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Thayer said he chose the name "Casey" after a non-player of Irish ancestry he once knew named Daniel H. Casey; [4] [5] it is open to debate whom, if anyone, he modeled the character after. It has been reported that Thayer's best friend Samuel Winslow, who played baseball at Harvard, was the inspiration for Casey. [6] [7] [8]
Her lawyers have appealed the sentence. [citation needed] In July 2012, a 23-year-old British man Nathaniel Lees, [8] and an unnamed 19-year-old Syrian citizen was sentenced to death for attempting to sell 20 grams (about 3/4 of an ounce) of marijuana to an undercover officer in Dubai. [9] [10] [11] This was later commuted to four years in ...
“Where the Sidewalk Ends”, the title poem and also Silverstein’s best known poem, encapsulates the core message of the collection. The reader is told that there is a hidden, mystical place "where the sidewalk ends", between the sidewalk and the street. The poem is divided into three stanzas. Although straying from a consistent metrical ...
The purpose of a pangram is for fun wordplay, for artists to display various fonts in sentences using every letter, and they are useful to children that are learning to write, practice their ...
The book exploits the marijuana-crime-insanity trope popularized by drug prohibitionists who abused the Licata case as an example. The foremost proponent of the Licata story was Harry Anslinger , Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930 until 1962, who abused the case to insist that marijuana usage caused insanity and ...
"Did you ever see a whale with a polka dot tail?" "Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie?" "Did you ever see a bear combing his hair?" "Did you ever see a llama eating pajamas?" "Did you ever see a goat rowing a boat?" "Did you ever see a dragon pulling a wagon?" "Did you ever see a fox putting on socks?" "Did you ever see a fish doing hula on a ...
Baker has won the London and UK Slam Poetry Championships. [5] In 2012, he won the World Slam Poetry Competition, becoming the youngest ever winner. [1] Unlike other poets, his poems are based on feelings and emotions. In 2014 Baker began performing as a speaker for TED. [4] His talk ‘A love poem for lonely prime numbers’ has over 2 million ...
Many urban legends and misconceptions about drugs have been created and circulated among young people and the general public, with varying degrees of veracity. These are commonly repeated by organizations which oppose all classified drug use, often causing the true effects and dangers of drugs to be misunderstood and less scrutinized.