K's First Case, written by L.G. Alexander, is a Longman reader for students learning English as a second language. It's 1975 publication in Hong Kong helped inspire an act of self-naming.

The TV series Batman, starring Adam West, ran for three seasons, from 1966 to 1968. Each episode concluded with unanswered questions.

The first pager system was used by the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn. Although associated with drug dealers, by the 1990s beepers became popular among teenagers, who developed elaborate codes based on numerical displays.

Michael Jordan began playing for the Chicago Bulls in 1984. During the first several years of his career, one could see him play at Chicago Stadium for as little as three dollars and fifty cents.

Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story, the 1988 film directed by Todd Haynes, was prohibited from future exhibition in 1990, but bootleg copies continue to proliferate online.

Rolling Stones fans are legendary: some dedicate their lives to transcribing guitar solos from fifty year old live concerts, others to chasing down grandfatherly idols for an autograph.

When Thomas Frank moved from the University of Virginia to the University of Chicago to begin graduate school, the Baffler, which self identified as The Journal that Blunts the Cutting Edge, moved there as well.

In 1973, Robin Morgan addressed The American Home Economics Association as "the enemy." The organization changed its name to the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences in 1994.

Toys made of plastic were rare before World War II. Their late twentieth century ubiquity came to symbolize the excess of consumer society.

In the 1960s, most soda pop was sold in reusable glass bottles, but in the 1970s these were replaced by cans and plastic. The last Coca Cola plant to produce reusable bottles closed in 2012.