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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.invest
Subject: Re: Interesting Fact
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 16:02:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 16:02:15 1985
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In article <603@vax2.fluke.UUCP> dave@fluke.UUCP (Dave Van Ess) writes:
>
>	"Every school kid knows that crafty Peter Minuit put
>	one over on the Manhattoes Indians in 1626 by buying their
>	island for $24 worth of doodads. 	...

What the schoolbooks always seem to leave out is who was really "crafty".
Since the indians from whom the area was "bought" were from a distant tribe,
just passing through on a hunting expidition, who made out best?

FROM:   Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems
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