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A fact from Cambriol appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 October 2008, and was viewed approximately 30 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The Golden Fleece, written in 1628 by Sir William Vaughan while at his colony New Cambriol, was a fanciful attempt to galvanise his colonists into hard work?

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You can't [sic] a letter written in 1618, as there was no notion of standardized spelling at that time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography#History_of_the_English_spelling_system —Preceding unsigned comment added by 15.251.169.69 (talk) 18:00, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't be absurd. It means "thus" & indicates the quotation is accurate, not an induced error, i.e, "don't blame me, it was this way to begin with". TREKphiler ^{hit me ♠} 08:02, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1816

1816 can't be right, but the correct date is in an offline source. The word "fisherman" near the end of the same quote should probably be "fishermen". Art LaPella (talk) 18:46, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]