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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (11657)	9/19/2003 2:52:06 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

revolution envy you have such a ways with words.. :) i love expansive ideas expressed in minimalist terms

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (11657)	9/19/2003 10:17:04 PM
From: richardred	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

Speaking of the French-Does anybody remember the Louisiana Purchase? In 1803, Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon negotiated the United States’ purchase of Louisiana from France. With two strokes of a pen, a fledgling nation barely a generation old doubled in size overnight and became one of the largest nations in the world. The Louisiana Purchase, approved by treaty in April of 1803, is called the most significant real estate transaction in the history of civilization. The over 800,000 square miles of land—bought at a cost of about four cents per acre—would eventually be cut into all or part of fifteen American states: Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, North Dakota, Texas, South Dakota, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Colorado and Montana.