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By the late 1940s to early 1950s the medical industry had produced multiple studies that demonstrated clear, adverse health risks that were a result of smoking. After recommendations from the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and other medical societies, and despite lobbying by cigarette and tobacco companies, the United States Surgeon General released a 1964 report confirming the damaging health repercussions associated with smoking cigarettes. In the following decades a number of anti-smoking campaigns and programs were created, including the Smoke Stoppers program which was trademarked in 1997. Smoke Stoppers was a twenty-one day medical program designed to help patients stop smoking through the use of behavioral methodologies with daily guides.

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The expression “think outside the box” means to think creatively, outside of the bounds of traditional orthodox methods. It first started to gain significant use in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in the business world, but its eventual overuse transformed it largely into a cliché. The expression is believed to have its ultimate origins in the 1914 puzzle book, Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks, and Conundrums (With Answers). The ‘Nine Dots Puzzle’ contains a square of nine dots, and asks the player to connect all these dots using only four straight lines. In order for this to be accomplished, the player’s lines have to extend beyond the confines of the dotted box.

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Gripe, o influenza, es una infección viral del sistema respiratorio. Vacunas cada ano pueden protegerlo contra la gripe. Otras acciones protectoras son lavar los manos, cubrir la tos, y quedarse en casa cuando está enferma. Hasta los 1930s, cuando vacunas para gripe estaban desarrolladas y administrados a soldados de la militaría estadounidense, vacunación generalizada ha estado la forma mejor de prevenir enfermedades en personas individuales y mantener bajo control la propagación del virus. Organizaciones por la salud de todo el mundo, los gobernalles, las benéficas, y los comercios, distribuyan vacunas de gripe para combatir el virus y crecer comunidades saludables.

Flu, or influenza is a viral infection of the respiratory system. Vaccines every year can protect one against the flu. Other protective actions are hand-washing, covering coughs, and staying home when sick. Since the 1930s, when the flu vaccination was originally developed and administered to soldiers in the US miliary, widespread vaccination has been the best way to both prevent individual illness and keep spread of the virus in check. Government, non-for-profit, and private health organizations worldwide distribute flu vaccines to fight the flu and nurture healthy communities.

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Medical providers agree: breastfeeding is best practice for feeding infant children. Barring rare situations, breastfeeding provides only benefits to the long-term health of both infant and parent.

Education and support for breastfeeding parents is usually the purview of pediatricians and family care doctors and nurses, midwives and doulas, as well as trained lactation consultants. Non-profit organizations such as La Leche League International as well as informal parental networks also provide support to encourage nursing.

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Pierre “Pete” Samuel du Pont IV was an American Republican politician from Delaware. From 1971 to 1977, he served in the United States House of Representatives and was the Governor of Delaware from 1977 to 1985. As governor, his platform was known for lowering income taxes, reducing government spending, and limiting tax hikes. He also founded a non-profit which provided high school seniors not bound for college job placement and employment counseling.

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On October 23, 1976, the University of Delaware (UD) football team faced the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in a home game. Though this button—designed for Delaware fans—references VMI falling off a cliff, VMI went on to win the game 10-6. 

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"Gouranga" is a Hare Krishna mantra meaning "be happy."

Hare Krishnas are followers of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). ISKCON was founded in 1966 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and is based on Hindu scripture. 

“Gouranga” means to spread joy and bring awareness of Hare Krishna. The word can also be found on bumper stickers and in spray-painted graffiti.

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President Bill Clinton, along with Vice President Al Gore, successfully ran for re-election in 1996 against Republican opponent Bob Dole and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot. The campaign was difficult, as the Democratic party had recently lost control of both the House and the Senate in the 1994 mid-term elections. However, Clinton was ultimately successful and became the first Democratic candidate to be re-elected to a second term after serving a full first term since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, also known as Expo 67, was a Category One World’s Fair. The event was held in Montreal, Quebec from April 27th to October 29th. Expo 67, which was one of the most successful World’s Fairs of the 20th century, created a single-day attendance record for the events with 569,500 visitors on the third day. The fair had sixty-two nations participating. Montreal’s mayor championed the event which was not well supported. There was even a computer analysis stating the fair could not be done, however, the leaders of the fair pulled through and it started on time. Expo 67 was initially supposed to be held in Moscow in order to contribute to the Soviet Union’s celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Due to the Soviet Union’s cancellation, Canada was selected in 1962.