Hey, anybody that can manage to unload Manhattan on any poor unsupecting
twit, has every right to smirk.
Rick Morrison
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74 Midget
On Tue, 10 Mar 98 17:40:37 +0100 palte@rt.el.utwente.nl (Bert Palte)
writes:
>Rick wrote:
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>snippetysnip
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>> Of course, the worst example in history is the trade of handful of
>beads
>>for Manhatten Island. The indians are still smirking about that
>one!!!!
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>And then, the Dutch traded Manhattan for Surinam, now an independent
>country in the Northern part of South America, but until 1975 part of
>the
>Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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>We, the Dutch, are still smirking about that one....
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>Bert
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