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Indiana is a U.S. state in the Midwest, and the 17th-most populous out of the 50. It was the 19th state to be admitted into the Union in 1816. Its name means “Land of the Indians,” due to the many indigenous tribes that inhabited the area. Indiana remained largely agricultural until the discovery of natural gas in the 1880s, and this abundant cheap fuel source attracted heavy industry, and with it a population and economic boom. 

Indiana has a rich sports history and culture. It hosts the Indy 500 every year over Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a track over one hundred years old. This race brings in more than 250,000 people every year, making it the largest single-day sports event in the world. Indiana also has a dominant basketball heritage, being the birthplace of high school basketball, and having produced among the most NBA players per capita. 

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“Go big red” is the last line of the University of Nebraska Cornhusker’s fight song, “There is No Place Like Nebraska.” This song is sung after kick-off of football games and ends with four chants of the line. The song is also known as “No Place Like It” and was written in 1920 by ROTC officers at training who were homesick for Nebraska.

It is also the fight song of Lamar University, written by Dr. Ted Skinner in 1962 with accompanying music written by Dr. Charles A. Wiley, the dean of fine arts and the director of bands, respectively. The song ends with the line, “Let’s go big red!”

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Evel Knievel (1938-2007) was an American daredevil who was world famous in the 1970s for his motorcycle jumps and stunts. His longest jump was in 1975, over 14 buses at Kings Island in Ohio. He was also famous for his red, white and blue leather motorcycle gear and matching cape. During his career he survived 433 broken bones. His last jump was in 1981.

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The Dallas Cowboys football team was part of a National Football League franchise expansion in 1960. The logo of the team, since 1964, is a solid blue star with a white line and blue border. They have been a member of the National Football Conference-East division since 1970. Some of the fiercest rivalries exist between the Cowboys and the other East division teams: the Washington Redskins, the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants. Home field for the Dallas Cowboys is AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Inside the stadium hangs a 160 foot by 72 foot high-definition television screen, the largest television screen in the world.

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The purple colors and phrase indicate that this artifact is a booster item for the University of Washington Huskies football team when playing against the Oregon State University Beavers. These teams have been playing each other since 1897 and are both part of the Pac 12 Conference.  Rally buttons are often created for specific sporting event rivalries, often seen in high school and college sporting events.

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The American Broadcasting Company created its ABC Sports division in 1961 with Roone Arledge as the producer. Originally the division televised the NCAA college football games and then track and field events sponsored by the Amatuer Athletic Union. ABC Sports evolved to where it then broadcast 10 Olympic games, created Monday Night Football (which it hosted from 1970-2006), and sponsored the weekly Wide World of Sports program. Legendary sports broadcasters Jim McKay and Howard Cosell helped create a more inclusive and entertaining style of presenting televised sports to the fans. ABC Sports began to merge with ESPN in the mid 1980s. Although the ABC Sports division still exists, since 2006 almost all of the sports broadcasting contracts have been managed by ESPN.

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Promotional item for the popular 1982 science fiction film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. The film was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and tells the story of a young boy who befriends an alien stranded on earth and helps him return home. E.T. was the highest-grossing film of 1982, and remains among the highest-grossing films of all time.

E.T. and Me is an adaptation of the motion picture screenplay for the movie E.T. It is a retelling of the story from the point of view of Elliott, the boy who finds E.T.

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Pure Mania was the debut album by the Vibrators, released in 1977. The Vibrators are a punk rock band from Britain who formed in 1976.

In 1976, their debut single "We Vibrate" was released followed by their debut album Pure Mania in 1977. Throughout their career they have toured, performing 130 gigs, with other musical sensations like Iggy Pop with David Bowie and the Flaming Lips.

Biography. (2007). Retrieved August 06, 2017, from http://www.thevibrators.com/biography.html

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Tiny Tim was the stage name of performer Herbert Buckingham Khaury.  He was born April 12, 1932, and died on November 30, 1996.  Growing up he took an interest in music and began to learn instruments such as the violin, mandolin, and the ukulele, for which he is best known.  He is also known for singing in an exaggerated, warbling falsetto and for his signature tune "Tiptoe Through the Tulips."

While having some local success in New York nightclubs, he achieved mainstream popularity after performing on the television variety program Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In in 1968.  In December of 1969, Tiny Tim married his then-girlfriend Victoria Budinger (known as "Miss Vicki") on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson which was watched by 40 million people.

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Herbert Buckingham Khaury (1932-1996), better known as Tiny Tim, was an American singer, musical archivist and ukulele player. He is noted for his high falsetto voice. His best known songs are his covers of “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” and “Livin’ in the Sunlight, Lovin’ in the Moonlight”. He started out performing at shows, night clubs, and other amateur gigs throughout the 1950’s but it wasn’t until 1963 when he had his first paid gig that he adopted the stage name Tiny Tim. He appeared in a couple of films in the 1960’s until he was booked for Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, where he soon performed his famous rendition of “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”. His first album, God Bless Tiny Tim was released in 1968. A year later he released For All My Little Friends, a collection of children’s songs that received a Grammy nomination. After his televised marriage to Miss Vicki in 1969 he appeared on television less often but continued to make appearances in Las Vegas and released several albums throughout the 1990’s until his death.