Paul Revere
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"Paul Revere" was an American silversmith, engraving/engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot (American Revolution)/patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of British Armed Forces/British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride".

Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith, who helped organize an intelligence in the American Revolutionary War/intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the Kingdom of Great Britain/British military. Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service culminated after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame. Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade and used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes. Finally in 1800 he became the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets for use as sheathing on naval vessels.

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In every city we play in the clock never works. It reminds me of Back to the Future.

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I knew what they were after; that I had alarmed the country all the way up, that their boats were caught aground, and I should have 500 men there soon. One of them said they had 1500 coming; he seemed surprised and rode off into the road, and informed them who took me, they came down immediately on a full gallop.

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He said to me, ''We are now going towards your friends, and if you attempt to run, or we are insulted, we will blow your brains out.'' When we had got into the road they formed a circle, and ordered the prisoners in the center, and to lead me in the front.

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We've been creeping up and doing better and better each year, but when we get MCAS back I will not be surprised if we've stalled somewhat and we're not meeting our targets, ... You get what you pay for and when all is said and done and all these years of level funding will show that we're not meeting AYP (state standards).

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