On June 20, we traveled to Madison, Wisconsin, a city described by economist and author Richard Florida as the “most creative small city in America.” Madison is built on an isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, and was established in 1836 as capital of Wisconsin Territory and in 1848 as capital of the state.
Recommended restaurants in Madison:
L’Etoile http://www.letoile-restaurant.com/
Restaurant Magnus http://www.restaurantmagnus.com/
On June 21, we toured Taliesen (Welsh for “shining brow”) in Spring Green, a National Historic Landmark http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/frank/index.htm , the summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright--and found that Wright was fascinated by music, representing the raised notes of a piano with rafters divided into twos and threes, and windows divided to represent half-steps and whole steps. Then we drove to Circus World Museum in Baraboo, the winter home of Ringling Brothers circus. http://circusworld.wisconsinhistory.org/ To be continued

The Supreme Court's Blockbuster Second Amendment Ruling: What the Court Resolved and What it Left Open
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toponym waterloo (WOT-uhr-loo) noun A crushing or final defeat
After Waterloo, a village in central Belgium where the Battle of Waterloo took place in 1815. That was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. He was decisively defeated by the British and Prussian forces and exiled to the island of Saint Helena.
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On June 30, 1857 Charles Dickens gave his first public reading (books by this author). He did this for several reasons: to get away from marital discord at home, because he loved to perform in front of an audience, and because he could make more money reading than he could by writing. His first reading, of A Christmas Carol, was held at Saint Martin's Hall in London, and it was so successful that Charles Dickens became one of the first authors to go on huge, international book tours, performing his own work.
On June 30, 1936 the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell was first published. When she handed the manuscript over to editors, it was in terrible shape, with more than 1,000 pages of faded and dog-eared paper, poorly typed and with penciled changes. But they loved the story. They asked Mitchell to change the original title, "Tomorrow Is Another Day," because at the time there were already 13 books in print with the word "tomorrow" in the title. They also asked her to change the main character's name from Pansy to Scarlett.
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