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dfranke on May 28, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cities and Ambition

The message I get from Boston is "know your history". Pretty much every block has a centuries-old story behind it, and someone there who wants you to know what that story is. I don't think it's a coincidence that the National Genealogical Society is headquartered there.

eru on May 28, 2008 [–]

You should come to Germany. We have a lot of history if not much else in the east.

Johann Sebastian Bach lived around there.

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