Jetlag causes me to wake up insanely early and surf the internet… which brings me to…
I’m tempted to sympathize with the historians who, hundreds of years from now, will pore over documents relating to the ride of Paul Revere, many of which are of later provenance… poems, made-for-Texas-schools renderings, and now this from everyone’s favorite fabricator:
* Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin offered a novel take on the famous ride of Paul Revere during her trip to Boston yesterday: “He who warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town, to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure, and we we’re going to be free and we were going to be armed.” For history’s sake: Revere rode to warn allies that British troops were headed to Lexington and Concord. Later in life, Revere became a bellmaker, but no bells were involved in the secretive ride.
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