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Provincetown, Massachusetts is a seaside town at the tip of Cape Cod. In 1620, pilgrims on the Mayflower Compact first arrived at Provincetown before settling in Plymouth. During the American Revolution, the town became occupied by the British. After the revolution, Provincetown became a center for fishing and whaling. During the 1890s, artists and writers were attracted to Provincetown and began to settle in the area. Provincetown is also a historic LGBTQ+ vacation destination.

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I Think You're Hot Stuff is part of a series of novelty Valentine’s day buttons called, “loving badges,” produced and distributed in the 1980s by Fun World.

Fun World is a novelty holiday item supplier, manufacturer, and retailer. Fun World began importing Christmas and Easter novelty items into the USA in 1959 as the S. Rosenberg Christmas Company. In 1963, the company was renamed Fun World, Easter Unlimited Inc. The company has expanded over the years and is now well known for their Halloween items. Most notably among these Halloween items is the Ghostface mask designed by Brigitte Sleiertin in 1991 and popularized by the Scream horror film franchise.

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The mustache has a long history, falling in and out of fashion throughout the decades. By the early 2000s, the mustache had lost popularity, but in 2003, two friends in Australia decided to bring it back, enlisting 30 men to join them in growing mustaches. Thus Movember was born. Movember occurs every November, where mustaches are grown around the world to bring awareness to men’s health issues. In recent years, over 5 million people have participated in the month long event, and the Movember Foundation has helped fund over 1,200 men’s health projects. 

The global reach of mustache day demonstrates the mustache’s continuing prevalence in society. Mustache day is celebrated in a variety of ways around the world, including national and international holidays for both natural and fake mustaches. In the United States, Oakland, California's Mustache day began on June 18, 1972, when Oakland A’s owner Charles Finley paid coaches and players a $300 bonus to grow out their mustaches and allowed all fans with mustaches into the park for free that day. Another notable publication of group mustache day is commercial corporation Jellyvision's 2007 mustache celebration in Chicago.

This button was manufactured by the Busy Beaver Button Co.

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Bennigan's was a food restaurant chain established in 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of the Pillsbury Corporation. By the early 1980s, Bennigan's had become one of the best known of the new style mid-range casual dining franchised eating and drinking establishments in the United States. Although popularity waned as the company split to become Bennigan's and Chili's, the Irish-themed dining establishment still had locations around the globe in 2018. Bennigan's and similar themed restaurant Houlihan's were the inspiration for the scene in Office Space where Jennifer Aniston is berated for not wearing enough buttons or "flair."

"C'mon get happy," is a common phrase most likely originating from the song Get Happy. Originally sung by Judy Garland in 1950, Get Happy refers to a musical movement of African American gospel music. The phrase and tradition were popular and later inspired the full use of the phrase, "C'mon get happy," as the theme song to the television show, The Partridge Family in the 1970s. C'mon get happy new year is a play on words of C'mon get happy and happy new year.

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The Clarklake Lions Club is a local chapter of the Lions Club International located in Clarklake, Michigan. The Lions Club is an international, non-political, service organization with more than a million members worldwide. The Clarklake local chapter has been serving the community since it’s formation in 1965. They organize local community events and fundraising efforts throughout the year including an Easter egg hunt, BBQ and Raft festival, and a Punt, Pass, & Kick competition.

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Alpenfest is an annual festival held in Gaylord, Michigan every July. Originally called The Alpine Festival, it was created as a way to commemorate a new particle plant that was scheduled to open in the town in 1965. Since the particle manufacturing was developed by a businessman in Switzerland, the town of Gaylord wanted to change the town’s image to more of an Alpine look, hence the name of the festival. Over 50 years later, the Alpenfest is still held every third week in July. This button was to commemorate the 25th year of the festival, and to this day, they still handout a different button every year.

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Approximately 47 miles outside of Woodstock, Illinois. Every year in late January or early February, the town hosts a Groundhog Day festival to commemorate not only the holiday but also the film of the same title starring Bill Murray that was filmed there. The annual event includes pub crawls, bingo, film trivia, a chili cookoff, storytime, film site tours, and movie screenings. Woodstock even has their own groundhog named Woodstock Willie who makes appearances during the festival. 

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In 1979, a concern was raised that due to the growing accessibility of CDs, cassettes, and cable TV, public access radio would fall out of favor. The Radio Advertising Bureau created the successful "Red Hot" campaign in response, in which radio was advertised as an accessible and local source of news and music. Local stations created their own merchandise to encourage a younger audience, including WBNO in Bryan, Ohio, which in the same year became the industry's first solar powered broadcast station.

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Learning to read is an impressive accomplishment! Literacy skills development, or the process of learning to read, happens over the course of several years and consists of multiple stages.

In the emergent literacy phase, young children learn what books are and learn that written words are connected with language. This typically happens in the pre-school years. In the early elementary grades, beginning readers learn to recognize words, decipher spelling, and comprehend what they are reading. By late elementary school, as readers become more fluent, reading becomes accurate and quick, and readers learn more vocabulary and concepts through their reading. By middle school, readers analyze style, appreciate multiple viewpoints, and critically analyze texts as they read.