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American History

PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. My favorite part of the story is that the Pilgrims

Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)

Thu Nov 26, 2020, 12:14 AM

Nov 2020

were met by Indians who already spoke English.

It tends to make the militant monolingualism of this country more understandable.

I'm sure that someday, when we land on a planet with intelligent aliens, some of them will already be speaking English. We will then set galaxy-wide standards of not learning other languages.

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"What you learned about the 'first Thanksgiving' isn't true. Here's the real story..." [View all] BigmanPigman Nov 2020 OP

There are a lot of myths surrounding Thanksgiving moose65 Nov 2020 #1

My favorite part of the story is that the Pilgrims PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #2

The Pilgrims did encounter as least some stopdiggin Nov 2020 #3