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Started in 1984, Pizza Hut’s Book It! program has rewarded students in grades Kindergarten through sixth grade upon meeting their reading goals. Inspired by a Pizza Hut president whose child struggled with reading, readers receive a free Personal Pan Pizza, prizes and stickers to keep track of their achievements and encourage them to read. Stickers are collected on the buttons after meeting each goal, providing incentive for students to earn additional stickers and prizes. The Book It! 10th birthday was celebrated in 1994 with this button where students could "light" the candles on a birthday cake with flame stickers to represent their reading achievements.

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The SpectroMagic parade premiered at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1991. Although it was initially introduced as part of the park's 20th anniversary celebration, it continued to operate on select evenings for several years. Hosted by Jiminy Cricket, SpectroMagic featured many popular Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Mary Poppins, and Captain Hook and included 500,000 individual lights. The parade was placed on hiatus in 1999, but returned to the park in April 2001 and ran until June 2010. In 2013, Disney representatives confirmed that SpectroMagic had officially been retired and would be replaced by the Main Street Electrical Parade.

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93 XRT, officially known as WXRT, is an adult alternative radio station based out of Chicago, Illinois. It has continually broadcasted at 93.1 MHz since it went on the air in 1947 as WFJL-FM, a noncommercial station hosted by Lewis College of Science and Technology. In 1972, it began sharing its frequency with foreign language programming during the day, with freeform rock playing at night. Today, it is known for its Triple A, Adult Album Alternative, format, with a playlist including blues, reggae, pop, and rock and roll. WXRT often reports on baseball, as Chicago is home to both the Cubs and White Sox teams. 

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White doves are a traditional symbol of peace and love. They also represent purity, hope, redemption, honesty, and pacifism. Doves often appear in the religious texts of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The image of the dove combined with the phrase “Peace on Earth” promotes concepts of world peace and anti-violence.

Doves are used in celebrations and ceremonies. It is a common wedding practice to release white doves upon completion of the vows. Doves can also be part of mourning and funeral services; their release provides an uplifting spiritual symbol. Releasing doves became part of the Olympic closing ceremonies in 1896. In 1920, the ritual became part of the opening ceremony. Due to safety concerns for the doves, the Olympic tradition has become purely symbolic since 1988.

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The slogan "You never forget your first St. Pauli Girl" was part of an ad campaign for St. Pauli Girl beer. Originating around 1983, the slogan and its variant, "You never forget your first Girl", helped boost U.S. sales for the German-made beer. In the latter half of the twentieth century, however, sales of imported beers dropped in the U.S. St. Pauli Girl responded to reduced profits by switching to a more neutral slogan: "Germany sends you her very best."

Subsequent St. Pauli Girl ad campaigns have returned to the beer/girl wordplay, with slogans such as "Meet the right Girl", "Enjoy a nice cold Girl", and "Put her on a pedestal. Or a coaster."

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Flinn Scientific, Inc. is a science equipment supply company started in 1977 and based in Batavia, Illinois. The family-owned company is the inspiration of Lawrence Flinn, Jr., a former laboratory supply company employee who wanted to put customers and safety first. In addition to supplying equipment that is safe to use in the classroom, Flinn Scientific also provides safety training and certification for science instructors.

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Belleville, a city in Illinois with a name meaning “beautiful city” from the French phrase belle ville, was on the frontline of the turn-of-the-century suffrage movement. Women’s suffrage movements began as early as the 1860s but did not see progress until 1891, when the state of Illinois granted women the right to vote for school officers.

This 1913 button, stating “Vote Belleville Illinois,” is most likely from the Illinois women’s suffrage movement and functioned as a call for women to go out and vote for their rights. Mobilizing and voting worked; that same year, women were given the right to vote for President and local officers via the ratification of the Illinois constitution. This was a major feat; when Governer Edward Dunne signed the suffrage bill into law, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi River to grant women the right to vote for President and local officers.

Women, however, were still unable to vote for state and federal legislators. Full women’s suffrage in Illinois was realized with the ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution in 1920.

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Canyon Candy is an album by the indie electronic duo Javelin. Soon after the release of Canyon Candy, the artists began a project to create a companion film to the album. Donors to the film's Kickstarter campaign were rewarded with a limited edition Canyon Candy Playbutton.

Now nearly obsolete, the Playbutton was a wearable mp3 player stored inside a button. The mp3 player was just large enough to play a single album, whose cover art was displayed on the front of the button. The innovative design included a headphone jack and built-in playback controls for ease of listening. The Playbutton came with a commemorative box and headphone jack adaptor. 

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Dick Gregory, born Richard Claxton Gregory on October 12, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri was a comedian, political activist and entrepreneur. He ran for United States president as a Write in candidate in various states representing the Peace and Freedom Party in the 1968 Presidential Election. Prior to this, he was a candidate in Chicago’s 1966 mayoral race in which he lost to Richard J. Daley. His decision to enter into politics was because he felt that the two-party system of Republicans and Democrats was obsolete and corrupt and was unsuccessful with helping solve the issues of Americans. Dick Gregory’s platform called for civil rights, racial and social justice and peace in Vietnam. After his unsuccessful presidential run, he wrote a book entitled Write Me In about his presidential campaign. At age 84, Dick Gregory died on August 19, 2017 of heart failure at a hospital in Washington, D.C.

The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) was founded on June 23, 1967, and is described as being focused on socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism, and racial equality. It's main goal is for communities to maintain stability and everyone to live in peace and harmony.

Here is a video of Dick Gregory's presidential candidacy interview, 1968:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofbZVTIYMU

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North Dakota is the leading producer of flax for oil and food use in the United States.  U.S. human consumption of flax seed is increasing rapidly for its high dietary fiber, omega-3 oils and anti-carcinogenic lignans.  Flax also has other uses such as industrial and livestock use.