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George Mason's coat of arms. Mason was born in present-day Fairfax County, in the Colony of Virginia, in British America, on December 11, 1725. [1] [2] [3] Mason's parents owned property in Mason Neck, Virginia and a second property across the Potomac River in Maryland, which had been inherited by his mother.
Bronze sculpture of James Otis Jr. in front of the Barnstable County Courthouse. James Otis Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was an American Lawyer, political activist, colonial legislator, and early supporter of patriotic causes in Massachusetts Bay Colony at the beginning of the Revolutionary Era.
Title page of Wessely's Divrei Shalom ve-Emet (Berlin, 1782). Wessely was an advocate of the educational and social reforms outlined in Emperor Joseph II's Toleranzedict.He even risked his reputation for piety by publishing a manifesto in eight chapters, entitled Divrei Shalom ve-Emet ('Words of Peace and Truth'), in which he emphasized the necessity for secular instruction, as well as for ...
Howard was born probably in 1725 and grew up in Rhode Island where his family had moved in 1726. Although raised a Baptist, he became active in the Anglican Church in Newport. Elected to the assembly in 1756, he served on the committee that revised the colony's laws in 1760.
Michael Oluwasegun Kazeem came to America on a student visa, but he would ultimately be a key figure in a criminal conspiracy that used personal information on over 250,000 people to obtain the ...
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Paoli was born in the hamlet of Stretta, Morosaglia commune, part of the ancient parish of Rostino, Haute-Corse, Corsica.He was the second son of the physician and patriot Giacinto Paoli, who was to become one of three "Generals of the People" in the Corsican nationalist movement that rebelled against rule by the Republic of Genoa, which at that time they regarded as corrupt and tyrannical.