(Old) Did Everybody Retire In The MMP?

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Listen, my children: It's the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride!

The ride itself, I mean, not the poem. What I’m finding out, reading about both things, is that Longfellow was inspired to write about the American Revolution in 1860, when the USA was on the brink of civil war. This wasn’t the first time he tried to romanticize American history (Hiawatha, Miles Standish), but knowing this, I can see parallels with the Gettysburg Address. “Hardly a man is now alive” – because it had been eighty-five years (or four score and five!). “The fate of a nation was rid…