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How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America's National Toy
and declared Billy Possum “the new national toy ... away from what is ugly or grotesque,” he told the American Stationer. “That was the trouble with the Billy Possum—it was too ugly an animal.” As ...
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American Crow
The American crow is the “default” crow across most of North America. It overlaps broadly with the common raven, and to a lesser extent with the Chihuahuan raven, fish crow, and northwestern crow.
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How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America’s National Toy
and declared Billy Possum “the new national toy ... he told the American Stationer. “That was the trouble with the Billy Possum—it was too ugly an animal.” As Kaufman explains, Billy ...