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of the gang of Cabbage Patch Kids that befriended Xavier.</poem> The name change to Cabbage Patch Kids was made in 1982 when Xavier's company, Original Appalachian Artworks, began to license a smaller version of the handmade creations to a toy manufacturer named Coleco which began mass production the same year. The Coleco Cabbage Patch Kids had large, round vinyl heads (originally of a different, hard plastic), and soft fabric bodies, and were produced from 1982 to 1989, many at a factory in Amsterdam, New York. The first two years production was all from the Far East, with nine head variations
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cream cone. JAKKS Pacific acquired Play Along Toys and assumed the master toy licensee (c2011) for the Cabbage Patch Kids. Jakks introduced a 14-inch Cabbage Patch Kids Fashionality(TM) line and other Cabbage Patch Kid products. In 2013 Jakks Pacific released the Celebration edition to commemorate the 30th Birthday of the licensed Cabbage Patch Kids. Wicked Cool Toys is now the current master toy licensee for the Cabbage Patch Kids. In this line, WCT released new additions like Little Sprouts, a toyline of tiny collectable dolls, and Adoptimals, plush pets who interact with the Kids. The original 1982 Cabbage Patch Kids
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of the gang of Cabbage Patch Kids that befriended Xavier.</poem> The name change to Cabbage Patch Kids was made in 1982 when Xavier's company, Original Appalachian Artworks, began to license a smaller version of the handmade creations to a toy manufacturer named Coleco which began mass production the same year. The Coleco Cabbage Patch Kids had large, round vinyl heads (originally of a different, hard plastic), and soft fabric bodies, and were produced from 1982 to 1989, many at a factory in Amsterdam, New York. The first two years production was all from the Far East, with nine head variations
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Florida in 1978. Going into business as Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc., Roberts hired local seamstresses and started producing his dolls in a converted medical clinic in his hometown of Cleveland. "Babyland General Hospital" still exists today in a new location and is a popular destination for Cabbage Patch kid enthusiasts. By 1982 the Little People had evolved into Cabbage Patch Kids, licensed to a company called Coleco. The Cabbage Patch Kids were a huge hit, quickly becoming a major toy fad. In 1984 alone 20 million were bought, and by 1999, 95 million dolls had been sold worldwide. Roberts never
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but it even included a cute little background tune which was a rarity in 2600 games. It appears that "CPK" was simply a victim of the collapsing game market, and by the time the final version was ready in September of 1984, Coleco had stopped its 2600 operations." Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park is a 1984 action/platform game based on the Cabbage Patch Kids franchise. It is the first and only game in the "Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures" series. MobyGames described the gameplay thus: "Your player is a Cabbage Patch kid
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Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park is a 1984 action/platform game based on the Cabbage Patch Kids franchise. It is the first and only game in the "Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures" series. MobyGames described the gameplay thus: "Your player is a Cabbage Patch kid with pigtails who is having a day at the park. A day that includes jumping onto vines and leaping over holes and bouncing onto correct platforms. A misplaced jump will lose a life and additionally there are a few creatures such as bees who end the player's turn
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precipitously in the late 1980s, the dolls have become a mainstay of the toy industry, and one of the few long-running doll brands in history. These dolls were available by direct mail from the Danbury Mint. They have a rigid fabric body with porcelain legs, arms, and head. An extension to the line was the "Talking Cabbage Patch Kid" introduced by Coleco, equipped with a voice chip, touch sensors, a microphone, short range 49 MHz AM transmitter and receiver for communicating with other such dolls. Touch sensors in the hands enabled the toy to detect when and how it was
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the 1980s was the Cabbage Patch. The rap group Gucci Crew II created the dance and introduced it in their 1987 song of the same name, "The Cabbage Patch". Another popular social dance was the Roger Rabbit. This dance imitates the floppy movements of the lead cartoon character as seen in the 1988 film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". The rap duo Kid 'n Play created the Kid 'n Play kick-step and performed it in their 1990 movie "House Party". It is a variation on the Charleston with elements of the Roger Rabbit and the Running Man. The Running Man is
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that were made to coincide with the 1996 Olympics, and the Cabbage Patch Fairies. Additionally, to celebrate the dolls' 15th anniversary, Mattel created a line of exclusively female dolls with a new molded fabric face, dressed in a custom outfits and packaged in collectible boxes. These were 16 inches tall, the same measurement of the first Coleco Cabbage Patch Kids. In 2001, retailer Toys "R" Us took over the Cabbage Patch brand from Mattel, producing 20-inch Kids and 18-inch babies, both with cloth bodies and vinyl heads. They were packaged in cardboard cabbage leaf seats. In 2001, the 20-inch dolls
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Cabbage patch dance The cabbage patch dance is a dance involving putting the hands together in the form of fists and moving them in a horizontal, circular motion. The Gucci Crew II had a song describing the dance, as well as Dr. Dre and DJ Yella (of the rap group N.W.A.) in 1987. The dance they made was featured in the song "The Cabbage Patch." It soon became very popular, showing up in many dance clubs in America. The dance's name is derived from the popular line of dolls "The Cabbage Patch Kids" or the use of "cabbage" as slang
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In 1994, Mattel took over the Cabbage Patch brand, including production. The first Mattel Cabbage Patch dolls hit the stores in 1995. The Mattel Cabbage Patch dolls are not limited to cloth bodies and included dolls made from vinyl, which produced a more durable play doll. The Mattel dolls are mostly sized 14" or smaller, and most variants were individualized with a gimmick to enhance their collectibility, e.g. some dolls played on water-toys, swam, ate food, or brushed their teeth. Some memorable Mattel lines include the updated Kids line of basic cloth dolls that came with birth certificates, the OlympiKids
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original Cabbage Patch Kids, and derivatives of the original line of dolls continued to be marketed. In the 1980s when Coleco was producing the dolls for the North American market, the global craze was fulfilled by other companies: The Dolls manufactured by each of these companies, and along with the factories that produced the dolls for North America, produced dolls that were slightly different from one another. Dolls that were made for consumers in other countries than the United States hold a higher value in the eye of some American collectors. Hasbro took over the rights to produce Cabbage Patch
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for paper money. There are many on-line videos showing how to do the dance. The dance was originally celebratory and often associated with being super cool and rad. Cabbage patch dance The cabbage patch dance is a dance involving putting the hands together in the form of fists and moving them in a horizontal, circular motion. The Gucci Crew II had a song describing the dance, as well as Dr. Dre and DJ Yella (of the rap group N.W.A.) in 1987. The dance they made was featured in the song "The Cabbage Patch." It soon became very popular, showing up
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discovered the Cabbage Patch Kids by following a BunnyBee behind a waterfall into a magical Cabbage Patch, where he found the Cabbage Patch babies being born. To help them find good homes he built BabyLand General in Cleveland, Georgia where the Cabbage Patch Kids could live and play until they were adopted. BunnyBees are bee-like creatures with rabbit ears they use as wings. They pollinate cabbages with their magic crystals to make Cabbage Patch babies. Colonel Casey is a large stork who oversees Babyland General Hospital. He's the narrator of the Cabbage Patch Kids' story. Otis Lee is the leader
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debuted in the Times Square flagship store. These were created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the line, and were available both online and in stores around the US. The Toys "R" Us line lasted until Play Along toys obtained exclusive licensing rights to produce the Cabbage Patch Kids doll line. In 2003, Play Along launched a Cabbage Patch Kids 25th Anniversary collection using some of the original head sculpts from the very first Coleco editions. Play Along also partnered with Carvel Ice Cream in a co-branding campaign. The resulting co-branded Cabbage Patch Kids were packaged with a Carvel-branded ice
