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Old 06-24-2003, 08:37 PM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]And what you don't know, is that originally the US spoke French[/quoteost_uid0]

Actually, it was Swedish until Stuyvesant (mangled the spelling, I suspect) wandered over and conquered them...after which Holland traded Nieuw Amsterdam to England in exchange for some largely useless South American coastline. Who got the raw end of that deal?[/colorost_uid0]
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