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British Fact of the day...
The British name for checkers is Draughts
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The well known lullaby 'Hush-a-bye baby, on the tree top', is said to
have been the first English poem written on American soil, when a boy
that sailed with the Pilgram Fathers was inspired by the natives'
custom of propping babies cradles in tree tops.
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