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Feb 12, 2004 22:18

meatho0ks: i found out the historical significance of the name benjamin harris

BHP007: really?

BHP007: do tell

meatho0ks: yeah

meatho0ks: the first newspaper produced in the american colonies or ever for that matter was published by a guy in boston named Ben Perman and it only ran one issue because it criticised the queen and claimed that the french king was sleeping with his sons wife

meatho0ks: the queen didnt like it and he wasnt allowed to do it any more

BHP007: that is incredibly cool

meatho0ks: it was published on september 25 1690

BHP007: that's super cool

meatho0ks: and it was called publick occurences, both foreign and domestick

meatho0ks: spelled with the k's

meatho0ks: i think its pretty punk rock

BHP007: hell yeah it is
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