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Aerobics
Aerobics word association - Lycra, Spandex, headbands, striped outfits, jiggling flab, overenthusiastic instructors, Flashdance (1983), sports bras, bike shorts, bad music, Richard Simmons, and in 1982, Jane...
Cruise Missiles
The Cruise Missile - descended from the German V1 of World War II - is a long-range guided missile that has a terrain-seeking radar...
Fanta
In the years leading up to World War II, attempts to make Coca-Cola as popular in Europe as it was in America had one...
PEZ
In 1927 Austria, Eduard Haas III invented the brick candy, taking the Pez name from three letters in the German word "pfefferminz" (which means...
Barbie
In a 1950s West German tabloid comic strip, there lived a buxom blonde character named 'Lili'.
She was very popular in two dimensions, so it...
