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Today, January 10th, is the 232nd anniversary of the 1776 publishing of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
It’s hard to overestimate the importance of Common Sense in convincing the general public of the American Colonies that they should be independent of Great Britain.
As noted in the wikipedia.org article linked above, between 150,000 and 600,000 copies of it were distributed. With a population
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