Cabbage Patch Kids is a line of dolls created by American art student Xavier Roberts in 1978.

* 1983-Cabbage Patch Kids were introduced with great fanfare at the International Toy Fair in NYC.

* 1984-Sales for Cabbage Patch Kids branded products, from toys to children's apparel, came close to the record setting $ 2, 000, 000 mark.

* 1985-Cabbage Patch Kids low-sugar breakfast cereal and real children's diapers were introduced.

The Cabbage Patch Kids Christmas Special was number one in its time slot on ABC.

* 1986-The first talking Cabbage Patch Kids.

* 1988: Original Appalachian Artworks buys the licensing rights for Cabbage Patch Kids from Schlaifer Nance & Company.

* 1996-The Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids were released.

* 2005-There was a parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids on Robot Chicken as Lettuce Head Kids.

* 2008-All US Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates had their own Cabbage Patch Kids.

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Cleveland is best known for its Babyland General Hospital where the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, the conception of native Xavier Roberts, are created.

* Frank Galatolie, creator of Sour Patch Kids

Garbage Pail Kids ( also known as " The Garbage Gang " in Australia and New Zealand and later United Kingdom versions, " La Pandilla Basura " Garbage Gang or " Basuritas " in Latin America, " Gang do Lixo " Gang in Brazil, " Sgorbions " in Italy, " Les Crados " Filthies in France and Belgium, and " Die total kaputten Kids " Totally Broken Kids in Germany ) is a series of trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls created by Xavier Roberts which were immensely popular at the time.

Topps was sued by the makers of Cabbage Patch Kids, Coleco, for trademark infringement.

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In the early months of 1881, all but three families were evicted from their claims and resettled in a shantytown in Saint Paul which was instantly dubbed The Connemara Patch.

Patch cords were expensive, could be damaged by use ( creating hard-to-find intermittent faults ), and made complex patches difficult and time-consuming to recreate.

On 9 and 16 March 2009, Harry Patch and Henry Allingham ( both now deceased ) were promoted to Officers.

Advertisements featuring the Hamburger Patch were shown as evidence during the McLibel court case in the United Kingdom.

Two stories were adapted by the BBC in 1959 and 1960, with Bernard Horsfall as Campion and Wally Patch as Lugg.

Hidden in the middle of this area is London's smallest communal garden, " Providence Patch " built on the site of former stables serving the surrounding houses, which were destroyed by a bomb in 1941.

The EM-1's were also used on the Pittsburgh Division over Sand Patch Grade near Meyersdale, PA with either empty hoppers or ones loaded with iron ore or dolomite westbound, coal eastbound, as well as freight trains in both directions.

Available to Patch were three Corps ( US VI Corps and French I and II Corps ) and 24, 000 Maquis of the Forces Francaises de l ' Interieur.

The main characters were female ponies named Starlight, Sweetheart, Melody, Bright Eyes, Patch, Clover and Bon Bon.

After the " SD Card Patch " was applied in early ( by the user via a firmware patch ) and later ( at the manufacturing stage ) releases of the Tungsten T3, no other criticisms were known to have risen from the Tungsten T3's use.

Among the works penned there were four volumes collectively known as the Cotton Patch Version.

The main characters of Playdays were puppets known as Why Bird, ( voiced and manipulated by Ellie Darvill ), Peggy Patch ( Sally Preisig ) and Poppy, a cat ( Sue Monroe ).

Henry John Patch ( better known as Harry Patch ) was born in Combe Down in 1898 ; both his father and grandfather were local stonemasons.

Formed in Melbourne around 1998 out of the remains of another band named Snowblind, their members were Patrick (' Patch ') Robertson ( vocals / guitar ), Damian Birchall Costin ( drums ), Matt Balfe ( bass ), and Dave Ong ( guitar ).

Hagström were the first company to mass produce 8 string bass guitars as well as the first to build a guitar / synthesizer hybrid ( Swede Patch 2000 ).

East Works on Gypsy Patch Lane and Rodney Works along Gloucester Road North were established for the production of aeroengines.

The first and most prominent Lithuanian enclave in Chicago was called " Lithuanian Downtown " which was located along Halsted street in Bridgeport and founded by Lithuanians who settled nearby their Old World neighbors, the Poles, who were located in a Polish Patch in the vicinity of St. Mary of Perpetual Help.

" Early promotional material had listed " dictatorial Penny and mischievous Patch " as two other puppy cast members, but the highlighted puppies were whittled down to three.

Riding on fame from his success with the Dan Patch racing horse and the popularity of the park, the lake was renamed Lake Marion, and the rail line servicing the park named the Dan Patch Railroad Line.

Mary Elizabeth Hartman ( December 2, 1943 – June 10, 1987 ) was an American actress, best known for her performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D ' Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year-Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.

Sturges, in turn, sold Dan Patch in 1902 to a resident of the city of Hamilton ( later Savage ) in Minnesota, named Marion Willis Savage.

Dan Patch Avenue on the Minnesota State Fair grounds is named for the horse.

Dan Patch Drive and Dan Patch Lane in Savage, Minnesota, are also named after Dan Patch.

Prior Lake High School, located in Savage, Minnesota, has a Stadium nearby named " Dan Patch Stadium ".

President Andrew Jackson named his horse Sam Patch in Sam's honor.

Cast members included Bill LeCornec as fictional producer Nicholson Muir ( named for the production company ); Nicholson himself as Corny Cobb ( now working as a " prop man " rather than a shopkeeper ), bandleader Jackie Davis, and Marilyn Patch as Happy Harmony ( filling in for the Princess Summerfall Winterspring role ).

It was named The Patch.

Has a particular talent for interacting with humans, and even went so far as to adopt an abandoned human " cub " named Little Patch, with bittersweet consequences.

The main entrance to the fair from Snelling Avenue heads onto a road named Dan Patch Avenue for a pacer horse who won every race he ran in from 1900 to 1909 when he was retired.

Dex became the mayor of ACDC town, Yai became the president of her father's company, Mick became a teacher, Tab is making his store famous around the world, Chaud became an International Net-Agent, Mayl became Lan's wife and had a son named Patch, and Lan became a scientist like his father Yuichiro and his grandfather.

He has a Springer spaniel named Patch.

Models of electric guitar included the Hagström 1, the H series ( h II, h III, h II N ), the Swede ( Originally called The Hagström LP, or Les Paul, due to the instrument's resemblance to the popular Les Paul manufactured by Gibson Guitars ), the Super Swede, the Impala, the Corvette ( called the Condor in the US ), the Viking, the Swede Patch 2000 ( one of the first synthesizer guitars ) and the Jimmy ( named for Jimmy D ' Aquisto, a respected New York luthier brought in by Hagström to design the guitar ).

Set in early 20th century Indiana ( in 1903 ), So Dear to My Heart tells the tale of Jeremiah Kincaid ( Bobby Driscoll ) and his quest to raise his " champion " lamb, Danny ( named for the famed race horse, Dan Patch, who is also portrayed in the film ).

At the same time, the film also tells a contemporary story in which one of Santa's elves ( alternately referred to as the " Vendequm " onscreen ), a visionary named Patch ( Dudley Moore ), sets out to employ Santa's toymaking methods on his own, unaware that he might be ruining the magic of Christmas in the process.

Originally, David Newman's first-draft script called for the character to be named Ollie ; but Moore decided instead that the name should be changed to Patch, Patch being the nickname of his own young son, Patrick.

In December 2004, Patch was given a present of 106 bottles of Patch's Pride Cider, which has been named after him and produced by the Gaymer Cider Company.