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August 20: Connecticut Inventor Breaks the Rule of Wind Over Water – Today in Connecticut History
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During the Age of Sail, all people who traveled by water did so at the mercy of wind and tide. Too little wind, or wind from the wrong direction, brought delay or disruption to the best-laid…
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