Sir Walter Raleigh loved a good smoke. In fact, he was instrumental in popularizing tobacco in England, even though Europe had already been introduced to tobacco (Spanish and French explorers had picked up the habit from pipe-smoking Indians). Legend goes that when Raleigh's servant first saw him puffing away, he thought that Raleigh was on fire and doused him thoroughly with water. Raleigh's name went down in history not only as the name of a city in North Carolina but as the name of a pipe tobacco.
-Reformation to Colonization (p. 242)
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Great idea for a blog! We homeschool too :)
Thank you. I hope this leads to new areas of thought and research. Please, let me know if there's some area in particular you are interested in or wondering about as you study.
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