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  "thread": {
    "id": 5516,
    "subject": "Able's Bow",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2009-11-14T22:43:18+00:00",
    "last": "2009-11-14T22:43:18+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<470871550911141443y2bbeba4fi47cf3ba09ba1d492@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ian Bratt",
        "address": "telemarker at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2009-11-14T22:43:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Able's Bow",
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          "text": "I recently stumbled across this info while reading a bio of Meriwether\nLewis.\n\nWhen Lewis was wintering in St Louis, the first shipment of natural history\nspecimens he sent to president Jefferson contained a sample of the Osage\nOrange tree. Regarding the Osage Orange, Lewis wrote \"So much do the savages\nesteem the wood of this tree for the purpose of making their bows, that they\ntravel many hundred miles in quest of it\".\n\n-Insula"
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