Today we tell about Charles M.Schulz who wrote and drew the newspaper comic strip "Peanuts" for half a century.

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The last new daily "Peanuts" appeared January third in two thousand six hundred newspapers in seventy-five countries.

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Some of the situations in "Peanuts" seem to have developed from Mister Schulz's own life experiences.

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Yet in later years he developed the failed romance into an interesting situation for "Peanuts."

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The museum was built very near the place where Charles Schulz wrote and drew "Peanuts."

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He took a picture of an adult male gorilla named Peanuts touching Fossey's hand.

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Charles Schulz also wrote the stories for the television and film productions of "Peanuts."

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A number of parks in the United States and in Asia use "Peanuts" characters.

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There have been more than fifty animated television shows based on "Peanuts."

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The media company changed the name of the strip to "Peanuts."

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In nineteen sixty-seven, the "Peanuts" characters starred in a musical play.

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It celebrates the life and work of the creator of "Peanuts."

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The museum also shows works by other artists that honor "Peanuts".

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Newspapers are publishing earlier "Peanuts" comic strips, called "Classic Peanuts."

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Charles Schulz would not permit anyone else to draw "Peanuts."

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There are other memorable characters in the "Peanuts" comic strip.

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There are "Peanuts" toys,videos, clothes and greeting cards.

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Charles Schulz drew "Peanuts" for fifty years.

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Mo Sessions is the Chairman, "my great-grandfather, he heard that peanuts were an alternative to cotton."

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Today,a few blocks up from the Boll Weevil Statue, conveyor belts carry rivers of peanuts to be cracked and ground at the Sessions Company.

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"And so he procured some peanut seed and planted peanuts in the summer of 1916.

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She says many of the girls attacked are from poor families and they go on the street to sell peanuts and bananas, where they are exposed to risk.

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By 1919,the region produced more peanuts than any other in the U.S.

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Sessions' great-grandfather was the first person to make peanuts profitable in Enterprise.

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They planted a different crop the boll weevil couldn't harm: peanuts.

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