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unusual facts about sesame



A Visit to the Sesame Street Museum

A Visit to the Sesame Street Museum is a 1987 Sesame Street storybook.

Aligider

Aligider is located ten kilometers to the west of Teseney and was home to the Barattolo cotton plantation where Hedareb tribes and 1500 ex-fighters and their families farm cotton, sesame and sorghum.

Batibot

Premiering in 1984, with the name Sesame!, and eventually renamed Batibot several years later.

Bert is Evil

Being unaware of Sesame Street, Dhaka printer Mostafa Kamal had copied the collage from the World Wide Web, leaving the image of Bert in his collage.

Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street

Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street (1974) is a non-fiction book written by Gerald S. Lesser, in which he describes the production of Sesame Street, and the formation and pedagogical philosophy of the Children's Television Workshop.

Count von Count

His first performance of the Count was in a YouTube video called "Counting the Yous in YouTube", a song about the celebration of Sesame Street's YouTube channel reaching 1 billion views.

Don Music

Don kept a picture of Sesame Street songwriter and composer Joe Raposo on the wall (although it was never actually identified as such), as well as a bust of Ludwig van Beethoven (possibly a reference to Schroeder) on his piano, which he addressed as "Ludwig" when apologizing for his failure as a composer or otherwise verbalizing his feelings.

Frazzle

Frazzle debuted in season three of Sesame Street, 1971, in a Guy Smiley game show called Beat the Time.

Galli Galli Sim Sim

Funding for the initial development phase of Sesame Workshop India was provided through the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ICICI Bank and Turner Broadcasting.

Gerard Parkes

After Fraggle Rock, in addition to returning as Doc in A Muppet Family Christmas, Parkes continued to work in children's television, guest starring as alcoholic photographer Phil (opposite Sesame Park puppeteer Nina Keogh) on the TVOntario puppet series Today's Special, and appearing regularly on PBS's Shining Time Station as store owner Barton Winslow.

Gregory Chamitoff

As part of his personal allowance, Chamitoff brought the first bagels into space, 3 bags (18 sesame seed bagels) of Fairmount Bagels with him, from his cousin's bagel bakery.

International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East

In an interview published in 2009, physicist Herman Winick noted the name SESAME was coined to refer to door opener, the spice, and the children's television show, and the meaning Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East formulated to match the acronym.

International Documentary Association

Over the years, this program has helped raise funds for titles such as Spellbound, Trouble the Water, World According to Sesame Street, For the Bible Tells Me So, Dear Zachary, A Small Act, Garbage Dreams, The Man on Lincoln's Nose, Speaking In Strings, and The Invisible War.

Little People

In the middle 1970s, Fisher-Price produced the Sesame Street town, with various Sesame Street stores, a bridge with stop lights and Sesame Street characters such as Bert, Ernie, and the only Little People toys that have been modeled after celebrities -- Loretta Long (Susan), Roscoe Orman (Gordon) and Will Lee (Mr. Hooper).

Lloyd Morrisett

Sesame Workshop’s other hugely successful shows have included The Electric Company and Pinky Dinky Doo.

Martin P. Robinson

Robinson was married to Sesame Street writer Annie Evans on August 9, 2008 on the set of Sesame Street in the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, NY.

Michael Levine

Michael H. Levine, founding executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

Michael Roberds

He performed the role of Big Bird in the school play "Christmas on Sesame Street" at age five.

Nanikhir

Linseed, sesame, indigo, china and kaun used to be grown, but have largely died out.

Norman Stiles

As part of the Sesame Street writing team, he received eight Daytime Emmy Awards.

Onde-onde

Jin deui, a pastry made from rice flour covered in sesame seeds

PortAventura

PortAventura joins Universal Studios Japan and Busch Gardens with an area dedicated to Sesame Street, being the only theme park in Europe.

Prairie Dawn

She is famous for writing school pageants (e.g., Sesame Street Little Theater) for her friends, mostly Bert and Ernie, Herry, Grover, and Cookie Monster.

Rage Hard

It was released in two versions, a 4 minute mix and a 6 minute mix and featured Holly Johnson & Brian (Nasher) Nash imitating Count von Count ("Ha ha ha/I am the Count") from the children's TV show 'Sesame Street'.

Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop

Children's Television Workshop (CTW) produced the Sesame Street TV program and published a related magazine, Sesame Street Magazine.

Sesame Place

A second Sesame Place park also existed in Irving, Texas from 1982–1984 (a Walmart Supercenter now sits in its place), closing its doors due to poor attendance and a large number of water parks competing for its business.

Sesame Street Live

Sesame Street Live is the live touring show based on the children's television show Sesame Street.

Produced by Minneapolis-based VEE Corporation, the show opened on September 17, 1980, with a production of Sesame Street Live "Missing Bird Mystery" playing at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Sesame Street Together Book

Sesame Street Together Book is an early Sesame Street Little Golden Book, in which the residents of Sesame Street come together to help each other out with an item another might need.

Sesame Street Unpaved

Sesame Street Unpaved is a name used for numerous Sesame Street related productions.

Sesame Street: Old School

Sesame Street: Old School is the title of a series of DVD releases produced by Sesame Workshop, featuring episodes from the early years of the PBS series, Sesame Street, plus highlights from that era.

Several segments were replaced on the DVD versions of the episodes because of rights issues, including a musical number by Stevie Wonder produced specifically for the show, 123 Sesame Street (this musical segment, cut from the end of the 1973 season premiere, was a rerun segment from an earlier episode from that year).

Sim Sim Hamara

In April 2011, USAID announced that it would fund $20 million to start a local version of Sesame Street in Pakistan.

Simsim

Alam Simsim, the Egyptian version of the children's television series Sesame Street

Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce

The Children's Television Workshop (CTW, later Sesame Workshop), the organization responsible for the production of Sesame Street, considered and discussed addressing the topic of divorce for many years before developing an episode.

Tar ag Spraoi Sesame

The series' adaptation coincides with Sesame Tree, a Sesame Street co-production for Northern Ireland from BBC Northern Ireland.

Telly Monster

His first appearance on Sesame Street, after the Television Monster stint, was with guest star Itzhak Perlman playing the violin, while Telly played his tuba.

The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover

On Jan. 30, 2013, the Sesame Street Twitter account adapted the story to the popular social media network, again starring Grover with some impromptu assistance from Wil Wheaton.

The Sesame Street Dictionary

The Sesame Street Dictionary is an illustrated children's dictionary featuring Muppet characters from the popular television show Sesame Street.

The yips

Yip Yips, characters in the children's television program Sesame Street

Thirthahalli

Parashurama tried to wash the blood stains off the axe by dipping it in various rivers, but a sesame-sized blood stain remained on his axe, until he dipped his axe in the Tunga river near Thirthahalli.

Tindivanam

Oilseeds Research Station was established by the government of Tamil Nadu to evolve groundnut, sesame and castor varieties with desirable attributes viz., short duration, high yield, high oil content, drought tolerance, fresh seed dormancy, resistance to major insect pests and diseases etc.

Victor DiNapoli

Production Designer on Shalom Sesame (1987), The Muppets at Walt Disney World, Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration (1994), Elmo Saves Christmas (1996), Sesame Street: Three Bears and a New Baby (2003), and Sesame Street (2005 - 2007)

Wood spider

Harpagophytum, a plant of the sesame family, native to South Africa (not to be confused with other plants also called devil's claw)


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