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I'm a retired electrical engineer. My working years were spent as a power engineer for a major electric utility. Most of this work was spent as a substation designer. Some years were spent designing, building and operating of electric power distribution.

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Arts & Humanities > Colonial & Early American Understanding the historical significance of the Mayflower Compact

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UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT The Mayflower Compact is a document that has been hailed as the forerunner to the American Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. To understand this we must turn back the clock to a storm tossed day on the north Atlantic in the year 1620. As the Mayflower neared the new world, her master Christopher Jones became more concerned about his passengers. They were nearly 10 weeks into a voyage that should have ended in the summer time. It was now November. Because of the innumerable delays leaving Europe, they...

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