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He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

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Lewis Mumford
Age: 94 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 19
Died: 1990
Died: January 26
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Historian Of Technology
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