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| Last week, I was walking through New York and I came upon a statue of a distant ancestor of mine-- William Seward. | |
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| Isn't he the guy who bought Alaska from the Russians for seven million dollars? | |
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| Many people criticized it at the time, calling it "Seward's Folly." | |
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| Little did they know that underneath that frozen wilderness was gold and oil. | |
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| Of course, they didn't know about Sarah Palin or Ted Stevens either. | |
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