We Can Tell You How to Get to Sesame Street & Even More Secrets About the Beloved Show E! 2 hrs ago Tierney Bricker
Go Behind the Scenes of Sesame Street in a Sneak Peek at 50 Years of Sunny Days
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After debuting in 1969,
Sesame Street made household names out of
Jim Henson s beloved Muppets such as Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster and more. Plus, it helped educate children about letters, numbers and, over time, more serious subject matters, like death, divorce and drug addiction.
All these years (and more than 4,500 episodes!) later, the show is as popular as ever, with a reported 100 percent brand recognition globally, airing in 180 countries.
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Could a Ship Ever Run Aground in the Mouth of the Columbia River? The mouth of the Columbia is widely regarded as one of the most difficult waterways in the world. Ships lined up at the Columbia Bar along Astoria. (Brian Burk) Updated April 4
The shipping route through the mouth of the Columbia River is famously hard to navigate. Could a ship ever run aground there and block it, doing to local shipping what the Ever Given did to the Suez Canal?