Friday, August 18, 2006

 

This Day in American History

On this day in 1774, Meriwether Lewis was born in Albemarle County, Virginia (near Charlottesville). He is half of the explorer team of Lewis and Clark. He probably suffered from major depression most of his life and died of (probably) self inflicted gunshot wounds to his head and chest on Oct 11, 1809 in a tavern on the Natchez Trace called Grinder's Stand about 70 miles from Nashville, Tennessee.

# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:20 AM
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I was hoping for a double posting on this day in history: The Birth of Meriweather Lewis and the death of Ghengis Khan in 1227.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 9:13 AM
 
Sweet, Tony, sweet! :)
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 3:26 PM
 
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