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Located in the southwest corner of the Mile Square in Indianapolis, the Hoosier Dome, a domed event stadium, was completed in May 3, 1984. The Hoosier Dome was added as part of a 1984 expansion to the Indiana Convention Center as an attempt to draw in more business and tourism to the city. Shortly after the grand opening of the stadium, the National Football League (NFL) team, the Colts, made the move from Baltimore to Indianapolis, where they would make the stadium their home until 2008. The dome’s official dedication day, August 11, 1984, hosted a sold-out Indianapolis Colts game against the New York Giants in an NFL preseason game.

The stadium went on to host numerous events including local commencement exercises, national religious conventions, the Tenth Pan American Games, the NCAA men’s basketball and indoor track and field finals, the Indiana High School Athletic Associations’ boys basketball finals, and the World Gymnastics Championships.

The stadium was originally named the Hoosier Dome until 1994, when RCA paid $100 million for the naming rights for 10 years.

In December 2008, the stadium was demolished as part of a project to expand the attached convention center and was replaced by the Lucas Oil Stadium.

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In the summer of 1985, while the West Coast was celebrating Disneyland’s 30th Anniversary, the East Coast had a different avenue for experiencing Disney Magic. From June 21-August 29, Disney teamed up with Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan to create an unforgettable experience. This show had two film presentations; Return to Oz, which ran from June 21-July 25, and the Black Cauldron, which ran from July 26-August 29. The program started off with a live show featuring Disney Characters and Rockettes performing numbers from Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Dumbo, and other Disney classics and remained the same through the run of the show.

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Pomp and Circumstance is part of a larger orchestral piece, “Pomp and Circumstance in D Major, Op. 39, No. 1.”, that is typically played at graduation ceremonies. Although it was not originally written to be played at this ceremony when it was composed in 1901 by Sir Edward Elgar, the piece was used as a central theme for Edward VII's coronation and gained popularity. In 1905, Elgar's tune played as a recessional at a Yale graduation after he was awarded an honorary doctorate, making it the song everyone wanted to graduate from then on. The original title comes from the Shakespearean play, Othello.

Hallmark began in 1910 when Joyce Clyde Hall started selling postcards. He had little money—not even enough to take a horse-drawn cab to his lodgings at the YMCA—but he had an entrepreneurial spirit and the determination of a pioneer. Hall quickly made a name for himself with the picture postcards he sold. Rollie Hall joined his brother in business, and the company was named Hall Brothers. On January 11, 1915, a fire destroyed their office and inventory. They took the only salvageable item, their safe, and set up shop again. With $17,000 in debt, they decided to press onward. As postcard sales declined, they recognized the public’s desire for more privacy in their communication, so they started offering high-quality Valentine’s Day and Christmas cards mailed in envelopes. The fateful fire resulted in the Hall brothers’ decision to buy printing presses and begin producing their own greeting cards in 1915. Hallmark eventually made the move to manufacture and sell collectable memorabilia including pin-back buttons, most of which revolve around holidays and other special events.

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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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