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Robert Borden's Siberian adventure if, as it is said, Canada was born in the trenches of World War I, then she took her first steps as an independent power in -- of all places -- Siberia.
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It was a strange new world to A.D. Braithwaite, yet it had familiarity. As the former assistant general manager of the Bank of Montreal neared the "Lord of the East" -- Vladivostok -- from the deck of the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan, he was struck with its resemblance to the hills of San Francisco. Yet he deemed the Russian harbour one of greater beauty. Once ashore, Braithwaite withdrew his adulation. He was repulsed by the filth of the busy city, claiming "again and always dirt and filth" covered residents and their possessions alike. He made his way through ...
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The Thomas Paine Society. (Frontline).
Magazine article from: History Today
; THOMAS PAINE, the great radical, democrat and secularist...Saturday to June 8th, members of the Thomas Paine Society (TPS) gather at noon at the...between a republican and a monarchist. Thomas Paine was an outspoken republican and his arguments...
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Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature
; Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution EDWARD...Revolutionary Era have likely heard of Thomas Paine or Common Sense. Perhaps they even know...In light of this, Edward Larkin's Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution comes...
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Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the...2006. Pp. xv, 396. $27.95.) Thomas Paine is periodically rediscovered as the...prose generally flows easily. He is no Thomas Paine as a stylist, but readers will appreciate...
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The lost founder: Thomas Paine has often been the forgotten (and sometimes the ostracized) Founding Father. It's time to start remembering--and celebrating.
Magazine article from: The American Prospect
; ...calling forth the revolutionary, Thomas Paine, and quoting Paine's words...Washington, Benjamin Franklin, or Thomas Jefferson. Paine had never really been admitted...Britain's Industrial Revolution, Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable...
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Times that try men's souls ; BIOGRAPHY ++ Thomas Paine By Craig Nelson PROFILE [pound]20
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...genuinely intimate biography of Thomas Paine is not an easy task. Most of his...ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine". These and other curmudgeons...out in various ways to destroy Thomas Paine, and with him dangerous notions...
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Thomas Paine 'ignited the Revolution'?
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register
; Let us think about Thomas Paine this Fourth of July. President...will ascribe the Revolution to Thomas Paine." Paine, however, has never...Presidents George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. Arguably Paine was the Founding Father most...
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Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...even an iconoclastic thinker like Thomas Paine was a "product of his time as much...republican, and Enlightenment roots of Paine's rhetoric and ideology have been...Fruchtman adds another dimension to Paine's persona: that of secular preacher...
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Ruby Dee to join parks celebration of 250th anniversary of Thomas Paine's birth. (NEWS ADVISORY)
PR Newswire
; ...CELEBRATION OF 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THOMAS PAINE'S BIRTH, THURSDAY, JAN. 29...Revolutionary leader and writer Thomas Paine, Parks Commissioner Henry J...his honor at the rededication of Thomas Paine Park, located at Centre and Pearl...
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 "The Capital Times (Madison, WI)")
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THOMAS PAINE SPEAKS TO OUR PREDICAMENT.(WISCONSIN BOOK FEST)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
; ...fine new book of observations by Thomas Paine, the revolutionary pamphleteer...Citizen Paine," reminded us that Thomas Paine does indeed speak to our present...however wrong they may be." Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government...
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 "The Washington Times (Washington, DC)")
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Free radical; Thomas Paine sparked revolution on both sides of the Atlantic.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
; ...the times that try men's souls. Thomas Paine's familiar exhortation forms the...polarizing figure during his lifetime. Paine won early praise for his defense...controversial positions. In modern times, Paine's writings about ridding the world...
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