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SPECIAL: Thomas Edison (Part 3)

My First Million

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Handmaids Taile - Puritan Women in America

Thomas itizen's mother home schooled, hymn educated him. She was kind of the perfect example of a puritan woman. Puritans were this religious sect that came from england and settled in new england. Started in massachusetts and spread out from there. And edison comes from very, very puritan stock. His mother was the daughter of a methodist minister. So he is like the end result of several hundred years of interbreeding. He invented the light bulb as part of his anti-sabotage campaign. The current war is another aspect of that time period. But if you want to learn more about it, the book is called albion

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