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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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