Earth Quake in Washington, D.C., Tetonic plates or Gigant Tortoise...

WinterBorn said:
Nietzsche has been dead for over 110 years. Not sure why you thought Jack Nitzsche had anything to do with this.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is that what the pinhead thought ?.....Damn, I should take him off ignore just for the laughs..................................................NOT !
 
Carter Braxton's mother died at his birth, and when he was 13 years old, his father died. He attended the College of William and Mary, but dropped out after one year to marry Judith Robinson, who died two years later, in 1756, giving birth to their second child. A few years later, he would remarry, to Elizabeth Corbin, and with her he would have sixteen more children. He had a prosperous and pleasant life, owning several plantations and going into various business ventures with Robert Morris (of Pennsylvania; another signer) and other prominent merchants.

In 1761, he became a member of the House of Burgesses, where he served until 1771, and again in 1775. In 1775, he became a member of the Virginia delegation to the Second Continental Congress. The American Revolution threatened his comfortable way of life, so for a long time he was uncertain about independence. As late as April 14, 1776, he wrote a letter to his uncle saying that he believed America was not ready for independence. A month later, in May 17, 1776, he wrote another letter to his uncle stating that America "with one united voice" should seek independence. He came to believe that the country would be harmed if Congress appeared to be divided over the issue of independence, so he voted for independence, signed the Declaration, and then left Congress to return the next year. Back in Virginia, he supported a bill to recruit slaves to fight for the Revolution, to be given freedom in exchange for their service. The bill was defeated, but Braxton then embraced the effort to win American freedom, and purchased supplies for the army out of his own pocket.

He was a member of the Continental Congress and the Congress of the Confederation, from 1775 to 1776 and 1777 to 1783, and again in 1785. Later in life, he made some poor business decisions, and lost most of his fortune, and in 1797, he suffered a stroke and died at the age of 61.

He is buried at Chericoke, in Prince William County, Virginia.

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Benjamin V. Harrison was the father of 9th US President William Henry Harrison (1773 – 1841) and the Great-Grandfather of 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (1833 – 1901). Born in Charles City County, Virginia, he attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, but left the college before graduating, returning home to manage his family estate after his father was killed by lightning. Soon after his return home, he married Elizabeth Bassett, with whom he would have seven children.


At age 23, he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he served for the next twenty-five years. Elected to the First Continental Congress in 1774, he shared a house in Philadelphia with fellow Virginian George Washington. Harrison would serve in the First and Second Continental Congresses, from 1774 to 1777. A large man at 6 feet 4 inches and 240 pounds, Harrison once picked up the much smaller John Hancock and set him on the President’s chair, quipping “We will show Mother Britain how little we care for her by making a Massachusetts man our president.” As Chairman of the Committee for the Whole, he presided over the debates that resulted in the Declaration of Independence.


Harrison was 50 years old when he signed the Declaration of Independence. While in Congress, he helped establish the three major governmental departments of War, the Navy, and the State Department. Leaving Congress in the fall of 1777, he returned to Virginia, where he served as Governor from 1781 to 1784. Near the end of the war, he had to flee to the interior of Virginia to avoid being captured by the British Army.


Leaving politics, he returned to his family’s estate and died there in 1791 at the age of 64. He is buried at Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Virginia.

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Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, was a philosopher, statesman, scholar, attorney, planter, architect, violinist, writer, and natural scientist who wished to be remembered as the author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and as the founder of the University of Virginia. Born of a moderately well-off planter family Jefferson was early imbued by his father Peter with a love both of nature and of books though by contrast he was to describe his mother Jane, a descendent of the noted Randolph family of Virginia, as a "zero sum" in his life. He studied with two private schoolmasters, the Reverend William Douglas for whom he had little use and the Reverend James Maury, later plaintiff in the famous Parson's Cause case, for whom he was to have profound respect all his life. After Peter Jefferson's sudden death in 1757 left him "completely on his own" he entered the College of William and Mary in 1760 and applied himself to his studies while begining the collection of his eventually massive library. (Jefferson's meticulous record of his purchases in which he noted not only the book but the edition and printing number has enabled modern scholars to reconstruct his library at Monticello).


While at college he met and frequently dined with three men who taught him Enlightenment Philosophy and altered the course of his thought and life: Governor Francis Fauquier, attorney and scholar George Wythe, and professor William Small. The March 1764 rejection of his romantic advances to Rebecca Burwell triggered the first bout of Jefferson's famous headaches which were to reoccur in times of stress until his 1809 retirement from the White House; the precise diagnosis remains unclear with some authorities speculating a migraine variant though others say tension headaches. He later read law with Wythe, was admitted to the bar in 1767, and despite being shy and a poor public speaker was a successful attorney in the various county courts on the judicial circuit. (When compared with his then-friend, and sometimes legal rival, it was said that "Patrick Henry speaks to the heart, Jefferson to the mind").


