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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Isaac M. Davis</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com">isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com</a></span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "History" 2012.07.04 (03) [EN]</span><span></span><span></span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From: <span><span>Tomás Ó Cárthaigh</span> <span><a href="mailto:tomasocarthaigh@yahoo.com" target="_blank">tomasocarthaigh@yahoo.com</a></span></span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Subject: <span>LL-L "Genealogy" 2012.07.04 (02) [EN]</span><span></span><span></span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p>The verion I heard was it came down to one vote that English was made the official language of America. Is that not true?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In a word, no. <a href="http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/onevote.asp" target="_blank">http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/onevote.asp</a></div>
<span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Isaac M. Davis </div></font></span><span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><br>"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master."<br>
—Abraham Lincoln</font></span><br></div></div><div style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>=========================================================<br>
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