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Reuel Colt Gridley and the Most Expensive Bag of Flour in the World (2018x117)
Data de estreia: Mai 05, 2018
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Reuel Colt Gridley was born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri in 1829, and lived there contemporaneously with Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), with Clemens claiming Gridley was a schoolmate of his.
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Sources:
http://kxan.com/2014/11/06/donation-deception-millions-of-donated-dollars-never-make-it-to-veterans/
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=20050930&id=uOw0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=QSEGAAAAIBAJ&pg=7008,3520585&hl=en
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mark-twain-begins-reporting-in-virginia-city
http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statistics/
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0903/Nearly-900-000-veterans-are-still-waiting-to-get-onto-the-VA-backlog
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=20050930&id=uOw0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=QSEGAAAAIBAJ&pg=7008,3520585&hl=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuel_Colt_Gridley
https://books.google.com/books?id=BKgvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA314&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
Image Credit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuel_Colt_Gridley#/media/File:Reuel_Colt_Gridley_circa_1864.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_L_Clemens,_1909.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuel_Colt_Gridley#/media/File:Gridley_Store1.jpg
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