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...paid for it, and her officers and soldiers had fought and died for it." Said a French veteran of the American Revolutionary War: "They have given a great example to the new hemisphere. Let us give it to the universe!" But as their own revolutionary fervor increased during the 1780s, the French began to believe that the Americans had not gone far enough in shucking off the bad old ways. Did not, say, the creation of a Senate allowing representation by land--the states--rather than by people amount to a servile imitation of the House of Lords...
...April 23, 1996, under the letterhead of the venerable bank founded by Alexander Hamilton, which made the very first loan to the fledgling U.S. government in the 1780s, Gurfinkel wrote a fulsome letter to Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, urging the Fed to let Inkombank open a representative office in the U.S. Never mind that 14 months earlier some of the bank's largest shareholders had filed suit charging Inkombank with outright theft of $40 million in capital. Or that just a month before, the Russian central bank had issued a harshly critical audit of Inkombank irregularities...
None of these is uniquely American. All take on a peculiarly American cast. "What, then," asked a visiting Frenchman, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, back in the 1780s, "is this American, this new man?" The things and images in these pages represent some of the ways in which Americans themselves have created their partial and sometimes contradictory answers to that riddle...
...chief objection raised is that all four of the structures slated for demolition are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The earliest dates from the 1780s, while Farwell's store at the main intersection was built in 1792, according to Charles M. Sullivan, executive director of the Cambridge Historical Commission...
Once again we've come to the time of year when you don't want to be a turkey. Those glory days of turkey-hood have long ago passed, sad to say. Back in the 1780s, the wild turkey almost became our national symbol; now it's just a symbol of ridicule and distilled spirits...