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Edith Bunker was a character on the CBS sitcom All in the Family, which ran from 1971 to 1979. Portrayed by Jean Stapleton, Edith was the long-suffering but devoted wife of blue-collar curmudgeon Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor). Known for her high-pitched, Queens, NY-accented voice and sweetly naive demeanor, the character, along with Archie Bunker, was one of the most beloved of television and popular American culture in general in the 1970s.

In 1972, All in the Family and its cast of characters were promoted with merchandise as a tie-in with the U.S. presidential election of that year. "Foist" is a reference to especially Archie and Edith's pronunciation of the word first with their strong Queens accents.

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The Beaver is the titular character from the American sitcom Leave It to Beaver. The show premiered in 1957 and was about Theodore “The Beaver” Cleaver and his perspective on growing up in a middle-class American household. Leave It to Beaver was ended in 1963 when The Beaver’s brother Wally was about to go to college, which would end the brotherly bond that was a main premise of the show.  However, the show was revived in a movie for television in 1983 and a sequel to the show from 1985 to 1989. Today Leave It to Beaver is considered an iconic show and was placed on Time Magazine’s “100 Best TV Shows of all time” list.  

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The term "Age of Aquarius" in popular culture usually refers to the period of hippie and New Age movements in the 1960s and 1970s. The 1967 musical Hair, with its opening song "Aquarius" and the lyric "This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius", drew the idea of an Aquarian age to the public's attention.

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) were created by cartoonists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. The four anthropomorphic turtles, named after Renaissance artists - Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo - made their debut in the eponymous comic book series published by Eastman and Laird's Mirage Studios in 1984. The duo published subsequent issues of the series in response to the Turtles' initial popularity. By the late 1980s they would go on to license their creations in one of the most successful franchises of entertainment history, yielding additional comic books, television shows, video games, motion pictures, and a wide array of merchandising.

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This design depicts the shield worn by the fictional superhero Superman from American comic books, DC Comics. Superman has been a character in DC Comics since the late 1930's.  The original design for the shield was first showcased in Action Comics in June of 1938 and shown as the letter "S" with with red and blue on a yellow background that looked like a police badge.  The shield became diamond shaped, as depicted in the button, in the Max Fleischer cartoon series Superman in the 1940's.  The "S" stands for Superman and has been worn on the chest of the super hero since the character's inception.

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Sunset Carson was a Western film star from the 1940s whose original name was Winifred Maurice Harrison.  Before he started working in the film industry, he was a rodeo cowboy, which took him to South America for work.  He went by three different names during the course of his life, first Winifred Maurice Harrison, then Michael Harrison and finally Sunset Carson after signing a contract for his own series of Western films.  

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Charmion was the stage name of the American Vaudeville trapeze artist and strong-woman Laverie Vallee. Her most famous act consisted of her mounting the trapeze in full Victorian attire and stripping down to a leotard while swinging from the trapeze. This act was captured on film in 1901 for a short Edison film called "Trapeze Disrobing Act." Vallee lived from 1875 to 1949.

The Edison film can be viewed here.

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Star is a character created by Lisa Frank, Inc. She is characterized as a dreamer who loves writing, poetry, painting, astrology, and pizza.

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Star Trek is science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1966 to June 3, 1969. The show follows the crew of the USS starship Enterprise as they explore space and go "where no man has gone before". The show takes place in the 23rd century in the Milky Way Galaxy. The original show lasted three seasons and spawned many other television series, movies, and books.

Spock or Mr. Spock, who was first portrayed by Leonard Nimoy, serves aboard the starship USS Enterprise as science officer and first officer. Spock is half human and half Vulcan. Vulcan are an alien species from the planet Vulcan known for their ability for reason and logic without  interference from emotions. Vulcans are also know for their ability to “mind meld” which is a technique for sharing thoughts, experiences, memories, and knowledge with another individually.