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hair "fantastic!" but said he was "not a fan of the suit." The "New York Daily News" noted that the doll included "a very un-Trump-like suit made of less than the finest wool." "St. Paul Pioneer Press" wrote, "Looking much younger and trimmer than Trump, the extremely flexible plastic 'likeness' of the rich businessman and TV personality resembles George W. Bush more than the face of 'The Apprentice.'" In December 2004, Stevenson Entertainment Group stated that the dolls were selling well. In December 2004, a one-of-a-kind Donald Trump Cabbage Patch Kid was created and autographed by Trump before being auctioned
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The Cabbage Patch riots in some ways mirror Black Friday violence as seen in the 2000s. Cabbage Patch riots The Cabbage Patch riots were a series of violent customer outbursts at several retail stores in the United States in the fall and winter of 1983. That year, Cabbage Patch Kids had been released for sale in the United States, causing a tremendous demand for the product. Most stores at the time typically only stocked between two and five hundred of the product, yet with thousands of customers surging the store attempting to obtain one of the dolls, many fought with
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prosperity. The 1919 film is the second film adaptation of the novel. The first film version was released in 1914, starring Blanche Chapman. The third version was released in 1934 and stars Pauline Lord while the fourth version was released in 1942 and stars Fay Bainter. The book was also adapted into a radio series which aired from 1935 to 1938. The book was also adapted into a radio series which aired from 1935 to 1938. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1919 film) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1919 silent American comedy-drama film produced by Famous
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1938. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942 film) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1942 American comedy-drama film starring Fay Bainter, directed by Ralph Murphy, and based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. The 1942 version is the fourth film adaption of the novel. The first film version was released in 1914, starring Blanche Chapman. The second version was released in 1919 and stars Marguerite Clark, while the third version was released in 1934 and stars Pauline Lord. The book was also adapted into a radio series which aired from 1935
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942 film) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1942 American comedy-drama film starring Fay Bainter, directed by Ralph Murphy, and based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. The 1942 version is the fourth film adaption of the novel. The first film version was released in 1914, starring Blanche Chapman. The second version was released in 1919 and stars Marguerite Clark, while the third version was released in 1934 and stars Pauline Lord. The book was also adapted into a radio series which aired from 1935 to
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studio originally hoped. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934 film) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1934 American comedy-drama film, directed by Norman Taurog, and based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. The film stars Broadway stage actress Pauline Lord, and is one of only two films she appeared in. ZaSu Pitts and W. C. Fields appear in supporting roles. The 1934 version is the third film adaptation of the novel. The first film version was released in 1914, starring Blanche Chapman. The second version was released in 1919 and stars
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934 film) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1934 American comedy-drama film, directed by Norman Taurog, and based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. The film stars Broadway stage actress Pauline Lord, and is one of only two films she appeared in. ZaSu Pitts and W. C. Fields appear in supporting roles. The 1934 version is the third film adaptation of the novel. The first film version was released in 1914, starring Blanche Chapman. The second version was released in 1919 and stars Mary Carr, while
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site includes cameo appearances by Lauren Wallace and drivers Mike Wallace, his daughter Chrissy Wallace, Speed TV's Tommy Kendall, Paul Tracy, Christian Fittipaldi and Max Papis. Introduced in 2 August 2007, this series of ads features an "E! True Hollywood Story"-type show about famed fictional characters such as Fred Flintstone, Jed Clampett, and even a Cabbage Patch Kid named Ben Winkler claiming to have their cars (the Flintmobile, Jed's 1923 Oldsmobile truck, and a Plymouth Reliant/Dodge Aries, respectively) insured by GEICO, featuring interviews with made-up investigators (however, the Ben Winkler spot does not have an interview). These commercials were voiced
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to always smell like cheese. He is also a member of G.A.S.P., although, he doesn't seem to have an alter ego and simply wears homemade bat wings that he believes enables him to fly, which is proven wrong when he attempted to ambush the Park View Terrace Ninjas and fell. Mary Violet/Ultra Violet A girl who appears to be Catholic and described as a "Cabbage Patch Kid that threw up". In the second volume, she develops a violent personality after a fight with Reggie and joins G.A.S.P. under the alias Ultra Violet. Earth Dog Reggie's cousin who enjoys writing poems
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Cabbage Patch Kids Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of soft sculptured toy doll like creatures sold by Xavier Roberts and registered in the United States copyright office in 1978. The doll brand was one of the most popular toy fads of the 1980s and one of the longest-running doll franchises in the United States. The characters appeared in many other Cabbage Patch merchandising products ranging from animated cartoons to record albums to board games. According to Roberts, as a 21-year-old art student, he utilized the quilting skills he learned from his mother and the historic technique of "needle molding"
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Connecticut's consumer protection commissioner, Mark Shiffrin. Cabbage Patch Kids Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of soft sculptured toy doll like creatures sold by Xavier Roberts and registered in the United States copyright office in 1978. The doll brand was one of the most popular toy fads of the 1980s and one of the longest-running doll franchises in the United States. The characters appeared in many other Cabbage Patch merchandising products ranging from animated cartoons to record albums to board games. According to Roberts, as a 21-year-old art student, he utilized the quilting skills he learned from his mother and
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when touched. There are several screens of challenge with different combinations of obstacles." AtariProtos wrote "According to the Colecovision version's manual, Anna Lee has decided to go out for some exercise in the local park and is soon caught up in a wild adventure (hence the subtitle "Adventures in the Park"). The game is separated into several different screens (referred to in the game as scenes), each with a different obstacle for your kid to overcome. Obstacles include bouncing balls, water filled pits, floating platforms, bees, and even fires. Each level consists of ten scenes which must all be overcome
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Cabbage Patch riots The Cabbage Patch riots were a series of violent customer outbursts at several retail stores in the United States in the fall and winter of 1983. That year, Cabbage Patch Kids had been released for sale in the United States, causing a tremendous demand for the product. Most stores at the time typically only stocked between two and five hundred of the product, yet with thousands of customers surging the store attempting to obtain one of the dolls, many fought with other customers in order to obtain one of the products. The holiday season of 1983 saw
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dolls in 1988 after Coleco filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and continued to make the dolls with various gimmicks, including dolls that played kazoos. Some of the more popular doll lines to come out under the Cabbage Patch Kids name included the "Birthday Kids", "Splash 'n' Tan Kids", and "Pretty Crimp and Curl". Hasbro gradually began making the dolls for younger children, which led to smaller and smaller dolls. Although Cabbage Patch dolls were still best selling toys, Hasbro never really revitalized the Cabbage Patch market. In 1994, Mattel acquired the licensing rights to the dolls from Original Appalachian Artworks.
