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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Today is Tuesday, November 15th, the 319th day of 2022. There are 46 days left in the year. It is American Enterprise Day, National Bundt Cake Day, National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day, National Philanthropy Day, National Raisin Bran Cereal Day, National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day, Day of the Imprisoned Writer, and Steve Irwin Day.
On This Day
In 1533, Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
In 1777, after 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
In 1806, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike saw a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was later named Pikes Peak.
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