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We still love you, Poland 🥺 (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

We love Tadeusz Kościuszko in this house!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

That's a very pretty signature he had.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

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 3 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks 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

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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