" The Mayflower landed in 1620,” Owen pointed out. “There were European settlements in North America before then, more than a few of them, but we’ll let that go for now. Things really started moving toward revolution with the Stamp Act, which was in in 1765. There’s a hundred and forty-five years between those dates. It was a hundred and forty-five years between the second inauguration of George Washington and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and I think a few events happened in between those two. "

― John Michael Greer , The Weird of Hali: Chorazin