Thomas Jefferson

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Want to Pull a Smile Out of Your Pocket? You’ll Soon Be Able To!
Ending the century-old tradition of putting presidential profiles on American coins, the U.S. Mint began shipping 80 million new nickels on Thursday that show a smiling Thomas Jefferson looking straight at you.

Biography Thomas Jefferson
Short biography of third president of America, Thomas Jefferson.

An Interesting Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Handsome Lake
The 1800's was a volatile time between "white-peoples" and the "red-peoples" so what was it that so motivated President Thomas Jefferson to write a letter to the great religious prophet of the Native American peoples, Handsome Lake?

Iraq Study Group – Calling Thomas Jefferson
Iraq - Paging Thomas Jefferson: Next week, the Iraq Study Group, a committee of so-called WISE MEN, will go public on what they feel the United States should do to extract itself from the current civil war in Iraq...

Starting a Country
We live in the age of the start-up. Imagine starting a country! Your product is a government based on a democracy. The Constitution is your code, your standard operating procedures, and your business plan.

Jefferson plot excludes blacks
The official descendants of one of the US's most revered founders, Thomas Jefferson, have beaten off an attempt by relatives of a family slave to be included in their society and granted burial rights in the ancestral graveyard.