Jefferson was elected to the House of Burgesses from Albemarle County in 1768 and while in Williamsburg he met, around 1770, a wealthy widow named Martha Wayles Skelton. The couple married on New Years' Day 1772 and set up life at Jefferson's under-construction new home at Monticello. "Patty" Jefferson was never very healthy, and six pregnancies in ten years (only the daughters Patsy and Polly would survive to adulthood), completely destroyed her strength; she died in 1782 leaving Jefferson prostrated for weeks. He published "A Summary View of the Rights of British America" in 1774, setting forth his view that loyalty was owed only to the Crown, not to Parliament; this was much further on the road to independence..."the God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time"... than the public was then ready to travel. After serving in the Continental Congress of 1775 he was returned in 1776 and tasked with writing the Declaration of Independence after Benjamin Franklin declined; the work was not generally known as Jefferson's until later, he resented certain of the revisions for the remainder his life, and the precise meanings of some phrases are still debated. Returning home he was assigned the job, along with Edmund Pendleton and George Wythe, of revising the laws of Virginia; success mixed with failure...he got rid of entail and primogeniture (laws affecting inheritance), and limited capital punishment which he had wanted to abolish, but his 1779 Bill Establishing Religious Freedom was stalled until James Madison pushed it through in 1786.


Jefferson served two thoroughly miserable one year terms as Governor of Virginia during which time the capital was moved to Richmond; an investigation of his conduct in escaping from British troops resulted in the final, permanent, and probably unjustified, rupture of his relationship with Patrick Henry. Jefferson received one of his proudest honors, election to the Philadelphia-based American Philosophical Society, of which he was to serve as president fron 1797 until 1815, in 1780, while in 1782 he began work on "Notes on the State of Virginia", his only published book which was released in France in 1785 and in England in 1787. In 1785 he was sent to Paris as the American Minister where thru correspondence he kept up on events...of Shay's 1787 Rebellion, he wrote that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants from time to time"... but he was denied an active hand in the framing of the Constitution. In August of 1786 he met, thru painter Jonathan Trumbull, the beautiful married artist Maria Cosway with either an illicit romance or merely an improper friendship of short duration resulting. During one of their escapades Jefferson fractured his right wrist and had problems with it ever after while the end of the affair brought forth the famous "My Head and My Heart" letter, still one of Jefferson's most studied writings; for whatever reason the relationship was not renewed on Maria's subsequent visits to Paris, though letters would be exchanged over the years.


Returning to America in 1789 for what he thought would be a brief stay he was appointed the first Secretary of State and was to be completely unhappy in the job; his document on weights and measures which would have put the United States on the metric system was rejected, his successful 1790 mediation of the assumption-location controversy between Madison and Hamilton, which placed the nation's capital in its present location while making the federal government responsible for the states' Revolutionary War debts, led to another lifelong regret, and his advice to meet the Barbary pirates with military force rather than with negotiation and ransom would have to wait until he was President. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton frequently undercut him by secretly feeding classified information to British representative George Hammond, the 1793 "Citizen Genet Affair" strained his devotion to France, while hatred for Hamilton, and a growing rupture with John Adams, and, to a lesser extent, George Washington, resulted in his founding, with Madison, of the Republican Party. Jefferson retired to Monticello at the end of 1793 but was called upon to run for President in 1796; getting the second-highest vote total he became Adams' Vice President and was again miserable, forced to fight the Alien and Sedition Acts at personal risk. In 1800 he again opposed Adams in probably the nastiest campaign in American history. Called a "howling atheist", he remained silent. (Jefferson's religion, like much else, was private, with views expressed in terms the definition of which were known only to him; a life-long Anglican, he was not an atheist, and was probably either a Deist or a Unitarian).


Narrowly defeating Adams, and after a House of Representatives fight with his running mate Aaron Burr, he became the third President of the United States. Following a conciliatory inaugural address his first term was filled with triumph....the Louisiana Purchase, the starting of the Lewis and Clark expedition; the second saw mostly trouble...the Aaron Burr treason trial of 1807 which transformed his relations with John Marshall from courteous mutual dislike to blind hatred, and the failed trade embargo against England.


Retiring to Monticello, he renewed, at the behest of Dr. Benjamin Rush, his friendship and correspondence with John Adams. Jefferson was essentially broke for his last 50 years, spending too much on Monticello, lavish entertaining, food, wine, and, mostly, books; in 1814, he negotiated the sale of his 6,487 volume library for $23,950 to replace the Library of Congress burned by the British, though stating "I cannot live without books" he was to acquire another roughly 1,000 prior to his death. In 1819 Jefferson saw his final dream realized when the Legislature approved the University of Virginia; he designed the buildings, hired the professors, and saw the first students admitted in 1825.


Reasonably healthy, albeit with some chronic urinary problems, for what was then considered far advanced age, he functioned fairly well until his last few months and died on the 50th. anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of a chronic gastric problem, probably cancer.

He is buried at Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia.


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Mott the Hoople said:
No doubt. Getting hard to walk with all his ankle biting.
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LOL.... you are such a coward. You challenged the fact, then when presented with the question as I did, you ran away.

Now if you truly wish to refer to the absurd, shall we look back at your 'getting under my skin' moment on the flat tax thread? Fucking retard from Ohio.
 
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