Rhubarb is usually considered to be a vegetable ; however, in the United States, a New York court decided in 1947 that since it was used in the United States as a fruit, it was to be counted as a fruit for the purposes of regulations and duties.

Rhubarb has been used for medical purposes by the Chinese for thousands of years, and appears in The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic, which legend attributes to the mythical Shen Nung, the Yan Emperor, but is thought to have been compiled about 2700 years ago.

Rhubarb is grown primarily for its fleshy stalks, technically known as petioles.

One was credited to " Rhubarb Red ", Paul's hillbilly alter ego, and the other was as an accompanist for blues-artist Georgia White.

One story told, is that because the rhubarb grown locally was used for dyeing the silk, Galgate's community newsletter is named ' Rhubarb City News '.

The album is composed of, in order, six tracks from the LP Ruby Vroom ; the hitherto unreleased song " Buddha Rhubarb Butter "; " Unmarked Helicopters ", also found on the X-Files tribute album Songs in the Key of X ; six tracks from Irresistible Bliss ; four tracks from El Oso ; a live rendition of the Ruby Vroom song " Casiotone Nation "; and the Propellerheads ' remix of " Super Bon Bon ", previously only available on a promotional single for the Dead Man on Campus soundtrack.

* Bill Dollar ( now doing afternoons & program director for I-92 in Montgomery, Alabama, the same station Rhubarb Jones worked at before coming to WYAY )

Rhubarb root has been used as a purgative for many centuries.

Rhubarb is widely known for his charity events like the Rhubarb Jones Celebrity Golf Tournament for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and his annual March Across Georgia for the LLS.

Rhubarb is also an Atlanta co-host for the annual Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon with WAGA TV 5 weathercaster Ken Cook.

Rhubarb is a past winner of Radio Personality of the Year from the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music, and has served on the board of directors for both organizations.

In May 2006, the UWG booster club honored him with the establishment of the Rhubarb Jones Scholarship for needy and deserving students at the University of West Georgia.

Rhubarb is now a part time substitute for his former Atlanta radio rival Mr. Moby on his syndicated radio show.

Rhubarb was a ring announcer for WCW in the early 1990s.

The Rhubarb Festival returned with a new festival director, Laura Nanni, and featured, for the first time, off-site performance in public spaces.

During his career, Inn's animals won 40 Patsy Awards, three of them multiple times: Orangey the cat won three times, for Rhubarb, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and Breakfast at Tiffany's ; Arnold the Pig won for three successive years on Green Acres from 1966 – 1968 ; and Higgins ( dog ) ( then playing " Dog " on Petticoat Junction ), won a Patsy in 1962.

The Rhubarb Triangle is a triangle in West Yorkshire, England between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell famous for producing early forced rhubarb.

Rhubarb grown in hothouses ( heated greenhouses ) is called hothouse rhubarb, and is typically made available at consumer markets in early spring, before outdoor cultivated rhubarb is available.

Rhubarb will grow year-round in warm climates, but in temperate climates, the aboveground portion of the plant completely withers away at the onset of freezing temperature ; the plant grows from the root at the return of warm weather.

Previously co-hosted mornings with Rhubarb Jones at WYAY, Eagle 106. 7 ( Now All News 106. 7 )

A majority of the on-air talent were released, including Rhubarb Jones, who had served at the station since 1985.

Some notable former DJs at the station include Ryan Cameron, Rhubarb Jones, Rob Parker, Randall Davidson, Jonathan Dorsey, Lisa Lang, Kevin Sanders, Robert Ray, Audra Schwarz, Trevor Head, Drew Fountain, Bubba Petty, Perry Minyard, Mike Bland, Sean Gilbert, Lacey Smith, Brooks Robinson, Errol Crane, John Crosby, Tommy Butler, Jerry Edwards, Bryan Hubbard, Sam Mills, Teri Lamprey, Singin ' Steve Sedberry and Emily Alexander.

Warren " Rhubarb " Jones was a DJ at WYAY " Eagle 106. 7 " in Atlanta, Georgia.

Upon graduation, Rhubarb moved to Columbus, Georgia and worked at WCLS.