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in 1991). They came as pegasi, unicorns, horses and mini-fillies. One, called Princess Growing Hair, had hair that could grow, and a filly was sold with a carriage. Magic Touch Pony toys were made of plastic and came in different colors. They had symbols on their flanks, like My Little Ponies and Dream Beauties. Some had hooves that would light up, a necklace that lit up, plastic flowers in their manes that would light up, and some played music. Cabbage Patch Ponies toys were made by Hasbro, which had a license to manufacture Cabbage Patch Kids from 1988 until 1994.
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"master toy licensee", Schlaifer ultimately licensed over 140 other manufacturers, publishers and entertainment companies to produce thousands of different Cabbage Patch Kids branded products. The reception at retail was unprecedented: there were riots at stores across America and by year’s end, Coleco Industries had shipped over 3.2 million dolls. Cabbage Patch Kids was the most successful children's licensed property of its day—generating over $4 billion in retail sales of licensed merchandise during the six years of Schlaifer’s tenure. Original Appalachian Artworks acquired Schlaifer’s licensing rights in 1988. In addition to creating the Cabbage Patch Kids logos, packaging, and the characters,
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by American author Alice Hegan Rice, telling of a southern family's humorously coping with poverty. The book was highly popular on its release, and has been adapted to film several times. Rice was inspired to write the book during her "philanthropic work in a Louisville, Kentucky slum area, where she met an optimistic and cheerful woman" who served as the model for the book's main character. The setting of the book is a white turn-of-the-century urban slum, with two somewhat wealthy individuals wanting to
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1997, the book had sold more than 650,000 copies in a hundred printings. Film adaptations include: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by American author Alice Hegan Rice, telling of a southern family's humorously coping with poverty. The book was highly popular on its release, and has been adapted to film several times. Rice was inspired to write the book during her "philanthropic work in a Louisville, Kentucky slum area, where she met an optimistic and cheerful woman" who served as the model for the book's main character. The setting
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from his family, with his brothers doing the construction while Roberts supervised. Roberts' mother and sisters were in charge of the landscaping. Xavier Roberts Xavier Roberts (born October 31, 1955 in Cleveland, Georgia) is an American artist and entrepreneur. He is best known for marketing the Cabbage Patch Kid dolls. At the age of five, Xavier Roberts' father died in a car accident, leaving his mother to raise him and his five siblings. Roberts then attended White County High School and then attended Truett McConnell Junior College where he was an award-winning art student. After meeting the "Doll Babies" artist
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Xavier Roberts Xavier Roberts (born October 31, 1955 in Cleveland, Georgia) is an American artist and entrepreneur. He is best known for marketing the Cabbage Patch Kid dolls. At the age of five, Xavier Roberts' father died in a car accident, leaving his mother to raise him and his five siblings. Roberts then attended White County High School and then attended Truett McConnell Junior College where he was an award-winning art student. After meeting the "Doll Babies" artist named Martha Nelson Thomas at a craft fair, Roberts began reselling her products and eventually copying her designs of a quilted doll
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Hospital is the "birthplace" of Cabbage Patch Kids and is located in Cleveland, Georgia. Roberts converted an old clinic into a "hospital" from which to sell his dolls, originally called "Little People". The facility is presented as a birthing, nursery, and adoption center for the Cabbage Patch Kids. In accordance with the theme, employees dress and act the parts of the doctors and nurses caring for the dolls as if they are real. Babyland General moved to a new facility on the outskirts of Cleveland, Georgia in 2010 and has been voted one of the Travel Channel's top 10 toylands.
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as Phoebe Throssell (ibdb.com). In October 1903 she appeared in the stage version Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch in Louisville, Kentucky. She was able to tour to Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and across America for the next seven years playing Miss Hazy "in the Cabbage Patch". She had a successful career as a stage comedienne before she went to Hollywood in 1934 where she appeared in "Side Streets" which was a Warner Bros film. She became known as the first choice for playing middle aged women. Lowell died in 1937. Helen Lowell Helen Lowell born Helen Lowell Robb (1866–1937)
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Devil, they also made Tickle Me versions of baby Bugs Bunny and Tweety, they successfully sold it at WB Studio Store in California. They are on Ebay and Amazon too. A short time later, Tyco lost rights to do "Looney Tunes" but gained the rights to "Sesame Street," thus starting Tickle Me Elmo. The invention was originally introduced under Cabbage Patch at Hasbro Industries. Neil Friedman, who was then president of Tyco Preschool, recalled years later that, "When you played with [Tickle Me Elmo] for the first time, it brought a smile to everyone's face. It was a magical surprise."
