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                     Rosemary (1900-1962) and
            Stephen Vincent (1898-1943) Benét

                    CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
                                     1446?-1506

First Line: There are lots of strange things that discoverers do

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without permission of the copyright holder. It can be found in:

  • Benét, Rosemary and Stephen Vincent. A Book of Americans. New
    York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc., 1933.

    Stephen Vincent Benét was awarded the pulitzer prize for poetry in 1929
    for John Brown's Body and posthumously in 1944 for Western Star.