Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for November 07, 2004

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It was a dark and stormy night "Arrgh! This paper is supposed to be four pages long, and it's not even three!" "It's due next period! What am I gonna do?" "Fear not, young lady!" "Huh?" "Let's see what you've writen." "Thomas Jefferson, our third President and one of the nation's greatest patriots, died on July 4th, 1826. Coincidentally, this was the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independenc." "I'll handle this. May I sit down?" "HEY! You just deleted my whole conclusion!!" "Relax." "The history of the United States of America is chock-full of great patriots. There are so many I can't even name them all. But of all the patriots, undoubtedbly the greatest was Thomas Jefferson, the third President of this great land we call the USA, which is short for the United States of America. On July 4th, in the year of 1826, the aforementioned Thomas Jefferson passed away. In an amazing and somewhat bizarre coincidence, this tragic event occurred fifty years to the day after that historic document, the Declaration of Independence, had been signed. What a fitting end to the life of a man who, patriotistically, was an absolute giant in the dramatic series of historical events which brought about the birth of this great nation of ours. "My work here is done." "Who was that man?" ""Patriotistically"?" "Up... Up... and away!"