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1919 film) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1919 silent American comedy-drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Directed by Hugh Ford, the film stars Marguerite Clark and is based on the 1904 Broadway play by Anne Crawford Flexner which itself is taken from the novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. The picture survives and is preserved at the Library of Congress, one of Clark's few surviving silent films. As described in a film magazine, Lovey Mary (Clark) is an inmate of an orphanage
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densely-packed multi-family houses in contrast to the single-family homes with larger lots that populate the vast majority of the Grosse Pointes. The cabbage patch is generally considered to be the northwest corner of the city, bounded by Mack, Wayburn, Jefferson, and Somerset, with a small extension south of Jefferson on Nottingham and Beaconsfield. The region's name can be seen in various local establishments such as the Cabbage Patch Cafe and Cabbage Patch Saloon. Grosse Pointe Park, along with Grosse Pointe and Grosse Pointe Farms, is in the Grosse Pointe South High School district. There are two Grosse Pointe Public School
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who runs away a little boy with whom she has become strongly attached. She finds refuge on a rainy night with Mrs. Wiggs (Carr), a mother of five who lives in a wretched settlement known as the Cabbage Patch. Mrs. Wiggs feeds and shelters them, and lies to a sheriff looking to return them to the orphanage. There are a series of interactions with the amusing characters that live in the Cabbage Patch with brings about the growth and improvement in Mary. It is through Mary that the child she has been mothering becomes legitimate and the whole family obtains
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and "", and more. In early 1983, Parker Brothers spent US$15 million establishing a book publishing branch; their first titles featured the American Greetings franchises, Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. The branch published twelve titles by February 1984; sales of these books totalled 3.5 million units. Parker Brothers also operated a record label around the same time; one of its releases, based on Coleco's Cabbage Patch Kids and involving Tom and Stephen Chapin titled "Cabbage Patch Dreams", was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in July 1984. In 1985, General Mills merged the company with their
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in "Bolero" (1934), "Come On Marines!" (1934) (billed as "Clara Lou Sheridan"), "Murder at the Vanities" (1934), "Shoot the Works" (1934), "Kiss and Make-Up" (1934), "The Notorious Sophie Lang" (1934), "College Rhythm" (1934) (directed by Norman Taurog who Sheridan admired), "Ladies Should Listen" (1934), "You Belong to Me" (1934), "Wagon Wheels" (1934), "The Lemon Drop Kid" (1934), "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (1934), "Ready for Love" (1934), "Limehouse Blues" (1934), "One Hour Late" (1934). Sheridan worked with Paramount's drama coach Nina Mouise and would perform plays on the lot with fellow contractees, including "The Milky Way" and "The Pursuit
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The film draws inspiration from the high demand for Christmas toys such as the Cabbage Patch Kids and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which often led to intense searching and occasional violence amongst shoppers. Randy Kornfield wrote the film's original screenplay after witnessing his in-laws go to a Santa Monica toy store at dawn in order to get his son a Power Ranger. While admitting to missing the clamor for the Cabbage Patch Kids and Power Rangers, producer Chris Columbus experienced a similar situation in 1995 when he attempted to obtain a Buzz Lightyear
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several violent occurrences in such major retail stores as Sears, J. C. Penney, and Macy's. In smaller retail sales, such as Kmart and the now defunct Zayre, retailers attempted to control crowds by handing out "purchase tickets" to the first several hundred customers, leaving hundreds, if not thousands, empty handed after standing in line for several hours. Reports of violence included hitting, shoving, trampling as well as some customers attacking others with hand held weapons such as baseball bats in order to obtain a Cabbage Patch Doll. By 1984, with more supply of the dolls and demand dropping, violence declined.
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Garbage Pail Kids Garbage Pail Kids is a series of sticker trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the "Cabbage Patch Kids" dolls which were popular at the time. Each sticker card features a Garbage Pail Kid character having some comical abnormality, deformity, and/or suffering a terrible fate with a humorous, word play character name such as Adam Bomb or Blasted Billy. Two versions of each card were produced, with variations featuring the same artwork but a different character name denoted by an "a" or "b" letter after the card number. The
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Patch Kids dolls, the Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids, was designed to "eat" plastic snacks. The mechanism enabling this was a pair of one-way smooth metal rollers behind plastic lips. The snacks would exit the doll's back and "magically" appear into a backpack. The mechanism could be de-activated by releasing the backpack. They were extremely popular during Christmas 1996. The line was voluntarily withdrawn from the market following an agreement between Mattel and the Consumer Product Safety Commission in January 1997 following several incidents where children got their fingers or hair stuck in the dolls' mouths leading to safety warnings from
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result of Roberts' actions. Thomas died in 2013, at the age of 62, with her most favorite dolls attending her funeral alongside her family members and friends. Then Xavier Roberts himself brought a $30 million lawsuit against Topps, the company that produced grotesque trading cards parodying his company's dolls called the Garbage Pail Kids, for copyright infringement. In 1987, in the midst of the legal proceedings, the makers of the Garbage Pail Kids announced their decision to cease parodying the Cabbage Patch Kids, to which Roberts commented to the press "I could scream I'm so excited." One line of Cabbage
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Virginia Weidler Virginia Anna Adeleid Weidler (March 21, 1927 – July 1, 1968) was an American child actress, popular in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. Virginia was the sixth and final child born to Alfred Weidler, an architect, and Margaret Weidler (born Margarete Therese Louise Radon; 1890-1987), a former opera singer. She was the second Weidler child born in the United States after the family emigrated from Germany in 1923. She made her first film appearance in 1931. Her first credited role was as Europena in "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (1934) a role she won at
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In 1985, they were renamed to Sour Patch Kids, likely to capitalize on the popularity of Cabbage Patch Kids. World Gone Sour is a 2011 video game based on Sour Patch Kids. It was developed by Playbrains and published by Capcom. It was released on December 20, 2011, for PC, April 10, 2012, for PlayStation Network (PSN), and April 11, 2012, for XboxLive Arcade (XBLA). Sour Patch Kids Sour Patch Kids (known as Very Bad Kids in France, and as Maynards Sour Patch Kids in the UK and Canada) are a soft candy with a coating of invert sugar and
