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Vor 11 Stunden · Thomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. He was a man of many talents, including being a lawyer, architect, inventor, and philosopher.
Vor 11 Stunden · Thomas Jefferson was a prominent figure in American history, known for his contributions to the nation as a Founding Father, statesman, and third President o...
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Vor 11 Stunden · Thomas Jefferson writes to Benjamin Rush (16 Jan. 1811) of two singular incidents on a singular occasion—a dinner party at his residence in New York with Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Edmund Randolph as his guests. The gathering was at the behest of President Washington, who was then at Mount Vernon, who asked Jefferson to gather the ...
Vor 11 Stunden · Eventually, Thomas shipped out as part of the 5th Marine Division, a group destined to land on an island at the edge of Japanese territory - Iwo Jima. “It was hell,” Sledge said.
When Jefferson excavated a serpent-shaped mound in Virginia in the 1780s and found artifacts at that mound, he eventually cast doubt on assumptions that serpent-shaped mounds like the one in Ohio could have been made by Phoenicians or other foreign peoples, deducing that the mounds were a reminder of the Native American peoples having the capability to build prehistoric earthworks in the ...
Vor 11 Stunden · This advancement also sets the stage for three-dimensional imaging of the proton structure. Joseph Karpie, a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics (Theory Center) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, led this groundbreaking research.
28. Mai 2024 · We celebrate the work of editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block—better known as “Herblock”—with an ongoing display of ten original drawings that change every six months, drawn from the Library’s extensive Herbert L. Block Collection. Each new installation looks back at the world 50 years before through Block’s incisive cartoons.
