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You already know I have a great fondness for Pream commercials. I've devoted entire posts to the product. Somehow-or-other, mysterio...

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I've been enthralled with the doll art of Marina Bychkova for a number of years now. Every so often I get into a photo-collec...

There was something special about 1948. That was the year people started buying TVs, though they were still called "television set...