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Transcript: Hysterical History

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00:00:32 #1 In 1492, Christopher Columbus embarked on a perilous voyage

00:00:36 #2 to find a shorter trade route to India.

00:00:39 #3 But inadvertently discovered the new world.

00:00:59 #4 Is it true the earth is really round?

00:01:01 #5 Say, Chris, what with you and Queen Isabella?

00:01:05 #6 No comment.

00:01:08 #7 Among our earliest settlers were the pilgrims,

00:01:11 #8 about whom many romantic stories have been written.

00:01:15 #9 Perhaps the best known of these

00:01:16 #10 is the courtship of Miles Standish.

00:01:21 #11 Hello, Priscila.

00:01:22 #12 I'm here to propose marriage to thee

00:01:25 #13 in behalf of Miles Standish.

00:01:28 #14 Why don't you speak for yourself, John?

00:01:32 #15 Well, I like her.

00:01:38 #16 Another famous romance was that of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas.

00:01:43 #17 Pocahontas love John Smith.

00:01:51 #18 Do not hurt him.

00:01:52 #19 Okay!

00:01:53 #20 The leader of the early Dutch settlers was Peter Stuyvesant, a brave and fearless fighting

00:02:20 #21 man.

00:02:21 #22 Through the efforts of these hardy pioneers, the barren coastal wilderness was soon replaced

00:02:38 #23 by our 13 original states.

00:02:54 #24 The great scholar Benjamin Franklin demonstrated that electricity was present in the atmosphere

00:03:00 #25 by attracting lightning to a metal key.

00:03:11 #26 Pediment is a failure.

00:03:24 #27 Another milestone in American history occurred in 1848 when James W. Marshall discovered

00:03:30 #28 gold in California.

00:03:32 #29 Eureka!

00:03:33 #30 Go!

00:03:34 #31 This country made tremendous progress in the realm of communication when Alexander Graham

00:03:54 #32 Bell invented the telephone.

00:03:57 #33 All that our pioneer forefathers sought to achieve is best symbolized by the Statue

00:04:18 #34 of Liberty, a Yankee Doodle sweetheart.

00:04:22 #35 Hello everybody! Let's all get friendly and sing that well-known favorite, Yankee Doodle Boy.

00:04:30 #36 I'm a Yankee Doodle Boy! I'm a Yankee Doodle Doodle Boy!