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George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington, Letter to Major-General Robert Howe (August 17, 1779), published in The Writings of George Washington: 1778 – 1779, Worthington Chauncey Ford, editor (1890).

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In the morning, Olmsted wrote a brief report on the meteor storm for the New Haven Daily Herald newspaper, which elicited correspondence from around the country, thus beginning a social storm, in a sense: crowd-sourced science.

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