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TBF

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Tue May 5, 2015, 12:13 PM May 2015

Happy Birthday to a fellow Prussian ~

Synopsis

Born in Prussia on May 5, 1818, Karl Marx began exploring sociopolitical theories at university among the Young Hegelians. He became a journalist, and his socialist writings would get him expelled from Germany and France. In 1848, he published The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels and was exiled to London, where he wrote the first volume of Das Kapital and lived the remainder of his life ...

More here - http://www.biography.com/people/karl-marx-9401219





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Happy Birthday to a fellow Prussian ~ (Original Post) TBF May 2015 OP
Hey, that second one is my design! johnp3907 May 2015 #1
Cool beans ... TBF May 2015 #2
Nice! Starry Messenger May 2015 #3
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