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To: Lane3 who wrote (48167)	5/24/2002 3:11:07 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) of 82486

It is useful to know the date of the Louisiana Purchase, at least approximately, to know that suddenly the United States doubled in territory within about 20 years of its founding. It is useful to know that Thomas Jefferson bought the territory, because it conflicted with his professed beliefs about a weak executive, and therefore showed that one should take some of his pronunciamentoes with a grain of salt. It is useful to know that we bought it from France because it can help explain the prevalence of French place names in the Middle West, and the reason that there are Cajuns in Louisiana. Some things are more important than others to know. But I have heard people make the most preposterous mistakes, and be vulnerable to the most absurd claims, because they had no internal "plausibility meter", which depends on having a reasonable amount of facts stored away........

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