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“It is not a rock!!  It’s a ship!!”

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 “Who?”

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“An Alaska Gold Rush Specialty! Really!!”

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“Let me get this right, Ramses II, the ‘Let My People Go!’ Pharoah used cocaine?!”

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“Were they really Buffalo Soldiers?”

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