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Los Angeles Exteriors And Landmarks – 2014LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 03: A view of the Hollywood Sign on Mount Lee on February 03, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

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Hollywood

Hollywood’s Humble Origins In 1853, a small adobe hut was all that existed where Hollywood stands today. But over the next two decades, the area became a thriving agricultural community called Cahuenga Valley. When politician and real estate developer Harvey Henry Wilcox and his second wife Daeida moved to Los Angeles from Topeka, Kansas in […]

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A poster for Stanley Donen's 1952 comedy 'Singin' in the Rain' starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. (Credit: Movie Poster Image Art/Getty Images)

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Golden Age Hollywood Had a Dirty Little Secret: Drugs

Many memorable performances were fueled by “pep pills.”

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A family sitting around their television, 1945. (Credit: Harold M. Lambert/Getty Images)

How TV Killed Hollywood’s Golden Age

Television brought film into people’s homes—but flattened Hollywood.

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Shigeru Miyamoto, creative fellow at Nintendo and creator of Super Mario, speaks on stage during an Apple launch event, 2016.

How Super Mario Helped Nintendo Conquer the Video Game World

Originally a second banana character in ‘Donkey Kong’ in 1981, Mario went on to conquer the video game world.

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"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", 1966

How Donald Duck and Peanuts Saved Trick-or-Treating After WWII

Not even the effects of wartime sugar rationing could stop this Halloween pastime.

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2014

Comedy legend Joan Rivers dies

Art, Literature and Film History
1768

First modern circus is staged

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1961

The first Six Flags opens in Texas

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1932

Radio City Music Hall opens

Early 20th Century U.S.
1886

Folies Bergère stages first revue

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1884

First roller coaster in America opens

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