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Wikipedia: Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in Thetford, England, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely-read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American Crisis (1776–1783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series.
![[Plaque at Paine's original burial location in New Rochelle, New York]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/01_Paine_burial_location_s.jpg "Plaque at Paine's original burial location in New Rochelle, New York")
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![[Plaque at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, East Sussex, south east England]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/White_Hart_Paine_plaque_s.jpg "Plaque at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, East Sussex, south east England")
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![[In 1969, a Prominent Americans series stamp honoring Paine was issued.]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/ThomasPaineStamp1969.jpg "In 1969, a Prominent Americans series stamp honoring Paine was issued.")
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![[Oil painting by Laurent Dabos, circa 1791]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Thomas_Paine_by_Laurent_Dabos_crop_s.jpg "Oil painting by Laurent Dabos, circa 1791")
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![[Portrait of Thomas Paine by Matthew Pratt, 1785-1795]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Thomas_Paine_by_Matthew_Pratt_2C_1785_95_s.jpg "Portrait of Thomas Paine by Matthew Pratt, 1785-1795")
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![[Common Sense, published in 1776]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Commonsense_s.jpg "Common Sense, published in 1776")
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