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Noah Webster: The definition of Yankee know-how

Were it not for Noah Webster Jr., the farm boy from West Hartford, Conn., who would have been 250 on Thursday, Americans might all be reading their newspapers from back to front today.

By Joshua Kendall

October 15, 2008

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