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Richard J. Daley was an American politician and was Mayor of Chicago for 21 years from 1955 until his death on December 20, 1976.  Daley, a native of Chicago, was a democrat who was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican before quickly moving back to the Democratic side of the aisle after the election.  He also served as Cook County Clerk before his eventual election as mayor of Chicago. O’Hare International Airport, the Sears Tower, and many other large construction projects occurred during Daley’s tenure.  Daley served as mayor for six terms before passing away during his sixth term in 1976.

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Chevy is the colloquial name for the United States automobile manufacturer Chevrolet founded in 1911 by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant in Detroit, Michigan. Chevy was developed to compete with the Ford brand and shortly became a preferred car and truck manufacturer in the United States. The Chevy brand produces a range of vehicles for various uses, though is best known for medium-duty commercial trucks and sports cars.

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Barry Goldwater and William (Bill) Edward Miller ran together and lost the presidential election of 1964, representing the Republican ticket. Goldwater, an Arizona Senator at the time, picked Miller as his vice presidential candidate and the two ran on a campaign of staunch conservatism and anti-communism. They lost to President Lyndon B. Johnson and Vice President Hubert Humphrey after carrying only Goldwater's home state and five states of the Deep South. 

Miller served in the Army during WWII and after returning home, began his political career in earnest. He was elected to the US House of Representatives, representing New York from 1951 to 1965. Even with his lengthy time in Congress, he was not well know when he entered the campaign with Goldwater. Goldwater's main hindrance was that he was seen as an extremist, even by his fellow Republicans. This came across significantly in a May 1964 speech when he stated that nuclear weapons should be used more as conventional weaponry and was later heard to make the offhand comment, "Let's lob one into the men's room at the Kremlin." 

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MTV or Music Television is an American television channel that launched on August 1, 1981.  It originally aired music videos (the first being “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles) but programming has changed on MTV over the years to include gameshows, reality shows, documentaries, and other music and non-music related entertainment.

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The British band Led Zeppelin formed their own music label, Swan Song, in 1974. The logo featured here is a simplified version of Swan Song’s (though it is heavily associated with Led Zeppelin), and it is based on art by William Rimmer. Rimmer’s painting, Evening: Fall of Day, depicts the winged figure of Apollo, rising at sunset into the sky. Apollo is often misidentified as Lucifer, Icarus, or Daedalus.

Swan Song released music by Led Zeppelin, but the band members were also interested in promoting other artists who hadn't had much luck in the music industry. After its launch, Swan Song released albums by Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, and Pretty Things, among others.

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The I heart NY logo was created in 1977 by Milton Glaser for an ad campaign created by advertising agency Wells Rich Greene. The marketing campaign was sought by then-Deputy Commissioner William S. Doyle to increase tourism in the state of New York. The campaign was a wild success. The original sketch of the logo is permanently on display at the MOMA.

The logo has become iconic in pop-culture and has been imitated in many forms around the world, like on this self-referential button. 

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Marty Links (real name Martha Arguello) was a cartoonist whose professional work included syndicated newspaper comics, along with making ceramics and greeting cards later in her career. Her most famous creation was Emmy Lou, a teenage character for comic strips created in 1944 that ran in newspapers until 1979.  Links transitioned to creating her own cards in the 1970s and then began working for the Hallmark company. The Lollipops art series for Hallmark included greeting cards, Christmas ornaments, figurines, and other keepsakes with a variety of cherubic faced child characters involved in various activities. In an interview Links shared that she was recommended to Hallmark by friend and fellow cartoonist “Sparky” Charles Schulz, creator of the famous Peanuts comic strips. 

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Dos Equis beer was brewed in Mexico by the German immigrant Wilhelm Hasse beginning in 1897. It was originally called Siglo XX to usher in the 20th century with the Roman numeral “XX” signifying 20, and the Spanish work “Siglo” meaning century. The bold “XX” design on Dos Equis bottles was first used in 1979 and continues to present day.

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“Touch the Earth” ran weekly on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio from 1974 to 1980. The program was focused on folk music and hosted by Sylvia Tyson. The show featured writer and poet Margaret Atwood (author of The Handmaid’s Tale and other novels), and folk artists like the late Stan Rogers, among others.

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The term Gulag refers to the Communist Soviet forced labor camps. Between 1958 and 1968, Russian novelist and historian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote a three-volume novel about life in the Gulag called The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn used his own experiences as well as first hand testimony from over 200 of his fellow prisoners. Despite attempts from the Soviet government to destroy the original texts, the books originally circulated as an underground publication in 1973. It wasn't until 2009 that the books became a mandatory part of the Russian school curriculum.