click upper right corner of images to enlarge above: A look back in time to 1906 -street sign on the corner of Chocolate & Cocoa Avenues in the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. On the Corner of Chocolate Avenue -How Milton Hershey Brought Mil
       
     
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click upper right corner of images to enlarge above: (cropped view) an early 1950’s Rock n Roll musician playing one of Leo Fender’s innovative, slim, solid body electric guitars, The Telecaster … Gizmos, Gadgets and Guitars -The Leo Fender St
       
     
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click upper right corner of images to enlarge above: spread illustration… The DNA coding within each and every one of your billions of cells act as the building blocks that make you -both on the inside and the outside. The Secret Code Inside
       
     
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click upper right corner of images to enlarge above: (cropped view) Edwin Binney in his dark, gritty, smoke-filled factory that produced black inks, black dyes, and black pigments for industrial uses, day after day after day… The Crayon Man
       
     
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click upper right corner of images to enlarge above: designer Gilbert Baker creating the very first Rainbow Flags PRIDE The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag -written by Rob Sanders & illustrated by Steven Salerno published by
       
     
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above: Wild mustangs on the American western plains Wild Horse Annie -Friend of the Mustangs , written by Tracey Fern & illustrated by Steven Salerno -published by Farrar Straus Giroux , 2019 The inspiring true story of American Velm
       
     
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click upper right corner of images to enlarge above: neighborhood kids gather in the first days of spring to play some backyard baseball together, in a small seaside town in New Jersey back in the late 1920's. Brothers at Bat -written by Audr
       
     
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click upper right corner of images to enlarge above: The Parker Brothers game company rejecting Liz Magie’s early version of MONOPOLY, named “The Landlord’s Game,” with a big NO. PASS GO and Collect $200 -The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Inve
       
     
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click upper right corner of images to enlarge above: the original art used on the book jacket cover The Kid from Diamond Street -written by Audrey Vernick & illustrated by Steven Salerno published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2016.
       
     
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click upper right corner of images to enlarge above: workers atop the in-progress construction of the gigantic "Ferris Wheel" -with the fairground buildings of the 1893 World's Fair (named "White City") seen far below. The Fantastic Ferris Whee
       
     
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