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Commentary: Gratitude in 2019 for Billie Eilish, Chance the Rapper and the guy who invented heated seats

In addition to the customary gratitude we feel on Thanksgiving for family, friends and good health, it is likewise appropriate to convey thanks, some long overdue, to certain individuals for their successful efforts to improve our daily lives.

Who does not feel boundless gratitude, for example, to the inventor of the first snowblower? Way back in 1925, Arthur Sicard of Montreal (where else?) patented the Sicard Snow Remover Blower that vacuumed and shot out the white stuff through two

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