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This is a French translation of the campaign slogan "I Like Ike" (literally, "I Love Ike"), promoting Dwight D. Eisenhower during his first campaign for president on the Republican ticket in 1952. Richard Nixon was his running mate as vice-president. Eisenhower soundly defeated Adlai Stevenson, a Democrat from Illinois, in the 1952 election to become the 34th President of the USA. He was reelected in 1956 and began his second term the following year.

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In 1979, at the height of disco music's popularity, Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl (then at WLUP 97.9 FM) led a tongue-in-cheek but nevertheless intense campaign against the genre. He was also highly critical of the lifestyle that disco had popularized in American culture. Under the banner of "Disco Sucks," the campaign/gimmick was often discussed by Dahl and his guests on air and eventually led up to a promotional tie-in with the Chicago White Sox. The proposed event was dubbed "Disco Demolition Night." Dahl told his listeners to bring all of their disco records to the second game of a double-header against the Detroit Tigers on July 12, 1979 for the express purpose of destroying them. Before the second game began, Dahl led the explosion of the records on the field of Comiskey Park (now U.S. Cellular Field). Tens of thousands of teenagers and young adults swelled the crowd to overcapacity, leading to multiple arrests and general disorder. What's more, as a result of the chaos the White Sox were forced to forfeit the game to the Tigers.

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From June 24 to July 28, 1966 the Rolling Stones toured the United States and Canada for their fifth time. The tour consisted of a total of 32 shows in 30 cities and promoted the band's album Aftermath, of the same year. Concert stops included most major US and Canadian cities and the last show of the tour, in Honolulu, was broadcast on the Hawaiian radio station KPOI.

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The Chicago Blizzard of 1979 was exceptionally severe and took place on January 13 and 14, 1979. By its end, 18.8 inches (47.8 cm) of snow had fallen on the metro Chicago area. The snowfall on January 13 alone set a new record for amount of snow in one day in Chicago - 16.5 inches (41.9 cm). The mayor at that time, Michael Bilandic, was blamed for the city's inadequate response to the storm and was soon later ousted at the polls by Jane Byrne, Chicago's first and only female mayor.

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Def Leppard is an English rock band formed in 1977. They are associated with the "glam" metal style that they popularized along with other bands such as Mötley Crüe, Poison, Quiet Riot, and Bon Jovi during the 1980s. In 1980 the band released their debut LP On Through the Night. The first track of the album was "Rock Brigade" and as a single it was released with "When the Walls Come Crumbling Down" as the B-side. The artwork of this button appeared on the single's cover.

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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, commonly known as Borat, is 2006 British-American mockumentary comedy film. The 20th Century Fox production was written by Sacha Baron Cohen and directed by Larry Charles. 

In the movie, Borat Sagdiyev (played by Sacha Baron Cohen), a fictitious Kazakh journalist was traveling through the United States to report on Americans. As the film progresses, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying the actress he saw on the television show Baywatch, who was played by Pamela Anderson.

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Halt Hitler is in reference to the anti-Nazi movement against Adolf Hitler before World War II.

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This button is most likely supporting a feminist or LGBT cause. 

Purple was one of a trifecta of colors used by the Women’s Suffrage and Political Union in England at the turn of 20th century. The colors were brought to the United States suffrage movement by women who had worked for British suffrage. The three colors—purple, white, and gold—originally symbolized loyalty, purity, and hope, and have remained symbolic to the modern-day feminist movement. The equals sign with regard to feminism is a statement indicating that women should be equal to men.

Since the mid-1990s, the equals sign has become primarily associated with the LGBT rights movement. This is in large part due to the Human Rights Campaign—an LGBT advocacy group—who adopted the symbol as its logo in 1995. Lavender, similar to the color of the equals sign on this button, has also been historically associated with lesbian rights. 

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William “Doc” Key was a former slave educated by his master and his master’s sons. Key was a self-trained veterinarian and was always known to have extraordinary skills of animal communication and healing. After adopting a weak foal that was not expected to live, Key treated the horse with his own medicines. He named the horse Jim Key, giving it his own last name. Through kindness and patience, Key taught Jim how to read, write, spell, do math, tell time, sort mail, use a cash register and telephone, and engage in political debate. From 1897 to 1906, Key and Jim performed all over the nation, always with the message of the “power of kindness”. Over ten million Americans saw the duo perform, making Key one of the most famous African Americans of his time and bringing together many races of people. A quote attributed to Time Magazine declared, “This wonderful horse has upset all theories that animals have only instinct, and do not think and reason.” Though there was, and still is, debate as to how Jim performed his tasks, the important message of treating animals humanely has lived on.

The image here depicts "Beautiful" Jim Key spelling his own name, and the numbers in the background were most likely used to count and do math.