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The Dames of Malta are part of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, which is a Roman Catholic religious order that was founded in 1099 in Jerusalem. Its main mission is to defend the Catholic faith and help the poor. The Dames of Malta are a group of women within the Order of Malta. In the United States, the Order of Malta was founded in 1927 with its headquarters in New York City.

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The blue ribbon has been used for different purposes throughout history. Nowadays, a blue ribbon is typically associated with high quality and excellence. This is an association that comes from the sixteenth century French knight’s order, known as Ordre du Saint Esprit, in which members were called Cordon-bleus after the blue ribbons that they wore. There is also some association from the prize of an unofficial accolade, known as The Blue Riband, which is awarded to the fastest passenger ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The symbol of the blue ribbon is also used by companies and sellers as a marketing ploy to attract buyers. 

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Holiday on Ice is a traveling, family friendly, ice skating show. Beginning in 1943, Emery Gilbert came up with the idea of making portable ice skating rinks, complete with refrigeration units that could be taken around the world and used for professional ice skating shows. He contacted two men for help, Morris Chalfen, who procured the financing, and George Tyson, who would coordinate the shows. Thus, Holiday on Ice was born. It featured professional skaters with lavish sets and costumes, skating to popular music with chorus line kick routines and the signature wagon wheel move, where skaters would join each other by linking arms and creating the spokes of a wagon wheel. Fireworks would always end the shows.

Holiday on Ice would take on the Ice Vogues skating show and would go international, traveling to many countries, while Holiday would stay in the U.S. From 1953-56, movie star Sonja Henie joined the Holiday on Ice family, she would tour internationally for those three years. In 1959, the show even toured Russia for the first time. And in 1963, tragedy would strike the show, when a gas leak at a show at the Indianapolis state fairground exploded killing 74 people.

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Wanna Enterprises, Inc. was a producer of patented dial-type buttons between 1982 and 1984. They were headquartered in Rochester, NH. The company produced a variety of novelty designs included astrology themed buttons, birthday buttons, personalized buttons with many name options, and explicit buttons intended for an adult audience

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This button was designed as a game to determine who bought the next round of Jagermeister and where it would be drunk. Jagermeister was created by Curt Mast in Wolfenbuttel, Germany, in 1935. The recipe was created with 56 herbs, blossoms, roots and fruits. The name Jagermeister (translated "hunt master") and the stag emblem was said to be in honor of Wolfenbuttel tradition, where it was frequently consumed as a post-hunt drink.  

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Lanpher, Skinner & Co. was a furrier and clothing company in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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The Pennsylvania State Telephone and Traffic Association was created in 1920 as a merge of Eastern and Western Pennsylvania Independent Telephone Associations and the Eastern Traffic Association of Independent Telephone Companies for the purpose of creating one stronger company. The company was not named the Pennsylvania State Telephone and Traffic Association until 1938, a year after the death of the company President. Now known as the Pennsylvania Telephone Association, the company “represents the interests of its rural local exchange telephone company members before regulatory and government bodies, and provides a forum for the exchange of information and ideas.”

This button was use at the annual convention in 1931. 

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During his lifespan, Ronald Reagan served in the military, was an actor, was Governor of California and President of the United States (1981-1989). At times, his movie roles mirrored his military affiliation. Reagan's military service was from 1937-1945. He first served in the Army Calvary then was transferred to the Army Air Force unit. Two of the movies that had Reagan portraying a sailor include Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940) and Hellcats of the Navy (1957). It was on the set of Hellcats of the Navy where he met Nancy Davis, his future wife.