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Friday, May 25, 2007
Queen Victoria Goes to Kansas
I got a chuckle out of this:
In 1860, William G. Brownlow, a fiercely partisan Tennessee Whig, announced that he would join the Democrats only "when Queen Victoria consents to be divorced by a county court in Kansas."
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