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To: harpygoddess
I heard that the Dawes who rode with Paul Revere was the great-great-grandfather of Charles Dawes, who was an interesting historical person just as his great grandfather was.

Charles Dawes accomplished the unlikely "trifecta" of:

Serving as VPOTUS under Coolidge, plus;

winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for his work in the Locarno Pact treaty negotiations ensuring the peace following the end of WW1; PLUS;

he wrote a song in 1912 (Melody in A Major) that later made #1 on the Billboard 100 (and also topped the charts in the UK) as a hit sung by Tommy Edwards in 1958 (It's All in the Game).

11 posted on 04/18/2016 1:25:06 PM PDT by caddie
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To: caddie

Wow!


13 posted on 04/18/2016 2:25:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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