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href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.shtml" class="about">The Real Story of Revere's Ride</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><a href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/virtual.shtml" class="about">Virtual Midnight Ride</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><a href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/recreate.shtml" class="about">Recreate the Midnight Ride</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><a href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/words.shtml" class="about">Revere's Own Words</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><a href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/poem.shtml" class="about">Longfellow's Poem</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><a href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/images.shtml" class="about">Images of Revere's Ride</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><a href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/poem/" class="about">Paul Revere's Ride - MP3 Audio</a></td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="tan"> <tr valign="top"> <td class="rline"><img src="/web/20080701114849im_/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/images/clear.gif" alt="" width="10" height="1" border="0"/></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" width="100%" class="tan"> <tr valign="top"> <td align="left"> <p class="credits"> <a href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/">Home</a>  |  <a href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/about/">About the House</a>  |  <a href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/bio/">Paul Revere Biography</a>  |  <a href="/web/20080701114849/http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/">The Midnight Ride</a>  |  <a 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