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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.

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Sketchiest Etching
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Regnat Tyrannis
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Universal Bull
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Leave Those Kids Alone
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Spoiler Season
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Greenlighting Socialism
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On April 26, 1777, Sibyl Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British. Her ride was over twice as long as Paul Revere’s more famous effort.

On the same day in 1805, United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon, an important event in the First Barbary War.

In April 26, 1865, Union cavalry troopers cornered John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia, shooting him to death. There was no interrogation.