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DIY Girls is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping girls become interested in math and science. They have grown alongside the makerspace movement with an emphasis on making that movement and space accessible to young girls. DIY Girls profess to value and promote creative freedom, opportunity, relationships, empowerment, and skill-building. This is exemplified in the myriad of workshops they present, including community strengthening, electronics, coding, woodworking, and 3D design and printing. They run much of their own programming in addition to school partnerships. DIY Girls specifically serve the Latina community in the Northeast San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.

This wooden button was laser cut by DIY Girls in 2014 as promotional material for a #DIYgirlssocial event hosted in late November.

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Women’s Equality Day marks the anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the United States. Not only does August 26 mark the passing of the 19th Amendment, it also calls women throughout the U.S. to continue to work towards full equality in American society. The organization that sponsors this event, the National Women's History Project, works to put women back into American history by holding conferences and workshops that recognize the contributions of women throughout history.

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“The Greatest Show on Earth” is the slogan for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus. The first known circus in the United States was held in Philadelphia in 1793, although traveling circuses did not become popular until the 1820s. Barnum and Bailey was formed in 1881 and the Ringling Bros. began in 1884. The slogan “The Greatest Show on Earth” was used by Barnum and Bailey while the Ringling Bros. used “World’s Greatest Shows” to promote their act. In 1907, Ringling Bros. bought Barnum and Bailey, although the two shows continued to tour separately until 1918. In 1967, Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey was purchased by Feld Entertainment.

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The first inauguration of Barack Obama, as the 44^th President of the United States, took place on January 20, 2009. The image of Barack Obama’s face is in the pop art style. It closely resembles the famous Andy Warhol print of Marilyn Monroe, where there are four images of her face, each one of various colors. The colors chosen for the button are also very similar to the colors used in Any Warhol’s print. 

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Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls (Horseshoe Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, and the American Falls) located along the international border of Canada and the United States, between the Province of Ontario and the State of New York. Since the mid-1840s, sight-seeing boat tours such as the Maid of the Mist have operated, making the Falls a popular tourist destination.

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The combination of a question mark and exclamation mark is called an interrobang. This exclamatory rhetorical question punctuation was coined in 1962 and is often represented by !? or ?! because the symbol is not present on standard keyboards.

1976 was the year of the American bicentennial celebration, celebrating 200 years from the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Celebrations were planned across the United States by local communities under the guidance of the state.

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Women’s suffrage is the legal right of women to vote in a given country. In the U.S., women won the right to vote nationally in 1920. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leading figure in the early women’s suffrage movement. She was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892- 1900. After the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments, Stanton advocated that the 15th Amendment granted all citizens, including women, the right to vote. However, it took another 50 years for U.S. women to fully obtain this right.

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Burt Reynolds was an award-winning actor. He was a leading movie star in the 1970s and 1980s  and earned an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe for his role in the film, Boogie Nights. He became established as an actor for his part in the film Deliverance, in 1972, and in the same year he became a major sex symbol when he was featured as the first nude male centerfold in Cosmopolitan magazine. The image is of the centerfold photograph.