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I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

Alexander Graham Bell

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Alexander Graham Bell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: March 3
Died: 1922
Died: August 2
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