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.
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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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insufferable: Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/insufferable
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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