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•  Lego

  Lego (trademarked in capitals as LEGO) is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts. Lego bricks can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct such objects as vehicles, buildings, and even working robots.

  

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•  Manchester Mark 1

  The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest electronic computers, developed at the University of Manchester from the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or "Baby", the world's first electronic stored-program computer. It was also called the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, or MADM. Work began in August 1948 and the first version was operational by April 1949, when a program written to search for Mersenne primes ran error-free for nine hours on the night of 16/17 June 1949.

  

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•  Candy Land

  Candy Land (Candyland) is a simple racing board game. It is among the first board games played by American children as it requires no reading and minimal counting skills.

  

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•  Remington Rand 409

  The Remington Rand 409 control panel programmed punch card calculator, designed in 1949, was sold in two models: the UNIVAC 60 and the UNIVAC 120. The model number referred to the number of decimal digits of vacuum tube memory storage provided for data. The machine was designed in "The Barn", at 33 Highland Ave. in Rowayton, Connecticut, a building that currently houses the Rowayton Public Library and Community Center.

  

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•  California Zephyr

  The California Zephyr is a 2,438-mile (3,924-km) long passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the midwestern and western United States. It runs from Chicago, Illinois, in the east to Emeryville, California, in the west, passing through the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. This route is one of the longest and most scenic routes run by Amtrak, with views of both the upper Colorado River valley in the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada mountains.

  

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•  IBM CPC

  The IBM Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator or CPC was announced by IBM in May 1949. Later that year an improved machine, the CPC-II was also announced.

  

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•  IBM 407

  The IBM 407 Accounting Machine, introduced in 1949, was one of a long line of IBM tabulating machines dating back to the days of Herman Hollerith (see the tabulators and accounting machines in List of IBM products#Unit record equipment). It was the central component of any unit record equipment shop. In the late 1950s, the 407 was adapted as an input/output device on early computers, such as the IBM 650.

  

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•  Golden Crisp

  Golden Crisp is a breakfast cereal made by Post Cereals and introduced in 1949 as Sugar Crisp. It consists of sweetened puffed wheat. In a 2008 comparison of the nutritional value of 27 cereals, U.S.

  

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•  Jolly Rancher

  Jolly Rancher is a brand of candy, including hard candy, gummies, fruit chews, jellybeans, lollipops, and sodas. The product was originally produced by the Jolly Rancher Company, founded in 1949 by Bill and Dorothy Harmsen of Golden, Colorado. The Jolly Rancher Company made ice cream, chocolate and candy sold at several "Ranch Maid Ice Cream" stores in the Denver area. The name was meant to suggest western hospitality. Jolly Rancher began concentrating on hard candies as sales grew.

  

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•  EMD E8

  The EMD E8 was a 2,250-horsepower (1,680 kW), A1A-A1A passenger train locomotive manufactured by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of La Grange, Illinois. The cab version, or E8A, was manufactured from August, 1949 to December, 1953, and 449 were produced – 446 for U.S. , and 3 for Canada. The booster version, or E8B, was manufactured from December, 1949 to January, 1954, and 46 were produced – all for the U.S.

  

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•  Paul-Henri Spaak

  Paul Henri Charles Spaak (25 January 1899 - 31 July 1972) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman.

  

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•  Nicias

  Nicias or Nikias (Νικίας) (c.470 BC-413 BC) was an Athenian politician and general during the period of the Peloponnesian War. Nicias was a member of the Athenian aristocracy because he had inherited a large fortune from his father, which was invested into the silver mines around Attica's Mt. Laurium. Following the death of Pericles in 429 BC, he became the principal rival of Cleon and the democrats in the struggle for the political leadership of the Athenian state.

  

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•  Jennifer Grey

  Jennifer Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Frances "Baby" Houseman in the hit film Dirty Dancing (1987) and Jeanie Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).

  

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•  In this White House

  "In this White House" is the 26th episode of The West Wing.

  

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