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  2. Red Fisher (sportsman) - Wikipedia

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    Bernard Herbert "Red Fisher" Goldstein (February 18, 1914 – May 5, 2006) [1] was an American sporting goods retailer, U.S. naval and United States Coast Guard officer, newspaper columnist, and poet. With his gruff voice, he later became a popular radio and television personality in Canada.

  3. Tall tale - Wikipedia

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    The tales of legendary figures of the Old West, some listed below, owe much to the style of tall tales. The semi-annual speech-contests held by Toastmasters International public-speaking clubs may include a tall-tales contest. Each and every participating speaker is given three to five minutes to give a short speech of a tall-tale nature, and ...

  4. Category:Tall tales - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to tall tales, stories with unbelievable elements, related as if they were true and factual.Some tall tales are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ("the fish that got away") such as, "That fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!"

  5. Alfred Bulltop Stormalong - Wikipedia

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    Captain Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was an American folk hero and the subject of numerous nautical-themed tall tales originating in Massachusetts.Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet (9.1 m) tall; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship purportedly so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching ...

  6. Jackalope - Wikipedia

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    The movie included interviews with the owner of a Douglas sporting goods store who claimed to harbor a live jackalope on his premises and with a paleontologist who explained the natural history of the jackalope and its place in the fossil record. [1] Beginning in 1997, the Central Hockey League included a team called the Odessa Jackalopes. [45]

  7. Tony Beaver - Wikipedia

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    Tony Beaver is a character in several tall tales, often in tandem with stories of Paul Bunyan. [1] Beaver was a West Virginian woodsman located up Eel River, often described as a cousin of Paul Bunyan, and champion griddle skater of the Southern United States. [2]

  8. Folklore of the United States - Wikipedia

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    A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, relayed as if it were true and factual. Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events; others are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the American Old West, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. They are usually humorous or good-natured.

  9. List of defunct department stores of the United States

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    Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...