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But really, as a child I learned almost everything I knew about American history... from watching television situation comedies... The Bradys also taught us that the Robin Hood-like Jesse James was actually a serial killer; that the ancient indigenous religious culture of the Hawaiian Islands is not to be messed with; and that the Plymouth Pilgrims had a bleak first winter that was almost as treacherous to live through as that time Marcia got bonked in the face with her brothers football and her nose swelled up right before a big date. (excerpt) —Sarah Vowell in The Wordy Shipmates Not Quite Robin Hood Day of Note: On this date in 1876 Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang tried to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota and were repelled by the locals.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 13:38:32 +0000

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