Tuesday, February 3, 2009

AS SEEN ON TV: TOM PAINE

All this week we're showcasing the cartoon series 'Liberty's Kids', in which the young heroes interacted with the historical figures of the American Revolution, all in the Tooniverse.

Today we're featuring Tom Paine, the incendiary pamphleteer.
Here's what Wikipedia says of him:

Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was a British pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, and intellectual. He lived and worked in Britain until age 37, when he emigrated to the British American colonies, in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contribution was the powerful, widely-read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and of The American Crisis (1776–1783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series.

BCnU!
Toby O'B

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