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help the inhabitants. The title character is a widow with several daughters—named after the continents, because she thinks that geographical names are refined—and an employed young son, who dies before the middle of the book. In 1904 the book was premiered as a play on Broadway. It was written by Anne Crawford Flexner, starring Madge Carr Cook. It had been performed in October 1903 in Louisville, Kentucky. Helen Lowell who appeared in the cast was able to tour to Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and across America for the next seven years playing Miss Hazy "in the Cabbage Patch". As of
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Bindeez were recalled in November 2007 after several children swallowed beads and were adversely affected. Upon ingestion, a chemical used in the product metabolized in the stomach into the sedative drug, GHB. The design called for a different, non-toxic chemical, but this had been substituted with an alternative chemical, which had approximately the same functional properties. The name was changed to "Beados" in 2008. The Cabbage Patch Kids dolls were very popular in the 1980s across North America and many parts of Europe. The "Cabbage Patch Kids Snacktime Kids" line of dolls were an early 1990s incarnation designed to "eat"
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was decided on as the new site and it opened in the spring of 2009. Babyland General Hospital Babyland General Hospital is the "birthplace" of the Cabbage Patch Kids located in Cleveland, Georgia. Xavier Roberts converted an old clinic into a facility from which to sell his dolls, originally called "Little People." It is presented as a birthing, nursery, and adoption center for premium Cabbage Patch Kids. Although the fad surrounding the dolls has largely died down, it is still heavily trafficked by diehard fans and curiosity seekers. The Babyland General Hospital looked to move into a new $2.5 million
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produced and computer-matched with bodies to ensure each doll was "different". It was, in fact, a marketing ploy that worked quite well as a wide range of variations resulted. (Source: Larry Moniz, then senior account supervisor for the Coleco account at Richard Weiner Public Relations in NYC.) At the peak of their popularity, the dolls were a must-have toy for Christmas. Parents across the United States flocked to stores to try to obtain one of the Cabbage Patch Kids for their children, with fights occasionally erupting between parents over the hard-to-find dolls. In later years, Coleco introduced variants on the
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at a flea market in California" in 2008. The game was known to exist for some time thanks to an interview conducted with another former Coleco programmer, Ed English, many years prior. AtariAge wrote of the Atari 2600 version: "As luck would have it, "Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park" is an impressive game, comparable in quality to many modern homebrew games". AtariProtos said "While it may not be able to compare graphically to the Colecovision version, the Atari 2600 version of "CPK" is an amazing feat of programming. Not only was all the gameplay retained in this conversion,
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high school, and eventually made the jump to mixed martial arts. He went on to train with Egan Inoue, B.J. Penn and Falaniko Vitale. He earned the nickname "Cabbage" as a child due to his resemblance to the Cabbage Patch Kids. Correira debuted on July 22, 2000 at the "Rings USA: Rising Stars Block B" regional qualifying tournament in Honolulu, Hawaii, losing to Eric Pele by submission due to an armbar in round two of their semi-final bout. After joining the SuperBrawl promotion, he would then lose to Travis Fulton by the same method three months later and Preston Hartzog
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Society, Louisville's Central Park, which features the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival every summer, the Actors Theatre of Louisville Production Studio, and the Conrad-Caldwell House. The area of 6th and Hill Streets in the neighborhood was the setting of the best selling novel "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" by Louisvillian Alice Hegan Rice. Today there is a non-profit counseling and services center, named Cabbage Patch Settlement House for the novel, on 6th Street at Magnolia Avenue, which serves children of low-income families. During the Christmas holiday season a number of private homes are toured in the Old Louisville Holiday Home Tour.
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before the time limit runs out. Along the way Anna may also collect various objects hidden in the trees (using well placed trampolines) for points, but these objects are not necessary to win". In the wake of the video game crash of 1983, this game served as "Coleco's attempt to use one of their properties on the way up (Cabbage Patch Kids) to give a boost-through-association to one of their properties on the way down (the ColecoVision)". An unreleased Atari 2600 was developed by Individeo. It "has now seen the light of day, thanks to a discovery by Alex Handy
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$140,000 in penalties, of which the IRS was only able to recover a little more than $1,000. He coined the name "cabbage patch resistance" for this technique, naming it after the then-popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, that, like his daily returns, were each a little different. Karl Meyer (activist) Karl Meyer (born 1937) is an American pacifist, activist, Catholic Worker and tax resister. He is the son of William H. Meyer, a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont. He is the founder of the Nashville Greenlands Catholic Worker community in Nashville, Tennessee. Meyer no longer
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help of an off-duty police officer. While attending college in 1974, Nasso founded Universal Marine Medical Supply, Co. (UMMSC). In 2014 Nasso was reportedly in the process of selling the company. In 1977, Nasso and his college professor Dr. Satish Patel formed Tishcon Corporation, one of the nation's largest private labeling vitamin and health supplement manufacturing plants, headquartered in Westbury, New York. In 1978, along with Xavier Roberts, he capitalized on the worldwide Cabbage Patch craze by opening the Cabbage Patch Babyland General Hospital Store, formerly located on 41st Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan. At Babyland General Hospital Nasso
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Scott was asked "Who's the biggest pain in the arse you've ever worked with?", he replied: "It's got to be Harrison ... he'll forgive me because now I get on with him. Now he's become charming. But he knows a lot, that's the problem. When we worked together it was my first film up and I was the new kid on the block. But we made a good movie." Ford said of Scott in 2000: "I admire his work. We had a bad patch there, and I'm over it." In 2006 Ford reflected on the production of the film saying:
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Babyland General Hospital Babyland General Hospital is the "birthplace" of the Cabbage Patch Kids located in Cleveland, Georgia. Xavier Roberts converted an old clinic into a facility from which to sell his dolls, originally called "Little People." It is presented as a birthing, nursery, and adoption center for premium Cabbage Patch Kids. Although the fad surrounding the dolls has largely died down, it is still heavily trafficked by diehard fans and curiosity seekers. The Babyland General Hospital looked to move into a new $2.5 million location in either Helen or Cleveland as revealed in the "White County News Telegraph". Cleveland
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Though Xavier Roberts is the creator of the Cabbage Patch Kids brand, many of the brand's defining characteristics, such as the dolls' overly round faces and that they came with an adoption certificate, can be traced back to Martha Nelson Thomas, an American folk artist from Kentucky. Before Roberts ever became involved in the toy industry, Thomas created and marketed her own line of dolls, called Doll Babies, which she sold at local arts and craft shows and markets. The two crossed paths at a state fair in 1976 and Roberts began purchasing her dolls to sell at a profit