On April 21, 2008, it was announced that Rhubarb Jones is now teaching mass communications at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Gilbert, Walsh and Ciccoritti, along with playwright Fabian Boutilier, subsequently founded the Rhubarb Festival of Canadian Plays, first produced by the theatre company at The Dream Factory in January 1979 and featuring short plays written by local, unknown playwrights directed by all four of Rhubarb's founders.

His animal stars included Orangey, a cat who was in the films Rhubarb ( 1952 ), The Incredible Shrinking Man ( 1957 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), and Breakfast at Tiffany's ( 1961 ), and appeared in the television series Our Miss Brooks with Eve Arden ; Cleo, a basset hound who was in the film Bell, Book and Candle ( 1957 ) and in Jackie Cooper's 1950s television show, The People's Choice ; Arnold Ziffel, the pig from Green Acres ; the chimps from Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, the dog and two cats from The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Tramp the dog of My Three Sons and many of Elly May Clampett's exotic " critters " on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Arnold's trainer, Frank Inn, was the proud owner of over 40 PATSY awards, thanks to his work with Orangey, the cat from Rhubarb ( 1951 ) and Breakfast at Tiffany's ( 1961 ); Higgins, the dog ( who played the lead in the Benji movies and " Dog " on Petticoat Junction ); Cleo the Basset Hound ; and Lassie, and Tramp the dog from My Three Sons to name a few.

For some time, despondency in some Northern quarters had been displayed in two ways -- an eagerness for peace and a dissatisfaction with Lincoln.

Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

He was told he displayed, for example, a sense of superiority -- and he answered: `` Well, I am supposed to know all the answers, aren't I ''??

Although no national norms exist for the social development of children, the teacher can find a great deal of information concerning types of social behavior normally displayed by children at various age levels.

The Jazz Three displayed their sound musicianship, not only in their own chosen set, but as the emergency accompanists for Al Minns & Leon James, the superb jazz dancers who have now been Newport performers for three successive years, gradually moving up from a morning seminar on the evolution of the blues to a spot on the evening program.

Alaric displayed similar wisdom in political affairs by appointing a commission to prepare an abstract of the Roman laws and imperial decrees, which would form the authoritative code for his Roman subjects.

As an architect he is best known for replacing the old church of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople in 532 ; his daring plans for the church strikingly displayed his knowledge.

He displayed great literary skill in his exposition of the laws, and was one of the first to interpret the civil law by the history, languages and literature of antiquity, and to substitute original research for the servile interpretations of the glossators.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.

Thomson was associated with the National Gallery ( London ), it was here that he established a set of guidelines or environmental controls for the best conditions in which objects could be stored and displayed within the Museum Environment.

Dmitri's grandfather Ivan had been a prominent lawyer in Tsarist Russia who had displayed respect for social awareness and humanitarian principles ( including advocating the abolition of capital punishment ) that would later influence his grandson.

In the one he is unreal, in the other he displayed, along with the greatest skill, a vivid activity which made him for long the most formidable opponent of Napoleon.

He took a special interest in Morisot, as is evident from his warm portrayal of her in several paintings, including a striking portrait study of Morisot in a black veil, while in mourning for her father's death ( displayed at the top of the article ).

In 1997 the Linnean Society issued a posthumous apology to Potter for the sexism displayed in its handling of her research.

Balalaikas of all sizes are prominently displayed in the official video for Basement Jaxx's 2006 single " Take Me Back To Your Place ".

Included in the Museum & Gallery collection are seven very large canvases, part of a series by Benjamin West painted for George III, called " The Progress of Revealed Religion ," which are displayed in the War Memorial Chapel.

In particular, the Unicode standard provides foundations for complete BiDi support, with detailed rules as to how mixtures of left-to-right and right-to-left scripts are to be encoded and displayed.

Unlike other eastern Indonesian islands, such as Ambon, Solor, Ternate and Morotai, the Bandanese displayed no enthusiasm for Christianity or the Europeans who brought it in the sixteenth century, and no serious attempt was made to Christianise the Bandanese.

Approximately 8 minutes into the flight, one of the same temperature sensors in the right engine failed, and the remaining right engine temperature sensor displayed readings near the redline for engine shutdown.

** modern copies minted for museums to be displayed instead of the originals

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As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools.