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| Introduction: To Catch Lightning in a Bottle | |
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| Henry Aaron: Gentle Giant of Baseball | |
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| Acoma, New Mexico: City in the Sky | |
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| Samuel Adams: Brewing Up a Revolution | |
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| Airstream Trailers: Heaven on a Trailer Hitch | |
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| Aladdin Lamps: Soft Light for Magical Evenings | |
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| All-Day Preaching and Dinner on the Grounds: Best Food and Friends This Side of Heaven | |
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| Alligators: Dragons of the Deep South | |
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| Appalachian Country Stores: Penny Candy and Mountain Music | |
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| Appalachian Spring: Music for Martha and the Mountains | |
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| Armadillo: Creature Designed by Rube Goldberg | |
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| Art Deco: Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | |
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| Baked Beans: Surest Test of a New England Christian | |
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| Batman and Robin: Like a Bat out of Gotham City | |
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| Bean Suppers: With or Without the Beans | |
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| Jack Benny: Now, Cut That Out! | |
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| Blueberries: Wild Taste, Purple Tongue | |
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| Bluegrass: That Old Throw'd-Away Music | |
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| Humphrey Bogart: Play It Again, Bogie | |
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| Boston Tea Party: A Cup of Boston Harbor Water, Anyone? | |
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| Brooklyn Bridge: Say, Buddy, You Wanna Buy Dis Ding? | |
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| American Buffalo: Celebrating the American Bisontennial | |
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| Buffalo-Head Nickel: Five Cents' Worth of Freedom | |
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| Buffalo, New York: Hot Time in a Cold Town | |
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| Cape Hatteras Lighthouse: Old Man of the Outer Banks | |
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| Carlsbad Caverns: Journey to the Center of the Earth | |
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| Carnegie Deli: And If You're Hungry After the Show | |
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| Carnegie Hall: Cultural Delicatessen | |
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| George Washington Carver: Wizard of Tuskegee | |
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| Casablanca: Here's Looking at You, Kid | |
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| Celestial Seasonings Teas: Hot Cup of Heavenly Herbs | |
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| Chicago, Chicago: Emerald City of the Plains | |
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| Patsy Cline: Sweet Dreams for a Country Gal | |
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| Ty Cobb: Nobody's Peach | |
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| Coca-Cola: A Niagara of Coke | |
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| Calvin Coolidge: The President with Moxie | |
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| Aaron Copland: Fanfare for an Uncommon Man | |
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| Coyote: Call of the Wiles | |
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| Cranberries: Relishing an American Tradition | |
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| Daffy Duck: All-American Quack | |
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| Dagwood Sandwich: How to Build a Tasty Skyscraper | |
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| Dr Pepper: Doc Morrison's Tonic at 10, 2, and 4 | |
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| Drive-In Theaters: Last Triple Feature at the Bijou | |
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| Thomas Edison: Wizard of Menlo Park | |
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| Elvis Presley: All the King's Hits | |
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| Empire State Building: A Climb Fit for King Kong | |
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| Fallingwater: The Most Beautiful House on and of the Earth | |
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| Edmund Fitzgerald: Saga of a Doomed Lake Freighter | |
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| Frisbees: Identified Flying Objects | |
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| Georgia Peaches: Thomas Jefferson's Juicy Treat | |
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| Rube Goldberg: And His Wacky Machines | |
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| Golden Gate Bridge: Door to the West | |
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| Benny Goodman: King of Swing | |
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| Martha Graham: She Could Have Danced All Century | |
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| Grizzly Bear: Ursa Major, King of Grrrr | |
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| All-American Hamburgers: With Pickles, Mustard, Onions-the Works! | |
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| Harley-Davidson: The Bike with Lots of Vroom | |
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| John Henry: Legendary Steel-Driving Man | |
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| John Henry: Stretch-Driving Horse | |
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| Hominy Grits: Who Can Say How Many? | |
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| Hoover Dam: Pyramid of the Great Depression | |
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| Idaho Potatoes: Famous for Good Reason | |
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| Iditarod: The Call of Alaska's Wildest Dogsled Race | |
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| Ivory Soap: Bathtub Battleship from Ivorydale | |
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| Jack Daniel's: Smooth-as-Silk Sipping Whiskey | |
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| Chief Joseph's Last Stand: I Will Fight No More Forever | |
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| Kansas: There's No Place Like Home | |
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| Kalamazoo: From Here To ... | |
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| Kazoo: Hummer's Delight | |
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| Lake Superior: Gitchee Gumee--The Lake That Swallowed a Thousand Ships | |
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| Lindy Hop: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing | |
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| Lionel Model Railroad: Last Train to Lilliput | |
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| Jack London: The Call of the Wild | |
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| Loon: An Uncommon American Species | |
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| Maine Coon: The Cat with the Raccoon Eyes | |
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| Mammoth Cave: Kentucky's Big Hole in the Ground | |
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| M&M's: Melt in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand | |
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| Model T Ford: Tin Lizzie Suited America to a T | |
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| Grandma Moses: Everybody's Granny | |
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| Moxie: America's Hardest Soft Drink | |
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| John Muir: Best Friend of Big Trees | |
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| All-American Mule: Get Up There, I Say | |
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| Navajo Rugs: On Spider Woman's Loom | |
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| New York City Bagels: A No-Holes-Barred Treat | |
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| Niagara Falls: Marriage of Waters | |
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| Old Hollywood: Dreamland, USA | |
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| Old Town Canoes: From the Rivers of the Maine Backwoods | |
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| Oz: Frank Baum's Wonderful Green Wizard | |
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| Paper-shell Pecans: They're Nuts About 'Em in Texas | |
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| Dorothy Parker: Little Nell's Vicious Circle | |
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| Parker House Rolls: A Baker's Dozen, Please | |
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| Pendleton Blankets: Warm Tributes to Native America | |
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| Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound: Gentlemen, Please Avert Your Eyes from the Following | |
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| Potbelly Stoves: Dippers, Chewers, and Whittlers with Potbellies | |
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| Pueblo Pottery: Cookware with a Two-Thousand-Year Guarantee | |
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| Quiet Side: To the East of Down East | |
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| American Quilts: The Fabric of Time | |
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| Radio Flyer: Your Little Red Wagon | |
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| Raggedy Ann: Marcella's Floppy Girl | |
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| Rainbow Trout: The Flavor of Freedom | |
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| Redwood Trees: As Old as the Pyramids and Almost as Tall | |
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| Revell-Monogram Models: More Authentic than the Original | |
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| Santa Fe, New Mexico: City of Fire and Mud | |
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| Charles M. Schulz: Charlie Brown's Peanuts Gallery | |
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| Chief Seattle's Plea: How Can You Sell the Sky? | |
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| Sequoyah: The Man Who Made Leaves Talk | |
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| Statue of Liberty: Mother of Exiles | |
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| John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Great Men | |
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| Stetson Hats: Boss of the Plains | |
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| Tabasco: Hot as Hell Pepper Sauce | |
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| Texas Chili: Today, Hot Tamale | |
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| Henry David Thoreau: Walden's Lonely Drummer | |
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| Toll House Cookies: The Cookie Monster's Favorite | |
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| Johnny Unitas: All-American Times 47 | |
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| U.S. Constitution (Bill of Rights): Mr. Mason's List | |
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| USS Constitution: Wooden Ship with an Iron Will | |
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| Rudy Vallee: Your Time Is My Time | |
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| Vermont: Sharp Cheddar and Bitter Moxie | |
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| Victrola: His Master's Voice | |
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| Washington Memorial: Don't Miss the Point in D.C. | |
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| White Mountain Ice-Cream Freezers: If You Want the Best, Churn It Yourself | |
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| Hank Williams: Long Gone Lonesome Blues Singer | |
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| Gray Wolf: My, What Big Ears You Have | |
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| Nero Wolfe: World's Greatest-and Fattest-Detective | |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright: Bridging the Hills with Grace | |
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| Wurlitzer Jukeboxes: Put Another Nickel In | |
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| Xerox: The Billions That Nobody Wanted | |
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| The Man with X-Ray Eyes: Great Caesar's Ghost, It's Superman | |
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| Yellowstone Park: Where Nature Picks Up Steam | |
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| Yogi: It Ain't Over Till It's Over | |
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| Zinfandel: The Grape That Makes You Blush | |
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| National Zoo: Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh Yes! | |
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| Conclusion: Antique Cannon, Watermelon, and Fireflies | |