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   Ross Clark to All   
   Morse Code Day (27 April)   
   28 Apr 24 23:07:27   
   
   From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Birthday of Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), whose very useful   
   invention showed linguistic awareness by correlating (inversely) the   
   length of a code sequence with the frequency of the corresponding letter   
   in English.   
      
   The famous "What hath God wrought" (no punctuation) message was sent in   
   1838 from the Supreme Court room in the Capitol in Washington to Morse's   
   assistant Alford Vail in Baltimore (about 50km away).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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