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of Wellington. This cabbage patch, planted in such a way as to spell the word CABBAGE immediately captured the imagination of both the media and the public and engendered a flurry of other activities on the site, culminating in a week-long festival... when the cabbages were ceremonially harvested." While a work of conceptual sculpture, this intervention is also an early example of Guerrilla art and guerilla gardening in New Zealand. Thomas' work remained for six months, "astonishingly unvandalised, as a living, breathing sculpture in the heart of the city." Christina Barton writes in the following months, "it captured the hearts
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(for whom they penned a song in tribute), and exploded Cabbage Patch Dolls on stage. NRBQ began in late 1965 as a rehearsal band in the Shively, Kentucky home of brothers Terry and Donn Adams, and appeared on stage for the first time in 1966. Along with drummer Charlie Craig, they made home tapes of their experiments. The first known reference to the band's name can be heard on one of these home tapes, with Donn announcing, "Here they are, the New Rhythm and Blues Quintet!" as though presenting them to a live audience. In late spring of 1966, guitarist
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Patch Products PlayMonster (formerly, Patch Products) is a manufacturer and marketer of family entertainment products that specializes in games, children's puzzles, toys, activities, and teaching tools. As of February 2016, Patch changed its company name to PlayMonster. Brothers Fran and Bryce Patch opened a commercial printing company in 1971, producing games and related items for other companies. They printed "Trivial Pursuit" game boards and "Cabbage Patch Kids" sticker books, among other products. In 1985, the brothers began their own toy and game company: Patch Products. The company started a line of "PuzzlePatch" tray puzzles for preschoolers, which are still in
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attack. Lt Col. Patrick F. Cassidy's battalion, however, also took serious casualties from mortar fire and could only strengthen Lt Col. Cole's defensive line, taking up positions from the 3rd Battalion command post in the farmhouse to the highway. During a 2-hour truce at mid-day in which U.S. forces attempted to negotiate for removal of casualties, Company C 502nd moved forward from Bridge No. 4 into a cabbage patch between the second and third hedgerows. Company A 502nd moved up just behind Company C and extended its line across the highway. Fighting at the cabbage patch during the afternoon often
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he co-wrote with wife Susanne Nance, "The Legend of the Cabbage Patch Kids" published by Parker Brothers’ Books under the title "Xavier’s Fantastic Discovery". In 1985 Schlaifer commissioned Andy Warhol to do portraits of four of his Cabbage Patch Kids. Schlaifer secured worldwide licensing rights to the artists name and works from the Warhol estate in November, 1987. Additional intellectual properties created and/or developed by Schlaifer and his SN&C team, are Little Souls, and McNutts bedding for Springs Industries and Department 56. After inventing and patenting "Odds’R: The Odds On Everything Game" in 2002, Schlaifer wrote a compendium of similar
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so hungry that he ate some, and it turned him into a donkey. He went on and found a different patch of cabbage which turned him back into a man. He took both kinds of cabbage and went back to the castle. He told the witch that he was a royal messenger sent to fetch the finest cabbage for the king, but he was afraid that the heat would make it wither. The witch asked for some. He gave it to her and she, her maidservant, and the daughter all ate the cabbages and became donkeys. The huntsman sold them
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when it was sold to Coleco Industries, the maker of the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. In 1991, Leisure was commissioned by George Plimpton to design a gag gift for President George H. W. Bush. President Bush was so pleased with the gift that he called owner Rick Polk to personally thank him and also to commission Leisure to create a gag gift for First Lady Barbara Bush. In 2007, the business was renamed WhiteBoard Product Solutions to reflect that clients were increasingly bringing it into the front end of projects so that it could bring a holistic approach to designing
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In Bond's words, he and Switzer became good friends because "neither of us could replace the other since we played opposites." However, Switzer was known for being abrasive and difficult on the set. He would often play cruel jokes on the other actors and hold up filming with his antics. Switzer's tenure on "Our Gang" ended in 1940, when he was twelve. His first role after leaving the series was as co-star in the 1941 comedy "Reg'lar Fellers". The next year, he had a supporting role in "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch". Switzer continued to appear in films in
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Pat Brady (actor) Pat Brady (December 31, 1914 – February 27, 1972) was an American actor and musician best known as the "comical sidekick" of the popular cowboy film and television star Roy Rogers on his eponymous radio and television series" Born as Robert Ellsworth Patrick Aloysious O'Brady, in Toledo, Ohio, shortened to Bob Brady, it is unknown when the "O" was dropped from his surname. Pat Brady first appeared on stage at the age of four, in a road-show production of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. From that initial stage appearance until his death, his life was dedicated
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Marion Shilling Marion Shilling (December 3, 1910 – November 6, 2004) was an American film actress of the 1930s. Marion Helen Schilling was born in Denver, Colorado in 1910. Her family moved to St. Louis when she was young. She graduated from Central High School there in 1928. She started her acting career as a stage actress, starring in stage plays such as "Miss Lulu Betts" and "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch". In 1929 she received her first screen role in "Wise Girls". After a couple of roles in other films, she starred opposite William Powell in the 1930
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victory. Immediately after the stoppage, Cabbage did his trademark "Cabbage Patch dance" and then gave Abbot the finger which set off a mini riot as John Marsh, Eddie Ruiz and other members of Abbott's posse mixed with Chuck Liddell and others who came to break up the conflict. In his final UFC appearance, Cabbage was TKO'd by Andrei Arlovski in round two at "UFC 47" in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 2, 2004. He then lost on points to John Marsh and Yoshihiro Nakao in the Rumble on the Rock promotion in his next two outings before bouncing back with
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what Skeletor is forced to do when Snake Mountain is foreclosed on; Gargamel puts himself in a Smurf body to gain the trust of the village; Major Nelson uses Jeannie to get back at NASA for firing him, NASA's Lego people have a very bad launch day, The creators imagine how Cabbage Patch Kids are made, The Keebler Elves go to war against the Cookie Monster, Strawberry Shortcake attempts to name Baby Needs-a-Name, A group of mentally challenged soldiers take on Hitler and the SS, The Joker finally gets what coming to him, Optimus Prime chooses his kick-ass name, what
