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Hace 13 horas · Raskin citó a Thomas Paine, mientras le pedía a los activistas trabajar duro para las elecciones de noviembre. “Cuanto más difícil sea la lucha, más gloriosa será al final nuestra victoria.
Hace 1 día · On today’s date in 1995, an opera by American composer Amy Beach received its first professional production at Lincoln Center in New York City — 63 years after Beach completed it in the summer of 1932. Beach was 65 years old in 1932 and for years had wanted to write an opera on an American theme. She settled on a play by Nan Bagby Stephens ...
Hace 1 día · We all remember Hans Christian Andersen’s folktale ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ in which charlatans convince the vain Emperor that only clever people can see the clothes they make for him. Everyone goes along with this delusion for fear of looking stupid, including the Emperor’s advisers. Until, that is, they parade through the town ...
Hace 4 horas · The course is known for its spectacular 19th hole, which was the backdrop for an incredible par-3 contest during the site’s debut, when Woods, Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose squared off in the Payne’s Valley Cup. But this week, the course was making the social media rounds for something far more dangerous — a tornado that ...
Hace 1 día · Thomas Paine Park - 5.13.24 NYC 2.35pm Monday afternoon - ambient view
Hace 4 días · In January 1776, despite the battles at Lexington and Concord and Bunker (Breeds) Hill, most colonists continued to regard themselves as loyal subjects of King George III. Their argument had been with Parliament, not the king. In Common Sense, however. Paine pointed out the foolishness of remaining loyal to the king and part of the British Empire.
Hace 1 día · “Thomas Paine proposed a type of basic income in his 1776 pamphlet ‘Common Sense,’” author Megan Greenwell stated, adding that the concept gained traction in the 1960s among Black American thinkers ranging from the Black Panthers to Martin Luther King Jr.
