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hyperbole - extravagant exageration, used as a figure of speech.
Have you ever been to coastal VA, particularly in the spring and summer? Hot, humid, and bug infested describes it in a nutshell. My point was that I’m sure what the first people that settled my fair state thought they were getting, and what they actually found were miles and miles apart.
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Yes, I have. I grew up in Philly and used to visit the VA and MD shore in the summertimes as wel as Joisey. It does not change the scientific fact that malaria did not exist in North America until the Jamestown crowd brought it in with them.
Shagnasty, I owe you an apology. I did not mean to go after you so harshly. I choose to believe what I read in NG, you believe what you want. I really did not mean to insult you or your ancestors so directly, ok?
Fair to say that murder was committed on both sides?