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Walt Disney: Mickey Mouse
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Walt Disney World is bigger than life, a place where statistics reach epic proportions. In the food and beverage area, these figures paint a telling picture of visitors� eating patterns. Consider: 1.6 million pounds of turkey drumsticks and more than 2.6 million chocolate-covered Mickey Mouse ice cream bars are devoured annually.
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Walt Disney ... received the Congressional Gold Medal on 24 May 1968 (P.L. 90-316, 82 Stat. 130-131) and the Légion d'Honneur in France in 1935.[45] In 1935, Walt received a special medal from the League of Nations for creation of Mickey Mouse.[46] He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 14 September 1964.[47] On 6 December 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.
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Returning to Walt's new project, Disney claimed that it was the blowing of a train's whistle that inspired him to create Mickey Mouse. Apparently the whistle blowed "A moooouse! A mooouse!" It seems likely that Mickey evolved from a more pragmatic conversation between Disney and Iwerks. Mickey in fact was little more than a truncation of Oswald, round ears instead of long ones, and so forth. It has ... been said that the name Mickey came from Disney's wife Lillian who disapproved of Disney's choice of Mortimer.
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On July 13, 1925, Walt married one of his first employees, Lillian Bounds, in Lewiston, Idaho. They were blessed with two daughters, Diane Disney Miller and Sharon Disney Lund. Mrs. Miller has seven children: Christopher, Joanna Sharon, Tamara, Jennifer, Walter Elias Disney, Ronald William, Jr., and Patrick. Mrs. Lund is survived by three children: Victoria Diane, and twins Bradford Disney and Michelle Ann. MICKEY MOUSE was created in 1928, and his talents were first used in a silent cartoon entitled Plane Crazy. However, before the cartoon could be released, sound burst upon the motion picture screen.
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Walt ... became one of the first producers of films to venture into television, with his series "Disneyland" (1954) which he began in 1954 to promote his theme park. He also produced "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955) and "Zorro" (1957). To top it all off, Walt came out with the lavish musical fantasy Mary Poppins (1964), which mixed live-action with animation. It is considered by many to be his magnum opus. Even after that, Walt continued to forge onward, with plans to build a new theme park and an experimental prototype city in Florida. He never did finish those plans, however; in 1966, he contracted lung cancer.
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Since 1938 Disney has been a frequent presence in the world-famous Rose Parade. The traditional visits of the Rose Bowl teams and the Rose Queen and her court to Disneyland began in 1960 and continue today. Both Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse have served as grand marshals of the parade (in 1966 and 2005 respectively). The 2005 Rose Parade featured the official unveiling of the celebration saluting 50 years of Disney theme park magic, featuring a spectacular kick-off show and parade entry.
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