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In 1954, Walt Disney was struggling to imagine tomorrow. Disneyland was set to open the following year and would be divided ...

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Brief though his career as an entertainer was, Tom Lehrer inscribed his signature on a brainy, no-holds-barred brand of political and social satire whose influence could be discerned decades later in ...

Who was Wernher Von Braun, who became the subject of Tom Lehrer’s song? Wernher von Braun was a German-American aerospace engineer who was known as one of the most important rocket developers between ...

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