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The Fund for Animals was an American organization dedicated to protecting animals from cruelty and neglect. The group was founded in 1967 by Cleveland Amory, a noted author and animal rights activist. The Fund for Animals led numerous large-scale animal rescue operations, including a four-year airlifting project to move wild burros out of The Grand Canyon National Park and the establishment of Black Beauty Ranch, a 1,400 acre animal sanctuary in Texas. The organization was a frequent partner of The Humane Society of the United States, and in 2021 the two organizations fully merged.

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The Lincoln Park Zoo is a zoo located within Chicago's Lincoln Park, a 1,208 acre park that sits alongside Lake Michigan. Founded in 1878, it is one of the only free admission zoos in the United States. 

The Super Zoo Picnic is an an annual celebration put on by the Lincoln Park Zoo. Those with paid zoo memberships can purchase tickets to this after-hours event which offers exclusive access to park amenities, food, and live entertainment. 

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House of Blues is a chain of music venues that first opened in 1992. The brand was developed by Isaac Tigrett, founder of the Hard  Rock Café, along with a number of collaborators, most notably Dan Aykroyd, co-star of the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, from which the House of Blues took much of its stylings and aesthetic. Aykroyd continues to promote the brand, usually by making appearances at the opening of new locations. A Chicago location opened in 1996.

The House of Blues bran places a heavy emphasis on the unifying power of music, as well as highlighting diversity. The African American roots of Blues music is particularly noted.

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“What the hell is Pixel 80?” was a headline used by the Pixel Division of Instrumentation Laboratory Inc. to advertise their newest computer model, the Pixel 80. The Pixel 80 was an improvement over their previous model, the Pixel 100. The Pixel 80 featured the latest version of UNIX™  System III with Berkeley enhancements, upgraded to 16 terminals, 6Mb RAM, and housed 420Mb of 5.25 inch Winchester storage in the same box with the same power supply. Advertisements for the Pixel 80 were featured in Computerworld Magazine in July 1983. 

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Pizza Hut is a global chain serving pizza and Italian-American dishes. It was established in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, by brothers Dan and Frank Carney. The logo and brick-and-mortar locations are recognizable by their red-roof design. It offers a range of pizzas, as well as pastas, wings, salads, and desserts. There are thousands of restaurants worldwide, making pizza a significant part of American restaurant culture. Although Pizza Hut’s food is popular, its advertising campaigns have been criticized for being controversial and insensitive. 

Hunger strike sit-ins were a powerful protest tactic in the 1960s and 1970s, often used by civil rights, anti-war, labor, feminist, and Indigenous movements. However, Pizza Hut’s “Protest Hunger” campaigns refer to several separate events. One of the most recent was the 2017 Pizza Hut ad incident, where the Israeli branch of Pizza Hut mocked a Palestinian hunger strike and faced widespread boycotts. It also encompasses general examples of using pizza to provide food for protesters, such as with Ian's Pizza during a 2011 protest in Madison, Wisconsin, as well as in fundraising and community support efforts for hunger relief. 

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Association Films, Inc. was a New York–based distributor of educational films active from the 1940s through 1981. The company specialized in supplying schools, libraries, and community groups with instructional films on topics such as home economics, health, and civic education. At the time, home economics was promoted nationally as both a career path and a means of strengthening families and communities through nutrition, budgeting, and consumer education. The bold design suggests a late 1960s or early 1970s production, aligning with Association Films’ peak years of educational outreach.

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The biographer John A. Farrell wrote of Ted Kennedy’s (1932-2009) presidential campaign in a 2022 Time’s article, noting that Kennedy’s quest for redemption has similarities to Joseph Conrad’s titular character in Lord Jim (1900): “’I shall be faithful,’ he said…letting his eyes wander upon the waters, whose blueness had changed to a gloomy purple under the fires of sunset.”

Sun and sunset remain a theme to Kennedy’s presidential run. In 1980, Kennedy challenged then-incumbent President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination. The self-proclaimed “cause of his life” was universally accessible health care, and he balanced his wealth and fame with philanthropy well. Still, Kennedy had pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident; in 1969, he drove his car off a bridge, resulting in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, his female passenger. The incident and its aftermath hindered his chances of becoming president and, in 1980, Kennedy lost the presidential campaign to Carter.

Thus is the sad irony of this button. Kennedy was nicknamed “the Lion of the Senate,” which brings to mind the sun, as the constellation Leo—“the lion”—is associated with the sun. Kennedy used sunrise symbolism in his campaign materials, and yet, the presidential campaign, in many ways, hastened the “sunset” of his higher political aspirations.