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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Cole’s Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)