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Squinch

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14. The way we are taught American history, the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, and then

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Sun Nov 18, 2018, 02:58 PM

Nov 2018

we had the Revolution. In fact, there was as much time and as much history between those two events as there was between the Revolution and World War 1, or between the Civil War and today.

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