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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

We love Tadeusz Kościuszko in this house!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

A close friend of Thomas Jefferson, with whom he shared ideals of human rights, Kościuszko wrote a will in 1798, dedicating his U.S. assets to the education and freedom of the U.S. slaves.

What a guy. Will was never executed, but he tried

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's a very pretty signature he had.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unironically, while cursive is not very useful in the modern day and I always hated both using and reading it, calligraphy is a beautiful and largely lost art in the general population.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I once asked a teacher why did we learn to write with cursive and he said that it was to help us differentiate between words. I don't know if that is true but I though his answer interesting.

I tried calligraphy once... It would be a skill that would take me FOREVER to become decent at. Suck at it.