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Sesame Street: Star S'Mores (Star Wars Parody), 2014

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I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.

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Girl Scout in canoe, picking trash out of the Potomac River on the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970.

Now observed in 141 countries, the holiday was originally intended to bring awareness to environmental causes and oppose ecological degradation.

Thomas J. O’Halloran, photographer

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“Untitled (Coretta Scott King and children, Jesse Jackson, Harry Belafonte in crowd),” 1968, at King’s funeral in Atlanta.

© Burk Uzzle/courtesy of the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Meet Abdel Kader Haidara, the man who risked his life to save almost 400,000 ancient manuscripts from Timbuktu from being destroyed by the jihadists. These manuscripts, which some date back to the 11th century, deal with myriad subjects such as medicine, astronomy, and sex.

There is a book about it, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer.

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Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, 1970

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Even before she founded the disaster relief initiative American Red Cross (ARC) in 1881, Clara Barton was a force of nature. She once established a free school in Bordentown, New Jersey so successful that the townsmen wanted to run it themselves, and later nursed injured Union troops and distributed crucial supplies during the American Civil War. Barton created the ARC after observing the work of the International Red Cross overseas.

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The final Peanuts comic to be penned by Charles M. Schulz before his death from colon cancer on February 12th, 2000. The comic would be seen on newspapers a day later, ending the 50 year run of one of the most popular comic strips of all time.

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John Waters

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John Candy with a cat resting on his shoulder on January 21, 1980 in Toronto, Canada.

Photo by Keith Beaty/Toronto Star

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In the early morning of Jan. 18, 1971, two Standard Oil tankers collided in the San Francisco Bay, spilling an estimated half a million gallons of oil. Local residents jumped in, volunteering their time to help clean the spill, and several environmental organizations, such as the International Bird Rescue, were born as a result.

Photographer: ©Roy H. Williams/MediaNews Group/Oakland Tribune

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A liquor store in Chicago on Jan. 15, 1920, the day before Prohibition.

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All in the Family, a sitcom following the lives of the working-class Bunker family, made its debut in early 1971.

Before it wrapped in 1979, the series tackled many issues that had never been addressed on TV—racism, women's rights, abortion, and infidelity.

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McDonalds light fixture

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John Waters