Great Lakes and Great Everydamn Thing Else.
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Michigan pretty much invented the modern weekend.
The two-day weekend has its origins in the Michigan labor movement and Henry Ford, who "gave his workers two days off back in the early 1900s, even though the federal government didn't mandate the forty-hour work-week until 1938."
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