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December 06, 2010 12:19:36 PM

Your American Icon:

Unisphere - New York's World's Fair

Location:

New York, NY (Flushing Meadows

Why is this work an American Icon?:

Symbol of the last great world's fair in theUS (Knoxville and New Orleans were much smaller in scale.) The end of the age of innocence. A reminder that the US should be bidding for 2020's world's fair -- it has been a generation.

First name:

Michael

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