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The popular "she sells seashells" tongue twister was originally published in 1850 as a diction exercise. The term "tongue twister" was first applied to this kind of expression in 1895. "She sells seashells" was turned into a popular song in 1908, with words by British songwriter Terry Sullivan and music by Harry Gifford .
From the world’s toughest tongue twister (“Pad kid poured curd pulled cod”) to childhood classics (“Sally sells seashells by the seashore”), tongue twisters are aplenty in the English ...
A more concrete answer was published by the Associated Press in 1988, which reported that a New York fish and wildlife technician named Richard Thomas had calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25–30-foot (7.6–9.1 m) long woodchuck burrow and had determined that if the woodchuck had moved an equivalent volume of wood, it could move ...
The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai, also translated as Shanghai Flowers [1] or Biographies of Flowers by the Seashore, [2] is an 1892 novel by Han Bangqing. [ 2 ] The novel, the first such novel to be serially published, [ 2 ] chronicles lives of prostitutes in Shanghai in the late 19th century. [ 1 ]
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Short title: CALOmap1.pdf: Image title: Cape Lookout National Seashore: Author: National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center, publications: Keywords: Cape; Lookout
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The largest national seashore or lakeshore is Gulf Islands, at over 137,000 acres (550 km 2); the smallest is Fire Island, at 19,579 acres (79.23 km 2). The total areas protected by national seashores and lakeshores are approximately 595,000 acres (2,410 km 2) and 214,000 acres (870 km 2), respectively. [1]