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Dolor sit amet

Ye Olde Thorn

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How one forgotten letter (barely) changed the English language forever.

The men are left in black and white, but mostly white.

A Tale of Two States

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On November 2nd, 1889, Benjamin Harrison, ranked #30 in C-SPAN’s ranking of US Presidents, probably sneered as he drove a knife into the heart of Dakota Territory, dividing it forever along an East-West meridian. When he signed the documents formally creating two new states, the President famously (and cutely) shuffled them, preventing onlookers from knowing …