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“Effervescent” has two meanings, the first describing fizzy or bubbly liquids and the second describing enthusiastic or bubbly personalities. A bubble pipe was a toy used to blow soap bubbles, shaped like a tobacco pipe. The style used today was patented by John L. Gilchrist in 1918. Bubble pipes were not an uncommon item used by Peanuts characters. When Snoopy was in costume as a detective, a bubble pipe toy was featured to complete the dog’s Sherlock Holmes imitation costume.

The Peanuts comic strip launched and introduced Charlie Brown on October 2, 1950. In the 1960s, the popular comic strip was adapted for the screen including television specials, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), and a feature-length film called A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969). Numerous series and films have appeared on the screen since, including some after the comic strip’s end in 2000. While many of the characters from the Peanuts are lively and effervescent, Charlie Brown is depicted as a realist who commonly falls short on luck and courage but who has the support of his friends and family in nearly any situation.

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Charlie Brown is a fictional character in the comic strip Peanuts which debuted in 1950 and later as a TV show in 1965. Known as a “lovable loser” he became a widely recognized cartoon character that is relatable to all ages. Charlie Brown lacks self-confidence and goes through pessimistic and optimistic days, representing the average person and what many people go through.

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The Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210, established in 1951, serves students living in the  southwest suburban Chicago communities of New Lenox, Frankfort, Mokena, and Manhattan.

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Uncle Sam is a fictional character who represents a personified version of the United States. While the character is fictional, many historians believe Uncle Sam was based on a New Jersey Merchant who supplied beef to American troops during the war of 1812, Samuel Wilson (or Uncle Sam Wilson). Since the 1800s, cartoonists created many versions of their perceptions of America personified. The Image we all know today was created by James Montgomery Flagg in 1917. Flagg's image was used in army recruitment posters for both of the World Wars. The posters featured a patriotic Uncle Sam, wearing patriotic colors, pointing at the audience, and stating “I Want You for U.S. Army”.

In contrast, the image we see here is darker (black and white), Uncle Sam is pointing a gun at the audience, and it was used to protest the Vietnam war. This image can be found on posters and advertisements created by Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in S.E. Asia. One poster features Uncle Sam with a gun, a grieving soldier, and a statement urging the government to bring all the troops home from “Vietnam, Laos, and all of Southeast Asia”. This poster is now housed in the Library of Congress.

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‘Vote no’ campaigns are often associated with anti-union sentiment, whether that be a call to vote against union formation or, alternatively, in defense of unionization through a call to vote against measures that seek to union-bust. 

Marked as union made with an Allied Printing Trades Council union bug showcasing the geographical region associated with the unionized location as Los Angeles, California, but with a shop number printed next to the logo as ‘113’ (where as of June 2025, Allied Label’s shop database shows that label number 113 is associated with their St. Louis branch), the exact location of origin for this particular button is murky. 

Manufactured in the late 1970s or 1980s, during heightened unionbusting under the Reagan administration, this particular button was either addressing anti-union propositions, by instructing fellow workers to save their jobs by voting no, or it may have been anti-union sentiment ironically commissioned from a unionized button manufacturer. 

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Eugene McCarthy was a U.S. politician, who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Minnesota and eventually went on to seek the 1968 Democratic nomination for the presidential election. McCarthy was approached by antiwar activists to be their peace candidate, despite his support for the Vietnam war initially. Originally, McCarthy was competing against Lyndon B. Johnson for the Democratic spot, but when early primaries showed favor to McCarthy, Johnson dropped out of the race. When Robert Kennedy decided to run for the Democratic nomination, McCarthy lost many supporters and after Kennedy was assassinated, the Democratic National Convention chose Vice President Hubert Humphrey to be the presidential nominee over McCarthy.

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Voting began in the United States in 1776, but many populations struggle to have the privilege to vote. Barriers such as gender, race, property ownership, literacy, felony status, and ability currently or in the prevent many people to participate in the voting process. Others refuse to vote as an act of protest against these of the barriers. 

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Irgun was a Jewish, right-wing Zionist organization that believed in the Revisionist Zionism. Founded in 1931, the Irgun held the belief that every Jewish person had the right to enter Palestine, that only active retaliation would deter the Arabs from preventing Jewish immigration, and only Jewish armed forces would ensure the Jewish state. For the next 17 years, the Irgun carried out attacks on opposing groups that threatened their beliefs. Specifically focusing their attacks on the British and Arabs, the organization gained the reputation of a terrorist group, carrying out many terrorist attacks, including a hotel bombing and a village massacre. The organization disbanded in 1948 after the creation of Israel.

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The True Whig Party (TWP) is the oldest political party in Liberia. Founded in 1869 by black American settlers, the party had a conservative ideology. Endorsing systems of forced labor, in 1930, the TWP sent contract migrant laborers to what is now Equatorial Guinea under conditions paralleling slavery. Both the British and the U.S. opposed this, starting a five-year boycott of Liberia. Eventually the party lost power during a military coup in 1980 when the TWP’s leader was killed.