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Luke Cage is a Marvel character. According to the comics, Cage, formerly known as Carl Lucas, was born and raised in Harlem, New York. Lucas was immersed in an Electro-Biochemical System which was left unattended and in an effort to kill him, Albert Rackham sabotaged the controls. Instead of killing Cage however, Rackham inadvertently caused the machine to mutate Cage’s cells. This granted Cage superhuman strength, durability, stamina, and other abilities.

Luke Cage has appeared in numerous Marvel comics ranging from his first appearance in Hero For Hire in 1972 to the most recent City of Fire (2021-2022). In 2016, Netflix made a live action series which lasted two seasons. Cage has also had various superhero aliases, from Power Man to Uncle Luke. The button depicts one of Cage’s earlier costumes with the metal headband.

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The first successful blood transfusion was completed on dogs in 1665 England. Clara Barton, a former American Civil War nurse, founded the American Red Cross in 1881 after witnessing neutral aid being provided to war-wounded in Switzerland. Red Cross employees are to this day deployed with American military units. The Red Cross also developed the first blood drive program in the 1940s and continues to be the source of over 40% of blood in the United States.

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In the United States, delegates are the individuals chosen by each major political party to vote for party's nominee at their respective Conventions. Generally, delegates are selected to account for proportional representation (by county in a state convention, or by state in a national convention) and are expected to cast their vote for whatever candidate the voters they represent have chosen, as opposed to the candidate they prefer. A minority of delegates, known as unbound or superdelegates, are in some cases allowed to cast their votes independently.

The most important election to be held in 1949 was the special Senate election in New York.

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The National Academy of Medicine represents one of three academies that make up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Academy of Medicine was created in 1970 and advises the country on health, science and technology issues. The committees are comprised of leading experts in the field who volunteer their services without pay.

In the election process, voter registration is a type of enrollment that allows an eligible person to be able to cast a vote towards their chosen candidate. In the United States, voting is an optional task, although considered a civic duty and privilege. In other countries like Australia, voting is compulsory or mandatory for all eligible citizens. Voting and elections are a process that is included on many levels from electing a President on the federal level, to electing a board member on the local level. It is unclear which type of election this artifact is referring to.

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The Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR) is an organization that empowers interns, residents, and fellows from all member hospitals to strive for healthcare excellence through organizing, collective bargaining, and advocacy. It is the United State’s largest housestaff union with over 18,000 housestaff. In 1957, interns and residents in New York City’s public hospitals founded CIR. By 1969-70, members in the private sectors began to organize and join CIR. CIR has successfully advocated through the 1990s, including winning pay for housestaff covering for absent colleagues and helping set maximum work hour limits for New York housestaff. CIR also collaborates with teaching hospitals to improve projects that increase the value of care provided to patients.

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Richard Celeste was the Democratic governor of Ohio from 1983 to 1991. During his time in office, Celeste raised the state income tax by 90% to provide more funding for education, welfare, and health services, for which Ohio ranked near last in funding at the time. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Celeste—along with another former Ohio governor, Bob Taft—was appointed as the head of a task force for expanding COVID-19 testing in Ohio.

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Richard Milhous Nixon served as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Republican Vice President from 1953-1961. Nixon ran for president in 1960, but lost to Democratic opponent John F. Kennedy. In 1968, Nixon defeated incumbent Hubert Humphrey to become the 37th Republican President to serve the United States. In 1972, shortly into his second presidential term, people in his administration broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters located in the Watergate Office building and illegally tapped the telephone lines and took documents belonging to the Democratic party in order to secure Nixon's re-election. This act was discovered, exposing corruption in the Republican office that led to the President, and the trial for these crimes was shown on national television. Following the Watergate scandal, Nixon resigned from the office to avoid being impeached.