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International Trucks is one of several brands owned by Navistar International Corporation. The company has its roots in a 1902 merger of the Deering Harvester Company and the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, resulting in the formation of the International Harvester Company. Over the next 75 years, the company evolved into manufacturing farming equipment, construction equipment, gas turbines, trucks, buses, and related components. During World War II, International Harvester made the M-series of military trucks serving the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy. 

In the failing agricultural economy of the 1980s, International Harvester fell on hard times and by 1986, had sold everything but the Truck and Engine divisions. At that time, the name was changed to Navistar International Corporation, and the International Trucks brand was created to produce a variety of medium-duty, over-the-road, and severe-service trucks.

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Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42^nd President of the United States on January 20, 1993.  Clinton and Vice President Al Gore were the Democratic nominees in 1992 and won the election, beating out President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle.  During Clinton’s inaugural address, he said, “Let us work until our work is done”.  Rosie the Riveter, depicted on this button, was an icon representing women workers of World War II and became a symbol for women’s rights.  During his 1992 campaign, Clinton became outspoken on the topic of women’s rights, as shown on the issues listed beside Rosie.

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Buster Brown was a comic strip that was created by Richard Felton Outcault in the early 1900s. The young boy, Buster, had page-boy style hair with a wide brim hat and he wore an oversized bow around his neck. His companion was a pit bull terrier by the name of Tige. In the comic strip, Buster Brown was portrayed as a practical joker and the comic strip usually ended with a moral unrelated to the antics within that specific tale.

The Buster Brown characters are more widely recognized for their use in advertising. Outcault proactively sold roughly 200 licenses to companies to allow them to use his characters to promote their products. The most well-known affiliation came in 1904 when John Bush purchased the advertising rights for use in the company he worked for, the Brown Shoe Company. From then on the company imprinted the image on its shoe boxes. It also hired little people to dress up as Buster Brown and perform in department stores, accompanied by dogs representing Tige. In 1946 Bob Stolz replaced Frank Cornwell as the new Advertising Director of the company.

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John Travolta is a Hollywood actor who is known for starring in popular '90s blockbusters such as Pulp Fiction (1994) and Face/Off (1997). His acting career began in the '70s when he was casted in a television sitcom, Welcome Back, Kotter. During his time there, Travolta landed leading roles in two of the most memorable films of the '70s, which were Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978). Since, he has starred in the popular FX television drama, People v. O.J. Simpson, as one of Simpson's legal aid, Robert Shapiro.  

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After the attack on Pearl harbor during WWII, thousands looked to volunteer in civil defense units. The Council of National Defense had been established by the U.S. government during WWI and was followed by the Office of Civil Defense in 1941. States were not in support of the federal government having control over civil defense and they all created their own civil defense organizations. A Junior Service Corps was established for children under the age of 15. They primarily supported the efforts of recycling during WWII. They would pass out fliers and string, educate households on how to properly secure waste paper, and how much each household should salvage each month based on quotas set by the War Production Board (WPB).

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In the early 1990’s, Michael Jordan’s popularity led to the fast food chain, McDonald’s, creating a hamburger named after the basketball celebrity. The burger claimed to include all of Jordan’s favorite toppings: mustard, cheese, pickles, onions, bacon, and BBQ sauce (called McJordan BBQ sauce). The burger’s run was short, and only sold in the Midwest before it was pulled in 1992. Later it would show up in the news again when a one-gallon jug of McJordan BBQ sauce was sold on eBay for nearly $10,000 in 2012 - twenty years after it had expired.

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George Halas, nicknamed “Papa Bear”, was the founder of the Chicago Bears and coached the team from 1958 to 1967. He officially retired in 1967, but still kept watch over the team and saved his office space at the headquarters. He passed away in 1983 and the following fall when the Bears won the Superbowl in 1985, the team dedicated their win to Halas. When Halas joined the ranks of the ten teams, the league was in its infancy. He was instrumental to its growth and was considered a good coach and person.

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Frank Annunzio, an Italian-American member of the Democratic Party, was first elected to the United States House of Representatives from a Chicago district in 1964. Prior to his political career, Annunzio was a high school teacher and a labor leader of the United Steelworkers of America. He was state Secretary of Labor from 1949 to 1952, under Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson. Annunzio was reelected thirteen times, serving as a member of Congress from 1965 to 1993, before deciding not to run for reelection. In 1989, Congressman Annunzio attracted nation-wide attention for encouraging credit card holders to cut up or burn their cards to help force down interest rates. He died in 2001 of complications from Parkinson's Disease. 

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Led by coach Mike Ditka, the 1985 Chicago Bears championship football team was widely regarded as one of the most dominant in NFL history. The Bears went 15-1 in the regular season, did not allow the New York Giants to score any points in the divisional round of playoffs, and held the Los Angeles Rams scoreless to win the NFC Championship. The team then went on to defeat the New England Patriots 46-10 to win the Super Bowl. The roster included quarterback Jim McMahon, defensive tackle William "Refrigerator" Perry and running back Walter Payton. 

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The Chicago Bulls basketball team won the NBA Championship in 1991, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in five games during a best-of-seven series. Notably, it was star shooting guard Michael Jordan's first championship; the Bulls would go on to secure a "three-peat" by winning the next two consecutive championship titles. Jordan also won the scoring title and the honor of Most Valuable Player in 1991. The team was coached by Phil Jackson, and small forward Scottie Pippen, power forward Horace Grant, point guard John Paxson and center Bill Cartwright filled out the rest of the starting roster.