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TIL the Plymouth Pilgrims, a few years after celebrating the First Thanksgiving, sent armed men to arrest the leader of a nearby settlement who had set up a maypole, sang bawdy songs and invited Native American women to join them in celebrating the traditional English May Day holiday

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TIL the Plymouth Pilgrims, a few years after celebrating the First Thanksgiving, sent armed men to arrest the leader of a nearby settlement who had set up a maypole, sang bawdy songs and invited Native American women to join them in celebrating the traditional English May Day holiday

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