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

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One version says his friends started calling him Bingo, and later Bing, after characters in a local comic strip, the Bingville Bugle.

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So he began creating a comic strip of several drawings for a media company, United Feature Syndicate.

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The film is based on the comic strip that was created by Brad Anderson in the nineteen fifties and still appears in newspapers.

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During this period he very much enjoyed a comic strip about soldiers called "Willie and Joe."

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It ended a 38 year occupation of the narrow strip along the Mediterranean coast in 2005.

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He did it without any help. This is very unusual for a comic strip artist.

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It sold the strip to newspapers around the country to be published every day.

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The comic strip first appeared in seven American newspapers in nineteen fifty.

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

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

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Charles Schulz's comic strip created a whole industry.

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Cartoonist Bill Mauldin drew this strip.

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The Iron Dome will help neutralize the rocket threat from Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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and he was the first country star to play in the Las Vegas tourist district known as "The Strip."

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"It is not enough to simply ensure that supplies such as drugs and consumables are able to enter the Gaza Strip.

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The U.S.has also pledged an additional $10 million for the construction of five new UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip.

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Egypt has been mediating between rival Palestinian factions Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.

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Many have little sympathy for those in the Gaza Strip, where militants have been firing rockets at Israel for several years.

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