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The "Uncle Whoa-Bill" radio club was an afternoon children's program that aired on KFAC radio station in Los Angeles California in the 1940s. It was sponsored by the Bullock's department stores. 

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Ms. Boynton is an award winning American author, illustrator, and humorist. She began her career designing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings in the 1970’s; by the mid 1980s Boynton sold over 80 million cards a year. She has authored and illustrated over fifty books for children and adults. She also designs various products with her characters for companies, rather than licensing the characters to be adapted. Recently, Ms. Boynton has added songwriting and music producing to her repertoire.

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The Blue Whale, at approximately 100 feet in length and 200 tons, is the largest known animal ever to have lived on Earth. A blue whale’s tongue alone is larger than an elephant; its heart is larger than an average-sized car. Despite their large size, blue whales are not aggressive predators. Rather, they subsist on a diet of almost solely krill—tiny shrimp-like animals. Blue whales usually swim alone or in pairs, and can be found in all the oceans around the world. In addition to owning the title of largest animal, blue whales are also considered the loudest animals on earth. Like other whales and dolphins, blue whales use groans and pulses to both navigate and communicate.

Blue whales have few natural predators, however they were driven to near extinction by the mid-20th century due to aggressive hunting. They became a protected species in 1966, and though populations have grown to some extent since then, as of 2015, the blue whale is still officially classified as an endangered species. It is thought that there are between 10,000 to 25,000 of these gentle giants currently living in the wild.

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Blatz Beer was produced by the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1851-1959. It was then sold to Pabst Brewing Company. It was the first Milwaukee beer to be sold nationally.

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The Gourmet Center Ivy Room Cosmopolitan Room and Delicatessen is the name of a restaurant that was located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.The University of North Carolina's main campus is located in Chapel Hill. The Delicatessen was known for its large assortment of fine wines.

An illustration of an old sour looking man with a long beard on the upper left. He is wearing a hunting cap and a blue shirt, and he holds a red apple and a light green ladder. Next to the man is an illustration of a coiled grey snake showing its fangs and red tongue. Below the snake is an illustration of a blue and red bird standing over its nest with two light blue eggs and smoking a cigarette. Below the old man is an orange and brown monkey looking straight ahead with wide eyes. The monkey is also holding a red apple. Behind the animals and the old man is a green rounded sunburst that resembles a bush, and the background is white.

Arthur Jones is an American artist whose main mediums include drawing and animation. Arthur was born in Plainview, Texas and attended the Rhode Island School of Design. Arthur has created visuals for the stage performances of This American Life and has been working on a project for the last five years in which writers present stories, on stage, written to Arthur’s post-it note illustrations. The performances are the Post-it Note Reading Series and it has recently been published in a book called the Post-it Note Diaries. Some of Arthur’s work can be viewed here on his website. Included on this website is “A Teeny-Tiny Itsy-Bitsy Comic” that was made for Busy Beaver Buttons. This comic was included with every order that was placed through the company and it provides instructions on how to take care of your buttons through illustrations of a friendly relationship between a beaver and a personified button. 

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Referencing a term popularized by Rush Limbaugh, this button was handed out at the Republican National Convention in 1996. During a show titled “Joblessness and the War on Men,” which aired on January 10, 2014, Limbaugh referred to his program as the first to “discover, in 1990, male lesbians.” At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Kansas delegate Mike Todd, a button enthusiast, was spotted wearing this button and others he had collected at Republican National Conventions over the years.  

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America on Wheels was a chain of roller skating rinks on the East Coast established in 1934.  The first America on Wheels rink was located in Closter, NJ.  By 1953, the chain had grown to add ten rinks in four different states.

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The Aladdin Club of Shriners was founded in the late nineteenth century when members of the Cincinnati based club made a new Columbus based club. The new Aladdin Club had "the objective . . . [to] cultivate the social virtues of its members and their families and the prevention of the intrusion of any profane unless they shall possess the qualities of head and heart which stamp them as gentlemen." Shriners clubs were first formed by Freemasons who wanted new fraternities that could emphasize socialization and fun over rituals. The Shriners did not expand rapidly at first, but after establishing a governing body that created rules for membership, temple formation, etc. the fraternities began to grow. By 1878 there were thirteen temples with a membership of 425 Shriners. Five of the temples were in New York, the state where the fraternity had been formed, two were in Ohio and others were in Michigan, Connecticut, Vermont, among others. The Aladdin Club, in Columbus, was one of the two Ohio groups. Although all of the temples participated in philanthropy, they were searching for an official charity to support. Noble Freeland Kendrick, Imperial Potentate Elect, in 1919 visited the Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children in Atlanta and saw all of the orthopedic needs of children in North America. This visit led to Kendrick’s national campaign to temples for this official philanthropy. The Shriners created a network of hospitals were children under the age of 14 (now 18) could be omitted if their condition could be helped. The first hospital opened in Shreveport, Louisiana September 16, 1922. Shriner hospitals continue to help children free of charge with the most advanced medical procedures.