How the Post Office Made America

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Music is "Another Version of You" by Chris Zabriskie

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Animation by Josh Sherrington (https://www.youtube.com/heliosphere)
Sound by Graham Haerther (http://www.Haerther.net)
Thumbnail by Joseph Cieplinski (http://joec.design)
Research by William Mayne

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