Take a break at the Longfellow Bridge to take in a fantastic view of the Boston skyline.

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If Turkey doesn't work out, Mitchell's 350, 000-acre Longfellow Ranch in West Texas will be waiting for him.

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If you answer a question about Paul Revere you talk about his ride, you recite Longfellow.

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" And at family gatherings with their grandmother, there were frequent challenges to recite Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous (and famously lengthy) "Paul Revere's Ride.

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The first American woman to obtain a pain-free birth, Fanny Longfellow, the wife of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was severely criticized for her choice.

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At a literary supper in Boston to celebrate John Greenleaf Whittier's 70th birthday, Twain mocked Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ralph Waldo Emerson, all of whom were in attendance.

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"Give us the tools, and we will finish the job, " he said in a Feb. 9, 1941, radio plea for U.S. aid, quoting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Sail on, O Union, strong and great!"

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All that juice comes at the price of redundant network links, though -- which means the whole thing got taken offline last night when a homeless man threw a cigarette onto a mattress under Boston's Longfellow Bridge, starting a blaze that eventually melted the fiber-optic link between Boston and New York.

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