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  • Sesame Street First Broadcast on German TV (1973)

    Sesame Street is one of the most successful television series for preschool children. The half-hour episodes consist of six to ten shorter, mostly thematically independent segments that interrupt a coherent overarching storyline. In addition to sketch-like or educational puppet dialogues (“A circle is round,” “Now I’m here, now I’m there”), cartoons, and children’s songs,…

  • Happy Birthday Elvis (1935)

    Happy 90th Birthday to the King of Rock and Roll: Elvis Presley. Born on the 8th of January 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, he became the most influential musician of all time. His music inspired legends from Leonard Bernstein, over Bob Dylan to John Lennon. What many do not know is that Elvis’ family originally…