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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
When we see pictures of the U.S. Founding Fathers they are usually shown as older mature men. Would it change your view of them and the Declaration of Independence, and other associated papers, if you found out that some of them were actually young men with very little experience? UPI Odd News - Most U.S. Founding Fathers were age 40 and younger |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
were actually young men with very little experience And They Kicked Brit Ass. Bound FO SHO May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
As someone in his 20s, no. Some were young, some were old, isn't it right that such an important document should have a decent range of signatories? Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
<cold water> What was the average life expectancy in 1776? </cold water> |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
About 65, for anyone who made it to their 5th birthday. The high infant mortality rate skews the average down. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22200 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Probably between 50 and 55 (extrapolating from data that only goes back to 1850) source Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
5th birthday. The high infant mortality rate skews the average down In RiverWorld, they did not allow anyone 5 and under to be Resurrected. The Population Numbers would've been Astronomical. Kept RiverWorld at about 35 Billion. In RiverWorld, The Founding Fathers could have met anyone Born to the Year 2008. Such Wonderful Discussion FO SHO. Bound FO "IT" May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Probably between 50 and 55 (extrapolating from data that only goes back to 1850) source Fixed your link http://url=http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/US/US39-01.html |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
were actually young men with very little experience Nope, we can't win them all...to date no one ever has?? The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Chris, actually a few of the founders were not all that old. James Madison was 25 at the time of the Declaration of Independence and in his 30's during the crafting of the Constitution as was Alexander Hamilton. That is true for James Monroe as well. Jefferson was in his 30's and 40's during the same time period. Part of that image of 'mature' possibly had to do with the style of wigs often used. There were older players as well (Franklin being the most obvious). They were of course all men, and all 'men of property' -- all were white. Much of that was a function of the era. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
They were of course all men, and all 'men of property' -- all were white. Much of that was a function of the era. They were not middle class as you would call that today. Bourgeois. Or UPPER middle class. |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
yes most were known to be fairly wealthy and stood to make a killing if they left the English behind In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
I think if the UK had eased off the taxes to fight their war with France. After we had asked them numerious time to do. Wed still be apart of the UK. But NO, We were just colonials, The unwashed, Uneducated and disrepected fellow countrymen, Who just came to this country to make a better life. We just wanted to be loyal citizens, But your attitude for us was what you displayed to many other subjects in your empire, At the time and up to the 20th century, SCREW YOU, We are your masters, live with it. Now, That is the history we get on this side of the pond. Id like to hear the UK side of the what we call the revolutionary war. Im not slamming the UK. It just a part of history. Im not proud of the way the U.S, has acted in the past or right now. Just remenber we learned our bad habits from you:) [/quote] Old James |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
I think if the UK had eased off the taxes to fight their war with France. After we had asked them numerious time to do. Wed still be apart of the UK. But NO, We were just colonials, The unwashed, Uneducated and disrepected fellow countrymen, Who just came to this country to make a better life. I think at that time in the UK, when only the 1 per-centers had the vote, you would have found a largish portion of the UK population would have been on your side. Only 10 years earlier, had the last English - Scottish battle been fought, Culloden 1746. And a few years latter the UK ruling classes were quaking in their boots, thinking the great unwashed were going to copy the French. French revolution started 1789. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
I think if the UK had eased off the taxes to fight their war with France. After we had asked them numerious time to do. Wed still be apart of the UK. But NO, We were just colonials, The unwashed, Uneducated and disrepected fellow countrymen, Who just came to this country to make a better life. Yes but we were on your side during our so called French and Indian war. [/quote] Old James |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
I think if the UK had eased off the taxes to fight their war with France. After we had asked them numerious time to do. Wed still be apart of the UK. But NO, We were just colonials, The unwashed, Uneducated and disrepected fellow countrymen, Who just came to this country to make a better life. It's complicated isn't it. Probably a bit of what happened everywhere was because of peoples impatience and that communications were so slow. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
I think if the UK had eased off the taxes to fight their war with France. After we had asked them numerious time to do. Wed still be apart of the UK. But NO, We were just colonials, The unwashed, Uneducated and disrepected fellow countrymen, Who just came to this country to make a better life. Seems communications are a lot faster and people are stil impatient. [/quote] Old James |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
It becomes a little easier to understand if you remember that the American Revolution was also a civil war. The losing American colonials packed up, moved north, and established the kind of country they had hoped the US colonies would have become. And they were very much supported by the British powers in this, for many years. |
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