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What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Today is Tuesday, October 11th, the 284th day of 2022. There are 81 days left in the year. It is General Pulaski Memorial Day, National Sausage Pizza Day, and Southern Food Heritage Day.
On This Day
In 1767, surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon finished their work marking the boundary separating Maryland from Pennsylvania. The Mason-Dixon line came to be seen as demarcating the North from the South.
In 1811, the Juliana began operation as the first steam-powered ferry in New York harbor.
In 1862, Confederate troops raided Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
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