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About the ongoing revolution in America, Swedish King Gustav III writes: “It is such an interesting drama to see a nation create itself, that I, if I now had not been who I am, would go to America to follow up close every phase in the emergence of this new republic. This is perhaps America’s century. This new republic […] may perhaps take advantage of Europe some day, in the same manner as Europe has taken advantage of Europe for two centuries.”
A very tough round of GeoHistory today, but the first question, at least, is easier - and informative! Did you know that this obelisk was once the tallest structure in the world?
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Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull appoints “a Day of Public THANKSGIVING," urging the "People, to present their Thank-Offering unto the Fountain of all our Mercies,& pay their Vows unto the MOST HIGH [Ps 50:14], who giveth Songs in the Night of their Affliction [Job 35:10].”
French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been gravely injured in a carriage accident: as he walked along a narrow street in Paris, a nobleman’s carriage came rushing past in the opposite direction.
Rousseau was knocked down, suffering a concussion and neurological damage, with seizures.
