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Early life. Candy Barr was born Juanita Dale Slusher on July 6, 1935, in Edna, Texas, [ 1] the youngest of five children of Elvin Forest "Doc" Slusher (August 19, 1909 – May 2, 1969) and Sadie Mae Sumner (October 1, 1908 – March 11, 1945). She had four siblings: Leota (born 1927), Keleta Pauline "Kay" (born 1928), Gary (1931–72), and ...
Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes' death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [ 1 ]
Nicholas Eberstadt (grandson) Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
Casey at the Bat. "Casey at the Bat" as it first appeared, June 3, 1888. " Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 " is a mock-heroic poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. It was first published anonymously in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) on June 3, 1888, under the pen name "Phin", based ...
eBay. Seven Ups were produced by Trudeau Candy, then Pearson’s, starting in the 1930s. As candy bars go, they were ambitious: Each one had seven sections filled with a different flavor, from ...
Baby Ruth is an American candy bar made of peanuts, caramel, and milk chocolate-flavored nougat, covered in compound chocolate. [1] Created in 1920, and named after George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948), an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball, it is distributed by the Ferrara Candy Company, a subsidiary of Ferrero.
A split Cherry Ripe. Cherry Ripe is a brand of chocolate bar manufactured by Cadbury Australia. Introduced by the Australian confectioner MacRobertson's in 1924, it is now one of Australia's oldest chocolate bars and is one of the top chocolate bar brands sold in the country. [ 2] It consists of cherries and coconut coated with dark chocolate .
On Oprah’s 70th birthday, January 29, 2024, former National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman wrote a moving poem in celebration. Read it here.