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Showing posts with label HISTORY OF NEW YORK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HISTORY OF NEW YORK. Show all posts
Monday, September 12, 2011

Quote of the Day (Washington Irving, on How New York’s First Legislators Made Law)

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“The journal of each meeting consists but of two lines, stating in dutch, that, ‘the council sat this day, and smoked twelve pipes, on the a...
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I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand
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