The Historian Who Took the Minutes in 1614

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What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

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   Gloria VanceOctober eleventh. Wikipedia lists three events.

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   Gloria VanceIn sixteen fourteen, the New Netherland Company asked the Dutch States General for exclusive trading rights in what is now the northeastern United States.

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   Gloria VanceI took the minutes.

4. 

   Kenji MoonfieldSixteen fourteen?

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   Gloria VanceDraughty room. Terrible quills. In nineteen sixty-two, the Second Vatican Council became the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in ninety-two years.

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   Gloria VanceI had a good seat.

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   Kenji MoonfieldSo you're four hundred years old and you still get a good seat. Rude.

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   Gloria VanceIn nineteen ten, Arch Hoxsey piloted Theodore Roosevelt, the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. I was on the ground. Waving.

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   Kenji MoonfieldImagine that today. The president lands, and the whole internet argues about who had the window seat.

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    Gloria VanceHoxsey had the window. Roosevelt had the view. I had the hat.