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14 Feb, 5 tweets, 5 min read
I am a daughter of the #Mayflower, daughter of the #Revolution, a daughter of the #FillesDuRoi who came to marry the founding fathers of Canada, a daughter of #TeresaMicmac, #polygot who brokered the peace treaty for the #FrenchIndianWar. All my ancestors roll in their graves. ImageImageImageImage
That isn't a photo of #TeresaMicmac, it's just a stock photo. The Smithsonian has a photo of #TeresaMicmac but I don't have their permission to publish it, if you can imagine that, even tho I am her direct descendant. But of course, she probably has a thousand descendants.
OFFS! Not a daughter who can spell tho! #Polyglot!
We all know the #Mayflower and the #Revolution, but few know the good story of the #FillesDuRoi! King Louis XIV of France wanted to populate his colony but there were no women so he sent 737 impoverished girls from France who were endowed "like The King's Daughters" with a dowry. Image
"He gave each an allowance of 100 pounds, a modest trousseau & 60 pounds for passage fee. The women, who were orphans with very little money, were recruited from La Rochelle, Rouen & Paris. They were given a royal dowry in addition to their trousseau." thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fil…

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500K Americans died of #Covid! On #InaugurationDay it was 420K so they put one light on the #ReflectingPool at the #LincolnMemorial for each thousand deaths. It looked like this, but this isn't what 400K people look like! Doesn't look as shocking as 400K! npr.org/sections/coron…
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#GOP senators who voted to #ConvictTrump are being censured by their party. I hope the censure comes in writing, so they can frame it & hang it up in their offices, display it during their re-election campaigns! #BadgeOfCourage! TY senators for the strength of your #convictions! Image
Those senators who #BrokeRank & voted #CountryOverParty will be respected by all even by #Liberals. At least we know they aren't #Nazi #Traitors so won't think #ItsTheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt if they get elected. They'll be the new face of the rational #GOP
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#EpicFail. We are not a #SovereignNation anymore. We are not a #Democracy anymore. #Insurrection will be repeated at every election, but they won't wait till then. This was just the rehearsal. #Republicans did this because they knew they could never get legit elected again. #Coup
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After all the lies, when the dust finally settles, the truths will be known. The #WH doctors have been lying for #Trump, but we knew that. How disappointing some people are. Yeah, they snatched him back from the jaws of death and then lied. 1/2
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At 0447 this morning, @FXMoore and I became great-grandparents for the first time. Our wonderful grandson in Maine found himself a fabulous wife who has gifted him a perfect girl child on this cold Maine morning. Sophie Jean, 6 pounds, excellent health, a beauty like her mother!
27 years ago, when that grandson was born to us, we were sailing in the tropics. I dreamed in the night that I had painlessly birthed a baby boy. When I woke, I knew my grandson must have been born in Maine, because the only way to birth painlessly is if someone else does it 4U.
This great-grandchild hasn't ruined my figure a bit!
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I was at the UN right after the #GulfWar. I had something dreadful to say abt #SaddamHussein on a daily basis, which he deserved b/c he invaded #Kuwait. The Iraqi media compared me to an unparalleled serpent. I happened to have a snake pin, and wore it to my next meeting on Iraq.
The press asked me about it, I thought, “Well, this is fun.” On good days, I wore flowers butterflies & balloons, on bad days, all kinds of bugs & carnivorous animals, as an additional way of expressing what I was saying a visual way to deliver a message.

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