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|    Adam Funk to Ross Clark    |
|    Re: United States Indenpendence Day (4 J    |
|    05 Jul 24 11:32:33    |
      From: a24061@ducksburg.com              On 2024-07-05, Ross Clark wrote:              > ...as everybody knows.       > And the linguistic angle is...well, we go back to Noah Webster:              There's another linguistic angle: the first newspaper to report on the       Declaration of Independence was the Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote, a       German-language newspaper (in Pennsylvania).                     --       That was inedible muck, and there wasn't enough of it.        (Sir Henry Rawlinson)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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