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:

and Thomas Paine ( who published The Age of Reason, a treatise that helped to popularize deism throughout the USA and Europe ).

In the United States, many leftists, social liberals, progressives and trade unionists were influenced by the works of Thomas Paine, who introduced the concept of asset-based egalitarianism, which theorises that social equality is possible by a redistribution of resources.

* Thomas Paine: Enlightenment writer who defended liberal democracy, the American Revolution, and French Revolution in Common Sense and The Rights of Man.

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.

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.

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

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.

Godfrey Paine, who served in the newly created post of Fifth Sea Lord and Director of Naval Aviation, sat on the board and this high level representation from the Navy helped to improve matters.

The British comedy sketch show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, included a series of sketches in which Paul Whitehouse played a character called Michael Paine ; an amalgam of previous Michael Caine impressions, who in a reference to the The Ipcress File wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a trench coat.

Junior Senator Smith is taken under the wing of the publicly esteemed, but secretly crooked, Senator Joseph Paine ( Claude Rains ), who was Smith's late father's oldest and best friend.

Among the many notable former residents of Lewes is Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ), who was employed as an excise officer in the town for a time from 1768 to 1774 when he emigrated to the American colonies.

William II gave the barony of Bedford to Paine de Beauchamp who built a new, strong castle.

Third highest is winger Terry Paine, who played at The Dell between 1956 and 1974.

Two early pioneers were George Ela, after whom the Ela township is named, and Seth Paine, who established a number of commercial ventures in the town.

In addition to Joseph Borden, who became a colonel during the war, patriots Francis Hopkinson ( a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ), Colonel Kirkbride, Colonel Oakey Hoagland and Thomas Paine resided in the area.

One of the noted residents was the paper manufacturer Augustus G. Paine, Jr., who resided in Willsboro for a portion of the year, when he was not in New York, since his large business was located there.

There the prisoners received kind treatment from the Hardin family and Harriet Paine, a slave of Hardin's who lived to be nearly 100 and contributed to the area's history and folklore.

It was John Knowles Paine, however, who became the first American composer to be accepted in Europe.

In that house, or the church itself, he was visited by Founding Fathers of the United States such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine ; other American politicians such as John Adams, who later became the second president of the United States, and his wife Abigail ; British politicians such as Lord Lyttleton, the Earl of Shelburne, Earl Stanhope ( known as " Citizen Stanhope "), and even the Prime Minister William Pitt ; philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith ; agitators such as prison reformer John Howard, gadfly John Horne Tooke, and husband and wife John and Ann Jebb, who between them campaigned on expansion of the franchise, opposition to the war with America, support for the French Revolution, abolitionism, and an end to legal discrimination against Roman Catholics ; writers such as poet and banker Samuel Rogers ; and clergyman-mathematician Thomas Bayes, of Bayes ' theorem.

With the help of Benjamin Rush, who helped edit and publish it and suggested changing the title, Paine developed his ideas into a forty-eight page pamphlet.

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

Paine dismissed her in the same tones that he had used in The Age of Reason: " pooh, pooh, it is not true.

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.