MrSebSinM to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 days ago3 July 1987sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down13
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minus-squareancap sharklinkEnglish5•edit-23 days agoBecause almost nobody in Brazil would know Paul Revere
minus-square@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 days agoBut they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…
minus-square@EarMaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 days agoI’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?
minus-square@odium@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish1•16 hours agoLincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.
minus-square@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 days agoNo, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.
Because almost nobody in Brazil would know Paul Revere
But they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…
I’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?
Lincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.
No, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.