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Folklore is the eighth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.It was a surprise album, released on July 24, 2020, via Republic Records.Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Swift canceled the concert tour for her seventh studio album Lover (2019).
Harriet Jacobs [a] (1813 or 1815 [b] – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic".
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (/ ʃ ʊ l t s / SHUULTS; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) [2] was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
The American frontiersman Daniel Boone, who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels, claimed that he killed a hairy giant that he called a Yahoo. [4]The fictitious country of Yahoo was the setting for Bertolt Brecht's 1936 play Round Heads and Pointed Heads.
Willard Carroll Smith II was born on September 25, 1968, in Philadelphia, to Caroline (née Bright), a school board administrator, and Willard Carroll Smith Sr., [15] [16] a U.S. Air Force veteran [17] and refrigeration engineer.
The Will o' the Wisp and the Snake by Hermann Hendrich (1854–1931). In folklore, a will-o'-the-wisp, will-o'-wisp, or ignis fatuus (Latin for 'foolish flame'; [1] pl. ignes fatui), is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.
The Sydney Morning Herald deemed the album the "cutting edge of contemporary English folk music." AllMusic wrote that "Red is electric folk-fusion mixed with modern modes, while Rice uses more traditional means with subtler modernization." Track listing Red "Accordion Song" - 4:50 "10,000 Miles" - 3:04 "Billy Boy/The Widdow's Wedding" - 5:04
On Wednesday, 28 June 2017, The New York Times crossword included the quip, "How I wish Natalie Portman dated Jacques Cousteau, so I could call them 'Portmanteau ' ". [ 41 ] Holidays are another example, as in Thanksgivukkah , a portmanteau neologism given to the convergence of the American holiday of Thanksgiving and the first day of the ...