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   Message 295,987 of 297,461   
   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).   
      
      
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   That was inedible muck, and there wasn't enough of it.   
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