" Congress dismissed Paine, and by public resolution denied having received such aid, resolving that " His Most Christian Majesty, the great and generous ally of the United States, did not preface his alliance with any supplies whatever sent to America.

Despite all of these attacks, Paine never wavered in his beliefs ; when he was dying, a woman came to visit him, claiming that God had instructed her to save his soul.

The town is the location of several significant historic buildings, including Lewes Castle, the remains of Lewes Priory, Bull House ( the former home of Tom Paine ), Southover Grange and public gardens, and a sixteenth century timber-framed Wealden hall house known as Anne of Cleves House because it was given to her as part of her divorce settlement from Henry VIII, though she never lived there.

American revolutionary Thomas Paine advocated a basic income guarantee to all US citizens as compensation for " loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property " ( Agrarian Justice, 1795 ).

* Niece of William Cameron, Ruth Forbes Paine Young tapped her Forbes family inheritance to finance the International Peace Academy ..

And in her home town of Augusta, Georgia, she serves on the Board of Trustees of Paine College and the Augusta Opera Association.

During her time in the freethought movement in the mid and late 1880s, de Cleyre was especially influenced by Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Clarence Darrow.

He was married to Amanda Burdette until her death ; they had one son: Paine Denson.

Ruth Hyde Paine ( born September 3, 1932 ) was a friend of Marina Oswald, who was living with her at the time of the JFK assassination.

Lee Harvey Oswald stored the 6. 5 mm caliber Carcano rifle he allegedly used to assassinate US President John F. Kennedy in her garage, unbeknownst to her and her husband, Michael Paine.

Through her interest in folk dancing and music she met her future husband Michael Paine.

While discussions of her in mainstream press and publications have generally been kind, conspiracy theorists often depict the Paines in a negative light, attempting to connect them to various conspiracies going back generations since Michael Paine ’ s relatives and ancestors held important government and business positions.

Ruth had also separated from her husband, Michael Paine, at about the same time.

These included Edward MacDowell and his wife ; American pianist William Mason, son of Lowell Mason, who played the grand piano in her salon daily ; and John Knowles Paine, America's first serious composer of note.

Upon graduation in 1990, she was awarded the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship, which took her to The Netherlands, where she completed her Masters Degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Theo Loevendie as her

Living with her aunt Mary Paine, Kelsey studied for about ten years.

Paine takes this argument even further, maintaining that the same rules of logic and standards of evidence that govern the analysis of secular texts should be applied to the Bible.

Since Hume had already made many of the same " moral attacks upon Christianity " that Paine popularized in The Age of Reason, scholars have concluded that Paine probably read Hume's works on religion or had at least heard about them through the Joseph Johnson circle.

At the same time James Paine designed the new bridge to the north of the house, which was set at an angle of 40 degrees to command the best view of the West Front of the house.

According to an account by Elbert Hubbard in the same volume ( p. 314 ), Paine organized " the Bank of North America to raise money to feed and clothe the army, and performed sundry and various services for the colonies.

Paine is Danny O ' Brien's friend, and a former reporter at the Mountain Monitor who was fired for the same reason as O ' Brien.

He had been studying Russian with Paine at his school, St. Mark's in Dallas, where he also developed his taste for theatre, joining the same drama group as Tommy Lee Jones.

Paine criticizes the tyrannical actions of the Church as he had those of governments in the Rights of Man and Common Sense, stating that " the Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient Mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue.

" Although many early English deists had relied on ridicule to attack the Bible and Christianity, theirs was a refined wit rather than the broad humor Paine employed.

Paine wrote that " the people of France were running headlong into atheism and I had the work translated into their own language, to stop them in that career, and fix them to the first article.

Before Paine it had been possible to be both a Christian and a deist ; now such a religious outlook became virtually untenable.

Paine, who had only recently arrived in the colonies from England, argued in favor of colonial independence, advocating republicanism as an alternative to monarchy and hereditary rule.

In 1759, Thomas Paine had his home and shop in a house at 20 New Street, Sandwich.

Prior to this trip NASA administrator Thomas O. Paine had approached Collins and said that Secretary of State William P. Rogers was interested in appointing Collins to the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.

Paine also had Flat Rock Camp, his summer retreat on the shores of Lake Champlain, constructed for his family.

Such foreign banking companies had acquired several medium sized securities firms ( such as UBS acquiring Paine Webber and Credit Suisse acquiring Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette ).

They had an ally in American Founding Father Thomas Paine.

* In Tom Paine Maru ( 1984 ), entrepreneurs of the Confederacy travel from world to world, exploring the various kinds of messes made by the Federalists who had been shifted back in time and scattered at random over the universe at the conclusion of The Venus Belt.

Bad weather delayed Longmore from assessing his new pupil, and before the weather improved, the School's Commandant, Captain Godfrey Paine RN had co-opted Trenchard to the permanent staff.

In response to the changing conditions, corporations that had sponsored in-house venture investment arms, including General Electric and Paine Webber either sold off or closed these venture capital units.

The new bridge was designed by James Paine who had previously been responsible for Richmond Bridge.

Three years later he would, against the advice of his friends, take on the defence of Thomas Paine who had been charged with seditious libel after the publication of the second part of his Rights of Man.

Erskine's decision to defend Paine cost him his position as attorney-general ( legal advisor ) to the Prince of Wales, to which he had been appointed in 1786.

Laurens and Paine accused Morris of war profiteering in 1779, and Willing had voted against the Declaration of Independence.

Since leaving NASA fifteen years earlier, Dr. Paine had been a vocal spokesman for an expansive view of what should be done in space.

Paine had lodged with the Bonnevilles in France and was godfather to Benjamin and his two brothers, Louis and Thomas.