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Friday, November 21, 2003

Did you know that Patrick Henry was a violinist?
According to the biography of him I dipped into ( Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry, by David J. Vaughan), he was a very good one, too. He also knew Latin, Greek, a bit of French, and mastered the flute at twelve while recovering from a broken collarbone.

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