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To: Tanniker Smith; SoFloFreeper; Borges

Paine was English.

He was certainly a US citizen (eventually) and influenced Americans, as he did the English & the French, but he could be found just as easily on a list of Influential Englishmen as Influential Americans


141 posted on 11/22/2006 9:05:40 AM PST by Diggadave (Omlette making lessons?)
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To: Diggadave; Christopher Lincoln

True, but people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were technically "British," too!


143 posted on 11/22/2006 9:07:47 AM PST by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Diggadave

Ummmm, did he get his green card and naturalize eventually??


163 posted on 11/22/2006 9:36:43 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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