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Agnes Nixon

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Agnes Nixon (née Eckhardt; December 10, 1922 – September 28, 2016) was an American television writer and producer. [1]

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AfterEllen.com and TheBacklot.com

AfterEllen.com, founded in April 2002, is a website that focuses on the portrayal of lesbian and bisexual women in the media.

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Al Freeman Jr.

Albert Cornelius "Al" Freeman Jr. (March 21, 1934 – August 9, 2012) was an American actor, director, and educator.

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Alex Trebek

George Alexander Trebek (born July 22, 1940) is a Canadian-American television personality.

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All My Children

All My Children (often shortened to AMC) is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC for 41 years, from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2013, via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes.

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Alpha Chi Omega

Alpha Chi Omega (ΑΧΩ, also known as Alpha Chi or A Chi O) is a women's fraternity founded on October 15, 1885.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Another World (TV series)

Another World (often shortened to AW) is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999.

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Anti-war movement

An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause.

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Archive of American Television

The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation in North Hollywood, Los Angeles that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.

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As the World Turns

As the World Turns (often referred to as ATWT) is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010.

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Bauer family (Guiding Light)

The Bauer family was a fictional family on the CBS daytime drama Guiding Light.

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Bianca Montgomery

Bianca Montgomery is a fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children.

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Black pride

Black pride is a movement in response to dominant white cultures and ideologies that encourages black people to celebrate black culture and embrace their African heritage.

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Carla Gray

Carla Gray is a fictional character from the American soap opera One Life to Live, played by actress Ellen Holly.

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Casting Society of America

The Casting Society of America (CSA), founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1982, is a professional society of about 700 casting directors for film, television and theatre in Australia, Canada, India, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is a cancer arising from the cervix.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, or simply coming out, is a metaphor for LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation or of their gender identity.

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Daytime Emmy Award

The Daytime Emmy Award is an American accolade bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming.

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Douglas Marland

Douglas Marland (born Marland Messner, May 5, 1934 – March 6, 1993) was an American actor and writer of soap operas.

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Ed Hall (One Life to Live)

Ed Hall is a fictional character from the American soap opera One Life to Live, played by Al Freeman Jr.

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Eden Riegel

Eden Sonja Jane Riegel (born January 1, 1981) is an American actress.

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Ellen Holly

Ellen Holly (born January 16, 1931) is an American actress.

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GLAAD Media Award

The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by the GLAAD to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives.

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Guiding Light

Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera.

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Haverford, Pennsylvania

Haverford is an unincorporated community located in both Haverford Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, US, and Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County, about west of Philadelphia.

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Irna Phillips

Irna Phillips (July 1, 1901 – December 23, 1973) was an American scriptwriter, screenwriter, casting agent and actress.

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Lever Brothers

Lever Brothers was a British manufacturing company founded in 1885 by brothers William Hesketh Lever (1851–1925) and James Darcy Lever (1854–1916).

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Lillian Hayman

Lillian Irene Hayman (July 17, 1922 – October 25, 1994) was an American actress and singer.

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List of All My Children characters

This is a list of characters appearing (or who have appeared) on the ABC Daytime and TOLN soap opera All My Children.

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List of soap opera media outlets

There are multiple media outlets which focus primarily on television soap operas and telenovelas.

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Llanview

Llanview, Pennsylvania is the fictional setting for the long-running American soap opera One Life to Live.

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Lord family

The Lord family are fictional characters from the American soap opera One Life to Live.

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Loving (TV series)

Loving is an American television soap opera that ran on ABC from June 26, 1983, to November 10, 1995, a total of 3,169 episodes.

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Megan McTavish

Megan McTavish (born April 2, 1949 in Elgin, Illinois) is a retired American television actress and soap opera writer.

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National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) was created in 1955 to advance the arts and sciences of television.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.

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One Life to Live

One Life to Live (often abbreviated as OLTL) is an American soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network from April 29 to August 19, 2013.

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One Life to Live characters (1968–79)

This is a list of characters from the ABC Daytime soap opera, One Life to Live, that began their run between the show's pilot episode and the end of 1979.

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Pap test

The Papanicolaou test (abbreviated as Pap test, also known as Pap smear, cervical smear, or smear test) is a method of cervical screening used to detect potentially pre-cancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix (opening of the uterus or womb).

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Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system.

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Pat Sajak

Pat Sajak (born Patrick Leonard Sajdak; October 26, 1946) is an American television personality, former weatherman, and talk show host, best known as the host of the American television game show Wheel of Fortune.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia Main Line

The Philadelphia Main Line, known simply as the Main Line, is an informally delineated historical and social region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Primetime Emmy Award

The Primetime Emmy Award is an American award bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming.

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Regis Philbin

Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (born August 25, 1931) is an American media personality, actor, and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s.

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Riley family

The Riley family is an original family of fictional characters on the American soap opera One Life to Live.

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Robert Nixon (filmmaker)

Robert Henry Nixon (born 1954) is an American film director, writer and conservationist.

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Rosemary Prinz

Rosemary Prinz (born January 4, 1930) is a stage and television actress.

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Ruth Warrick

Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005), DM, was an American singer, actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. She made her film debut in Citizen Kane, and years later celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of the film to a packed, standing-room-only audience. Over the years, she collected several books about Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, in which she wrote "Property of Ruth Warrick, Mrs. Citizen Kane".

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Sadie Gray

Sadie Gray is a fictional character from the American soap opera One Life to Live, played by Broadway actress and singer Lillian Hayman from 1968 to 1986.

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Search for Tomorrow

Search for Tomorrow is an American television soap opera.

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Soap Opera Digest

Soap Opera Digest is a weekly magazine covering American daytime soap operas.

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Soap Opera Digest Awards

The Soap Opera Digest Awards is an awards show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest.

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Soapy Awards

The Soapy Awards were an award presented by Soap Opera Digest magazine to the best work on American soap operas from 1977 until 1983.

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Socioeconomics

Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes.

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Television Hall of Fame

The Television Academy Hall of Fame was founded by a former president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), John H. Mitchell (1921–1988), to honor individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to U.S. television.

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The City (1995 TV series)

The City is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from November 13, 1995 to March 28, 1997.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (Schemering book)

The Soap Opera Encyclopedia is a 1985 reference book by Christopher Schemering which assembles comprehensive information about all daytime and prime time soap operas broadcast up to the date of publication.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) is an informal acronym that refers to social group of wealthy and well-connected white Americans of Protestant and predominantly British ancestry, many of whom trace their ancestry to the American colonial period.

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Wolek family

The Wolek family is an original family of fictional characters on the American soap opera One Life to Live present at its debut in 1968.

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Writers Guild of America Award

The Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievements in film, television, radio and video game (added in 2008) writing, including both fiction and non-fiction categories, have been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Nixon

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