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Wed Dec-02-09 10:04 PM
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John Brown was hanged 150 years ago, today. |
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"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood." A note handed to one of his jailers as he climbed on his coffin for the wagon ride to the gallows. Just a little prescient. No?
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Wed Dec-02-09 10:20 PM
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Wed Dec-02-09 10:22 PM
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2. John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, Synicus. |
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But his soul keeps marching on.
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Wed Dec-02-09 10:35 PM
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3. Hanged? I thought he was at a pubic function and the........ |
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Wed Dec-02-09 10:38 PM
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4. And the truth goes marching on... |
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Wed Dec-02-09 10:40 PM
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5. Some good reading on the momentous occasion.. |
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