Yale celebrates Noah Webster's 250th birthday - Yahoo! News

Yale celebrates Noah Webster's 250th birthday - Yahoo! News: "Yale celebrates Noah Webster's 250th birthday By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press Writer
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive 'dictionary of the American language.'"