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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/8/23 – FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DAY!

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Which one gets you, Falling Waters? The Guggenheim Museum? Johnson Wax headquarters? The Rookery? Today we honor America’s greatest architect on NATIONAL FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DAY! They laughed when he announced he had designed an earthquake-proof  building. That is, until his Imperial Hotel was the only large building in Tokyo still standing after the Great …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/3/23 – CASEY AT THE BAT DAY!

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If you want to understand the timeless nature of America’s baseball obsession, look no further than this comic poem by Ernest Thayer, published under the pseudonym “Phin” in the San Francisco Examiner on this day in 1888, making June 3rd NATIONAL CASEY AT THE BAT DAY! This rhyme about a swaggering, handlebar-mustachioed slugger coming to bat …

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