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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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Now Timmy, finish your cool, refreshing Aaron Burr's Honey Mushroom Lager and get your little butt down to the cellar!
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Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic
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If the old postcards of hotels and inns on Staten Island could talk, they could tell about their exciting past -- when guests included a British General during the Revolutionary War; Aaron Burr, who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel; stagecoach travelers up and down the East Coast, and resort guests seeking the seashore, a boardwalk and amusements that rivaled Coney Island.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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Then we saw the place where Aaron Burr shot Alexander "got milk" Hamilton, one of the esteemed forefathers of our great nation.
Hamilton's gift to America was a financial system capable of carrying a noble nation to great achievement, we are told - don't think of him simply as the fellow Aaron Burr killed in a duel.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Vice President Aaron Burr and General James Wilkinson, who allegedly drew up plans to personally conquer Mexico and the American southwest, met at Fort Massac during the summer of 1805.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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In 1800 Jefferson and his running mate, Aaron Burr, each won an identical number of electoral votes, forcing the election into the House of Representatives, which resolved it in Jefferson's favor.
The outcome of the election of 1800 had been in doubt until late February because Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the two leading candidates, each had received 73 electoral votes.
Jefferson's triumph was delayed temporarily as a result of a tie in electoral ballots with his running mate, Aaron BURR, which shifted the election to the House of Representatives.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Despite the prominence of lawyers among patriots of the Revolutionary War, notably John Adams, Aaron Burr, Patrick Henry and Alexander Hamilton, the American Revolution marked the beginning of declining prestige for the legal profession.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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When Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in that famous duel, Hamilton's federalist, powerful central government ideas didn't die with him.
After years of thwarting the ambitions of one of his political rivals, Aaron Burr, Burr challenged Hamilton to duel.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Highlights include: first editions of Cooper's novels and the letters exchanged by Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and their seconds prior to their fateful duel.
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