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The Hello and welcome, good ladies and sirs, please have no fears.

For today is quite special, so kindly lend me your ears.

While this is not what you might expect, you're in the right place.

Yes, odd it may be, but there's no need to about face.

You are not at all in the wrong, you have made no mistakes. This really is a history of the United

States. For it is an anniversary, a time to have fun. See, the years I've done this number,

half of a dozen. Six whole years, I've been making podcasts

for such a long time. There is nothing I could do other than burst into rhyme. I would need a

great topic, somewhat related to ours, something not as close as John Smith, not as far as the

Zahs. Then, what an idea I had? It would be ever so swell, if I could tell you the

ballad of Oliver Cromwell. You might believe him a villain, or believe him benign, but to decide we

must begin in 1599. Now, the 25th of April was the date of his birth, born into a middling family,

of moderate worth. As a younger son, wealth his birth, born into a middling family of moderate worth.

As a younger son, wealth his father Robert could not acquire, merely inheriting a small house

in Huntingtonshire.

In his boyhood, he attended Huntington Grammar School, with scant idea this was a land he was

destined to rule.

Go study did he at Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge.

While spending time there, his bright mind could absorb much knowledge. It was a new school with

strongly puritan character of such grand pedigree. You could not be a detractor. It would not long last

for Cromwell, his time there, he

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