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Fran Allison was a popular radio and television host. Known for her innovative show, “Kukla, Fran and Ollie”, Allison also played Aunt Fanny on Don McNeill’s radio show, “The Breakfast Club”. Allison portrayed Aunt Fanny as an older woman who loved to gossip about her neighbors and tell wild stories. In the 1950's, Allison signed a deal with the Greiner Baking Company to make an enriched ready-made bread called, “Aunt Fanny’s Bread”. “Aunt Fanny’s Bread," was advertised on-air, in print, and through public events.

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Born in 1958, Michael Jackson started his journey to become the king of pop at a young age. Jackson joined his brothers to form the hit group, "The Jackson 5". Jackson eventually started to outgrow the band dynamic and started releasing solo albums, with his biggest break coming in 1979 after releasing Off the Wall. His climb to fame continued after the tremendous success of his albums Thriller and Bad in 1982 and 1987.

Jackson’s later life is marked by continued struggles, with him becoming reclusive in the 90's. In 1993 and 2005, Jackson was accused of sexually assaulting several young boys at his Neverland ranch home. Jackson was never convicted, but the controversy would follow him. Jackson passed away in 2009, shortly before embarking on a planned comeback tour.

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The Holly Hobbie character first appeared in 1967, courtesy of American Greetings, as a line of greeting cards. These illustrations, hearkening back to the Sunbonnet Sue pattern used in quilting since the 1800s, quickly gained popularity. In 1974, the artist Holly Hobbie licensed her artwork of the same name to create a series of rag dolls that would become favorites for a generation of American children. Within a year of their release, Holly Hobbie rag dolls were outselling Raggedy Ann dolls by five times in number. The Holly Hobbie character(s) went on to be featured in novels, plastic dolls, animated series, music, and live-action television series.

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Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the largest international air carrier and unofficial flag carrier of the U.S. from 1927. It served as one of the main air carriers in the U.S. during the Golden Age of Aviation, a time where breakthroughs in aviation revolutionized the way people fly. During this time, airline jobs, such as pilots and flight attendants, were highly admired by many, including children, and were in high demand. In order to capitalize on this demand, collector’s items such as non-airline issued Junior Wings were made which included novelty junior wings to be sold in gift shops, toy stores, or as prizes found in cereal boxes. Collector’s buttons, which were identical in size, featured the logo of 11 different U.S. airlines including Pan Am and 1 Canadian airline, were among the many novelty items sold in gift or toy shops in the 1950's.

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The Dallas Girl Scouts began in the 1920s. Over forty years later, the Dallas Girl Scout Council expanded to include the Chisholm Trail Council, creating the Tejas Girl Scouts. Ten years later, in 1970, the Tejas Girl Scouts added nine more counties making a total of twenty counties throughout Texas. One of the major foundations of Girl Scouts across the U.S. is to encourage young girls who participated in the club during their youth to later become troop leaders among the members' communities. As a whole, Girl Scout leaders spend millions of hours giving back to and helping their communities.

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The John Hancock Center is a 100-story mixed-use skyscraper located in Chicago. This skyscraper was built in the late 1960’s and was completed in 1970. In 1968, construction topped out and it was the second tallest building in the world. It is still in the top-ten of tallest buildings in the world, and is the 4th tallest building in Chicago. This building is home to several offices, restaurants, and around 700 condos.

In 2018, the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, the namesake of the company, asked for their name and logo to be removed from the building. John Hancock Financial financed the building and had been a tenant for a long time, but moved out of the space in 2013, which was also the year their naming rights for the building ran out. As of 2018, the current name is simply to its address, 875 North Michigan Avenue.

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Protests against the American involvement in the Vietnam War grew in scale in 1965 after the introduction of the draft. In 1968, a large outdoor concert entitled, "Composers and Musicians for Peace," was staged in New York. The same year, protesters disrupted the reelection campaign of Lyndon Johnson, ultimately leading to his departure from the race. Though many consider 1968 to be the peak of the protests, the antiwar movement continued for the duration of the Vietnam War and was a defining feature of art, music, and student life in the 1960s.

In addition to the escalating calls for peace, the 1960s also saw an increased demand to alleviate widespread poverty. To decrease starvation and poverty in the United States, President Johnson launched a “War on Poverty” by passing the Economic Opportunity Act. During his term, Johnson focused his efforts on assisting the 19 percent of Americans who lived below the poverty line through legislative action. In addition to the Economic Opportunity Act, which created eleven major initiatives like the Job Corps and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Johnson also formed the Head Start, Medicare, Medicaid, and Food Stamp programs. These efforts were immediately effective and led to an 8 percent reduction in poverty rates by 1973—the lowest it has ever been since these measurements were recorded. Some of these initiatives, however, were undone by President Bill Clinton when he, along with the Republican-dominated Congress, passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996.

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The phrase "Hugs not drugs" was adopted by retired American basketball player Al Szolack as part of his campaign to keep kids off drugs. Szolack was born in 1950 and raised in Woodbury, New Jersey. After college, he played basketball for the traveling exhibition team The Washington Generals. After Szolack’s short term basketball career, he moved to Fort Lauderdale where he worked as a bartender and bouncer. During this time Szolack’s mother suffered a fatal heart attack. He mourned the loss of his mother by self medicating with drugs and alcohol which turned into a seven year struggle. After losing friends, money, and his fiancée Carol to his drug use, Szolack, not knowing where to turn, went to his fiancée's mothers house where he admitted his addiction. She embraced him with a hug, which Szolack has repeatedly credited as the reason he was able to turn his life around. For over a decade, Szolack has run a basketball camp dedicated to helping children stay away from drugs and make positive life choices. He also reaches out to high school students throughout the state of New Jersey by giving speeches about the dangers of drug addiction.

Brooklawn is an area of Camden County, New Jersey. Within the Brooklawn area, there are several drug rehabilitation centers.

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