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What made it the "national" museum? Just their decision to call it that? As Wikipedia lists fourteen US motorcycle museums. Including one in Sturgis, where you'
by boomboomsubban 3y ago
What made it the "national" museum? Just their decision to call it that? As Wikipedia lists fourteen US motorcycle museums. Including one in Sturgis, where you'd expect one, but seemingly not Daytona Beach, which is surprising. edit it has the "Motorsports Hall of Fame of America" which probably features motorcycles.
- bigbacaloa 3y agoLike the NBA world champions.
- twelvechairs 3y agoOr Miss Universe!
- nannal 3y agoMLB World Series?
- user3939382 3y agoIt is because the best players are recruited from around the world to play on those teams.
- massysett 3y agoPretty much. There is a “National Harbor” in Maryland which is a…real estate development? Well, it does have some boat parking too. But nothing is “officially” “national” about it. There is a National Aquarium in Baltimore. Confusingly there was a now-defunct National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. According to Wikipedia, the two had no common origin. I say the one in D.C. had a more legitimate claim to “National” as it had some federal government roots. Then there’s the Washington Nationals baseball team. And the Virginia neighborhood bogusly renamed “National Landing”. So pretty much anything can call itself “national” if it wants to.
- grubbs 3y agoYes but the national aquarium in Baltimore has puffins and that's good enough claim for me.
- shortrounddev2 3y ago> And the Virginia neighborhood bogusly renamed “National Landing”. It's called crystal city. Amazon renamed it when they announced HQ2 there. Nobody from here calls it national landing
- fodkodrasz 3y agoThe same way the Federal Reserve is federal?
- ceejayoz 3y agoIs its existence created by Federal law and its management appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate? If not, no, it’s nothing similar.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoPetition to change this website's name to National Hacker News.
- dmd 3y agoYou’re all welcome to come visit the National Museum of Technical Debt. It’s located in [checks atlas] the Perforce repository at my previous employer.
- dghughes 3y agoI'm surprised it's not the "World Motorcycle Museum" seeing how the USA likes to do that.