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Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 to September 22, 1776) was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. It is said that he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British and executed. Of course, no one knows what Hale really looked like; and his intelligence-gathering mission, and eventual capture and execution by the British, are recorded in only one account written by a man called Consider Tiffany, a Connecticut shopkeeper and Loyalist. According to Tiffany, Major Robert Rogers of the Queen's Rangers saw Hale in a tavern and recognized him. After luring Hale into betraying his allegiance by pretending to be a Patriot himself, Rogers and his Rangers apprehended Hale near Flushing Bay in Queens, New York. Another story is that Hale's cousin, a Loyalist named Samuel Hale, was the one who revealed his true identity.

Adapted from Wikipedia.

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The museum's Wikipedia entry states that "The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University is among the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history museums in the world". It fails to mention, however, that not many universities around the world have their own natural history museum. ;)

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