Alexander Hamilton saw Britain as the most obvious trading partner for the US.
(Possibly because of the distance between US and Britain.)
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Egyptians associated death with the west and buried their pharaohs on the Nile's west bank. Egyptians preferred to stay on the east bank of the Nile at night, because they believed the spirits of the dead lived on the west bank. Osiris was the god of the afterlife.
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The least honored profession in early colonial society was... medicine.
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