… aided by the Texas SBOE, which no longer confines itself to curriculum fiction. If your kid is taught bullshit in Florida or California, it likely was first shoveled in Texas at a SBOE meeting.

Alaska was a former Russian colony, and a form of Russian is still spoken in some areas. There are multiple commercial and cultural ties between Russia and Alaska.

I don’t just recklessly attack everything she says, but I am getting extremely tired of the so-called “conservatives” re-writing my family’s history to suit their prejudices. The official version of American history is already defective enough with all of the cheerleading in most high school textbooks, without another group distorting it further.

Dr Samuel Prescott actually avoided the roadblock and alerted the militia in Concord, who then marched towards Lexington to engage the British.

Revere knew well and good that the militia hadn’t been warned, and was BS-ing his interrogators. Revere’s job was to alert Sam Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. The ride from Lexington to Concord was a personal decision of Revere, Dawes, and Prescott.

Revere’s Ride was not critical because multiple riders were sent, no one individual was actually key to the alert. Dawes went to Lexington via a different route in case Revere was stopped. Prescott was on “personal business” in Lexington and wasn’t actually an official rider.

The poem is lacking in a lot of historical accuracy, but it is closer to the reality, than what the former governor of Alaska said.

Oh, Revere penned three different versions of the ride. He came out looking good in all of them, and Dawes and Prescott seem to have been forgotten. OTOH, he was an excellent silversmith, and his shift to copper in later years has provided a fine line of pots and pans. [The Revere works are still in Rome, NY]. Perhaps, most importantly, he understood public relations.

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