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into a toy store, in Cleveland, Georgia. An early transaction at Babyland General Hospital worth noting is the sale of the only Little People quintuplets ever made at the facility. Bennie and Jeannie Shelton of Cumming, Georgia paid $5,000 to buy the one-of-a-kind set of five identical dolls. Also worth noting is one of Roberts' very first Little People dolls he ever created sold at an auction in Virginia in the early 1980s for $3,000. The following is an abbreviated version of the origin story Roberts came up with for his Little People: <poem>Xavier Roberts was a ten-year-old boy who
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Early Show" in November 2010 as "the hottest toy of the season," and MSNBC referred to them as "this year’s Tickle Me Elmo". The "New York Post" described them as, "Creating Cabbage Patch-like hysteria among Holiday shoppers." On December 21, 2010 Lalaloopsy dolls were in the first spot on "Google’s Hottest Holiday Internet Searches." According to Google searches for Lalaloopsy dolls were "up 20% since the beginning of December." On February 13, 2011, the addition of three new characters: Patch Treasurechest, Blossom Flowerpot, and Tippy Tumblelina were added to the existing line of 8. It was also announced that the
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other was the classroom. At that time, the official school colors of Royal Blue and Gold were chosen. From the roots of Fife's agricultural economy, the Cabbage Patch Olympics were born in 1980. These field games were named in honor of the many cabbage fields, which until the 2000s, were still very prominent in the landscape. The Olympics occur every September as an inter-class competition, as the finale of the fall Associated Student Body (A.S.B) Week. Held on the football field, the competition consists of numerous events, most notably: The cabbage throw, Hula Hoop pass, tug of war, and pyramid
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Bernard Shaw, but she did not limit herself to their work. Though she starred in shows with varying production values, Shaw was picky when it came to the moral implications of her art. She often chose her roles with a feminist mindset as most plays at the time were created by man and did not portray the women charter correctly. When offered a part in "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch", she turned it down claiming that “it teaches contentment with and resignation to poverty”. Her dedication to acting was inspiring. Even when her mother suddenly passed away on the
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with rye bread. During much of the year when the Orthodox Christian Church prescribes abstinence from meat and dairy, a vegan version of shchi is made. "Kislye" (sour) schi are made from pickled cabbage (sauerkraut), "serye" (grey) schi from the green outer leaves of the cabbage head. "Zelyonye" (green) schi are made from sorrel leaves, not cabbage, and used to be a popular summer soup. Borscht is made of broth, beets, and tomatoes with various vegetables, including onions, cabbage, tomato, carrots, and celery. Russian borscht differs from Ukrainian borscht that in Russia they always use beetroot in borscht. Borscht usually
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"Me nobul men is all loyal." The face of the strike was Louis "Kid Blink" Baletti. Kid Blink was 18 during the strike, and is described by papers at the time as an "undersized boy" with red hair and an eye patch over his left eye. He also went by the nicknames "Red Blink", "Muggsy McGee" and "Blind Diamond." Kid Blink was a charismatic leader. Several newspapers recorded speeches he gave at rallies, one of which reads in part "Friens and feller workers. This is a time which tries de hearts of men. Dis is de time when we'se got
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served in the American Civil War, and a descendant of Jonathan Fairbanks, a Massachusetts hero of the Revolution. Madeline and Marion had an older brother, Robert. The twins began their career on the stage in such productions as "Alias Jimmy Valentine", "Mother", "Salomy Jane", "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," and countless others. Starting in 1909 they performed with Nora Bayes in "The Jolly Bachelors". Madeline wrote a note to President William Howard Taft, who received the twins at a private reception when they performed in Washington, D.C.. After the meeting, he presented them with an autographed picture. At first
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Alice Hegan Rice Alice Hegan Rice, also known as Alice Caldwell Hegan, (January 11, 1870 – February 10, 1942) was an American novelist. Born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, she wrote over two dozen books, the most famous of which is "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch". The book was a best seller in 1902 and is set in Louisville, Kentucky where she then lived. It was made into a successful play in 1903, and there were three Hollywood movie versions of it. The best known is the 1934 film starring Pauline Lord and W. C. Fields. Hegan was married to poet
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being played with in response to its vocalizations. For example, the doll might say "hold my hand" and give an appropriate speech response when the touch sensor in either hand detected pressure. It also had a movement detector to show the positioning of the doll and whether it was sensed to be on its belly, back, or even upside down. A special plastic 'drinking' cup containing a hidden magnet, which could be identified with the aid a small reed relay in the built into the head of the toy above the mouth, to signify when it should be seen to
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hiding in Shrewsbury and was named as one of the "fit persons to be brought to trial, and made examples of justice," grouped with Derby and Fetherstonhaugh as a prime example. The Council of State singled him out in a letter to Mackworth as requiring to be tried "speedily and effectually." After his trial he was returned to Shrewsbury and executed by firing squad in a cabbage patch, from which he had taken part in the storming of the town six years previously. All the executions took place on 15 October: Benbow was buried in Chad's churchyard the following day.
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John II of France when captive in England in 1360, but cabbages were also a familiar staple of the poor: in the lean year of 1420 the "Bourgeois of Paris" noted that "poor people ate no bread, nothing but cabbages and turnips and such dishes, without any bread or salt". French naturalist Jean Ruel made what is considered the first explicit mention of head cabbage in his 1536 botanical treatise "De Natura Stirpium", referring to it as "capucos coles" ("head-coles"), Sir Anthony Ashley, 1st Baronet, did not disdain to have a cabbage at the foot of his monument in Wimborne
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the stage in 1932 playing Abby in Sidney Howard's "The Late Christopher Bean". She made her film debut in 1934 as "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch", followed by "A Feather in Her Hat", released the following year. She found she was not interested in cinema and returned to the stage. In January 1936, she played Zenobia in Owen and Donald Davis’ dramatization of Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome". Her last appearance on stage was in 1946 as Amanda in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie". She died in October 1950 from injuries suffered after her car went off the road near
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the IFOCE for unspecified reasons. A spokesperson for the organisation stated that Boone's behaviour was being monitored for further assessment. After returning from his suspension, Boone went on to receive the title of Perry Krystal Champ by finishing, in eight minutes, thirty-seven Krystals. He beat Justin Mih by one Krystal. In 2007, Boone again won the Zoo Atlanta Qualifier for the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, although he ultimately lost at the finals. To add insult to injury, he was taunted by fellow competitor Patrick Bertoletti, who mimicked his style and even made a Cabbage Patch Doll effigy of Boone.
