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Paul Revere, Sarah Palin and Wikipedia

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[apocalypsos]

Ugh. Fuck Paul Revere. I'll be over here respecting the hell out of Sybil Ludington instead.

[crazycarrie2006]

THIS.

[castalianspring]

IAWTC. I'm sure Palin has never heard of her and wouldn't believe it if she were told.

[lozbabie]

OMG I'd never heard of her. What a badass and how disgusting that a man doing half what she did is so well known.

[apocalypsos]

Cracked mentioned her in one of their lists about people in American history who've been forgotten, and they pointed out something simple and stupid about why Revere's famous and she isn't, which is that you can't really rhyme a whole lot with "Ludington." Meanwhile, Revere gets a poem written about him for being one of forty guys rather than going it alone and getting caught pretty much immediately when he stopped for a drink in a pub.

[antiotter]

It's not even that. Israel Bissell, a man, rode 345 miles to Revere's 19, and didn't spill his guts to the British when captured (or "warning them" if you're Sarah Palin).

It's Longfellow's crappy poem.

[bluebombardier]

And Samuel Prescott, who, unlike Revere and Dawes, actually made it to Concord.

[windy_lea]

She rode twice the distance and fought off a highwayman, yet this is the first I've heard of her? Man!History strikes my school district again!

[lightbird777]

Man!History struck every school district ever. This is the first I've heard of her too.

[brewsternorth]

Heh, not just your school district either. I studied US history at college and never heard of Ms Luddington until now.

[windy_lea]

I wish I were more surprised that she is comparatively unheard of, but... yeah >.>

[qable]

MTE

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[simply_blah]

I'm so sad that I've never heard of her before today.

[astridmyrna]

That statue is bad-ass.

[kyra_neko_rei]

Kickass.

Fucking poets.