewed, mashed, and rotten), you might agree with Rebecca, who was so poor as a child that she could only afford to eat the unrelentingly orange squash.
		The Perfect pumpkin is really the perfect sampler of all types of pumpkin information, such as the history of pumpkins, how to grow them, how to carve them, how to cook with them (an entire recipe section!) and even crafty things such as how to make your very own pumpkin hand soap.
		The traditional Native American way to cook a pumpkin was to plop a whole one into the ashes of a fire, bake it until it was tender, scoop out the soft flesh, and dribble it with maple syrup.
	www.squidoo.com /pumpkins (2601 words)

	PumpkinHammer - News
		Being one of only two trebuchets that have thrown a pumpkin over a 1,000 feet, this team has to be reckoned with.
		Their pumpkin significantly went past it, with a new world record throw of 1,137 feet.
		While the volunteer pumpkins appeared somewhat quiet before the launch, both were said to have made a loud thud sound as they reentered Earth's atmosphere.
	www.bidlink.com /pumpkinhammer/news.htm (5116 words)

	Pumpkin and squash dishes hearty fall favorites Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Find Articles
		Whether this was because the soil needed amending just for the squash (pumpkins and squash prefer compost-enriched soil, full sun and lots of room in which to spread out) or the weather was not conducive to growing mammoth pumpkins, I'm not sure.
		Pumpkins and squash are native to North, South and Central America.
		And if by chance you are not fond of pumpkins as food, maybe you can take up pumpkin chunking -- a sport devoted to catapulting pumpkins as far as one can.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050926/ai_n15617975 (783 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Chunking (psychology), a short-term memory mechanism and techniques to exploit it
		Chunking (writing), a method of splitting content into short, easily scannable elements, especially for web audiences
		Chunking (computational linguistics), a method for parsing natural language sentences into partial syntactic structures
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Chunking (260 words)

	PUMPKIN - GoGoSearch.com
		Pumpkins are traditionally used to carve Jack-o'-lanterns for use as part of...
		Pumpkin seeds can be prepared for eating by first separating them from the...
		A pumpkin is a vegetable, most commonly orange in colour when ripe, that grows as a fruit (gourd) from a trailing vine of the genus Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae).
	www.gogosearch.com /wiki/pumpkin (849 words)

	Pumpkin Chunking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Well, my good fellow, if you pumpkin chunking ever have need of discretion, understand that there are two sorts of discretion--the active and the negative.
		It's his pumpkin chunking of trying to disembarrass himself pumpkin chunking his rivals: he's no simpleton.' But such a pumpkin chunking is vulgar and dangerous.
		It consists in compromising a woman with whom we are not concerned, or whom we pumpkin chunking not love, in order to save the honor of the one whom we love well enough to respect.
	www.appliancesmall.com /pumpkin_chunking.htm (521 words)

	Gotmead.com - Your source for mead making and mead drinking information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		For all three batches I started by chunking up a couple of pie pumkins I had bought, sprinkling the small one with brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice, just brown sugar on the other, shoved it all in the oven to cook for and hour and a half at 350.
		The smaller pumpkin, with sugar and spice, was then shelled and put in a ziploc to keep in the fridge until I transfer the mead into a secondary.
		After a predetermined period of time, the pumpkin is opened, and the contents are transferred to a standard container for secondary fermentation onward.
	www.gotmead.com /index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=191&topic=2785.msg23128 (1465 words)

	Missile Launcher
		They must build a machine that will launch a pumpkin into the air and obliterate their opposing team's castle.
		Their pumpkin will need to be in a sling for it to be released properly.
		Then they'll need to open a valve quickly enough so all of the air is released at once to blow the pumpkin out of the barrel.
	junkyardwarsonline.tripod.com /usseries1/missile/mlauncher.html (260 words)

	Useful Pumpkin Chunker Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		I have determined is a pumpkin chunker is a pumpkin chucker.
		Most people have had pumpkin pie, and some have even tried making their own (just follow the instructions on a can of pumpkin pie filling.
		the result of one person with a dream to shoot a pumpkin as far as he could, and this was the beginning of...
	www.thehalloweendirectory.com /pumpkins/I-P/pumpkin-chunker.html (443 words)

	Halfbakery: Trebuchet Paintball
		Of course to insure the shrunken sunken pumpkin flew frightening face first a ribbon would be screwed into the back, said ribbon designed to whip the air given off the freaking sound of a banshee.
		To add to the effect the freaking flying frightening faced shrunken sunken pumpkin would be infused with ethanol and set on fire.
		If this is as cool as a pumpkin cannon (and it sounds like it would be) then I like it.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Trebuchet_20Paintball (706 words)

	Seedhead
		Pumpkin regattas are now springing up across the U.S., including a new one in Rutland, Massachusetts.
		High temperatures and record rains in late summer have helped two types of fungus or rot flourish, reports the AP, "causing pumpkins to develop mold in some spots and then begin decomposing." Pumpkin shortages are expected in many states.
		To avoid your own case of pumpkin rot, "look for bright orange pumpkins with strong, green stems, which indicate the fruit was picked recently while the vine was healthy.
	seedhead.com /index.php?catid=22 (1995 words)

	pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
		Pumpkins come in many shapes and sizes and are fun to use for fall decoration inside and outside the home.
		Pumpkins and gourds are gathered to show the signs of bounty in the fall and displayed on porches everywhere.
		Pumpkins are classified as a fruit but they are commonly used as a vegetable in cooking.
	www.pumpkinspumpkins.com /pumpkinchocolatechipcookies (1824 words)

	Nubella - Pumpkins: From the Porch to Your Table
		Pumpkins are a popular food, with their insides commonly eaten cooked and served in dishes, such as pumpkin pie, and their seeds roasted as snacks.
		Any remaining canned pumpkin can be stored in a tightly covered container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
		Add the pumpkin and cook over medium-high heat, stirring often with a wooden spoon so that all the pumpkin comes in contact with the pan, until the pumpkin is reduced to about 1 3/4 cups, about 5 to 10 minutes.
	www.nubella.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2381&Itemid=42 (1011 words)

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