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"In 1770, at Point Pleasant, Virginia (now in West Virginia)[3] near the junction of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, George Washington recorded in his journal a sycamore measuring
13.67 m (44 ft 10 in)
in circumference at 91 cm (3 ft) from the ground."
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44 foot circumference buttonwood, thanks G Washington. that'd take about 8 slaves holding hands to gauge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_occidentalis
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"The New York Stock and Exchange Board was formed on March 8, 1817. The name was shortened to The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1863. The NYSE is home to more than 2,800 companies whose combined value exceeds $15 trillion. The stocks traded at the exchange are face-to-face trades.
The New York Stock Exchange's origin can be traced all the way back to the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement on May 17th, 1792. That agreement was struck by a group of 24 [2122:New York City: stockbrokers and merchants at 68 Wall Street, under a buttonwood tree.
Originally, there were five securities traded in New York City with the first listed company on the NYSE being none other than the Bank of New York.
On October 1, 1934, the NYSE registered as a national securities exchange with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. "
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in the beginning there were no wine glasses,
only the drinking troughs of logs
fallen& filled with veggie matter rotting sweetly
&back then, there were no handy bowls
of nuts or popcorn to provoke
thy thirst, all one had was the parching plains wind
&endlessness of night
no glowing neon phalluses
no high heeled pinball jezebels chawing sugarfree gum
no smoky jutebox come ons
no puddles of thrown up lite beer
no lastcalls over drones of monday night football
in the beginning, the accident was the creation,
the result was a sacrament
bloggod 1988
University of Kansas
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