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This humorous slogan references three famous movie characters who had some iteration of father issues. The verbs and pronouns change with each character’s relationship to a father, contrasting the characters and drawing light to their situations.

Inigo Montoya is a character from William Goldman’s 1973 novel The Princess Bride. The button displays one of the character’s most famous quotes and uses its format for two other well known characters. Lamont Cranston is the alter ego of the titular character of the popular radio show “The Shadow,” which first debuted in 1930. This character would later be an influence for the creators of Batman, with Lamont Cranston and the Shadow as the inspiration for Bruce Wayne and the Batman. The bottom third of the button references the scene in the 1980 Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back in which Darth Vader reveals to Luke Skywalker that he did not kill his father. In a shocking and now famous twist, Darth Vader tells Luke “I am your father,” Anakin Skywalker.

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Yank D. Coble, Jr. is a medical doctor that serves on the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs. 

The Council on Scientific Affairs was formed by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1976. The purpose of the Council is two-fold: to act as a resource for professionals within the medical community seeking accurate, unbiased, and up-to-date information on medical technology, and to facilitate communication between the professional medical community and the general public.

The council has subsequently expanded to work with a number of professional organizations including, but not limited to, the American Dental Association and the College of American Pathologists. 

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The Philadelphia 76ers, also known as the Sixers, is an American basketball team that was founded in 1946. They are established in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA. The name comes from the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776. Many Hall of Fame players have played for the team and they have won three championships.

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Some people attribute Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, for coming up with the saying, "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." It refers to the notion that when someone finds themself in a difficult situation, don’t complain about it. Instead, one should take actions to overcome and improve the situation.

This phrase has also been attributed to Chinese proverbs or Confucius. These, however, are misattributes. The oldest written usage is from W. L. Watkinson's sermon 'The Invincible Strategy' collected in 1907 in The Supreme Conquest.

Amnesty International is a global organization campaigning for human rights around the world. Their logo is a candle with a wire around it. They have adopted the phrase, "better to light a candle than curse the darkness," as their brand motto. The organization also predominantly uses the bright color yellow to spread their message. Amnesty International is a non-profit based in England and Wales.

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Planned Parenthood has a controversial history: just nine days after Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger opened the country’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, police raided and shut it down. Sanger was jailed for 30 days and after her release aligned herself with white supremacist groups in an effort to further an agenda of eugenics. Despite this history, Planned Parenthood funded the creation of the first birth control pill in 1948, which allowed for easy and effective family planning for people with uteruses across the United States. Today, Planned Parenthood provides general healthcare to 2.4 million patients annually along with continuing to champion reproductive justice globally.

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One of the most iconic American literary figures, Conan the Barbarian first appeared in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1932. Author Robert E. Howard intended Conan to be a spiritual successor to his earlier pulp publications Kull the Conqueror, furthering the sword-and-sorcery genre he originated. The character soon gained popularity and has since been adapted into films, animated- and live-action television shows, comics, and various games.

Although the first Conan comic was an unauthorized series published in Mexico in 1952, the versions printed by Marvel Comics remain the most well-known. The company acquired the rights to Conan in 1970 and began publishing Conan the Barbarian, the success of which led to the highly-acclaimed The Savage Sword of Conan, first published in 1974. This button contains a panel from the fifth issue of Conan the Barbarian. The artist is Barry Smith. 

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James Tiberius Kirk served as captain of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 in Star Trek: The Original Series. James Kirk was portrayed by William Shatner for the entirety of the series, from 1966-1969. Captain Kirk, portrayed by Shatner, has been seen in various Star Trek films after The Original Series ended, starting with Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. His final appearance as Kirk was in Star Trek: Generations in 1994.

The character of James T. Kirk, however, went on without Shatner. In 2009, Chris Pine took on the role  in J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek and played the legendary captain for two more films: Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek: Beyond (2016). More recently, the character was portrayed by Paul Wesley on the final episode of the first season of the television show Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022).

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The first effective flu vaccines were tested in clinical trials in the mid-1930s after a group of scientists were able to recreate the virus in hen eggs. The vaccine was developed after a group of English scientists discovered that influenza was caused by a virus and not bacteria as was originally believed. 

The race to create an effective vaccine was spurred by the devastation wrought by the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918 (also known as the Spanish flu), which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. Before World War II, the United States government funded a wartime program to develop vaccines as the flu accounted for roughly half of US military casualties during World War I. As a result, the first inactivated flu vaccine was developed at the University of Michigan in 1945 and was tested on United States soldiers. 

To this day, most flu vaccines are made using egg-based technology similar to the one created in the vaccine’s early days. 

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