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1) She was the first female to run a major Hollywood studio.
2) She was an avid gardener.
3) Lucy was the first pregnant actress to play a pregnant woman on television
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1) During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank of General of the Army.
2) Eisenhower banished the White House’s squirrels because they were ruining his putting green.
3) His first son died of scarlet fever at age
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1) She was just 25 years old whenever she became queen.
2) If not for his love of an American woman, Elizabeth's uncle and his children would have sent the royal order of succession on a different path.
3) Her Majesty was styled Queen Elizabeth II to acknowledge her namesake, Elizabeth I of England, and to avoid the double numbering of some monarchs after the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
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1) People used train-themed codewords on the Underground Railroad.
2) Harriet Tubman helped many people escape on the Underground Railroad.
3) It gave ample evidence of African American capabilities and gave expression to African American philosophy.
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1) Skirts were tight at the natural waist and were either very full or very fitted.
2) Though young women wore tight sweaters and sought clothes that suited her age, it was young men who really started the so-called “youth culture”
3) The staple of '50s functionality for men and women during the era of swing dancing and diners.
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1) won a World Series with the Dodgers in 1955.
2) 1956, appearing in 1,382 games and recording a . 311 career batting average.
3) Robinson was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his first year on the ballot.
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1) Elaborate tail lights, often bright red in color.
2) The miraculous car legend ends one of four ways: Mysterious men appear and tinker with the engine
3) A mechanical toy made out of tinplate and colorfully painted by chromolithography to resemble primarily a character or vehicle.
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1) When Walt Disney was a child, he played Peter Pan in a school function.
2)Peter Pan was the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney founded his own distribution company.
3) Peter Pan was originally a play.
https://playbill.com/article/a-century-of-the-boy-who-wouldnt-grow-up-a-history-of-peter-pan-on-stage-com-336472 -
1) During 1955 and 1956, Elvis and his band performed widely, especially in the south, making numerous personal appearances, from high schools to county fairs.
2) The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s.
3) Buddy Holly is a staple of the 1950s. Buddy Holly and the Crickets topped the music charts from 1957 until his death in 1959.
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1) the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
2) Sputnik was only 23 inches in diameter but weighed about 184 pounds.
1) At 500 miles up, at the speed of 18,000 miles an hour, Sputnik circled the globe every 96 minutes, making 1,440 orbits around the Earth before beginning its reentry.
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1) The series portrayed police work as dangerous and heroic, and helped shape public perception of law enforcement in the 20th century.
2) Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers.
3) Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural crime drama in American media history.
https://clickamericana.com/media/television-shows/dragnet-jack-webb-police-radio-tv