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   simpsonfan2 said, 4 months ago

   And they both died July 4, 1826.
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   caller49 said, 4 months ago

   That’s one good thing about back then, they didn’t need a spellchecker, they spelled pretty well.
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   Prof danglais said, 4 months ago

   @caller49

   Interesting to know when unnecessary expletives, such as “pretty, quite etc” came into common usage too, and why.
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   win said, 4 months ago

   @simpsonfan2

   Just before a reconciliation by letter after many years of ignoring one another.
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   J. Short said, 4 months ago

   That papers due by the 4th.
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   whmIII said, 4 months ago

   Too bad it’s not read as much these days…
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   briatollah said, 4 months ago

   I could never figure out the rule for the “s” letter that looks like “f”. Good thing it was abolished.
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   Chikuku said, 4 months ago

   Benjamin Franklin wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. Tom Jefferson revised it. Adams was not a part of the process.
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   lifebyc said, 4 months ago

   @Chikuku

   Adams not part of it?! What are you talking about??!! Wiki (and vetted):
   While political maneuvering was setting the stage for an official declaration of independence, a document explaining the decision was being written. On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a “Committee of Five”, consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration. Because the committee left no minutes, there is some uncertainty about how the drafting process proceeded—accounts written many years later by Jefferson and Adams, although frequently cited, are contradictory and not entirely reliable.⁶⁰ What is certain is that the committee, after discussing the general outline that the document should follow, decided that Jefferson would write the first draft.⁶¹ The committee in general, and Jefferson in particular, thought Adams should write the document, but Adams persuaded the committee to choose Jefferson and promised to consult with Jefferson personally.² Considering Congress’s busy schedule, Jefferson probably had limited time for writing over the next seventeen days, and likely wrote the draft quickly.⁶² He then consulted the others, made some changes, and then produced another copy incorporating these alterations. The committee presented this copy to the Congress on June 28, 1776. The title of the document was “A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled.”⁶³
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    flake-67121 said, 4 months ago

    don’t bother, they’re old dead white guys, nothing they had to say matters to Americans today.
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    whmIII said, 4 months ago

    @flake-67121

    Unfortunately…
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    K M said, 4 months ago

    @Prof danglais

    Those aren’t expletives, they’re modifiers.
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    simpsonfan2 said, 4 months ago

    @win

    Jefferson died a few hours before Adams, though Adams didn’t know. No phone/twitter/etc.
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