In one photo (above), actress Lea Michele leans against a school locker in her underwear, licking a lolly pop.

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Who, for example, can name the inventor of the hair-dryer (Chester Beach), the electric washing machine (Alva Fisher) or the ice lolly (Frank Epperson)?

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Some of the lofty bridges we clatter across are supported by reassuring iron arcs, but others stand on little more than a lattice of glorified lolly sticks.

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As with so many useful creations, the lolly was invented by accident when Epperson, a Californian lemonade salesman, left a spoon in a glass of lemonade on a cold night.

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As a result of lottery lolly the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Scotland, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Wallace Collection and many others have had a makeover, bringing them up to modern standards in terms of access, educational facilities, exhibition space and more.

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