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The Chicken Creek Cafe and Saloon is located in Chicken, Alaska. It is part of the Chicken Gold Camp and Outpost. This small town was part of the gold rush. Tourists can see the gold dredge and mining museum or participate in panning for gold among other activities. 

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The Cheese City Tug-of-War Tournament was the first of an annual tug-of-war competition held at the Green County Fairgrounds in Monroe, Wisconsin. This was a separate, stand alone event not part of the Green County Fair or Cheese Days, both of which have held tug-of-war competitions. The first Cheese City tug was held on August 10, 1980. The tug continued annually into the early 1980s before an abrupt end. 

The city of Monroe, Wisconsin, is known as the “Swiss Cheese Capital of the USA” due to the city’s strong Swiss heritage and award winning cheesemaking. The city embraces its cheese notoriety with a Cheese Days Festival and a 47 mile recreational path named Cheese Country Trail.

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In 1972, NASA’s Glenn Research Center launched the space probe called Pioneer 10 from Cape Kennedy, now known as the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The purpose of the mission was to obtain close-up images of Jupiter. In June of 1983, Pioneer 10 became the first man-made object to pass the outer limits of the solar system, traveling past all known planets into interstellar space. The mission officially came to a close in 1997, although the probe was still able to transmit data after this time. It’s final signal was transmitted on June 23, 2003, from nearly 7.6 million miles away.

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The Vegan Skate Blog was created in 2011 by Bay Area skateboarder Kerry Weber. A long-time vegan, Weber first started his blog to help other skaters find durable, high-quality skate shoes that were not made from animal-based products. Featuring profiles of vegan skaters (called “Vegetable Shredders”), product reviews, recipes, art, and information about community projects and events, Weber’s blog is focused on the intersection of skateboarding and veganism.  ​

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Snoopy's dancing has been a part of his character since 1952 - two years after the comic Peanuts first appeared in papers. Lucy famously complained in June of 1969, "I feel like I'm feeding Fred Astaire!" Peanuts ran in daily newspapers from 1950 until 2000, after which it continued in reruns. In total, creator Charles Schulz published 17,897 strips which have been adapted into a number of television specials, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. This strip was first published in Peanuts on March 16, 1963 and was printed on merchandise in 1968.

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Snoopy's dancing has been a part of his character since 1952 - two years after the comic first appeared in papers. Lucy famously complained in June of 1969, "I feel like I'm feeding Fred Astaire!" Peanuts ran in daily newspapers from 1950 until 2000, after which it continued in reruns. In total, creator Charles Schulz published 17,897 strips which have been adapted into several television specials, including A Charlie Brown Christmas, and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. This strip was first published in Peanuts on March 16, 1963 and was printed on merchandise in 1968.

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The Muppet Christmas Carol is a 1992 fantasy musical comedy-drama film distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and produced by Jim Henson Productions. Based on Charles Dickens’ novella “A Christmas Carol”, The Muppet Christmas Carol features both human actors and Muppets in the film’s starring roles, including Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge, Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as Emily Cratchit, Fozzie Bear as Fozziwig, and Gonzo providing the story’s narration as Charles Dickens. Dickens’ story has continuously been in print since its first publication in 1834 and more than forty adaptations of “A Christmas Carol” have been developed for television and theatrical film over the years. The Muppet Christmas Carol is actually considered to be one of the more faithful adaptations of "A Christmas Story" as many of the lines used in the film are taken directly from Dickens' novella.

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Broadway and 42nd Street refers to the Theater District near the intersection of Broadway and Times Square in New York City. The musicals and plays produced by the professional theaters on Broadway make it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.

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Mr. Happy is a character featured in the children’s book series Mr. Men, created by English author Roger Hargreaves in 1971. Each book in the Mr. Men series focuses on a different character, using the character’s dominant personality trait to tell a simple moral lesson. Mr. Happy was introduced in the third book of the series and is described as being merry, joyful, and smiling. Mr. Happy is the happiest person in all of Happyland and he wants everyone else to feel as happy as he does. 

Roger Hargreaves died in 1988 and his son Adam took over his father's book series, writing new stories and creating new characters. Currently, there are over fifty Mr. Men characters. The book series is popular with children around the world.

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The Peanuts comics by Charles M. Schulz first debuted in 1947 as "Li'l Folks" and was renamed Peanuts in 1950. The various panels followed Charlie Brown; his dog, Snoopy; friends Schroeder, Lucy, Linus, and others; and other characters, chronicling their everyday lives and adventures. Schroeder was an avid lover of Beethoven and was often found in each panel playing his piano or listening to various compositions by Beethoven. This button references this as Schroeder is pictured announcing Beethoven’s upcoming birthday (December 16) accompanied by Snoopy.

Schroeder is noted as first celebrating Beethoven’s birthday in a 1953 panel and almost every year in December following that first strip. After that first celebration, a running gag has Schroeder holding up signs to remind everyone that Beethoven’s birthday is coming up. This love of Beethoven and reference to musical themes throughout the comic’s history is reported as mimicking Schulz’s own love of the composer, with Schroeder as his alter ego.