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• Smithsonian Institution 1 photo / illustration

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Scandal, like gunsmoke, fills the air...

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Anne McGinley said:

  www.dib.ie/biography/rudd-margaret-caroline-a10108

• Suck Diesel said:

  Margaret Caroline Rudd was a well-known courtesan and figure in a prominent forgery trial of the 18th century.
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Caroline_Rudd

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Anne McGinley Oooh, "an unspecified scandalous incident"! We love them...

• Suck Diesel said:

  This image was published as an engraving for The Lady's Magazine on January 1, 1776, by G. Robinson.
  
  More salacious detail
  
  www.grubstreetproject.net/people/4545/

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Suck Diesel Bet the last of her publications listed here could be turned into a Netflix series.

Washington crossing the Delaware.

from New York Public Library

• writerwoman1040 said:

  This picture always reminds me of a joke I read in the NY Herald Tribune years ago. Q: How can you tell if George Washington was in the army or navy? A: He stood up in a boat so he had to be in the army!

• witty name said:

  I just read an article that recreates this more accurately, saying that they wouldn't have used a boat, but a raft tied to cables, due to the transport of animals and cannons. It was also very foggy and George would have been sitting.

"July 4th 1776. When our Declaration of Indepedence was Signed Loyal Americans were of one mind to Protect Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

from U.S. National Archives

• 4 older comments, and then…
• productive side said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called brilliant magic, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• productive side said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called a new world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• productive side said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called piece of heaven, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• productive side said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called free and proud, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• productive side said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called summer freedom, and we'd love to have this added to the group!