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Joe Namath
"I guarantee it!" Joe Willie Namath's outlandish promise, made poolside in the days preceding the 1969 Super Bowl, angered his own head coach,...
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Levittown
In 1946, developer William J. Levitt and his brother Alfred capitalized on the twin circumstances of enormous demand and unequaled opportunity of...
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Bill Cosby
As one of the most influential and gifted comics of his time, Bill Cosby dissolved racial barriers on television from the 1960s to the 1980s,...
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Madonna
In late 1983, an unfamiliar, high, piercing female voice emerged on American pop radio with increasing and puzzling frequency. Shortly thereafter,...
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The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show, a situation comedy that ran for eight seasons on NBC Television, was one of the most intensely and immediately popular shows ever...
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E-mail
The most important new medium of mass communication of the past 40 years was not in any way connected with television, moving pictures, or the...
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Graceland
Graceland mansion, home to rock-and-roll phenomenon Elvis Presley for the twenty years preceding his 1977 death, became world-famous after it was...
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Michael Jackson
The nucleus of his own mammoth pop sideshow, pop singer Michael Jackson absorbed the most affecting African American musical traditions with which...
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