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kid on the block. But we made a good movie." Ford said of Scott in 2000: "I admire his work. We had a bad patch there, and I'm over it." In 2006 Ford reflected on the production of the film saying: "What I remember more than anything else when I see "Blade Runner" is not the 50 nights of shooting in the rain, but the voiceover ... I was still obliged to work for these clowns that came in writing one bad voiceover after another." Ridley Scott confirmed in the summer 2007 issue of "Total Film" that Harrison Ford contributed
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be 'drinking'. A more remarkable effect occurred when one doll detected the presence of another through its 49 MHz AM transmitter/receiver. The dolls were programmed to signal their "awareness" of each other with a short phrase, e.g. "I think there's someone else to play with here!", and then to initiate simple conversations "between the dolls themselves" with enough randomness to sound somewhat natural. The joint synchronised singing of 'rounds' being particularly impressive. The inclusion of the microphone was to delay the search and communication with another of its type when the ambient noise was above a certain level. Babyland General
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Williams and treasurer William Cail led the way to purchasing a 10.25 acre (4 hectare) market garden in Twickenham in 1907 for £5,500 12s 6d. The first stands were constructed the following year. Before the ground was purchased, it was used to grow cabbages, and so Twickenham Stadium is affectionately known as the Cabbage Patch. After further expenditure on roads, the first game, between Harlequins v. Richmond, was played on 2 October 1909, and the first international, England v. Wales, on 15 January 1910. At the time of the English-Welsh game, the stadium had a maximum capacity of 20,000 spectators.
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1985. Before Paulina left for the United States, a classmate told her to visit the American restaurant that had playgrounds and served little chickens served to children. The restaurant turned out to be McDonald's and it was Olowska's introduction to how marketing could create certain feelings based on the aesthetic choices made by companies, such as the shiny colors of McDonald’s, the marketing of Rainbow Brite, Jem, and the Cabbage Patch Kids, and the “fluffy tops of hamburgers." After just a year in the United States, Olowska's parents divorced. She subsequently moved back to Poland where she came to adolescence
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Mary Davis (actress) Mary Gunnis Davis (born c. 1875 in England) was an American silent film actress. She was married to J. Gunnis Davis. Davis made her début in Hollywood with a role in "Leave It To Cissy" (1916). This appearance was followed by parts credited as "Mary I. Davis" in "I Accuse" and "Mary G. Davis" in "The Haunted Manor", both from 1916. Her career was short-lived, concluding with performances in "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1918), "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (1919), and "An Amateur Widow" (1919). She is also sometimes credited as Mary B. Davis, Mary Gunniss,
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get out. Eddie and a young kid point their weapons at each other and the kid shoots Eddie in the leg. Lund fires a shot at the kid and hits him in the shoulder. Jenn manages to patch up all the patients, including her husband. Charles reunites with Cassie and Lizzie, Tay and Johnny get freed. Lizzie and Johnny start a relationship. Lizzie visits Boa, her ex-kidnapper and baby-sits his niece who ends up going to Child Services. Lund's new teenage daughter, Sage, starts at Cassie's high school and the two strike up a friendship. Unfortunately, their friendship crumbles when
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Style", was also made into an unreleased cartoon. In June 2013, it was announced that former Nickelodeon actress Amanda Bynes had been offered a record deal by Chinga Chang, after Herman cleared the idea with The Orchard and Sony Entertainment. According to Herman, he retracted the offer after Bynes failed to show up to a meeting with Wyclef Jean. Herman instead signed the artist D Rock Starr, who had previously provided the hook for the track "I Feel Bad for You Son" on "Half a Klip". D Rock's first single on Chinga Chang was "Sour Patch Kid", a diss track
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(including British Rail, the Cabbage Patch Kids, "Astro Farm", Guinness, Australian TV and the Tokyo Motor Show). Field's song "Testify to Love", co-written with Ralph van Manen and Henk Pool, reached No. 1 on the Christian Songs for Avalon. It was later recorded by Wynonna Judd for the double-platinum soundtrack album for the TV show, "Touched by an Angel" which made No. 3 in the Billboard Chart. More recently the song was re-released as the title track on Avalon's "Greatest Hits" album. Field's songs have been recorded by Cliff Richard. These include "Thief in the Night", "This Love", "All That
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"Candida". In 1907, she made her London debut in "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch". She was equally famous on New York and London stages, she was known to the world of literature for such novels as "Home Talent" and "An American's London", as well as to the theater for a play called "Mother's Millions", which she co-authored. In 1899, Closser married artist and actor Walter Hale, whose name she used for her stage career, and who illustrated a number of her travel books. She collaborated with him in the preparation of many travel works. They traveled all over the
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has been going through a "rough patch". Karan and his magical bat are inducted into the Indian cricket team as the opening batsman along with the captain, Varun (Rahul Bose). When Karan marches onto the pitch and wins the match for India, he soon becomes the nation's heartthrob. Although he was formerly rejected by adopting couples, he is now the most sought after kid in the country. However, Raghav (Raj Bhansali), the orphanage bully, hates him and feels that if Karan did not have the magic bat he would have never made it to the cricket team. Raghav now wants
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to enable the staging of the most detailed productions. The play was an adaptation of both "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" and "Lovey Mary", written by Anne Crawford Flexner. Lee acted the character of "Mrs. Eichorn". Joe Weber headed a cast of actors who staged "Dream City" and "The Magic Knight" at Shubert Park in Brooklyn, in April 1907. Lee was one of the supporting players as were Lillian Blauvelt, Cecilia Loftus, and William Hodge. The "Follies of 1907" were described as a "satirical musical review" when they opened at the "Jardin de Paris". The venue was atop the
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something Itoi "randomly blurted out" at some point during development, but he was fine with sticking to it, as there weren't any other names on the board. "Kotaku" noted the odd name, describing it as "sound[ing] like something a kid would normally "avoid"." In 2000, Itoi gave an update on "Cabbage", noting that, as Miyamoto was looking forward to the game, he'd "like to get something done relatively soon." It was planned to be playable at Space World 2000, but no demo ever surfaced. No video or screenshot of the game was ever revealed, because according to Miyamoto, Itoi and
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Kid Memphis Johnny Holiday (December 07, 1977, Memphis, Tennessee is an American musician and actor who began his career at the age of 15. He played Carl Perkins in the Johnny Cash bio movie "Walk the Line". A Blues musician, Holiday (Kid Memphis) made his mark on the legendary Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 15. His first record made was at the legendary Sun Studio. His first appearance on stage was at the Overton Park Shell; When Beale street opened as a tourist attraction in the 1980's, a young Kid Memphis would play on the street
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