Thomas+Paine

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=__Thomas Paine__ =
 * 1737: Born January 29 in Thetford, England
 * 1749: at the age of 12, Thomas Paine failed out of school
 * 1749-1755: age 12-19, Thomas Paine apprenticed his father, a corseter
 * 1755-1768: Paine went to sea
 * 1768: tax officer in England
 * 1772: published //"The Case of the Officers of Excise"// which demanded a pay raise for officers
 * 1774: emigrated to Philadelphia
 * 1776: published //"Common Sense"//
 * 1776-1783: traveled with the Continental Army and published //"the Crisis"//
 * 1783-1791: returned to Europe and worked on new inventions
 * 1791-1792: published //"The Rights of Man"// in response to the French Revolution
 * 1793: imprisoned in France
 * 1794-1796: published //"The Age of Reason"//, an anti-church text
 * 1794-1802: freed from prison and remained in France
 * 1802-1809: resided in America, discovered his religous views had caused his social life to fall apart
 * 1809: died on June 8 in New York City at the age of 72
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