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...time of the Revolution, the theme of beleaguered people standing up to a superpower had become the go-to narrative of American identity. The two best-selling books of 1776 featured Moses. Thomas Paine, in Common Sense, called King George the "hardened, sullen tempered pharaoh." Samuel Sherwood, in The Church's Flight into the Wilderness, said God would deliver the colonies from Egyptian bondage. The Moses image was so pervasive that on July 4, after signing the Declaration of Independence, the Congress asked Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to propose a seal for the United States. Their recommendation...
...buried there, including two black soldiers, as well as the early presidents of the College. These early presidents include Harvard’s first president Henry Dunster, as well as Charles Chauncy, Benjamin Wadsworth, class of 1690, Edward Holyoke, class of 1705, Joseph Willard, class of 1765, and Samuel Webber, class of 1784, according to Samuel A. Eliot’s “A History of Cambridge, Massachussetts...
Family and friends of Samuel H. Beer, a former Harvard professor of government who passed away in April, gathered last Friday to celebrate his life during a service at the Memorial Church...
...There's this new guy, Samuel, whom we met last week, who can control ink, but his actual described power is to control the earth. He wants to find someone to replace his dead brother within his entourage at the carnival. So he goes after Peter Petrelli by pretending to be someone he previously saved and suing him for injuries. They bond. And simultaneously we are introduced to a new character Emma, who is deaf but can apparently see sound in the form of colors. At the end, Samuel collapses a big fancy house into a sinkhole...
...This entire storyline. Maybe we weren't paying close enough attention, but we still don't totally understand what the deal is with Samuel...