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If you're not a native speaker, you're probably also not as well versed in the folklore of the US revolution. Paul Revere is a popular hero of the US revolution, so using him as the target terrorist invokes "one mans terrorist is another mans patriot" argument at the same time as it demonstrates the usage of metadata.

And it cuts doubly, because a lot of the tactics of the rebels were what we would call terrorism these days - tarring-and-feathering is simple torture and terror tactics.

Indeed I didn't know about him, thanks.

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