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Thank goodness all is well with Bill and he's just enjoying a break. I was worried.

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Agree completely. I was just going to send him an email before I finally got the newsletter today. 🤠

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Of the 100 greatest British, Harrison is ranked 39.

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Two sad stories of why it is better to be a settlor than a trailblazer in many instances

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I hear you. Sometimes that is true. On the other hand, without trailblazers we wouldn’t be here!

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.

-Henry Miller

"Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption"

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Great newsletter!!! It is so easy to forget how well we have it compared to other countries and especially to the Middle Ages. I can’t imagine living back then. Makes me want to read A Connecticut Yankee in King Author’s Court again.

Thanks for two new (to me) unique stories.

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Like current and past topics.

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Life was tough 300 years ago. That’s why I’m all for moving forward instead of regressing. Those ‘good old days’ weren’t all that good for far too many

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"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." -Forrest Gump;

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So John Harrison was the (probably Asperger’s) inventor of the sea watch.

John Lewis, the Representative and civil rights leader, had a February birthday and dies in 2020.

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I have no idea how I conflated the names. Jon Lewis was also a friend of mine way back when, that's probably what it was. My bad.

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No worries, Bill. Totally understandable… it happens to us all.

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Maybe in the 2700’s they didn’t have patent attorneys!

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Page should be called “Interestingly”.

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How depressing!😢

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Anyone know the name of the sailing vessel in the picture? Thank you.

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