Feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft was influenced by the radical thinker Thomas Paine.

In the 2000s, the atheist Richard Dawkins referring, like Paine, to the incident at, concluded, " No, Moses was not a great role model for modern moralists.

In 1930, Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Royal Infirmary in Sheffield, attempted to use penicillin to treat sycosis barbae, eruptions in beard follicles, but was unsuccessful, probably because the drug did not penetrate the skin deeply enough.

Deism was a religious philosophy in common currency in colonial times, and some Founding Fathers ( most notably Thomas Paine, who was an explicit proponent of it, and Benjamin Franklin, who spoke of it in his Autobiography ) are identified more or less with this system.

The Angel, Islington was formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man.

* Who was Thomas Paine?

His will was executed by his good friend Augustus G. Paine, Sr. from New York.

Describing the Bible as " fabulous mythology ", Paine questions whether or not it was revealed to its writers and doubts that the original writers can ever be known ( he dismisses the idea that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, for example ).

Using methods that would not become common in Biblical scholarship until the nineteenth century, Paine tested the Bible for internal consistency and questioned its historical accuracy, concluding that it was not divinely inspired.

The " history of wickedness " pervading the Old Testament convinced Paine that it was simply another set of human-authored myths.

More of an influence on Paine than Hume, however, was Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-politicus ( 1678 ).

In the eighteenth century " vulgarity " was associated with the middling and lower classes and not with obscenity ; thus, when Paine celebrates his " vulgar " style and his critics attack it, the dispute is over class accessibility, not profanity.

" 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.

It was the early Deists of the middling ranks, and not the educated elite, who initiated the kind of ridicule Paine would make famous.

Paine acknowledged that he was indebted to his Quaker background for his skepticism, but the Quakers ' esteem for plain speaking, a value expressed both explicitly and implicitly in The Age of Reason, influenced his writing even more.

He contends that Paine draws on the Puritan tradition in which " theology was wedded to politics and politics to the progress of the kingdom of God ".

There were four major factors for this animosity: Paine denied that the Bible was a sacred, inspired text ; he argued that Christianity was a human invention ; his ability to command a large readership frightened those in power ; and his irreverent and satirical style of writing about Christianity and the Bible offended many believers.

Hailed only a few years earlier as a hero of the American Revolution, Paine was now lambasted in the press and called " the scavenger of faction ", a " lilly-livered sinical rogue ", a " loathsome reptile ", a " demi-human archbeast ", " an object of disgust, of abhorrence, of absolute loathing to every decent man except the President of the United States Jefferson ".

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 Age of Reason was largely ignored after 1820, except by radical groups in Britain and freethinkers in America, among them Robert G. Ingersoll and the abolitionist Moncure Daniel Conway, who edited his works and wrote the first biography of Paine, favorably reviewed by The New York Times.

The petition requesting the establishment of the school, titled " The Founders ' Petition of 1785 ," was addressed to Governor Thomas Carleton and was signed by seven Loyalist men: William Paine, William Wanton, George Sproule, Zephaniah Kingsley, John Coffin, Ward Chipman, and Adino Paddock.

Vannevar Bush was born in Everett, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1890, the third child and only son of Perry Bush, the local Universalist pastor, and his wife Emma Linwood née Paine.

Reaffirm our county's commitment to preserving the existing general aviation role of Paine Field, and pursue any and all lawful and appropriate means to discourage any action that would facilitate, directly or indirectly, use of Paine Field for scheduled air passenger service or air cargo service, which may include an interlocal agreement.

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

He was one of the dominant musical figures on the musical scene in Boston and together with a group of other composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Paine was one of those responsible for the first significant body of concert music by composers from the United States.

The phrase Great White Way has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by Albert Paine.

who wrote in a letter to Thomas Paine on the construction of an arch for a bridge:

As ambassador, Monroe secured the release of Thomas Paine in revolutionary France after his arrest for opposition to the execution of Louis XVI.

* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes " African Slavery in America ", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

In addition, the widely distributed and popularly read-aloud tract Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, succinctly and eloquently laid out the case for republican ideals and independence to the larger public.

* Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ) English / American pamphleteer, most famous for Common Sense ( 1776 ) calling for American independence as the most rational solution

Volume I contains the major works, and volume II contains shorter writings, both published essays and a selection of letters, but confusingly organized ; in addition, Foner's attributions of writings to Paine have come in for some criticism in that Foner may have included writings that Paine edited but did not write and omitted some writings that later scholars have attributed to Paine.

The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments ; for example, it highlights what Paine saw as corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political power.

" Citing Numbers 31: 13 – 47 as an example, in which Moses orders the slaughter of thousands of boys and women, and sanctions the rape of thousands of girls, at God's behest, Paine calls the Bible a " book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy ; for what can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty!

Paine also attacks religious institutions, indicting priests for their lust for power and wealth and the Church's opposition to scientific investigation.

Bishop Richard Watson, forced to address this new audience in his influential response to Paine, An Apology for the Bible, writes: " I shall, designedly, write this and the following letters in a popular manner ; hoping that thereby they may stand a chance of being perused by that class of readers, for whom your work seems to be particularly calculated, and who are the most likely to be injured by it.

" Significantly, Watson's Apology directly chastises Paine for his mocking tone:

Palmer published what became " the bible of American deism ", The Principles of Nature, established deistic societies from Maine to Georgia, built Temples of Reason throughout the nation, and founded two deistic newspapers for which Paine eventually wrote seventeen essays.

An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters, addressed to Thomas Paine.

******* Michael R. Paine b. June 25, 1928, NYC, m. Ruth Hyde Paine, Oswald family benefactors in whose garage family friend Lee Harvey Oswald stored his rifle and in whose home Marina Oswald lived

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.

When the Oswalds resettled in Dallas, Marina and the Oswald child moved in with Ruth Paine while Lee stayed in a boarding house under the name O. H.

At the suggestion of a neighbor, Ruth Paine told Lee Oswald about a job opportunity at the Texas School Book Depository.

After the assassination Marina and Lee Oswald's mother Marguerite briefly stayed with Ruth Paine until Marina was taken into custody by the Secret Service.

Along with letters, Paine repeatedly sent Marina pictures and other items, one of which was a thick book of household advice in Russian, in which Marina had earlier concealed the note left by Lee for Marina the day he attempted to kill Walker.

At the age of 15, Hootkins found himself caught up in the FBI's investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy when he was interviewed about Mrs. Ruth Paine, the woman " harboring " Marina Oswald, the Russian wife of the presumed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

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.