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Thomas Paine meets Snoopy in this Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz from August 01, 1999. See more at thomaspaine.org

During World War II, the American government sold War Bonds to the public using the words of Thomas Paine to rally the public. This is an advertisement from the January 22, 1943 edition of the Washington Daily News. See more at https://thomaspaine.org/gallery/

If to love your fellowmen more than self is goodness, Thomas Paine was good. If to be in advance of your time—to be a pioneer in the direction of right—is greatness, Thomas Paine was great. If to avow your principles and discharge your duty in the presence of death is heroic, Thomas Paine was a hero.

This Sunday is Thomas Paine Day in New Rochelle, NY. Celebrate Paine’s legacy on the 217th anniversary of his death at the Thomas Paine Historical Association annual gathering. More info here: https://thomaspaine.org/about/events/

A new free peer-reviewed essay "Ink, Imagination and Algorithm: Returning to Common Sense" by Lyne Hervey-Passée from the latest edition of Studies in Thomas Paine, a publication produced by the Thomas Paine Historical Association. https://thomaspaine.org/newsletters/

See a Thomas Paine reenactor character in spirited and lengthy imaginary debate with Teddy Roosevelt, Cleopatra and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Steve Allen moderates the debate on the first ever episode of "Meeting Of Minds", a television series which aired on PBS from 1977 to 1981. Paine appears somewhere around the 26 minute mark and dominates the conversation from there. This portrays Paine very positively although is not 100% accurate.

J.Kam 1.5K likes, 266 comments. "Meeting Of Minds with Steve Allen, Season 01 Episode 01"

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"Calais Pier" is a 1803 painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner of the French port of Calais. Thomas Paine arrived at the Calais in September 1792 fleeing his impending arrest in England for seditious libel he published Rights of Man. See more at https://thomaspaine.org/gallery/thomas-paine-a-life-in-images/

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