World History EncyclopediaMar 11
A bird’s eye view of the U.S. reveals perpendicular streets, rectangular fields, and uniformity in both urban and rural landscapes. #History #ThomasJefferson #ReneDescartes #IsaacNewton #CityPlanning #UnitedStates #UrbanPlanning #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-550-en/
Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America

Amir Alexander begins Liberty’s Grid by considering the view of the San Fernando Valley from Castle Peak, a hill near his home. Although the Valley is peculiar in many respects, when viewed from the...

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhDMar 3
The #InsurrectionAct was signed into law in 1807 on #ThisDayInHistory by #ThomasJefferson, the same lying fucker who said regular revolution was needed. It has mostly been used against #LabourUnions and #antiracist protests. Trump has keeps threatening to use it for #MartialLaw.
LevkaFeb 25

#ThomasJefferson #paleontology

"Thomas Jefferson was many things: a revolutionary, an enslaver, a horticulturist, and—by some accounts—the 'father of American vertebrate paleontology.' Science historian Keith Thomson looks at Jefferson’s study of fossils—which he suggested were not fossils at all—in an effort to win respect for the natural life of North America.

Thomson writes that, for nearly a decade after publishing Notes, Jefferson abandoned scientific work for politics. But in 1796, after he had temporarily retired from government employment, he received a letter from a friend regarding the discovery, in what’s now West Virginia, of 'the Bones of a Tremendous animal.' The letter also suggested that the creature 'probably was of the Lion kind.'

The fossilized bones of the 'great-claw,' shipped to Jefferson’s residence, were parts of a giant, clawed limb. Following his friend’s lead, Jefferson worked on the assumption that this had been some sort of lion—but one with claws at least three times the length of an African lion’s.

However, after seeing a drawing of a South American giant sloth fossil—a genus known as Megatherium—he reluctantly acknowledged that this was a better fit. In the paper he published on the fossil, Thomson writes, 'Jefferson still seemed to cling to the idea that things would turn around and it would be revealed as a giant lion after all.'"

https://daily.jstor.org/jeffersons-fossils/

Jefferson’s Fossils - JSTOR Daily

What can Thomas Jefferson’s mistaken ideas about fossils tell us about science and belief in the early United States?

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Allan Dyen-ShapiroFeb 23

A highly amusing alternate history/fantasy story. You think our current government is bad? See what dark arts Thomas Jefferson attempted.

#ShortStory #AmReading #AmReadingFantasy #WritersOfMastodon #History #HistoricalFantasy #JohnAdams #ThomasJefferson #AuthorsOfMastodon #AlternateHIstory #AltHistory #AmReadingFiction

https://calendaroffools.com/stories/for-the-rectitude-of-our-intentions-stephen-kotowych/

For the Rectitude of Our Intentions

by Stephen Kotowych It wasn't fully signed yet, of course. Even now, delegates of the Continental Congress who had not been in Philadelphia during the final vote earlier in the week made their way to the city to append their names to the Declaration of Independence and poke a finger in the eye of K

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Bob the TravelerFeb 17
An electoral tie between #ThomasJefferson and Aaron Burr was resolved OTD in 1801 when Jefferson was elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the US House of Representatives https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/thomas-jefferson/?s=mb #travel #history
Thomas Jefferson in France

Thomas Jefferson loved France and the French people. He traveled throughout France, often on its excellent network of canals.

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Front PageFeb 10

Thomas Jefferson coined a hip and funny phrase for abrupt goodbyes that still holds up today

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/thomas-jefferson-coined-funny-phrase-for-abrupt-goodbyes-that-we-can-use-today

YYYY in CanadaFeb 7

1812 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
#MilitaryHistory

Thomas Jefferson: "The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec [City], will be a mere matter of marching"

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-05-02-0231

#ThomasJefferson

Founders Online: Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 4 August 1812

Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 4 August 1812

Theodor HorydczakFeb 6

National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art from southwest I ca. 1920-ca. 1950.
Horydczak, Theodor, approximately 1890-1971
1 negative : safety ; 8 x 10 in.

#Horydczak #Theodor #JeffersonMemorial #American #Congress #ThomasJefferson #WashingtonDC #theWhiteHouse #theNationalMall #Washington #Jefferson #third #theUnitedStates #Corinthian #TheodorHorydczak #DistrictofColumbia #Galleries&museums #UnitedStates #Washington(DC) #photography

https://www.loc.gov/item/2019681831/

Coach Pāṇini ®Jan 26

#ThomasJefferson envisioned an “empire of liberty” through expansion and example, not military dominance—rooted in consent, rights, and anti-monarchical self-rule.

#American #history

Show threadbrainwashed by lentilsJan 23
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#ThomasJefferson talte for afskaffelsen af slavehandel. at han selv ejede 620 slaver er ikke #hykleri, for problemer skal løses gennem #lovgivning, ikke individuel handling. det havde totalt bare været #virtuesignaling, hvis han havde frigivet nogen af dem.