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Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist (died 1809)
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Thomas Paine
American philosopher and author (1737–1809)
Thomas Paine was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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