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Mint humbugs. Humbugs are a traditional hard-boiled sweet available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, Australia, Zimbabwe and New Zealand. They are usually flavoured with peppermint [1] and striped in two different colours (often black and white). In Australia, the black-and-white-striped humbugs may be aniseed flavoured.
The oldest known written uses of the word are in the book The Student (1750–1751), ii. 41, where it is called "a word very much in vogue with the people of taste and fashion", and in Ferdinando Killigrew's The Universal Jester, subtitled "a choice collection of many conceits ... bon-mots and humbugs" from 1754.
In Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, humbug is a slang term referring to making unreasonable or excessive demands from one's family or other connections.
In 1858 a batch of sweets in Bradford, England, was accidentally adulterated with poisonous arsenic trioxide.About five pounds (two kilograms) of sweets were sold to the public, leading to around 20 deaths and over 200 people suffering the effects of arsenic poisoning.
Humbug is the third studio album by English rock band Arctic Monkeys, first released on 19 August 2009 through Domino Recording Company.The band started to write new material for the album towards the end of summer 2008 and finished it entirely in spring 2009.
Whitetail dascyllus is up to 10 centimetres (3.9 in) in length but its common size is 6 centimetres (2.4 in) and is white with three black vertical bars. [2] It appears very similar to the closely related D. abudafur. [3]
The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster, with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, first published in 1961.The story follows a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth that transports him to the once prosperous, but now troubled, Kingdom of Wisdom.
"The Humbugs" January 25, 2011: Published in While Mortals Sleep "Hundred-Dollar Kisses" January 25, 2011: Published in While Mortals Sleep "The Hyannis Port Story" 1968: Collected in Welcome to the Monkey House, originally intended for publication in The Saturday Evening Post in 1963, but canceled after the John F. Kennedy assassination "Jenny ...