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"The Show Must Go On" is a phrase that is believed to have originated in the 19th century in circuses when a performer was injured or an animal got loose. The phrase was later applied to show business in general, and today, it is commonly used in a variety of situations, meaning whatever happens, things have to move forward. 

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The Little King was a long-running comic strip created by Otto Soglow. It first appeared in The New Yorker in 1931. In 1934, the comic strip began running weekly in the Sunday editions of newspapers, and its run ended in 1975 with the death of Soglow. The comic strip used few words and entertained readers with humorous situations surrounding the main character, The Little King. In addition to the comic strip, The Little King was published in comic book form, and it also ran as an animated cartoon series in the 1930s.

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Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet dog in the Peanuts comics by Charles M. Schulz. Though Snoopy's character was introduced in 1950, it was not until 1956 that the dog was illustrated as walking on his hind legs. Throughout the comics Snoopy pretends to be different world famous characters only to be taken down by his imaginary enemy, the Red Baron. Snoopy imagines he can speak, but only his friend and sidekick Woodstock can understand him.  

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Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet dog in the Peanuts comics by Charles M. Schulz. Though Snoopy's character was introduced in 1950, it was not until 1956 that the dog was illustrated as walking on his hind legs. Throughout the comics Snoopy pretends to be different world famous characters only to be taken down by his imaginary enemy, the Red Baron. Snoopy imagines he can speak, but only his friend and sidekick Woodstock can understand him.  

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Pokemon: The First Movie is a Japanese anime film, which premiered in Japan in 1998. The movie was released in North American theaters in 1999, and then released on home video in 2000.

Since 1995, the Pokemon media franchise company has been entertaining children. The franchise centers on fictional characters called Pokemon. There are currently over 700 characters who are captured and trained to battle one another, and as they are trained, the characters evolve and grow stronger. In addition to movies, the products of the company include video games, a trading card game, toys, and an animated television series. 

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Formosa oolong tea is from Taiwan. Oolong teas are made from the same plant as black and green teas, but the difference lies in how the leaves and stems are processed. Green tea is unfermented, black is fully fermented, and oolong lies in between the two, being partially fermented. Taiwanese oolongs tend to be fruitier and darker than other oolong teas, which is due to environmental differences. Tea plants in Taiwan are grown on mountains at high elevations, which is believed to account for the tea's unique flavor.

"PAINT YOUR WAGON" is written in bold white text with striped background on a white button. A re-colorized image of a girl in a western outfit smoking a cigarette is below the text.

This is one of a series of six buttons designed by Peter Max to promote the 1969 movie Paint Your Wagon. The film is a western musical starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg. It was adapted from a Broadway show with the same title and cost $20 million to make, which was a large budget for film production at the time. The movie received negative reviews, and the costs were never recouped.

Peter Max is a graphic artist know for his use of psychedelic shapes and bold color palettes.

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Schroeder is one of the beloved characters in the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Schultz who is an avid lover of Beethoven and was often found in each panel playing his piano or listening to various compositions by Beethoven. He is the only one of the Peanuts clan that celebrates Beethoven’s birthday, which is on December 16th.

Schroeder is noted as first celebrating Beethoven’s birthday in a 1953 panel and almost every year in December following that first strip. After that first celebration, a running gag has Schroeder holding up signs to remind everyone that Beethoven’s birthday is coming up. This love of Beethoven and reference to musical themes throughout the comic’s history is reported as mimicking Schulz’s own love of the composer, with Schroeder as his alter ego.

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Liberty is a western film serial released by Universal Pictures in 1916. In the film, an American heiress, Liberty Horton, is kidnapped by a Mexican rebel and ransomed. Serial films were popular in the early twentieth century and consisted of a long film edited into chapters. The chapters were then released to theaters in consecutive order, and each episode ended with a cliffhanger to keep audiences coming back to see the next chapter. Westerns were a popular film serial genre, along with crime fiction, comic strip characters, and science fiction.

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