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In one storyline, Dogpatch's Cannonball Express train, after 1,563 tries, finally delivers its cargo to Dogpatch citizens on October 12, 1946. Receiving a 13-year stack of newspapers, Li'l Abner's family realizes that the Great Depression is happening and that banks will close; they race to take their money out of the bank before realizing they ...
Theme park. In 1967, Al Capp licensed and had an interest in an 800-acre (3.2 km 2) $35 million theme park called Dogpatch USA in Marble Falls near Harrison, Arkansas, based on the comic strip's setting and featuring a trout farm, buggy and horseback rides, entertainment by characters from the Li'l Abner comic strip, and eventually amusement ...
Al Capp. The shmoo (plural: shmoos, also shmoon) is a fictional cartoon creature created by Al Capp (1909–1979); the character first appeared in the comic strip Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948. The character created a fad that lasted into the 1950s, including merchandise, songs, fan clubs, and appearances on magazine covers.
Sadie Hawkins Day is an American folk event and pseudo-holiday originated by Al Capp 's hillbilly comic strip Li'l Abner (1934–1977). The annual comic strip storyline inspired real-world Sadie Hawkins events, the premise of which is that women ask men for a date or dancing. "Sadie Hawkins Day" was introduced in the comic strip on November 15 ...
Crossword (1966; two unsold pilots hosted by George Fenneman) The Cross-Wits (1975–1980) and its revival, The New Cross Wits (1986–1987) Merv Griffin's Crosswords (2007–2008) The Cube (2021–present; began as a 2010 unsold pilot hosted by Neil Patrick Harris)
Sitting in the noisy dayroom of Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., as he speaks over a grainy video call, Scott Peterson looks more like a laidback surfer than a man convicted of the heinous ...
An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...
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