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Born: c. 1797 Died: November 26, 1883 One day when she was nearly 70 years old, the elderly woman announced to her friends in Battle Creek, Michigan that she was setting off for Washington, D.C. “What for?” they asked. “I’m going down there to advise the president,” she said. And that’s how Abraham Lincoln me , ...

Born: November 29, 1898 Died: November 22, 1963 Born in Belfast in 1898 (he always saw himself as Irish), Clive Staples Lewis taught at Oxford and Cambridge in medieval and renaissance English. He belonged to the informal literary society known as the Inklings, which included The Lord of the Rings author J. R. R , ...

Born: 1585 Died: November 30, 1622 Squanto remains trapped by the image we have invented for him. In the romanticized Thanksgiving narrative that began developing a century and a half after the actual feast, Squanto has been reduced to a two-dimensional supporting character that appears only to the degree he sel , ...