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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Historical Bird Quotation

"It was so desolate it would make an owl weep to fly over it." - Colonel William L. Stone’s description of the undeveloped swampy lowland that, in 1820, was Syracuse, New York, then a town of just 250 people. Source: Mark Kurlansky’s (2002) Salt: a world history.

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