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If I could, I'd spend one hour with: A very difficult choice, since my interest would be in great historical figures, but I think I would feel like a sprout in the presence of a giant redwood like, say, Winston Churchill. Some are less well known, such as Anne Green, the eighteenth-century publisher of the Marylond Gazette (one of the very few women in the trade in colonial America) and Sequoyah, a Cherokee, who invented a Cherokee alphabet so that his people could learn to read and write; he also gave his name to the giant redwood tree. Fossils uncovered during Metro Red Line subway construction also have provided a glimpse of a Valley once surrounded by giant redwood trees, and fish species that scientists never knew existed. |
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