The wombat editorial staff will be engaged in a full-day training seminar with the Young Marsupials League, so hints, should they be needed, will come with less frequency today.

A year after the British captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch, Governor Nicolls of New York created the first facility dedicated to this business in the future U.S. Issuing a statement that he hoped this would help correct a disturbing "neglect" in the colonial development of this industry, he also cautioned that it should not be seen as intended "for the divertissement of youth." By the next century, students at the Wombat alma mater were forbidden "under Pain of ye severest Animadversion and Punishment" from taking part in capital investments in this industry. By the time of the revolution, 27 businesses in Virginia alone were dedicated to supplying one of the basic resources for participation.

What did Governor Nicolls establish in 1688?

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