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This button is part of a series that General Electric designed in the mid 1960s. The buttons were distributed to high school students throughout New York to encourage them to do well and complete their education. While different slogans were used, each button featured the word GENIUS, with GE highlighted to emphasize General Electric's involvement in the campaign. 

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James "Jimmy" Earl Carter ran against incumbent Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. in the 1976 US Presidential election. Carter's running mate was US Sentator from Minnesota, Walter Mondale. Ford stuck with his vice president, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.  Carter and Mondale received 50.1% to Ford and Rockefeller's 48% of the popular vote. The electoral votes were not so close with 297 going to Carter and Mondale, 240 for Ford and Rockefeller, and 1 vote from Washington State going to Ronald Reagan.

When Carter was elected, he became the first Democrat from the US South to be elected to the office since before the Civil War. During his single term, Carter established the Department of Education and the Department of Energy. His presidential legacy is often overshadowed by economic and international relations problems, culminating with the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan beginning in 1979 and the Iran Hostage Crisis from 1979-1981. Carter lost to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election by a margin of 440 electoral votes.

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The I heart NY logo was created in 1977 by Milton Glaser for an ad campaign created by advertising agency Wells Rich Greene. The marketing campaign was sought by then-Deputy Commissioner William S. Doyle to increase tourism in the state of New York. The campaign was a wild success. The original sketch of the logo is permanently on display at the MOMA.

The logo has become iconic in pop-culture and has been imitated in many forms around the world.

Jennifer is a feminine name of Cornish origins. The Welsh version of the name is Gwenhwyfar. In the United States, Jennifer was the most popular name for girls born between 1970 to 1984.

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Woodstock is a documentary about the three day music festival of the same name held in August 1969 in Bethel, New York. Featuring well-known artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Who, the Grateful Dead, and many more, Woodstock was promoted as “3 days of peace and music.” The logo of a bird perched on a guitar was designed by American artist Arnold Skolnick. The documentary was more financially successful than the music festival itself,  recouping the inexperienced promoters' significant losses due to issues with relocation and ticket sales for the event.

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The very first Earth Day celebration took place on April 22, 1970. A brainchild of United States senator Gaylord Nelson, the occasion was framed as a national teach-in. The event drew as many as twenty million participants, through demonstrations on college campuses and in communities across the U.S. This broad participation brought attention to environmental issues and led to several important pieces of legislation for environmental protection. Today the nonprofit organization Earth Day Network organizes annual international Earth Day celebrations.

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"Full speed ahead" was a slogan for the Girl Scouts' 1993 cookie-selling season. The slogan appeared on pins, buttons, t-shirts, and mugs, often accompanied by an image of a seal, a sailboat, or both. Other cookie-selling badges from that year bore the slogan, "Yes I Can!" and a figure of a girl standing with arms raised.

The 1993 cookie season also saw the introduction or re-introduction of two cookie varieties: Snaps -iced oatmeal raisin cookies- made their debut that year; while Juliettes, also known as Golden Nut Clusters, reappeared after a prior run in the 1980s. Both varieties are now discontinued.

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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.