Friday, November 09, 2007

This Day in History: November 9

November 9. 1776
- The citizens of Rochester, NY pleaded for aid from the New York Convention. "The town of Rochester is in great need for salt, as the season of the year is now for killing their winter provision and pork for next summer, and when they can't get a supply of salt, they will be obliged soon to turn their fat hogs out of the pen, and their fat cattle among their other, to a great loss of several poor families.
Most don't realize how something as taken for granted as salt has been one of the most important catalysts for human decisison-making throughout history.

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