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I used to live in Washington, D.C.

I don't anymore, but I enjoyed it there.

It was an awesome place to be.

And one of the things that I love doing, I'm not going to pretend I did this all the time,

but I probably did it half a dozen times while I lived there was go to the Library of Congress

in Washington, D.C., and dig through old newspapers.

Now, let me explain that.

In the Library of Congress, they have a section where they have for probably about a dozen,

maybe two dozen newspapers, every single edition that was ever published going back to,

in some cases, the 1700s.

It is absolutely fascinating.

They're all on microfilm.

You can dig through them pretty easily.

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