Well, the finish line has been crossed.

According to my math (which I am remarkably horrible at), it took me 766 days to complete this project.

Here are the posts in song order:

1. Starting the fire

2. Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

3. South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMiaggio

4. Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television

5. North Korean / South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

6. Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

7. Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher In The Rye

8. Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new Queen

9. Marciano, Liberace, Santayana Goodbye

10. Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nassar, (and?) Prokofiev

11. Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

12. Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron

13. Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock

14. Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s Got a Winning Team

15. Davy Crockett, Peter Pan

16. Elvis Presley, Disneyland

17. Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev

18. Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

19. Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

20. Sputnik, Chou En-Lai (Zhou Enlai), Bridge on the River Kwai

21. Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball

22. Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide

23. Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia

24. Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

25. U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola, Kennedy

26. Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

27. Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land

28. Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

29. Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatle-mania

30. Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

31. Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex

32. JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

33. Birth control, Ho Chi-Minh, Richard Nixon back again

34. Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk Rock

35. Begin, Reagan, Palestine

36. Terror on the airlines

37. Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

38. Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy metal suicide

39. Foreign debts, homeless vets

40. AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

41. Hypodermics on the shore, China’s Under Martial Law, Rock and Roller Cola Wars

42. I can’t take it anymore