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Annie premiered as a musical on Broadway in 1977, and the production won 7 Tony Awards during its initial run. The musical is about an orphan (Annie) that gets adopted by a wealthy man. The musical was originally based on a comic strip that was published in the New York Daily News during the 1920s called Little Orphan Annie. There has been two Broadway revivals of the play, the most recent one in 2012.

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American Greetings is a greeting card company founded in the early 20th century. In 1956, they introduced an innovative humor collection called "Hi Brows". This collection features greeting cards and other items with humorous sayings and images. The collection featured work from several artists over the years and most notably featured artwork by underground comix artist, Robert Crumb early in his career.

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This campaign pin promoting William McKinley for President is a reference to his support for gold and protective tariffs during his race against William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and features an image of the Type 3 gold dollar. For that reason, the color gold appeared through much of McKinley’s campaign materials. Other known buttons from this campaign encouraged Conservative Democrats to cross party lines and said things like “I am a Democrat but will vote for Gold Standard.”

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"Read to Your Bunny" is a book written and illustrated by Rosemary Wells. This book encourages parents to read to their children for twenty minutes every day, which she considers the most important part of the day. Wells uses animals frequently in her writings in order to handle controversial and complicated topics in a way that children can understand. She is also well-known for her book series Max & Ruby, which is about two sibling bunnies and their everyday lives.

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A Walt Disney creation, Mickey Mouse, is an adorable, fun-loving animated mouse developed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks during the late 1920s. Originally played by Walt Disney, he made his first public debut in a short entitled "Steamboat" (1928). However, it was not until he starred in his own comic strip did Mickey Mouse become a star and grew in popularity. Although his friends and foes, which are referred to as Mickey & Co., accompanied him in the strip, Mickey still stole the show with his mischievous antics and infectious sense of humor.

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Julius Caesar was a Roman General who rose to prominence first as a member of the First Triumvirate and later through his successful military campaigns in Gaul, now modern-day France. On his return to Rome, he further concentrated his power to become the most influential citizen in the Republic. He undertook many social reforms, including the Julian calendar, land ownership for veterans, and citizenship for colonial subjects. Due to the success of these reforms he was named "dictator for life" by the Senate, only to be assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15) 44 B.C. by a group of Roman Senators dissatisfied with his leadership. His adopted son and heir, Octavian, later became the first Roman Emperor Augustus. Several royal titles have roots in Caesar's name, such as the German Kaiser or the Russian Tsar.

Many gum manufactures in the late 1800s used pepsin powder in their chewing gum and marketed it as a way to aid indigestion. Pepsin was thought to settle stomach issues and help people with digestive concerns.

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The peace sign was originally created in 1958 by Gerald Holtom for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Inspired partly by semaphore flag signals for "N" and "D" (Nuclear Disarmament), Holtom sketched the symbol several times in preparation for the upcoming protests. Afterward the symbol was adopted by the American Student Peace Union in the 1960s, it grew to become the iconic symbol that we know today. Holtom passed away in 1985, and his collection of sketches was donated to the Commonweal Collection at the University of Bradford.