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01-27-2011, 10:16 PM
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From a recent book I just read, however, we have.... "Another great event in the history of the United States is the infamous Boston Tea Party. You know the story. On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists, angry at paying higher taxes on their tea, dressed up like Indians and dumped crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor. Not sure why we're so proud of an act of vandalism, but that's beside the point. The point is, the Tea Act, which the colonists were supposedly angry about, actually reduced the duty on British tea imported to America. So why did they really revolt? Because once British tea was affordable, it would ruin America's lucrative trade in black-market tea, because three-fourths of the tea sold in America was smuggled in by John Hancock. Now the whole idea of dressing up like Indians makes sense, doesn't it?" This is readily verified. 
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01-27-2011, 10:21 PM
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yeah, there were huge smuggling operations going on-tea as well as other goods. and some people are bored by history....i love it.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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01-27-2011, 10:25 PM
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Most people are probably bored with history because it's mostly a work of fiction.
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01-28-2011, 12:11 AM
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Xtoles ("The melody of Xtoles is thought to be one of the oldest known melodies still in existence. This is a Mayan Warrior Dance song to the Sun God...")
Lake Atitlán Harboring Secrets Achi (a Mayan language) Pasión River
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01-28-2011, 12:31 AM
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Poseidon's Gift (he was the God of horses - as well as the obvious - and gve them as gifts).
Indian Ocean Monseiur Cousteau 
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