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The Button was a bar located in Fort Lauderdale with a second location in Hallansdale, Florida.  The owner, Greg Newell, was also known as "The Father of Spring Break."  The bar was open from the 1960s to 1980s.  Newell promoted the bar by hosting events such as wet T-shirt contests and beer bashes.  Newell passed away in 2003.

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The Eisenhower Senior High School was one of two senior high schools in Hopkins, Minnesota, from 1970-1982. The Eisenhower Warriors played the Spartans in the 1970 Homecoming game during which the catch phrase “Spank the Spartans” was used to energize the Warriors. This illustration utilizes the gold and purple colors of the school while depicting a Warrior beating a Spartan on the football field.

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In the early 1980s, the Smurfs were featured as part of the the Ice Capades, a popular traveling ice show. The Smurfs began as a Belgian comic created by the artist Peyo and expanded over time into advertising, toys, television, and film. The cartoon debuted on American television in 1981 and quickly gained popularity around the country.

The Ice Capades originated in Pennsylvania in 1940. Characters were played by a number of professional figure skaters and former Olympians. As professional skating became more popular, athletes began to gravitate toward careers as professional skaters instead of performers. This led to the ice show’s eventual decline in popularity in the late 1980s, and the last show was performed in the mid 1990s.

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Planetary Success. (n.d.) History. Smurfs. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20111013103939/http://www.smurf.com/en/history/

What's on the Smurf tonight? (n.d.) History. Smurfs. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20111013103939/http://www.smurf.com/en/history/

Curtis, B. (2005 March). Ice Capades: Requiem for the ice carnival. Slate. Retrieved from http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_middlebrow/2005/03/the_ice_capades.html

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The first Muskoka Winter Carnival was held in 1971 and was designed to grow tourism during the winter months in Ontario, Canada. It was a week-long festival with beer-related events and winter recreational activities within the towns of Gravenhurst and Huntsville. The mascot is an otter named Skokie and his name was chosen based on an elementary school contest. The carnival ran every year until the 1990s and then was revived again in 2008. 

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Saint Nicholas was a monk who was born in the 3rd century in modern-day Turkey. He was said to have given away all his inherited wealth to the poor and sick as he traveled. Over the years he became the patron saint of children, and was celebrated on the anniversary of his death, December 6. The name Santa Claus evolved out of the Dutch nickname for Saint Nicholas, “Sinter Klass.” Short stories and poems in the 1800s began to popularize his magical image of how we picture him today.

The first known usage of the greeting “Merry Christmas” dates back to a letter written in the 1500s from a bishop to England’s Chief Minister. However, the phrase gained popularity in 1843 with the publication of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew wishes him  “A Merry Christmas, uncle!” Also, it was around this same time that Christmas cards began to be sold in London with the now popular greeting, “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You.”

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For centuries, stars have been used as symbols and have different meanings in different cultures. They appear in and are related to the ways of art, religion, science, spirituality, and other aspects of human existence and experience. In Christianity, the five-pointed star can serve as a reminder of the Five Holy Wounds Jesus received while on the cross. It can also be associated with the birth of Jesus Christ. Because this button features a star beside the text of “Merry Christmas,” this is likely a reference to the Christmas star, which represents the star of Bethlehem. According to the Book of Matthew, the star appeared in the eastern night sky when Jesus was born and guided the Magi to his location, where they presented him with gifts. It is now Christian tradition to commemorate that biblical telling during the Christmas season through an exhibition known as the nativity scene.

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Photograph of the Space Shuttle taking off at the Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of the ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field centers of the United States Federal Government. It is located on Merritt Island, Florida, just north-northwest of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Ocean. Formed in 1962, KSC managed the first Apollo and Gemini missions and is now NASA’s primary launch center of human spaceflight. It is also home to NASA's Launch Services Program which launches satellites and robotic missions on journeys to learn more about earth and the universe. The Kennedy Space Center also has a visitor complex which features exhibitions, historic spacecraft and memorabilia, and variety of bus tours of the KSC facilities.

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June is the sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, a system of timekeeping that originates from 1500s Italy and is used worldwide. June is one of four months of the calendar that are 30 days long, with the summer solstice, the longest day of the calendar year, falling on the 21st day of June.