Happy Birthday, Tom Paine.
January 29, 2025 -- 288 years today.
January 29, 1737 - June 8, 1809
With the respect and affection for the greatest of the revolutionary era patriots - a real patriot — a lover of mankind and of the earth — and one of the greatest and best human beings to share this planet.
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Happy Birthday Tom. You’ll be at the head of the table with so many fine men and women in my dream dinner in the eternal. KWB
Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Thetford Norfolk England. When the Gregorian calendar went into effect, his date pf birth technically became March 8, but January 29 is the birthdate observed worldwide.
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Judah Freed., editor, The Beacon, a bimonthly from the Thomas Paine Historical Association. Author of the award-winning book, Making Global Sense: Grounded hope for democracy and the earth, inspired by Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.