Hannah Montana is an American teen sitcom created by Michael Poryes,
Rich Correll, and Barry O'Brien that aired on Disney Channel for four
seasons between March 2006 and January 2011. The series centers on
Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus), a teenage girl living a double life as the
famous pop singer Hannah Montana (pictured), an alter ego she adopted so
she could maintain her anonymity and live a normal life as a typical
teenager. The Walt Disney Company commissioned the series to continue
its successful line of music-based franchises. Hannah Montana is one of
Disney Channel's most commercially successful franchises; the program
influenced the development of merchandise, soundtrack albums, and
concert tours. It also helped launch Cyrus's musical career and
established her as a teen idol. Hannah Montana was nominated for four
Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Program from 2007 to
2010. However, television critics disliked the writing and depiction of
gender roles and stereotypes.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Montana>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1852:
Frederick Douglass gave his speech known as "What to the Slave
Is the Fourth of July?", arguing that positive statements about liberty,
citizenship, and freedom, were an offense to the enslaved population of
the United States because of their lack of those things.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_to_the_Slave_Is_the_Fourth_of_July%3F>
1937:
The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned
precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture,
folklore, and urban legend.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28food%29>
1950:
Korean War: In the first encounter between North Korean and
American forces, an unprepared and undisciplined U.S. Army task force
was routed at the Battle of Osan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Osan>
2012:
The Shard in London was inaugurated as the tallest building in
Europe, with a height of 310 m (1,020 ft), but was surpassed by
Moscow's Mercury City Tower four months later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
insufferable:
Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable,
unbearable.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/insufferable>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am a showman by profession … and all the gilding shall make
nothing else of me.
--P. T. Barnum
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum>
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